Congrats to Mankato on the sweep.
Just saw the video. I'm going to to address our role in it. For the most part, I'll leave the Mankato side of things for their fans.
First of all, after looking at the box, some weird things there, too. Two misconducts for Motte. Odd. For the record, he should have received a 5-fighting and a DQ of his own, IMO. One DQ for fighting for Ferris, two for Mankato, along with a dive (?!?) for Gervais (three minors and a game misconduct there). I don't see how you end up with an odd number of fighting DQ's after all that, but it is what it is.
Demartino deserved his DQ for triggering a good chunk of this. That appeared to be unnecessary (I use "appeared" only because we can't pick up everything on that video). As I said a moment ago, Motte should have received one as well. As for the rest of it, I've seen that a few times over the years as well. I'm not going to over-react and go nuts over it. Am I appalled, shocked, outraged? No. But make no mistake, I'm not pleased.
I'm more concerned about the mentality of our team to take part in something like that, when we're getting beat on the weekend. You don't do something like that, especially when you're down 2 goals halfway through the 3rd period. That looks like something we used to do in the mid-90's in the waning seconds of getting swept for the weekend. I thought we'd moved past that. When you're losing like this, compete and take it like a man. We got what we deserved this past weekend.
What bothers me even more is that we did this with over 11 minutes left in the game. That's just stupid.
We need to get our heads on straight. We're #5 in the pairwise and in first place in our conference. Goddammit, let's act like it, and no more of this Mickey Mouse shit. Or else we're going to get swept again.
