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2026 Frozen Four

Hockeybuckeye said:
When Ohio State's girls came to the bench gesturing that Wisconsin covered the puck in the crease I can't help wondering what they saw that the refs didn't on the review? It makes no differenc now but I'm definitely curious.
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Athletes on the ice/field/court see things in a flash from one perspective. Reviews can include multiple camera angles and slow motion. They were hardly the first athletes to get it wrong.
 
wildfire said:
Athletes on the ice/field/court see things in a flash from one perspective. Reviews can include multiple camera angles and slow motion. They were hardly the first athletes to get it wrong.
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True. But doesn't every team have coaches up high who are also looking at video replays to inform the bench coach whether to challenge or not? Maybe everyone felt it was worth the gamble considering the moment.
 
That was the dumbest challenge since the inception of video.
The timing, the game on the line, already up 6 on 5 with an end zone faceoff.
Cmon, it just can’t be defended to make that challenge.
 
robertearle said:
That's true for the WCHA tournament trophy. I'm not sure that it is true for the regular season travelling trophy.
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There were always trophies, but the current traveling ones were introduced later. One of the stranger early varieties looked like some crystal vase that would live in a china cabinet and tended to be barely visible in championship photos. Luckily, I don't remember any stories of them being shattered on the ice.

The current regular season trophy has been around since 2019:

Julianne Bye Cup - Western Collegiate Hockey Association

The home of a record 21 national championships, the Western Collegiate Hockey Association presented a new regular-season championship trophy named in honor of longtime
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The tournament trophy Lindsay is describing is this one:

Final Faceoff Trophy - Western Collegiate Hockey Association

The home of a record 21 national championships, the WCHA now has the league postseason hardware to match its standing as the country’s premier women’s college hockey
wcha.com wcha.com
 
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