Clay Satow sent the following observations (actually, part of a longer post)
on the butt-ending incident on Hockey-L:
 
>>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.
 
When the butt end happened, my 16 year old son and I turned to each other
and simultaneously said, incredulously "Did you see what he DID?"  It was
not a really bad butt end (you don't get up from an really bad  one), but a
clear butt end nevertheless.  I didn't see what, if anything, led up to it.
But even if there were some jostling, it was a stupid, stupid, thing to do
anyway.  It was clear that Maine was going to win.  At that point, you
should never do anything to jeopardize a Frozen Four game.  A whack to the
pads, a glove in the face, or even some trash talk sends the message,
without risking a DQ.>>
 
This indicates to me that the TV commentators were looking at the wrong
incident when they said somebody else (A. J. Begg, I believe) must have done
it.  Cory told the BDN that he was guilty, and Comrie said the butt-end
occurred, although he didn't think Cory deserved a game DQ.
 
We UMaine fans may think a game DQ inappropriate, but I don't think we can
argue that the incident didn't occur.