Adam: You absolutely heard correctly.  The NCAA Final game was indeed
called an appetizer for the main course.  I in fact commented on it to the
people we were watching the game with.  I recall saying that I felt it was
an insult to all the  college hockey fans watching their "SuperBowl".  Try
saying that about NCAA basketball - phones would be ringing off the hook!!!
 
 
 
In article <[log in to unmask]>, MR ADAM C WODON
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> -- [ From: Adam Wodon * EMC.Ver #2.10P ] --
>
> I held off saying anything about this because I was clearly rooting for
> Vermont with all my heart, and didn't want to seem bitter about it ...
> but Mike M. has opened the door, as he so often does so well.
>
> I agree with Mike 100 percent.  Everything he says is on the money.
>
>    I watched the game at home, taped the game, and watched the ending
> (painfully) a few times.  By Dedective Reasoning and the Laws of
> Physics it is clear to me that no Vermont player touched the puck from
> the time McNeil hit it with his hand and Remackel banged it in.
>
>    I think the idea of the puck hitting Thomas on the leg after McNeil
> hit it is indisputably false if you've seen the tape. Thomas hit it
> after Remackel did.  The only question is whether Hallman tipped the
> puck before Remackel did.  I think from Reasoning, angle and physics,
> he most likely didn't.
>
>    Of course, it doesn't matter now, but it is a shame it ended like
> that.
>
>    BTW, I think it was Jeff Anbinder who talked about Keith Olbermann
> being interested in hockey from his Cornell days -- Well, I think
> Olbermann is proof that not every Cornell student gives a crap about
> hockey, or knows a damn thing about it.
>       I HATE his pretentious attitude, but it's even worse when he's
> dead wrong.
>      Olbermann said about the Vermont goal ... "..as we know, play
> should have stopped as soon as the player hit it with his hand."  He
> then raised his eyebrow, as if to condescend.
>     Well, as WE know, play doesn't automatically stop when the puck is
> hand passed, unless a teammate touches it.
>    So, while I BELIEVE it to have been a hand pass, Olbermann was, in
> his way, putting down the whole thing because it was "so clear to him"
> play should have been stopped immediately.  I hate him.
>
>     Speaking of ESPN -- who was that awful studio host?  Where was John
> Saunders, Steve Levy or Bill Pidto???  The guy knew nothing, couldn't
> read or speak, and at one point I think I heard him say....
>    "This is just the appetizer for tonight's main course, the Final
> Four"  He was talking about basketball.  Did anyone else hear this?
> How can you call the NCAA hockey Final an appetizer to the basketball
> semifinals, to a hockey audience???
>
>    Finally, I think Bob Norton did a tremendous job.  I've had this
> image of him as a pure Boston guy (which he is), who only talks up
> Boston players, and can't pronounce anyone else's name.
>    I no longer believe this, having paid great attention to him for 3
> games.  I think his play diagramming was very insightful, and his
> constant playing up of where players are from, could get tiring, but
> since you never hear about it with hockey players, it's actually pretty
> refreshing.
>     And how can you hate a guy who says, "I wouldn't know if a
> basketball was blown up or stuffed."  That's the kind of thing people
> usually say in reverse.
>
>    As for Mees, yeah he's bad --> But as someone else said, for the
> longest time he carried the torch at ESPN for hockey, all alone.  I
> give him credit for that.
>
> AW
>
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