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bluffrinkrat said:
especially with Langley or Ludwig involved.
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Only seeing the Sat. game on tv, I thought those 2 did an above average job when compared their body of work. They got the 2 questionable goals right and the penalty shot right, they "only" blew the CFB on Pankowski.
 
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Timothy A said:
Only seeing the Sat. game on tv, I thought those 2 did an above average job when compared their body of work. They got the 2 questionable goals right and the penalty shot right, they "only" blew the CFB on Pankowski.
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Plus calling a penalty that didn't exist against McMillen, and not calling the interference when a Wisconsin player shot a dropped Gopher stick away from the player trying to recover it. They were horrible on both days.
 
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Eeyore said:
Plus calling a penalty that didn't exist against McMillen, and not calling the interference when a Wisconsin player shot a dropped Gopher stick away from the player trying to recover it. They were horrible on both days.
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The funny thing is that even with these gaffs, they still performed above their average. :eek:
 
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Timothy A said:
The funny thing is that even with these gaffs, they still performed above their average. :eek:
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That's a low bar.

One thing I forgot to mention at the time is that I thought the crew that reffed the Minnesota/UMD series in Duluth two weeks ago did a very good job.
 
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Eeyore said:
That's a low bar.

One thing I forgot to mention at the time is that I thought the crew that reffed the Minnesota/UMD series in Duluth two weeks ago did a very good job.
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So did the crew who did the UW Mankato series. Bradshaw seems to be improving as the season is going along. The only issue I had with the crew was before the 3rd period on the 2nd game, Harrington had a lengthy conversation with the refs, and after that they started reviewing goals that in no way were remotely questionable. Maybe a strategy to kill UW's momentum? It didn't matter, it was a train wreck from Mankato's perspective.
 
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Timothy A said:
Bradshaw seems to be improving as the season is going along.
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He worked the Bemidji series along with Hanrahan, and the Saturday game was the worst job I've seen all season. The linesmen didn't get anything right, and the referees ignored everything except for one random call each way. No thanks.
 
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So at one point in the games up in Duluth I asked my wife if we had ever seen Capocasa or Gulenchyn referee at Ridder and she said she thought so but wasn't sure and maybe we just didn't notice because they do a fairly decent job. Yep, they're not half bad, I said. I swear it wasn't a minute later came an announcement over the P.A. system that one of them was going to retire (don't remember which one). Great, I suppose Lou Cotroneo is too old to come out of retirement?
 
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thought it would be interesting to post this from 4 years ago:

Ten semifinalists for the Minnesota Ms. Hockey Award have been announced by Let’s Play Hockey. The award will be presented Feb. 26. The Pioneer Press will unveil its player of the year on Feb. 22.

The semifinalists, all of whom have committed to Division I schools, are: Edina’s Megan Armstrong, Roseville’s Hanna Brodt and Lee Stecklein, Hill-Murray’s Hannah Brandt, Hutchinson’s Sara Carlson, South St. Paul’s Sam LaShomb, Breck’s Milica McMillen, Elk River’s Jonna Curtis, Molly Illikainen of Grand Rapids/Greenway and Chisago Lakes’ Megan Lushanko.
 
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Yes, ne7minder it is. I first learned to skate at the old Dayton's Bluff playground in the late fifties. It was a lot of fun playing hockey, football and baseball there. One kid that played at the Bluff then would later be part of four national championship hockey teams with Bemidji (68-71) and another one (Robert J Pruden) was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroic action on November 29, 1969 in Vietnam.
 
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bluffrinkrat said:
Yes, ne7minder it is. I first learned to skate at the old Dayton's Bluff playground in the late fifties. It was a lot of fun playing hockey, football and baseball there. One kid that played at the Bluff then would later be part of four national championship hockey teams with Bemidji (68-71) and another one (Robert J Pruden) was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroic action on November 29, 1969 in Vietnam.
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Johnson or Harding? I learned at Wilder on Case & Egerton. Les Auge was a year behind me & Doug Long a couple after.
 
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Da Knights '67. A couple years after hockey player and future JLT Group guy Trooien and a year before young Oliie Bakken began tearing up the football field. That was quite the tourney goalie Long had in 1970 as I recall.
 
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bluffrinkrat said:
Da Knights '67. A couple years after hockey player and future JLT Group guy Trooien and a year before young Oliie Bakken began tearing up the football field. That was quite the tourney goalie Long had in 1970 as I recall.
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boys hockey
real estate fraud
Gopher football

topic drift?

well as long as you are doing that ....

Some people claim that the ’69 game between Edina & Warroad was the best game ever, not even close. The title game the following year was better, and the tourney itself had some of the best games ever:
StPJ beating Greenway with Long between the pipes.
StPJ losing to Edina
Mpls SW beating NSP 4-3 after being down 3-0
Mpls SW beating Edina in the title game, best game ever IMO, if you like dramatic games.
 
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Jerry Trooien also played hockey for the Gophers so it wasn't a total drift.

Best game: 1963 Undefeated Johnson faces undefeated Intl Falls and Rob Shattuck's goal in overtime wins it for Johnson 4-3. Hard to beat Crupi, Shattuck and Hughes. Forget about the next year.

Runner-up: 1958 Roseau 1-0 over Harding (my high school bias may be showing here).
 
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I think 3 of the 4 series could go 3 games, and 2 will go 3 games. UMD is the 3rd most offensive team in the league, they could give BSU some problems. SCSU can steal a game, though their D is weak, and UND is bipolar, that series could be totally up in the air. Mankato is peaking at the right time as they've come to grips with Harrington's approach, I could see them eeking out a 2-1 win. UM will destroy OSU.

How did SCSU finish 5th allowing the 3rd most goals and scoring the 2nd fewest goals? Fascinating.

Now back to your regularly scheduled program....Ancient Aliens Playing Hockey
 
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Timothy A said:
I think 3 of the 4 series could go 3 games, and 2 will go 3 games. UMD is the 3rd most offensive team in the league, they could give BSU some problems. SCSU can steal a game, though their D is weak, and UND is bipolar, that series could be totally up in the air. Mankato is peaking at the right time as they've come to grips with Harrington's approach, I could see them eeking out a 2-1 win. UM will destroy OSU.
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North Dakota is the one team where I could see them either losing in the first round or getting on a roll and winning the WCHA tourney and making some noise in the NCAA. Outside of Minnesota, they were the one team that gave Wisconsin the most trouble for all 4 regular season games. I have no idea how they lost/tied some of the games they did this year.
 
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There is no way I can see UW losing a game this weekend to Mankato. The Mavericks were just in Madison 2 weeks ago and lost by a combined score of 12-1. Wisconsin is coming off another very competitive weekend against Minnesota where they were beaten twice! They will be very determined this weekend to not only win but, to win at home in dominant fashion.
Timothy A said:
I think 3 of the 4 series could go 3 games, and 2 will go 3 games. UMD is the 3rd most offensive team in the league, they could give BSU some problems. SCSU can steal a game, though their D is weak, and UND is bipolar, that series could be totally up in the air. Mankato is peaking at the right time as they've come to grips with Harrington's approach, I could see them eeking out a 2-1 win. UM will destroy OSU.

How did SCSU finish 5th allowing the 3rd most goals and scoring the 2nd fewest goals? Fascinating.

Now back to your regularly scheduled program....Ancient Aliens Playing Hockey
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