Not a great day for the 'linesman' position in Worcester today -- in the 2nd
game, there appeared to be a clear-cut too-many-men-on-the-ice situation
against UNH that wasn't called, which had the Cornell bench screaming (it
happened with 48 seconds left in the 3rd, Cornell down a goal with the
goalie pulled) -- maybe, since that call was made 4 times Saturday, it had
reached its quota.

Then, with the clock ticking down to 2 or 3 seconds, what also appeared to
be a clear-cut icing by UNH went unwhistled, as time was allowed to run out
-- again with the Cornell folks protesting.

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Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 5:11 PM
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Subject: Re: Unusual Calls


> One of the linesman had a habit of yapping at the players and not
> dropping the puck.  It got pretty irritating for everyone in the arena.

I bet this guy is from Hockey East.  There is one linesman who never drops
the puck, just yaps.

Oh well, a western linesman called Maine for icing late in the Maine/BU game
when the Maine player was several FEET over the red-line.

What was particularly irritating is that his cohorts didn't overrule him and
face it off at neutral ice.  Instead, BU got an offensive zone face off down
1 goal late.