I hate to add to the discussion of referee Bill Doiron but I guess I will
chime in.
 
>
> Thanks to all for the interesting reporting.  Wish there was more game
> reporting on the list and less drivel.
>
 
I hope this isn't drivel but I appreciate what is being said.
 
We may be in a minority but my son (who has played and now coaches youth
hockey) and I both liked the way Doiron called the game.  He was correct,
consistent and fair from the start of the game to the end.  It was a hard
hitting fast paced game.  Both teams would on occasion come up fighting mad
after a hard hit.  It was not the cleanest or the dirtiest game I have ever
seen but there was a lot of extra curricula activity after the whistle or
behind the play.
 
Doiron would call 2 minutes roughing and 10 minutes misconduct for each of
these "fights".  He could have called some of them 4 minutes for double
roughing and he could have called the worst of them 5 minutes fighting but
2 & 10 works for me and cooled down the combatants.  If he had not called
all the roughing I am sure the game would have gotten out of control.
 
In terms of the non roughing penalties everything he called that I saw
should have been called.  Some things were out of my sight but based on
what I saw he deserves the benefit of the doubt.
 
It was a good hockey game and Doiron contributed to it being a good hockey
game by keeping it under control.  I won't bother to analyse the box score
but the impression from the stands was that both teams were taking about
the same number and type of penalties and the ref was consistent in calling
them.  If you play the game with intensity there will be penalties but it
could have been a better game without all the scrums.
 
Cahoon was out of line and lost control of himself.  He had an animated
conversation with Doiron at the players bench late in the first period and
I could see Doiron's face.  Cahoon was pressing the limits of a referee's
patience but Doiron remained calm and listened to him.  Some fans were
calling out for a delay of game at this point and Doiron probably informed
Cahoon that enough was enough.  When he went up to Doiron after the period
was over he no doubt earned the penalty.  The call against Princeton at the
end of the period was a particularly brutal and dangerous elbowing and not
something that could be questioned by a reasonable person.  Although, to be
fair maybe Cahoon was not looking right at it like I was.  (Don't think I
am saying Princeton was bad & Cornell was good--I saw a Cornell player
administer a brutal and dangerous cross check that was also called later in
the game)
 
--Steve
 
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