Michigan vs Ferris State: Senior Night Thread
Let's end the season with a win, a sweep of Ferris State, and have a four-game win streak heading into the CCHA tournament!
GO BLUE!
TV: FSD, 7:35 PM Eastern
Michigan is playing some good hockey and lets get a win tonight on Senior night. I wish I had access to Fox Detroit freaking ohio lol. Win and home ice.
if there is a live stream. thanks
Luke Moffatt is scratched tonight. Rohrkemper is in.
BG @ ND, tied at 1 in the 1st.
Guptill-Copp-DeBlois, Moffie-Merrill, Racine in net.
MichiganHockey.net has a live blog.
Damn, Guptill in the box.
Stay out of the penalty box!!
Yay, PK!
Phew! Empty net and they didn't score.
Trouba hooked, we're on the PP.
Kevin Lynch PPG!!!! 1-0 U-M!!
Great job keeping the puck in the zone, nice centering pass to a wide open Lynch, who roofed it.
Early lead for Michigan. Ferris still isn't playing that hard for whatever reason.
Argh, just missed the late man with that pass.
If Michigan by some act of god won the CCHA tournament, would they get an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament?
Conference champion goes to the tourney.
BG & ND still tied at 1 starting the 2nd period.
Stay out of the damn box!
Trouba to the box, negating a PP. /sigh
Edit: FS clipping, then roughing; Trouba unsportsmanlike + 10 min misconduct
These refs aren't making any friends this weekend.
So U-M ended up with a short PP, didn't score.
That horse shit happened in front of me. These refs have lost control.
I cannot wait to leave the ccha. Just one more month....
The same people who hire the B1G football and basketball officials will probably be hiring the hockey ones. My bet is they hire most of the CCHA refs. Or they find ones that are worse.
/weeps into whiskey bottle
Pi is the head of officiating for the B1G. My hope he hires the regional veterans from the CCHA and the WCHA and leave the bums like McIncheck to the NCHC or the WCHA.
The worst thing they could do is bring him over. I get nightmares just thinking about UM-MSU games officiated by Keith Sergott.
Honest question:
Do we expect this to get better in the Big Ten? Is there just a supply problem where there aren't many good refs available for college hockey, or is the CCHA cheap or something and getting annoyingly bad refs because of it?
for a few reasons. First, supply is short, very short. As much crap as these guys take, they're all very good at what they're being evaluated on. Second, anecdotally, most of the absolutely elite officials bypass the NCAA on their way up. The most common path for future NHL officials seems to be USHL -> ECHL -> AHL/NHL (they both scout out of the ECHL).
I don't have all of the major conferences officials rosters sitting in front of me, but I'd bet big that most D1 referees either never made it into that pipeline or got left behind at some level (I'd bet USHL in a lot of cases). I'd also note that money won't help nearly as much as increased scouting from the two biggest leagues. If I were able to do the Junior A circuit or go full time with the B1G I would almost definitely take the former.
I agree, however, there are different levels of shittyness in the officiating in the CCHA. You have bums like McInchek who shouldn't have gone above MHSAA. Then you have guys like Likens who actually has control of the game. The officials are also regional. There is a reason we see the same three crews nine out of ten times in Yost. My hope like I said above Piotroski hires the guys he is used to working with and has a good relationship in the CCHA and not those who he has to reem everyother night.
One of my friends knows Pi and he was at the game last night. He reemed the officials after that sad display, especially for the misconduct on Jacob.
Troube getting mugged happened right in front me at the south endzone. After Jacob gotted mugged. All he did was go to the officials and complain. He was not out of control. A unsportsmanship call is commonly reserved for players who constantly badger the refs. The best no call was Ferris playing with 7 for the last 30 seconds of overtime after they pulled their goalie.
just the CCHA roster, and I do still put stock in what I said above. I'm acquainted with (and have done some off-ice work with) both of the Illinois officials in the CCHA, and hope Kronforst can find a spot in the new B1G conference, but it's still the same career pattern I noted above. People expecting NHL level officiating are just as delusional as those expecting NHL level play out of Michigan or Minnesota or whatever. Instead of the top .01% of officials, the NCAA has to make due with the top .05%-.04% of officials and that's a dropoff that knowledgeable fans will notice.
As far as referees not having control of games, if they're evaluated at a low level consistently, they'll be replaced if there's someone with a chance at better evaluations. People for the most part don't know what to look for with officials and usually seem to come away on a witch hunt for things that matter much more to fans and coaches than they do to the guys making the assignments.
Notre Dame scores. They lead BG 2-1.
WHOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAA C YA!
Let's Go Blue!
Good period, keep it up guys. We need this win. If Michigan can handle the second period which usually has been a storm all season, I think they win.
WTF, neither live box score nor gametracker has ever updated.
Son of a bitch......the ferris athletic director just said they've received commitment from Dave Brandon to continue playing the series. And here I thought we'd be riding off into the sunset with our middle finger extending toward the misfit toys (aka, those going to the new WCHA).
It's like welfare...all the big ten schools have a fiscal responsibility to support these schools according to their fans
Sucks. Michigan is already confirmed to play a road series at tech next year per a mod on USCHO. That is cool because there is a long, illustrious history between the two teams and a coaching storyline like no other in the sport. But everyone else can take a hike and enjoy their two trips to alaska in their new league.
From a BC writer, I had heard that BC is trying to schedule games next year against Minnesota and Michigan. They already have one against Wisco scheduled.
Nice of the Live Box Score and gametracker to join in.
Argh, Selman to the sin bin for boarding.
Crap. Back on the penalty kill.
Yay, PK does its job again!
BG still trails 1-2 after two.
SHIT! They score, tie it up.
Unlucky deflection.
WTF, no call?!?!