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NoDak @ Maine Oct 22 / 23

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Dirty said:
So yes you did assume UND fans were blaming the refs. Nothing at the start of your post contradicts this.
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OK, fair enough. I misspoke.

All 4 UND fans I was in contact with during the weekend were blaming the refs hardcore...and the brief glance I took here before deciding it wasn't worth it to read it all since it went back 10 pages...I happened to stumble into bantering about diving, and a sioux fan referring to help from home-cooking from the refs.

So in my defense, all I had seen so far was blame.

And I said bickering...so I wasn't saying Maine fans were being Saints... ;)
 
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Re: NoDak @ Maine Oct 22 / 23

If the Sioux fans were blaming the refs on Friday, you should have punched them in the face.
 
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Dirty said:
If the Sioux fans were blaming the refs on Friday, you should have punched them in the face.
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HAHA! naaah, I like the Sioux faithful too much as a whole. Seriously!

I was just getting miffed hearing things like "I've lost respect for the Maine program" or Hockey East...over events like this weekend. It seemed like an extreme reaction.
 
Re: NoDak @ Maine Oct 22 / 23

Osorojo said:
Croc: I'm all tore up over your recent loss(es). My condolences. If making lame excuses and lashing out can ease your agony you just go right ahead.
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I haven't made one excuse for any of UND's play especially the officiating which I didn't have any problems with, UND has been swept before and it will happen again. You on the other hand are a cancer to threads and anything that has to do with fun or intelligent conversation.
 
Re: NoDak @ Maine Oct 22 / 23

So, when Maine visited the Ralph a few years back, and North Dakota was whistled for 16 penalties en route to a bad loss (at home, even), that also was Hockey East officiating contributing to the pu**ification of hockey? :p

Some of you are starting to embarass yourselves. Let it go.

Games are called differently early in the season than they are later on. Blame Hakstol for not making the adjustments. If you don't *want* him to -- if you want playoff intensity from game one -- that's fine. Just don't act like a bunch of breathless hyperventilating newbs when the parade starts. You've seen it before. You'll probably see it again.
 
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amherstblackbear said:
So, when Maine visited the Ralph a few years back, and North Dakota was whistled for 16 penalties en route to a bad loss (at home, even), that also was Hockey East officiating contributing to the pu**ification of hockey? :p

Some of you are starting to embarass yourselves. Let it go.

Games are called differently early in the season than they are later on. Blame Hakstol for not making the adjustments. If you don't *want* him to -- if you want playoff intensity from game one -- that's fine. Just don't act like a bunch of breathless hyperventilating newbs. You've seen it before. You'll probably see it again.
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I think the main takeaway from this weekend should be to watch out for Maine to start fishing for power plays by taking dives when they find themselves losing a game, especially at home in front of all the pressure of the home crowd.

If you didn't see the game you wouldn't know what I'm talking about.
 
Re: NoDak @ Maine Oct 22 / 23

Everything is Hockey East's fault. Including the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire.
 
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cg_siouxfan said:
I think the main takeaway from this weekend should be to watch out for Maine to start fishing for power plays by taking dives when they find themselves losing a game, especially at home in front of all the pressure of the home crowd.

If you didn't see the game you wouldn't know what I'm talking about.
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Have a Midol and calm down.

I was at both games. Were you? You act as if Benedetto's mission was to call penalties on your team at every chance. If it was, he did a ****-poor job of it, because it could have been worse. Especially on Friday.

Look forward to a rematch and let it go.
 
Re: NoDak @ Maine Oct 22 / 23

amherstblackbear said:
So, when Maine visited the Ralph a few years back, and North Dakota was whistled for 16 penalties en route to a bad loss (at home, even), that also was Hockey East officiating contributing to the pu**ification of hockey? :p
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No that was Don Adam being Don Adam. :D

Maine was whistled for 13 themselves that game. Sounds like that one was just really chippy.
 
Re: NoDak @ Maine Oct 22 / 23

Dirty said:
Everything is Hockey East's fault. Including the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire.
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In all seriousness, you know why these games are so great? Because you know when UND is on the schedule, you won't be going back and forth with a bunch of folks that treat hockey like a seasonal temp job. As this thread makes obvious, y'alls really effing care. Cheers! :)

Now, someone stop me before I have to slap myself for being a wishy-washy sentimental fool. :p
 
Re: NoDak @ Maine Oct 22 / 23

MinnesotaNorthStar said:
A friend of mine who was at the game disagrees. Says it wasn't even close to the chippiness in WCHA games.
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Friday night was almost as chippy as the Acadia exhibition, not something we are used to seeing in Alfond. Should be fun next year when Maine goes to the Ralph, glad we get to blame anything that happens on the refs:p
 
Re: NoDak @ Maine Oct 22 / 23

And I thot I wuz done drinking whine last night. You know, they say one whine a day is good for ya. But 2 or more whines a day causes dizziness and even stupidity. Seems theres just too many whinos on this thread.

Brock Nelson - amateur diver
 
Re: NoDak @ Maine Oct 22 / 23

cg_siouxfan said:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17654230

Recent research has shown that sports with subjective officiating tend to experience greater home advantage and that referees' decisions can be influenced by crowd noise,

That's blasphemy! The refs are totally impartial and above reproach!
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This is why I am always glad the Alfond is a tiny place with a balcony right over the ice. I'm told by an employee that because of the shape of the roof, you can hear every whisper when you're on the ice.
 
Re: NoDak @ Maine Oct 22 / 23

Exciting games to watch live.

Genoway and Frattin are great players, although, at times it appeared as though Genoway was trying to shoulder too much of the burden. Had his pocket picked, overhandled the puck, and caused offsides at least twice that I recall. Nyquist did the same thing a few times (and has before).

Also, due to my vantage point, I could see a lot of the players faces and for some reason, Kristo stands out as having this whiney, almost crying look on his face skating back to the bench multiple times this weekend. Perhaps just his way of showing frustration.
 
Re: NoDak @ Maine Oct 22 / 23

Maine and UND will face a lot more bad calls before the year is over. Unless there is widespread collusion among a crowd of corrupt officials the effect of bad calls will even themselves out over the season.
UND is unlikely to see the same officials again this year, so obsessing over them is crying over spilt milk. Curious hockey fans are interested in other forms of analysis to determine the cause of success or failure - such as on ice +/-. Can anyone provide any such information about these two games, or will shouts of "homer" rule this site?
 
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Osorojo said:
Maine and UND will face a lot more bad calls before the year is over. Unless there is widespread collusion among a crowd of corrupt officials the effect of bad calls will even themselves out over the season.
UND is unlikely to see the same officials again this year, so obsessing over them is crying over spilt milk. Curious hockey fans are interested in other forms of analysis to determine the cause of success or failure - such as on ice +/-. Can anyone provide any such information about these two games, or will shouts of "homer" rule this site?
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ok, I just did an exhaustive regressive analysis and success and failure this past weekend happened to correllate with number of times each team put pucks in opponent nets (I redid the numbers, controlling for the times that the officials called back goals and came up with the same result)... p values and s values were double checked.

I am going to see if I can do the same success/failure analysis with world series scoring... I will let you know.

good question, as always
 
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