Warriors travel to Black Bear country for a pair...

[Onion Man]

Re: Warriors travel to Black Bear country for a pair...

Would it be fair to say this is the biggest weekend in Merrimack Hockey East history??? I'm starting to think so.

Fail

 

[UML]

Yeah, the thing is, Lowell has had 20 lessons this season, Merrimack has only had six. So obviously they need to keep learning in order to go deep in the playoffs.

Not sure what Lowell has to do with Merrimack losing at Maine.

 

[dmjossel]

Re: Warriors travel to Black Bear country for a pair...

Scaning the boxscore and I have a question for those that saw the game last night. How does the SAME player get called for tripping AND embellishment at the same time? (Diamond, 16:41 3rd period)

When the whistle is blown, the clock stops. So any penalties called, whether they occurred before or after the whistle, are going to be logged at the time the clock stopped. As such, there's any one of a number of scenarios that can lead to a call like this. I saw one in a Bruins game just the other day. A player gets called for a penalty, and after the whistle, the player he fouled gets in his face. Following some incidental contact, the player who is already heading to the penalty box falls to the ice holding his head as if he has been shot. The problem is, the ref is right there looking at him, and adds a second penalty: embellishment. (In the Bruins game, the embellishment call was not made, but could have been; the penalized player was trying to draw his opponent into a coincidental minor, and failing that, tried to ham it up and draw a call-- and that failed, too.)

I'm not defending Benedetto at all, but the scenario you describe is certainly plausible. I just want to know what the deal is with the second half emphasis on embellishment is all about.