As a lifelong maine fan I will come right out and say cory did it and it
was butt ending.  I was sitting directly over the blue line in the first
row of the balcony and watched the entire thing.  Comrie was cherry picking
and cory was shadowing him.  I didn't see what comrie did to antagonize him
(probably whatever drew my attention and the official's attention to the
play), but i did see cory wind up and deleiver either an elbow or the
butt-end of the stick (i couldn't tell).  I imediatly turned to the person
i was with and commented that he was lucky to not get kicked out of the
game for that....then well after the whistle i saw cory talking to the ref
and you could see he was really upset.  We'll just say i wasn't surprised
to hear that he got the DQ.
 
 
At 11:09 AM 03/27/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Thanks for posting this, Dave!
>
>Dave quoting Clay Satow, in part...
>>>>It was quite clear to me (but I have a different view of what got called
>>than Michael Neal does; Michael, when you say "even on replay" does that
>>imply that you saw it on TV?).  Here's what I saw:  The puck was in the
>>Michigan end.  Michigan had Comrie "cherry picking" at center ice.  Larose
>>was covering him, and they were well away from the play.  Larose butt-ended
>>Comrie in the ribs.  Comrie was stunned and went down.  The puck came out of
>>the Michigan end, to the side of the rink opposite where the incident took
>>place.  Larose went to the puck, and Comrie got up and went after Larose,
>>across the ice.  That precipitated the scrum along the boards that I think
>>Michael is referring to.
>
>Yes, the TV just showed the play as the puck arrived, about at the blue
>line.  Basically nothing happened there.  A.J.  gave a little tap on
>Comrie's helmet with his glove, but no butt-ending was visible.  One of
>the TV comments suggested it was called by a linesman, but no one clued
>the announcers into the fact that they normally call only stuff away
>from the puck, ... and that the penalty call was "delayed".
>
>I'm almost relieved that Corey really did the "but-end".  If the player
>action never occurred, then that exposed the officiating crew and
>officiating in general with quite a problem.  On our local WABI wrap-up,
>former HEA official Mike Tuell commented that, though there is
>additional paperwork for a DQ, there is no recourse and essentially no
>way to turn such a decision around or further assess penalty depending
>on the severity of the action.  Mike did not expect the referee to
>change the penalty, even with conclusive replay.
>
>Of course, we did not see conclusive replay, nor was, apparently from
>the above quote, there reason to suspect Corey didn't butt-end Comrie.
>
>Quite out of character for this year's Ceglarski Sportsmanship Award
>winner!  People can argue whether it warranted the major/DQ, but at
>least we appear to know it happened.
>
>To his credit, Corey was forth-right, honest, humble and apologetic in
>post-game comments (broadcast on WZON radio this morning).
>
>Goooooo BLUE!
>
>Wayne T. Smith
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