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All Things DU XXV - Murray Up and Get The Chevy Out of The Repair Shop

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USA Hockey's Director of Communications is Dave Fischer of Colorado Springs Colo. Mike Fisher of the Ottawa Senators is dating Carrie Underwood. However Mike Fisher was on the ice for the Senators on Saturday night against Carolina.

Sounds like a good story no matter who it was. Give us a play by play of how it went down.

Perfect! Haha yeah it was Dave. I knew he had a 4 letter first name but my memory was a little iffy due to several libations. Here is the play by play of the confrontation:

So, I'm sitting in my seat before the game and when the refs came out for their pre-game skate I realized the ref for this game had an uncanny resembelance to Anderson. I even thought she may be Anderson's sister. (Although, my wife disagreed. It could have been the beer.) So, there I was enjoying my $7 dollar beer as the game started but to my suprise with less than a minute gone by I notice the ref's arm up as she is calling a penalty on team USA. Not only was I in disbelief about this call so were all the fans. So, I shout out "NICE CALL ANDERSON!!!" and everyone around me starts laughing except Dave . He was standing in the tunnel between the benches and my seat is just above the tunnel in the first row. He turns around and asks me with attitude do you mean "Todd Anderson the WCHA referree?" To say the least I was stunned. I asked myself, why is this guy calling me out? Who is this guy? Is he a fellow ref? I replied akwardly yes Todd Anderson. I figured there was no point denying the fact that i knew who he was since I was wearing a DU jersey and yelled out his name.

The most awkward part though was before I could say anything else the folks sitting behind me yelled "ANDERSON IS THE WORST REF EVER." After that was said I busted out laughing and he turned away from us with a utter look of shock. The rest of the game was very awkard because he remained standing in the tunnel but would not even look up in the stands. The only reason i knew his name was because he had a badge on that had his name on it.

What made me so curious was the fact that he called me out. He must really like anderson to put himself in such an awkward situation.
 
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Awesome story.

No luck finding out who the refs were from the official boxscore. USA hasn't posted the story yet, but Hockey Canada's link didn't have the refs names listed.

http://www.hockeycanada.ca/index.php/ci_id/66828/la_id/1.htm
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Qwest tour in Denver last Saturday.
From USA Hockey
Officials: Referee-Leah Wrazildo; Linesmen-Meg Hishmeh, Kelli Rolstad
(No Anderson here)
Attendance: 3,155
 
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Steve "Killer" Miller was captured by FSN at practice teaching the art of blocking shots.

Killer Miller
 
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Awesome story.

No luck finding out who the refs were from the official boxscore. USA hasn't posted the story yet, but Hockey Canada's link didn't have the refs names listed.

http://www.hockeycanada.ca/index.php/ci_id/66828/la_id/1.htm
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Qwest tour in Denver last Saturday.
From USA Hockey
Officials: Referee-Leah Wrazildo; Linesmen-Meg Hishmeh, Kelli Rolstad
(No Anderson here)
Attendance: 3,155


True, most likely they are not related but there is the possibility that she is married
 
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Awesome story.

No luck finding out who the refs were from the official boxscore. USA hasn't posted the story yet, but Hockey Canada's link didn't have the refs names listed.

http://www.hockeycanada.ca/index.php/ci_id/66828/la_id/1.htm
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Qwest tour in Denver last Saturday.
From USA Hockey
Officials: Referee-Leah Wrazildo; Linesmen-Meg Hishmeh, Kelli Rolstad
(No Anderson here)
Attendance: 3,155

True, most likely they are not related but there is the possibility that she is married


Maybe Anderson is the mentor :p
 
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Dave Fisher was SID at Michigan Tech before he took the USA Hockey PR job some years ago.

I am sure he knows Anderson well.
 
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prebump!!, Friday night is going to be ugly!! :confused: :confused: :confused:
 
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We should just relax and enjoy these two weeks with the first Denver major hardware of the year - The Virg Foss Trophy for Mid Season Excellence.

Let's hope it's not the last hardware this year.
 
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We should just relax and enjoy these two weeks with the first Denver major hardware of the year - The Virg Foss Trophy for Mid Season Excellence.

Let's hope it's not the last hardware this year.
DU has a shot at five trophies this season. Gold Pan (lead series 1-0-1), MacNaughton (1st place by one point), Broadmoor (#1 seed by one point), the Denver Cup is in two weeks & National Championship (currently #3 seed). In other words, DU has done everything right in the first half of the season to put themselves in a position to win all five trophies.

The 2004-05 DU team won all five trophies, but it was partially stained by tying CC for the MacNaughton. Obviously the Denver Cup & the Gold Pan weren't around in the sixties.

Just to keep the record straight, CC has NEVER won a Broadmoor Trophy, they've only won six MacNaughtons and a handful of Gold Pans. And of course no National Championships since 1957. In other words, a clean sweep by DU this season would virtually surpass the lifetime haul of the CC hockey program. :)

Also no DU team has ever gone 4-0-0 against the Gophers in the regular season. With 12 teams in the WCHA next season, it is doubtful that DU and Minnesota will face off 4 times in the regular season too many more times, if ever again.
 
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Are we going to have 2 divisions next year or just the large 12 team conference?
 
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We should just relax and enjoy these two weeks with the first Denver major hardware of the year - The Virg Foss Trophy for Mid Season Excellence.

Let's hope it's not the last hardware this year.

Tell more about this Virg Foss that you speak of... Why have I never heard of it?, who has won it in the past, what is the general criteria? and who is likely to win it this year?

As far as the two week period with no games, I am just hopeful that they will all get healthy and be ready to put it together for the second half. I mean really, how are we not scoring 5 goals or more this year with all of this firepower?
 
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Tell more about this Virg Foss that you speak of... Why have I never heard of it?, who has won it in the past, what is the general criteria? and who is likely to win it this year?

:D

The Foss is a mythical award named after former GF Herald sportswriter Virg Foss. It got it's name about 7 or 8 years ago after the first season that Parise was on the Sioux and the team started the season so well only to fade in the second half. It is given to the WCHA team that steamrolls everyone in the 1st half (it always happens) and gets out to an early lead for the MacNaughton.
Winning the Foss has been somewhat of a curse for most teams...
 
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Tell more about this Virg Foss that you speak of... Why have I never heard of it?, who has won it in the past, what is the general criteria? and who is likely to win it this year?
The Virg Foss Trophy is a USCHO "inside joke."

Virg Foss is a semi-retired sports writer for the Grand Forks Herald who was known for wild exaggerations and hyperbole. Many years ago USCHO posters started giving the mythical "Virg Foss Trophy" to the WCHA team that was in first place at Christmas break.

The joke being that the season was over and the team in first place was "the greatest team ever." Of course, the WCHA race really heats up in the 2nd half and the team in first place at Christmas almost never held on to win the the regular season championship.

Once everyone realized this, winning the Virg Foss Trophy was seen as a curse and a good way to jinx the opposing team. So you don't really want to "win" the mythical Virg Foss Trophy. :D
 
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Chris Heisenberg has listed '92 goalie Sam Brittain of Canmore (AJHL) as committing to Denver for 2011. He played for Team West in the CJHL prospects game earlier this month.

His Canmore page http://canmoreeagles.com/players/profile/sam_brittain/
His AJHL page http://www.ajhl.ab.ca/leagues/roste...ueID=3464&teamID=224602&playerID=473155&pos=G

Thanks Ralph.

This looks to be Chevy's replacement as Chevy will graduate in June 2011. He's another big goalie 6' 3', 210 lbs and is from Calgary. Heisenberg has him listed as the #1 goalie prospect in the AJHL.
 
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Chris Heisenberg has listed '92 goalie Sam Brittain of Canmore (AJHL) as committing to Denver for 2011. He played for Team West in the CJHL prospects game earlier this month.

His Canmore page http://canmoreeagles.com/players/profile/sam_brittain/
His AJHL page http://www.ajhl.ab.ca/leagues/roste...ueID=3464&teamID=224602&playerID=473155&pos=G
Million dollar question, is can he come in next year if Chevy leaves early. I'm guessing this would have to be an option.
 
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Million dollar question, is can he come in next year if Chevy leaves early. I'm guessing this would have to be an option.

He will be 18 this coming May and was born in 1992. My guess is that he's a senior right now and could come in early if needed.
 
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I think DU is preparing for the likelihood that Chevy will leave after this season for the pros, and Murray has not yet proven he's a WCHA level goalie. By signing Brittian early, DU has options. This is goalie that Wisconsin and UNO were after, and is rated as an "A" prospect for next years draft by Central Scouting (top 2-3 round pick) inthe first 2010 ranking this fall.
 
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