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Midwest Regional, Miami vs. Alabama-Huntsville, Bemidji State vs. Michigan

Re: Midwest Regional, Miami vs. Alabama-Huntsville, Bemidji State vs. Michigan

RedHawksFan10 said:
Well glad that's something you can be proud of. ;)
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I'm glad you're joking because Miami has its share of tools, also. One particular RedHawk fan trying to shout down the whole Michigan student section was quite enjoyable. Hope that wasn't you.

Without whining too much, I think that the officiating was a bit excessive. Michigan deserved some calls due to their characteristically aggressive (read: dumb) play all season, and may have a bit of a reputation this season amongst the officiating crowd. But five calls in a row with some borderline at best would have me howling too, especially when they were letting go overaggressive play on the part of BSU.

Here's an excerpt from Packer's Blog "The Blog That Yost Built".

"Where this game was really won, however, was on the penalty kill. From the 9 minute mark of the first period until the 3 minute mark of the second, the Wolverines had to kill off five full BSU power plays. That's 10 minutes of penalty killing in a 14 minute span, and an incredible eight minutes in a ten minute span from 13 minutes of the first to 3 minutes of the second. They killed off the rough equivalent of back-to-back major penalties and gave up 5 shots on goal in the process. The penalty kill was just ridiculous."

Can't get away with this tonight, but then again, hopefully the officiating is a bit less lopsided.
 
Re: Midwest Regional, Miami vs. Alabama-Huntsville, Bemidji State vs. Michigan

RedHawksFan10 said:
I was at both games last night. While at the bar in between games I met some nice Michigan fans, but man were most of them sitting around me dumb. Sorry UofM fans, but this game was probably the reason why I finally understand why people don't like your fans.

For instance, everytime a penalty was called against UofM not just one, but most of the fans would break out in "boo's" and yell obscenities at the refs. Not saying that doesn't happen at Miami games every now and then, but ALMOST EVERY single call? Really? Like every call they made was not jusitified. There was a lot of the "hit to the head"/high hit enforcement going on last night. It's not hard to get around it, just don't lift your arms in the air when you hit the guy. Fans were being very sensitive to almost every single call, even one of the fans behind me last night said "For every 10 penalties they call against Michigan they should at least call one on them". I just shook my head.

Now I'm not saying that all of you were like this but geez. Most of them around me were.

I seriously hope this isn't the case tonight.
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Yea, I don't get your beef with that. It's kind of the point for the fans to be biased for our team, against the other team, and against calls against us, regardless if they are correct or not.

It's not like we are on some message board pounding our chests proclaiming that we are not afraid of anyone, yadda, yadda, yadda. Nor is our press saying that we are a dynasty when we HAVE won numerous championships (CCHA regular season, CCHA Tourny, GLI, championships, and now 20 years in a row NCAA appearences...).

And the number of us that complain about the other teams fans is generally down to toolz. wT does hate rickey, due to a personal incident...

Should our fans just sit on their hands all the time???

While I recognize the stupid penalties that we take, I also have no problem with our students raining boos onto the refs. It's what they do.

Seriously, if it bugs you, then they are doing their job. that's kind of the POINT.
 
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Back home in Huntsville, I really want to say nice things about how Notre Dame ran the regional. First class all the way.

GFM
 
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gfmorris said:
Back home in Huntsville, I really want to say nice things about how Notre Dame ran the regional. First class all the way.

GFM
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I started to worry until I got to the final sentence....
 
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That was awesome when that guy was doing the wooo woo wooo thing against Michigan when they were on the powerplay. The wolverine fans over there were ****ed
 
Re: Midwest Regional, Miami vs. Alabama-Huntsville, Bemidji State vs. Michigan

gfmorris said:
Back home in Huntsville, I really want to say nice things about how Notre Dame ran the regional. First class all the way.

GFM
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I also commend the ND people as they were very helpful, kind, and attentive to our needs. The facility has one glaring fault and it was internet access. After the games started there was virtually none or it was so slow it made dial-up modem access seem blazing by comparison. The media guys as well as us photogs couldn't send in our stories or pictures without going back to our hotel. I know the Huntsville Times reporter had to go across the street to a Holiday Inn to file his story from their office internet connection. I, or any other photographers couldn't send between-periods photos either, so that part sucked. Needless to say ND couldn't do anything about that as apparently there just wasn't enough bandwidth in the building and the facility guys, I'm guessing, had no idea what kind of bandwidth a bunch of reporters and photographers, not to mention radio and TV crews could use!!! The NCAA needs to add a specification to thier tournament book that assures bandwidth necessary to get stories, photos, and other necessary info out of a Regional site.

Good to be home... sad it's a day early. Have I mentioned I hate AH refs???:eek:

Next up: The CHA returns as College Hockey Alabama for the 2010-2011 season. I was discussing with the UAH AD that we should have our "League Meeting" in Hawaii this year. He was all for it, as was DC, so I'm waiting for the announcement of the exact time and place. I know, I know, don't hold my breath...

Another "shout out" needs to go to the pilots and cabin crew of our chartered plane (we got the same plane and crew both ways) as the "up front" guys really knew how to "grease her on" in smooth air as well as turbulence. The cabin crew also put the meaning of "customer service" back into flying. It was totally enjoyable and I haven't enjoyed flying now for about 15 years, in fact, I avoid it like the plague now due to the terrible counter agents, rude cabin crews, grossly uncomfortable cabins (I'm 6'5"), need I go on?
 
Re: Midwest Regional, Miami vs. Alabama-Huntsville, Bemidji State vs. Michigan

Douglas said:
I also commend the ND people as they were very helpful, kind, and attentive to our needs. The facility has one glaring fault and it was internet access. After the games started there was virtually none or it was so slow it made dial-up modem access seem blazing by comparison. The media guys as well as us photogs couldn't send in our stories or pictures without going back to our hotel. I know the Huntsville Times reporter had to go across the street to a Holiday Inn to file his story from their office internet connection. I, or any other photographers couldn't send between-periods photos either, so that part sucked. Needless to say ND couldn't do anything about that as apparently there just wasn't enough bandwidth in the building and the facility guys, I'm guessing, had no idea what kind of bandwidth a bunch of reporters and photographers, not to mention radio and TV crews could use!!! The NCAA needs to add a specification to thier tournament book that assures bandwidth necessary to get stories, photos, and other necessary info out of a Regional site.
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And I lay that at the feet of the WMC. The ND guys---whom I'd met back in October when UAH visited South Bend---were as frustrated as we were.

IHF, the difference in this regional and Grand Rapids in 2007 ... just night and day. [I only have the two regionals to compare.] Bertsch on down are to be commended.

GFM
 
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For those that watched the Midwest Regional games yesterday, did anyone else think the officiating was very inconsistent? Lopsided though the penalties were, I'm not referring to this (UAH and Michigan both clearly committed more penalties, both called and uncalled). Instead, I'm referring to the countless times that calls went unnoticed regardless of which team, including a great number of too many men on the ice for Miami.

Example: contact to the head calls (though never clearly announced as such) seemed to be a flip of the coin at best as to whether they were called.

I realize this kind of thing happens but this is two years in a row I have noticed it with refs from the smaller conferences in the regionals. Perhaps it is just me as penalties are an opinion but I'd be interested to hear other's opinions.
 
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Also, I have to applaud Bemidji St. and UAH on playing very good games.

Bemidji just needed some bounces to go their way and it was an entirely different game with Michigan on the losing side. The score did not reflect the closeness of the game at all. I look forward to seeing Bemidji St. wreak some havoc in the WCHA. I actually think they will be more formidable than UNO in the WCHA.

Early, Miami was handing the game on a silver platter to UAH but those darn penalties kept UAH from capitalizing. Unlike Michigan, I don't think UAH had the depth to be able to keep up the tempo after killing off all of the penalties but they did an incredible job keeping the score close. Best of luck to them next season and I hope they are able to find a conference home in the near future, perhaps the CCHA.
 
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mcfarljd said:
That was awesome when that guy was doing the wooo woo wooo thing against Michigan when they were on the powerplay. The wolverine fans over there were ****ed
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I was sitting a section over from him... I figured he must've had too many beers in between games.
 
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Khryx said:
For those that watched the Midwest Regional games yesterday, did anyone else think the officiating was very inconsistent? Lopsided though the penalties were, I'm not referring to this (UAH and Michigan both clearly committed more penalties, both called and uncalled). Instead, I'm referring to the countless times that calls went unnoticed regardless of which team, including a great number of too many men on the ice for Miami.

Example: contact to the head calls (though never clearly announced as such) seemed to be a flip of the coin at best as to whether they were called.

I realize this kind of thing happens but this is two years in a row I have noticed it with refs from the smaller conferences in the regionals. Perhaps it is just me as penalties are an opinion but I'd be interested to hear other's opinions.
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Oh, I certainly noticed it. :) I know our guys committed more penalties, but I just wanted consistency from the refs and didn't feel like they got it.

GFM
 
Re: Midwest Regional, Miami vs. Alabama-Huntsville, Bemidji State vs. Michigan

Khryx said:
Also, I have to applaud Bemidji St. and UAH on playing very good games.

Bemidji just needed some bounces to go their way and it was an entirely different game with Michigan on the losing side. The score did not reflect the closeness of the game at all. I look forward to seeing Bemidji St. wreak some havoc in the WCHA. I actually think they will be more formidable than UNO in the WCHA.

Early, Miami was handing the game on a silver platter to UAH but those darn penalties kept UAH from capitalizing. Unlike Michigan, I don't think UAH had the depth to be able to keep up the tempo after killing off all of the penalties but they did an incredible job keeping the score close. Best of luck to them next season and I hope they are able to find a conference home in the near future, perhaps the CCHA.
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Same here, two bad ones come to mind, committed by Miami that were both head contact, one of which was a crosscheck from behind to the back of the neck/lower head which knocked the UAH player down with the ref following the infraction. The UAH player went down on the ice holding his head and the ref skated right by him and just shrugged his shoulders. I've seen lesser crosschecks/checks from behind that netted the offender a 5 plus game DQ. The inconsistant calls and specially the no-calls were quite flagrant and while I agree UAH committed a few more penalties than Miami, thanks to Miami's pressured play, it was nowhere near the discrepancy actually called. I really thought we would get Hockey East refs and was really disappointed with the AH refs, as you too seem to be.

Attempting to kill 9 PP's sure does take a lot out of your best guys and changes the way you have to run your bench. UAH's game IS defense, we always give up a lot of shots. Patience is the key and then we try to capitalize on mistakes. As you may have noticed Miami scored no 5 on 5 goals but did adjust nicely to our PK. The defense worked but you just can't defend that many PP's without giving up a goal or two. We were able to keep Miami's high powered offense way below their average goals per game, which is nearly 4 but with all the penalties we really didn't have much of a chance to capitalize on our few opportunities. Had we got a few more PP's it might have gone into OT to decide... but then, that's the way the puck bounces. I'll be rooting for Miami tonight... Go Hawks
 
Re: Midwest Regional, Miami vs. Alabama-Huntsville, Bemidji State vs. Michigan

bigblue_dl said:
You are the TAB of cola. The Kumho of tires. The Mississippi of states. The lacrosse of sports. The UP of the United States. The Top Flite of golf balls. The Toyota of accelerator pedals. In other words, you are the worst, most terrible at everything you try to do. You cause cancer, you kill people and you cause the worst slices in the game. You are worthless.
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Once again you are the only person here not talking Hockey. Go away.
 
Re: Midwest Regional, Miami vs. Alabama-Huntsville, Bemidji State vs. Michigan

This Ben Holden character is the "Jack Edwards of the Midwest". At least this is much more entertaining than the previous game.
 
Re: Midwest Regional, Miami vs. Alabama-Huntsville, Bemidji State vs. Michigan

Man. Overtime. Folks will be getting home pretty late for morning classes tomorrow!
 
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