Re: Exhibition Scoreboard
I looked at all the games played today and it appears that the NCAA is cracking down on all penalties and has also told the officials to call majors when warranted. Here are the games, PIMs and majors called:
New Brunswick at Merrimack - 172 PIM, 4 majors (hitting from behind, high sticking, slashing, contact to the head)
Windsor at Bowling Green - 168 PIM, 8 majors (5 fighting, 1 charging the goalie, 1 abuse of officials, 1 head-butting)
Western Ontario at Niagara - 161 PIM, 9 majors (8 facemasking, 1 slashing)
Prince Edward Island at Boston University - 122 PIM, 4 majors (2 roughing, 1 clipping, 1 hitting from behind)
Acadia at Northeastern - 114 PIM, 2 majors (contact to the head, facemasking)
Québec à Trois-Rivières at Clarkson - 69 PIM, 3 majors (2 roughing, 1 hitting from behind)
Brock at RIT - 67 PIM, 1 major (facemasking)
Dalhousie at Massachusetts - 66 PIM, 2 majors (hitting from behind)
Waterloo at Miami - 64 PIM, 2 majors (kneeing, cross-checking)
Guelph at Mercyhurst - 57 PIM, 1 major (checking from behind)
McGill at Quinnipiac - 54 PIM, 2 majors (elbowing, cross-checking)
Mount Royal at Denver - 51 PIM, 3 majors (boarding, checking from behind, fighting)
Concordia at Vermont - 48 PIM
Toronto at Western Michigan - 42 PIM
Carleton at Holy Cross - 37 PIM, 1 major (contact to the head - cross-checking)
St. Francis Xavier at Connecticut - 35 PIM, 1 major (contact to the head - high sticking)
Queen's at Robert Morris - 31 PIM, 1 major (infraction not listed)
Victoria at Wisconsin - 26 PIM
Manitoba at North Dakota - 20 PIM
Regina at Minnesota State - 20 PIM
Of the 20 games 15 had at least 1 major called and there were 44 majors called in total. It will be interesting to see how the 18 games Sunday are called and how the teams adjust to the officiating.
Here are the PIMs and majors for the 18 exhibition games today:
Carleton at Boston College - 103 PIM, 3 majors w/GMs (roughing)
McGill at Rensselaer - 85 PIM, 1 major w/GM (slew footing)
New Brunswick at New Hampshire - 66 PIM, 2 majors w/GMs (facewashing, cross-checking)
Acadia at Providence - 57 PIM, 1 major w/GM (spearing)
Queen's at Penn State - 51 PIM, 1 major w/GM (cross-checking)
(note: Queen's had 45 PIM to 6 PIM for PSU)
Laurentian at Lake Superior State - 42 PIM
Québec à Trois-Rivières at St. Lawrence - 36 PIM
St. Francis Xavier at Maine - 35 PIM, 1 major (high sticking)
USA Under-18 Team at Notre Dame - 34 PIM
Prince Edward Island at UMass Lowell - 30 PIM
Victoria at Northern Michigan - 30 PIM
Simon Fraser at Alaska - 28 PIM
Mount Royal at Colorado College - 28 PIM
Windsor at Michigan - 28 PIM
Regina at St. Cloud State - 26 PIM
Toronto at Michigan State - 26 PIM
Wilfrid Laurier at Ohio State, 24 PIM
Guelph at Canisius - 23 PIM, 1 major w/GM (hitting from behind)
Of the 18 games 7 had at least 1 major and 10 majors were called in total (9 with GMs, no DQs). Some of the Canadian teams appear to have learned from Saturday's games that the refs were calling everything, others not so much.
Looking at the penalties called for these 38 games I think the games will be called tighter, but even more so I think there will be far more 5 minute majors called. There were 54 majors called for 18 different penalties (one was not identified). Some were the ones we normally see called, such as hitting from behind, boarding and fighting, but many were ones rarely called, such as clipping, head-butting and slew footing, and several were for what we normally see called as 2 minute penalties such as cross-checking, slashing and roughing(!). Here is the list of the infractions that were given: facemasking (11), roughing (7), hitting from behind (6), fighting (6), cross-checking (5), high sticking (3), slashing (2), checking from behind (2), contact to the head (2), charging the goalie (1), abuse of officials (1), head-butting (1), clipping (1), kneeing (1), elbowing (1), boarding (1), slew footing (1), spearing (1). So even if a player takes what they think is a normal penalty they could be surprised with a 5 minute major and a GM (or DQ) instead of the expected 2 minute minor.
Sean
