No question about liking the outcome.  But that wasn't the point.  I
would have liked the outcome no matter what the score if Wis won.

I'll give you this - watching on TV is a poor substitute for being at
the game.  Unlike (e.g.) football, the only advantage of TV is the
slo-mo replay so you can really follow the puck trajectory on goals, but
you miss so much else restricted to that one window on the game!  So
maybe if I were there like you I would have thought differently.  But
what I saw on the boob tube wasn't boring at all.  Those passes that
failed to materialize to impress you didn't happen because the defense
took them away more than the offense didn't have the skills to make
them.

But that's OK.  If different folks didn't have different views of things
life really would be boring.

TR (and not at Madison - stuck in Stevens Point and Div III hockey).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: - Hockey-L - The College Hockey Discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nicholas R. Markham
> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 12:38 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: First round game comments
>
>
> An evenly matched defensive struggle?  I guess, in that both
> teams appeared equally bad.  I'm not sure I saw either team
> make a single real pass, and the continual icing and offsides
> weren't what I expected from the teams that are supposed to
> be numbers 6 and 11 in the country.  The goalies did play
> well, but none of the skaters showed me anything.  And for
> what it's worth, most of the people sitting around me seemed
> to be similarly unimpressed.  (I didn't ask about their
> allegiances; I suspect your being in Wisconsin might have a
> tiny bit do do with you liking the outcome? :))
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: - Hockey-L - The College Hockey Discussion List
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rowe, Thomas
> > Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 1:04 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: First round game comments
> >
> > Wisc - OSU.  Boring?  How can you call that boring?  You
> had an evenly
> > matched defensive struggle with both teams doing just what
> they needed
> > to thwart the other, and still had scoring chances with two goalies
> > having good games.  How can you not like a game like that
> unless the
> > only thrill you have is seeing a goal scored?  I suppose a football
> > game that doesn't end 37-34 or a soccer match that doesn't
> go 6-5 or a
> > squeakball game that doesn't end 89-87 is boring too (Oh -
> wait a min.
> > Squeakball is boring by definition - Nevermind!)?  Anyway, a
> > defensive struggle is just as entertaining as an offensive
> > struggle if you are a fan of the game.  Even a stupid game,
> > and hockey isn't stupid.
>