Re: Wisconsin Hockey XXXVI: Stop looking for the silver lining and ignoring the probl
After the reviews I have seen in the last few weeks......everything that I have come to known as making sense in hockey has been tossed out the door.
Totally crazy eh? Talk about crazy idiotic reffing....Sexton and Compfer collide in the corner, they both go down, right in front of a ref. The ref stares at them and watches Compfer twice push/punch Sexton's head into the ice. No arm goes up, period, the crowd goes nuts. Eventually they both get penalties, Sexton for holding and Compfer for roughing. Here's the question: The ref's arm never went up during the play before the whistle, therefore how can you call Sexton for holding? Holding can only happen during the play. That is BAD refereeing. Malone cuts to the net between the goalie and the D. He clearly tries to avoid hitting the goalie as he cuts through and the goalie's helmet comes off anyway. He gets a roughing call. Awful call. Soleway gets a rinky dinky slash call. Weak sauce. Easily the worst reffed D1 games I've seen all year in person and I've seen 16. I thought the women's refs were bad. Not even close.
I was SHOCKED at the small crowd. I thought with a marquee name in town there'd be at least 10000. Lucky if there were 6000 butts in seats. The whole synchronized smart phone flashlight coordination to Enter Sandman was cool, would have been awesome with a full building.
The game....the shots were 16-8 UW at one point early in the 2nd period, then UW just stopped playing. They got outshot 32-10 from that point forward. Overall the game felt disjointed, not every good flow.
Random player thoughts...I thought Tischke had a strong game. McGuire fell totally asleep on the goal 1 and did not cover the back door. You can tell Kunin is special in person. Matty played a very strong game, I was impressed with him, he really came out far and challenged, that's something you can't necessarily see on tv. The 4th line was very good, Ustaski had the best drive to the net for UW. The first line just looked snakebit, like they are pressing, they blew a 3 on 1. Racine fought the puck the whole night, if they could have pressured him he woulda cracked.
When it was 2-1 it felt like 4-1. I'm very disheartened. At least my sons and I had some quality daddy/son time, we had fun. I was hoping we'd get some free ice cream, knowing UM plays loose and their goalies suck, but it was not to be, I had to pay. I did enjoy my Butterbuger more than I would have enjoyed the custard anyway.
It should've been a double negative.