Ice Breaker (@Notre Dame, Minnesota, UMD, RPI) 10/10 & 10/12

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Re: Ice Breaker (@Notre Dame, Minnesota, UMD, RPI) 10/10 & 10/12

Great to see McNeely step up and post a shut out. McNeely has earned the Friday night start at home vs. Mankato. Overall, tUMD looked a step quicker than Notre Dame and controlled play quite a bit. Tonto had a monster weekend and that line with Iafallo and Krause was clearly the best. On defense, most guys looked pretty solid with the Welinski/Soucy pair looking the best. Soucy looks like the most improved defenseman and one wonders how long the Wild will leave him at the college hockey level.

 

[gopher wes]

Re: Ice Breaker (@Notre Dame, Minnesota, UMD, RPI) 10/10 & 10/12

I wanted to make a few comments about the Minnesota audio broadcast of Sunday's game. First, I greatly appreciate the fact that Minnesota did broadcast the game since WRPI wasn't able to broadcast it, and at Notre Dame, hockey takes a back seat to football -- probably several hundred rows back.

I felt that although the Minnesota announcers were biased toward UMN, they weren't to the extent that one couldn't listen to them, like SLU's announcers have been. Since I have never listened to them before, there banter seemed inane and unconnected to anything, but listenable. It also was apparent that they did not do their homework before the game. Minnesota fans might not care, but they knew very little about RPI. I was a bit surprised that there was no mention of previous meetings between RPI and UMN besides for the one last season.

If it wasn't for the fact that two RPI players (Zach Schroeder and Lou Nanne) have UMN connections, one would say they knew nothing about RPI (including how to pronounce Rensselaer, although they were close). Actually even for Nanne they must have lost track since they knew that he spent a year in the BCHL after Edina, but did not mention that he was in the USHL last year after recovering from injuries. Because it was a radio broadcast and it wasn't synched to ND's audioless video, I can't comment upon how often they misidentified RPI players.

I was disappointed in Wally for mispronouncing Rensselaer too. It was kind of a strange weekend for them with random media timeouts or none at all. They came back for the 3rd period of the UMD game and had missed a goal already in the period. I know they like to have fun in the booth with the banter and all that, but I think they may have just decided to have fun with it after awhile. That's JMO.

I'm sorry you were disappointed in them. They are homers, as you mentioned, but I've never heard too many complaints about their game calls.

 

[Ralph Baer]

Re: Ice Breaker (@Notre Dame, Minnesota, UMD, RPI) 10/10 & 10/12

I was disappointed in Wally for mispronouncing Rensselaer too. It was kind of a strange weekend for them with random media timeouts or none at all. They came back for the 3rd period of the UMD game and had missed a goal already in the period. I know they like to have fun in the booth with the banter and all that, but I think they may have just decided to have fun with it after awhile. That's JMO.

I'm sorry you were disappointed in them. They are homers, as you mentioned, but I've never heard too many complaints about their game calls.

I can't say that I was disappointed in them. Nothing that they did was unusual, and as I said they were listenable. Their actual calling of the game was fine as far as I could tell since I wasn't watching the video in synch with it.