Re: Minnesota Golden Gopher Hockey: 2011-2012 Season Thread
Blackbeard. Thanks so much for tuning in last night. It was a fun game to announce. However, my partner was/is, in fact, Alyssa Grogan.
I also agree that McParland is a very nice player. Has got some serious skills and would have scored a couple of times if it were not for Nora Raty who made several nice saves on her. But the cross check when the Dogs had the power play in the 2nd, and knocking the goalies stick away in the 3rd were just unexcusable.
Do we expect another typical MN-UMD penalty-filled game tonight?
I sit corrected and am in utter amazement.
I have to say that either, one of those electronic voice recognition graphs would over lay Halldorson's voice perfectly with Grogan's or I was on another planet last night.
Not that I minded, but I thought that some of her (Halldorson's...so I thought) comments were more "homerish" than usual but I chalked that up to her deep sixing the political correctness as I mentioned earlier...which I applauded. Some of her comments which I took to be Halldorson's (which obviously just as easily could have been from a UM player) just reinforced my belief that it was Halldorson. As a matter of fact, I believe you mentioned before the game that Grogan would be providing the colour commentating but when the game started I thought to myself "that's Halldorson..there must have been some mix up".
Anyway, my apologies to Grogan and to Brookyone and thank you for correcting me...I still can't believe it!...maybe someone should tell Halldorson.
And in addition to my apologies to Grogan...great job! And know that you've always got a spot as a stand in double on the audio side.
With respect to McParland...I agree...immature and selfish or just plain stupid is what I would call her actions that lead to her last penalty...at the very least, even if we give her every benefit of the doubt and assume she was trying to sweep Raty's stick out of her own way (yes, I know, that's almost so unlikely as to be out of the realm of comprehensible) she has to be smart enough, to be able to be so highly touted at this level, to have it cross her mind before actually doing it what such an action might otherwise be "misconstrued to be". So, completely inexcusable, as you mentioned.
If someone would inform me as to your name then I would no longer be at said loss. I apologize for not knowing it...I kind of figured one of the Gopher regulars here would inform me.
While we are on the subject of names I respectfully submit to you that the pronunciation of Audrey Cournoyer's last name is "Corn-why'-yay" .
Again, great job of doing the play by play last night...you added noticeable value to an already entertaining game played by two great teams. I'll be watching today's game...you may have to remind me if Grogan is doing the colour commentating again, that it's actually her.
