I'll throw my $0.02 in on WCHA penalties...
 
I attended last weekend's UW-SCSU games.  I thought there was an increase
in special emphasis calls (I didn't actually look at last years data)---
The increase seemed small and did not greatly affect the game.
Perhaps the worse case was the start of period 3 game 2...there were
several consectutive penalties against SCSU (I'm not sure all were special
emphasis) which I think kept them from equalizing a 1 point game.  But since
I'm a badger fan I hardly noticed...
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