Women's Frozen Four not televised.

[bluffrinkrat]

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I don't know if this is what your referring to but Mike Max of WCCO sports did say her name just like the river in D.C.

Come on, man...That's downright embarrassing for a local sports guy to not prep better than that.

Now that I think about it, it was a PA announcer at one of the away games we attended, either St Cloud, UMD, Columbus or the HOF game.

 

[mnturkey]

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This is more about the original post about the Women's Frozen Four not being televised.

Maybe if everyone on this board wrote letters to the NCAA, CBS, the sponsors of the Tournament, the advertisers (money talks) and everyone else that you can think of, maybe even your congressional representatives (the whole title IX thing). If enough people call and write letters maybe we can change their mind.

 

[ARM]

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I thought she and the play-by-play guy on CBS did an excellent job of broadcasting the championship game this year.

I thought they were fairly clueless throughout. It started with the PBP guy introducing A.J. as someone who won a national championship at Harvard and immediately followed that with saying Minnesota was attempting to win its 6th national (not NCAA) title, and he continued that throughout. If Harvard's AWCHA national championship counts, then add in Minnesota's the following year. A.J. has done enough of these and is supposedly on because she is a women's hockey expert, so one of them should have figured it out at some point.

A.J. was her usual biased self. Every time a BC player hit the ice, she'd say something like, "I'm surprised there wasn't a call there." When Potomak got checked into the boards while the Gophers were on the power play and action was stopped, she immediately said it was a good no-call, and it was only after the replay she had to admit that it should have been a call on Bender. When Camarenesi got hit late in the third, then she says that it may have been a penalty earlier but you can't make that call late in the game. I think she just kind of makes up her officiating rules as she goes. She said the first penalty on BC was weak, which it was, but she didn't offer the same opinion on the Gophers' penalty on Stecklein after Carpenter basically skated into her in front of the net; what's #2 supposed to do, move out of the way? Neither of them commented on the fact that the linesman took away an almost certain Minnesota goal with a minute left when he called hand pass on Schipper when she blocked a shot, swept it to the boards with her arm and then won the race to the puck and passed it to Potomak who was going in on the empty net.

I'm not sure that the linesmen knew what offside is, because they called both teams offside all game, and several of them looked good at the line. The Eagles probably got the worst of those errors.

Overall, I agree that the PBP guy was an upgrade over the previous two years, but then that isn't saying a lot. At least he got most of the names pronounced correctly, although he struggled with identifying who was who (he called #6 Kessel a few times, and then he'd identify #8 as Baldwin.) I guess that happens when announcing games with unfamiliar teams.

 

[ne7minder]

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I don't know if this is what your referring to but Mike Max of WCCO sports did say her name just like the river in D.C.

Come on, man...That's downright embarrassing for a local sports guy to not prep better than that.

Nora's name was always an adventure even after 4 years and everything there was an odds on chance of the local sports wieners getting it wrong.

A.J. was her usual biased self. Every time a BC player hit the ice, she'd say something like, "I'm surprised there wasn't a call there." . . .

I found her hilarious! SHe would have had to put on a jersey & hit the ice to have been anymore pro-BC. Despite all the whining about biased announcers I think most do OK but she was a hoot. but not in a good way

 

[Blackbeard]

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I thought they were fairly clueless throughout. It started with the PBP guy introducing A.J. as someone who won a national championship at Harvard and immediately followed that with saying Minnesota was attempting to win its 6th national (not NCAA) title, and he continued that throughout. If Harvard's AWCHA national championship counts, then add in Minnesota's the following year. A.J. has done enough of these and is supposedly on because she is a women's hockey expert, so one of them should have figured it out at some point.

A.J. was her usual biased self. Every time a BC player hit the ice, she'd say something like, "I'm surprised there wasn't a call there." When Potomak got checked into the boards while the Gophers were on the power play and action was stopped, she immediately said it was a good no-call, and it was only after the replay she had to admit that it should have been a call on Bender. When Camarenesi got hit late in the third, then she says that it may have been a penalty earlier but you can't make that call late in the game. I think she just kind of makes up her officiating rules as she goes. She said the first penalty on BC was weak, which it was, but she didn't offer the same opinion on the Gophers' penalty on Stecklein after Carpenter basically skated into her in front of the net; what's #2 supposed to do, move out of the way? Neither of them commented on the fact that the linesman took away an almost certain Minnesota goal with a minute left when he called hand pass on Schipper when she blocked a shot, swept it to the boards with her arm and then won the race to the puck and passed it to Potomak who was going in on the empty net.

I'm not sure that the linesmen knew what offside is, because they called both teams offside all game, and several of them looked good at the line. The Eagles probably got the worst of those errors.

Overall, I agree that the PBP guy was an upgrade over the previous two years, but then that isn't saying a lot. At least he got most of the names pronounced correctly, although he struggled with identifying who was who (he called #6 Kessel a few times, and then he'd identify #8 as Baldwin.) I guess that happens when announcing games with unfamiliar teams.

Back to that feisty mood you were in a few years ago...I like it.

And I forgot to mention a few weeks ago...the article you wrote about the NCAA brackets...great article...feisty reasoned opinion added to political correctness out the window...I liked that even more.

 

[bluffrinkrat]

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Now that I think about it, it was a PA announcer at one of the away games we attended, either St Cloud, UMD, Columbus or the HOF game.

I should have waited until my wife got home from shopping. She informs me it was not a PA announcer that kept mispronouncing Sarah's Potomak's name as Potomac, but a play-by-play guy on BTN Plus probably during the games in Madison, which makes it kind of ironic I guess.

 

[bluffrinkrat]

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I thought they were fairly clueless throughout. It started with the PBP guy introducing A.J. as someone who won a national championship at Harvard and immediately followed that with saying Minnesota was attempting to win its 6th national (not NCAA) title, and he continued that throughout. If Harvard's AWCHA national championship counts, then add in Minnesota's the following year. A.J. has done enough of these and is supposedly on because she is a women's hockey expert, so one of them should have figured it out at some point.

A.J. was her usual biased self. Every time a BC player hit the ice, she'd say something like, "I'm surprised there wasn't a call there." When Potomak got checked into the boards while the Gophers were on the power play and action was stopped, she immediately said it was a good no-call, and it was only after the replay she had to admit that it should have been a call on Bender. When Camarenesi got hit late in the third, then she says that it may have been a penalty earlier but you can't make that call late in the game. I think she just kind of makes up her officiating rules as she goes. She said the first penalty on BC was weak, which it was, but she didn't offer the same opinion on the Gophers' penalty on Stecklein after Carpenter basically skated into her in front of the net; what's #2 supposed to do, move out of the way? Neither of them commented on the fact that the linesman took away an almost certain Minnesota goal with a minute left when he called hand pass on Schipper when she blocked a shot, swept it to the boards with her arm and then won the race to the puck and passed it to Potomak who was going in on the empty net.

I'm not sure that the linesmen knew what offside is, because they called both teams offside all game, and several of them looked good at the line. The Eagles probably got the worst of those errors.

Overall, I agree that the PBP guy was an upgrade over the previous two years, but then that isn't saying a lot. At least he got most of the names pronounced correctly, although he struggled with identifying who was who (he called #6 Kessel a few times, and then he'd identify #8 as Baldwin.) I guess that happens when announcing games with unfamiliar teams.

I noticed most of that too, but it was still a big improvement over the last two years. One other thing, after Pannek scored AJ must have already left the booth before the goal since I heard nary a word from her when the puck went in the net.

 

[D2D]

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One other thing, after Pannek scored AJ must have already left the booth before the goal since I heard nary a word from her when the puck went in the net.

I thought I heard a faint crying sound coming from my surround speakers?

 

[FiveHoleFrenzy]

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I should have waited until my wife got home from shopping. She informs me it was not a PA announcer that kept mispronouncing Sarah's Potomak's name as Potomac, but a play-by-play guy on BTN Plus probably during the games in Madison, which makes it kind of ironic I guess.

Honestly, all someone would have to do for preparation is go to the gophersports website and lookup the roster for women's hockey. It has handy pronunciation links for the more difficult names and if you spent about 5 minutes you would have notes to help you out with that. Easy peasy

 

[bluffrinkrat]

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Honestly, all someone would have to do for preparation is go to the gophersports website and lookup the roster for women's hockey. It has handy pronunciation links for the more difficult names and if you spent about 5 minutes you would have notes to help you out with that. Easy peasy

Yep. That's what I do when the new roster comes out and before we go to the first home game. Though even after 4 years I still have trouble with #13's first name. And I just didn't want to yell "Go M..." which the fan next to me said was her nickname.

 

[ARM]

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She informs me it was not a PA announcer that kept mispronouncing Sarah's Potomak's name as Potomac, but a play-by-play guy on BTN Plus probably during the games in Madison, which makes it kind of ironic I guess.

ESPN pronounced it Potomac as well. It was good to get the mention; I guess proper pronunciation would be too much to hope for.

 

[Sean Pickett]

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Honestly, all someone would have to do for preparation is go to the gophersports website and lookup the roster for women's hockey. It has handy pronunciation links for the more difficult names and if you spent about 5 minutes you would have notes to help you out with that. Easy peasy

Having pronunciation links on the rosters is a great idea, although maybe it should be done for every name, even the easy ones. Other schools should start doing it as well.

Sean

 

[FiveHoleFrenzy]

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Having pronunciation links on the rosters is a great idea, although maybe it should be done for every name, even the easy ones. Other schools should start doing it as well.Sean

I would have thought other programs were already doing this but in checking this is not the case. Even so, it wouldn't be that difficult to check in with the team's media relations and get pronunciation information for the roster.