Mr. Ames,
 
First of all, I really enjoy your postings from the Star Tribune and
Pioneer Press. Otherwise, alot of information would get easily past me.
But secondly, DeBus had to get something, and if you think the "crossing
the red line" call was a travesty, other things were much worse about
the referees' calls during
that "fight". The fight was on, the play was dead, and DeBus makes a
really stupid move = 2 minutes. The bigger question is why did
Robataille (sp?) get six minutes (and Spehar gets nothing). After the
Gopher finishes pounding the Huskie defenseman's face into the ice while
 
sitting on his back with his stick on the neck, the Huskie goalie skates
 
over to where I do not know (his defenseman, the ref???) and gets
confronted by Spehar who skates right up to the goalie, if not into him.
 
Granted Robataille should have gotten the high sticking for disposing of
 
that little brat Spehar, but an additional 4 minutes for roughing is
unfathomable. If he got 2 for fending off DeBus, then DeBus should have
had an additional 2 min. for roughing unless that is the meaning of
"crossing the red
line." Granted the home team (Gophers) were losing and needed some help,
but that should have come from the players, not the referee -- there was
no reason for giving the Gophers a four minute powerplay, AND NO WAY on
earth should Spehar have gotten off unpenalized. But the bigger question
is, what is wrong with WCHA refs this year? I thought things would get
better with Shepard gone, but now that he is director of referees, what
is there to be expected?
 
Nathan Eric Hampton
 
Subject: Re: GLI comments (correction)
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 16:12:15 -0600
From: Kevin L Ames <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
 
Could some tell me why Steve DeBus Received a crossing the center line
penalty in the gopher game sunday?
 
Doesn't the goalie cross the center line on a delayed penalty in the
second period of every game...
 
Even if it was during the fight it seems really dumb to me...
 
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