It is good to see things are back to normal.  The temp was -20F this morning.
I watched the Bills blow another Superbowl from the fishhouse last night.
And the Gophers are back on top of the WCHA.
 
Just a few short weeks ago everybody, the newspapers, radio, TV, and even
some Hockey-Lers were talking about how the UofM will never amount to
anything until it looks beyond its borders for hockey talent.
 
I remember all those comments.  "A new building and they are 0-5-1."  "Maybe
now Woog will put a few Canadians on his team."  "St. Cloud is on top and they
use out-of-state players."  Those were the nice comments.
 
We all realize that there is a lot of season left but I think the Gophers
proved something in front of 9300+ fans Saturday night.  The University of
Minnesota Golden Gophers still are "Minnesota's Pride on Ice"
 
One question about Saturday night's game to anybody who was there.
The disallowed goal that Jeff Nielsen put in the net puzzels me.  Woog had
the puck high on the left side.  The Gophers were on the power play.  Nielsen
was tied up with McDonald in front of the net.  Nielsen and McDonald were
trading cheap shots all night so it wasn't too big a deal to see them locked
up in front of the net.  All of a sudden Nielsen breaks free, Woog lays a
pass right on his stick and Nielsen puts the puck away.  THEN Ames (spelling)
disallows the goal.  He calls Nielsen for interference or something and sends
him to the box.  Now finally my question.  If the Gophers (Woog) had control
of the puck, why didn't the ref blow the play dead at the time of the
infraction?  How come the penalty appeared magically after Nielsen scored
the hat trick?  Hmmm.
 
I guess I have two questions.  Why does the ref "wave off" penalties?  When
somebody goes down and it may look like a penalty but the ref decides no,
he waves his arms to signal no penalty.  Whats up with that?  Either it is a
penalty or it isn't.  It is almost like he is "disallowing" a penalty.
 
 
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- Matt Rein
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