> Watching the regional game pitting BU against UW, it seemed to me that the
> Badgers game plan was to take BU out of its game plan, by enticing the Terriers
> to take dumb penalties for fighting, and the like.  For once, the Terriers
> didn't respond (even Jack Parker joked in the post-game presser that Doug
> Friedman had taken many such penalties this year but not tonight)  and it
> seemed that doomed Wiscinsin to defeat as they were the ones receiving all the
> calls.
 
It may have looked like it, but I doubt that was the Wisconsin strategy --
Wisconsin's powerplay has been *really* *really* *awful* this year.
(If you were really serious, then I could go on about why I don't
think it really was their strategy).
 
> FInally, no one probably heard me shout it but, can we take the UW band with
> us to St. Paul in lieu of ours.  All I could say was "Wow."
 
And you only saw a small part of the band -- more NC$$ rules at work.
 
        --david
 
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