I agree Jason Blake of ND should have got a penalty but Brett should have
recieved the flippin Oscar for his whining performance about his poor
hand.....Come on he bitched and moaned for a good two mins and then he
was back out on the ice no problems at all.....
 
On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Eeyore wrote:
 
> My beef with the officiating isn't that they're affecting the outcome of
> games, but that they're affecting the health of players.  For the last
> couple of years it was checking from behind that was being ignored (contrary
> to the NCAA guidelines), but while there were a couple of these that went by
> uncalled this weekend, it's the slashing that's now out of control here in
> the WCHA.  Towards the end of Sunday's game, one of the North Dakota players
> showed us his Paul Bunyan impression with a two-handed over the head job on
> Brett Abrahamson's hand; Mike Schmitt stood five feet away from this and let
> it go uncalled.  I understand that it was late in a close game, but Schmitt
> went beyond the "no blood, no foul" standard on this one.
>
> This is not to say that there is some sort of conspiracy to get the
> Gophers.  We get away with our fair share of slashes, particularly Wyatt
> Smith and Erik Westrum.  This was just the most obvious non-call I've
> seen.   Minnesota has been going through an epidemic of broken hands over
> the last month, though, so I'm a bit sensitive to it.  It also seems that
> those post-whistle scrums we're all familiar with just can't be considered
> complete without cross-checking someone in the head.  After the season,
> league honchos need to get together and decide to put an end to this.  There
> are two things that need to be pointed out at this meeting though: the refs
> are actually going to have to CALL these penalties rather than just listen
> to the lectures and ignore the penalties like they have with checking from
> behind, and someone should tell them that if they were doing their job, this
> meeting wouldn't have been needed.
>
> While I like obstruction fouls to be called pretty tightly, I'm open to
> different interpretations of these and figure that the teams should adjust
> to the conditions.  But I've run out of tolerance for the dangerous things
> that the refs consistently decide to let go.  They are either incompetent or
> negligent; I'd find the second more worrisome than the first.
>
> J. Michael Neal
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