Tough weekend at WMU. Should of won the second game, but refs gave WMU two powerplays with 4 minutes left which led to 2 goals. Terrible calls by refs, Bulldogs got robbed. However, this team has a lot of potential and the season will allow them to grow & get better. Still really optimistic here. WMU was a quality team and they're hard to beat at Lawson. However, neither game WMU didn't look to be as good as last year's team.
@Wildcat_Dave: Lawson Lunatics make Yost look classier.
You're exactly right, the WMU students & fans are out of control. The Lawson Lunatics are a bunch of wild animals with zero class or civility.
Last year in the second round CCHA playoffs, Lawson Lunatics directly pointed and chanted at LSSU fans "Stupid Yoopers". Most of the LSSU fans are old-timers, it came off extremely insensitive. It's one thing to point at opponents cheering sections and say "Ugly parents", "Hillbillies" or whatever they can come up with. But, once you start saying derogatory slang about where people come from/grew up, that's over the line.
After second FSU game, FSU players and coaches visited families/friends before riding home on the bus, over a half dozen Lawson Lunatics swore and threatened FSU players and staff while getting on the bus. It became to a degree that safety was a concern for little children in the area. FSU parents had toask Lawson Lunatics to please stop their awful behavior and grow up.
It certainly has become obvious WMU fans and students don't know how to win/have success with modesty. They finally have a good program to cheer about after shooting themselves in the foot for years, but they've gone way over the line in trying to put down opponents after victory. Its funny how a former FSU player (Jeff Blashill), who played for the current FSU coaches, turned around a terrible WMU hockey program. WMU should probably be thanking FSU, because WMU former players (i.e. Jim Culhane) ran the program down the drain, and it took a FSU guy to turn it around. I guess it takes FSU Bulldogs to do your dirty work lol. I used to despise U-M the most, but WMU is now at the top of my list. Its one thing to be arrogant and cocky like U-M when you have 9 national championships and 20+ straight NCAA tourney appearances. But, WMU Broncos are 0-5 in the NCAA Tournament, and only Michigan D-1 program to never make it to the national championship game. WMU's got an extremely bright future ahead and they're one of the best CCHA teams, but they can't start talking smack until they've won a NCAA Tournament game. Also, WMU, you've got A LOT more money in your hockey budget than schools like Ferris State & LSSU. You can't use the excuse anymore that your facilities aren't up to par with Ferris', like you did when Culhane was there.
Glad we might never have to go to Lawson again. Actually after a couple horrific experiences at Lawson, this makes Yost look a lot more attractive. Those Kalamazoo fans have Zero[B}[/B] hockey sense. It's probably because they didn't have a competitive college hockey team for a while. I loved it when one of the FSU parents turned to a section of WMU fans and called them bush league. The WMU hockey fans couldn't even comprehend what he meant.
