On Feb 25,  3:27pm, John Haeussler wrote:
>
> LAKE SUPERIOR 5 Michigan 4 OT (Friday)
> Michigan looked good for 20 minutes.  Lake Superior was the
> better team for most of the last 40.  A tie would have been fitting,
 
        This is absolutely true.  I was a rather discouraged LSSU
        fan after the first period.  After all, we were down by two
        goals and Michigan had looked, IMO, outstanding.
        Toward the end of the period they just formed an impenetrable
        wall at the blue line on every Laker rush daring them to cross
        it.  This combined with crisp passing and aggressive offense
        made me *real* worried.  To my suprise and pleasure, both
        Michigan and LSSU changed teams between periods.
 
> net.  After depositing the puck behind Malicke, Aldridge turned
> and cracked Arnold upside the head.  A classic chump move.
> What did Arnold do?  He took it and went to the Wolverine bench.
> Puh-lease!  You're getting waxed in the biggest game of the year
> to date, then you're being publicly humiliated after the goal.
> Arnold should have knocked Aldridge on his butt and recovered
> some pride in showing that despite the score, Michigan wasn't
> going to take Aldridge's kind of crap.  But, he didn't and that was
> interesting game.  Where's Ted Kramer when you need him?
> (Pardon me, but for lack of a better term, Michigan could certainly
> use a couple of pricks to give the team a little more character.)
>
        I didn't see this particular play but, I must say, as the
        outcome of the game became more apparent, Michigan seemed to
        take on something of a chumpy tone themselves.  I suppose
        the prime example of this was the Warren Lunhing (sp?)
        take down and karate kick of Jason Traczinski (sp?) against the
        boards.  He looked something like Dave Rozema of the Tigers
        a few years ago.
 
> THE FANS
> No specifics on-line, but any Laker fan that has ever complained
> about the treatment at Yost should put on a Michigan shirt and sit
> in the band endzone at LSSU.  Hostile has been taken to another
> level.  And, since the choreographed profanity it led by the band
> (at Yost, it's led and carried out by the students), I assume that the
> administration is OK with it.  The standing ovations whenever a
> Michigan player was injured were particularly classy. :-(
 
        As a Laker fan who has complained, this is a concern to me also.
        I'm glad to see lots of crowd support but I don't care to see it
        take the low road.  For what it's worth, at my end we applauded
        when players from either team got up and made it off the ice
        on their own.
 
>
> THE SOO
> Jeez, did this place change in a year or what?!  Drop a casino in
> and it becomes a pseudo-resort.  My favorite restaurant is gone,
> but Arby's, Burger King, KFC, McDonald's, Subway, Wendy's, etc
> have been added.  Boo.  The Mom-n-Pop motels will probably
> be next to fall given the new presence of Holiday Inn and the like.
> Boo.  The new look Taffy Abel Arena is nice, but skyboxes are not
> for hockey.  Boo.  On a positive note (if you're a classic Soo fan),
> I think it snowed more there on Friday night/Saturday morning than
> it has in Ann Arbor all winter.  And, the Norris Center parking lot
> still has better ice than the Palace ever will.
 
        Actually, the snow has gone down *a lot* since I was up there
        a month ago.  And the freezing rain on Friday combined with
        a short walk to the arena contributed to a personal hair
        style my barber could only dream of ;-)
 
>-- End of excerpt from John Haeussler
 
 
 
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