Michigan vs. Notre Dame hockey open thread
Still about 10 minutes left until gametime. Hunwick is starting and Hogan didn't even make the trip.
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February 27th, 2010 at 8:39 PM ^
Here's how you get a penalty one way plus an embellishment call the other:
Player A hooks Player B on the arm, egregious enough for the referee to call, but not much more. Player B then tosses his stick and flops to the ice like someone just hacked his arm off with a chainsaw. Two minutes for the hook, two minutes for the ensuing embellishment. We're playing hockey, not handing out Academy Awards here.
February 27th, 2010 at 8:39 PM ^
Unreal.. powerplays for less than five seconds should not happen this often.
February 27th, 2010 at 8:44 PM ^
Another penalty? NO WAY.
February 27th, 2010 at 8:44 PM ^
don't get as many good looks like that.
February 27th, 2010 at 8:45 PM ^
fuck wilkins fuck hall...
In my short hockey career i was hit with one 10 min misconduct once...if i was playing i would have already taken a swing at Hall or Wilkins...
February 27th, 2010 at 8:46 PM ^
These refs are a joke and so is this team.
February 27th, 2010 at 8:50 PM ^
I am in agreement with your statement.
The refs have decided every major juncture in this game so far. What a farce.
February 27th, 2010 at 8:52 PM ^
make everything better
February 27th, 2010 at 9:07 PM ^
Am I the only one who notices that after almost every whistle, ND players are the first one to get an errant punch in?
February 27th, 2010 at 9:08 PM ^
Use ND defensemen to score our goals
February 27th, 2010 at 9:10 PM ^
were 4 to 4.
February 27th, 2010 at 9:12 PM ^
For the dude who asked, I'm at the northern game, looking for an update on M. Northren's up 2-0 after two. What's the Michigan score at? Hoping Michigan might come up to mqt somehow in a couple weeks
February 27th, 2010 at 9:13 PM ^
For the dude who asked, I'm at the northern game, looking for an update on M. Northren's up 2-0 after two. What's the Michigan score at? Hoping Michigan might come up to mqt somehow in a couple weeks
February 27th, 2010 at 9:15 PM ^
just said UM would be on a power play, when in actuality we are on the penalty kill.
February 27th, 2010 at 9:25 PM ^
Given the way our offense has played tonight, there's the hockey game.
Please prove me wrong.
February 27th, 2010 at 9:26 PM ^
blouses.
February 27th, 2010 at 9:28 PM ^
Time to purify ourselves in the waters of Lake Minnetonka.
February 27th, 2010 at 9:27 PM ^
So since we are destined for 7th place in the CCHA...Looks like we are matched up with Lake State if the Northern game continues...
February 27th, 2010 at 9:43 PM ^
3-0 northern, final
February 27th, 2010 at 9:34 PM ^
Bobsled
Curling
Skeleton
Luge
down hill sking
slalom
Super G
Super combined
snowboard cross
down hill snowboard
ski cross
biathalon
archery
nascar
bicycling
bowling
kayak
speedskating (long track)
golf
motocross
rowing
sailing
shooting
swimming
track
tug of war
speed walking
the key? no refs and/or judges
February 27th, 2010 at 9:52 PM ^
speed walking has judges
I would
Track and field
Marathon running
caber tossing
February 27th, 2010 at 9:53 PM ^
speed walking
February 27th, 2010 at 9:59 PM ^
One of the reasons I started liking hockey in the first place was because it seemed like the calls were fairly well defined, the sort of thing I could call, were I to be on ice level and thus the refs really didn't affect the game so much. The polar opposite of fouls in basketball, if you will, which I couldn't call (or non-call) for the life of me, despite literally hours spent on the internet staring at the rules, trying to figure it out. Add in the simplicity of "Goal" or "No Goal" and it's pretty much perfect.
Then there's the CCHA officiating, which needs no further explanation. And then I find there's things like "intent to blow the whistle" and "that's no goal even though the overhead, which is the only view I have, clearly shows the entire puck over the goal line". I guess I should try to figure out basketball again.
Also, it's sort of ironic that Notre Dame keeps complaining about contact to the head and how many injuries they've had because of it, given the way they play. I noticed the same thing last night, but gave it a bit of a pass because they were losing, but I guess that's just how they play.
February 27th, 2010 at 11:52 PM ^
They don't have "refs", but NASCAR is famous for making it up as they go from time to time. I've seen a race decided on a rules interpretation before (Specifically the "going below the yellow line while in sight of the checkered flag" incident).
They seem to be cutting down on the BS though. Before this year they pretty much decided to throw the decision-making out the window and just told the drivers to police themselves (Bump drafting and what not).