In reference to Minnesota head coach Doug Woog, Brett Harvey wrote:
"A WCHA records for penalties and penalty minutes were established with
Sixty-nine penalties for 213 minutes were assessed, with 145 minutes
handed
out after a brawl took place with one minute, 25 seconds left."
 
Now Doug Woog not only has an NCAA playoff record -- Most Penalties,
Game (23), 1988 and Most Penalties, Both Teams, Game (43), 1988 -- but
now has a matching WCHA playoff record. Congratulations Doug!
 
 
Brett adds, from the Star-Tribune: "Although Woog couldn't comment on
the officials, he did state that Mike Schmitt and crew will NOT be
referring the 3rd game tonight.   When pressed if that was at his
request, Woog wouldn't comment."
 
Which reminds me of a question or riddle, "Do you know what sound a
Gopher makes?"
to which the answer is "A whine."
 
 
But here is the real joke: "It will be interesting to see if a new
officiating crew will control the game any better this evening."
 
The crew sent up to Duluth was the crew doing the Michigan Tech-SCSU
series and people were screaming at them all night Friday and Saturday
for NOT making calls. Adam and his other two blind mice almost let the
game get out of control both nights -- but thankfully they were close
6-4 and 3-2 games. So in comes Schmidt to do our Sunday game and kicks
two Tech players out for fighting after SCSU got ahead 6-1 and Tech went
headhunting (all to chants of "Season's Over" by the SCSU student
section). On the way home I get the overtime of the Duluth-Gopher game
on a twin cities radio station and the announcers are complaining how
the "NON CALLS" have allowed the Bulldogs back into the game and almost
gave them a goal. ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE. Thank goodness we had
Schmidt down here. He began to call everything and put an end to most of
the season ending foolishness, brutality, and cheapshots that probably
would have flourished in the presence of Adam.
 
Did I just compliment a referee???
 
Nathan Eric Hampton
 
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