A much more exciting game to watch than Friday nite's game. It was good clean
 hockey for most of the first two periods. Ricci seemed to make some pretty
 peculiar calls at times like confusing charging with interference and missing
 a very blatant butt-ending call at the end of the third period, generally he
 did an ok job on this one with two teams who were set to go off at any given
 moment. Unfortunately that moment DID come at the end of the third period
 which was precipitated by Chris McAlpine who cross-checked a UND player in
 front of the benches and started the rough stuff. Jason Miller was butt-ended
 while on the MN bench by a UND player on the ice, even the UND back-up goalie
 appeared ready to get involved in the action. There was much pushing and
 shoving between the players at the ends of both benches which are only
 separated by the stick-carts. Gino was having no luck at controlling his
 players to stop the altercation. On the ice, there was much pushing and
 shoving going on also. In the end the two captains faced off and were both
 tossed with fighting-majors. There was alot the Ref missed.There were numerous
 Cross-checks and elbows all through the game and my guess is the Gophers had
 had enough and UND went back to their Friday night style.
 
 One interesting note was that the UND FANS really did their team in by
 throwing so much debris onto the ice after UND tied the game with two quick
 goals in the third period, that it took about 5-8 minutes to clear the ice
 that UND lost it's momentum and gave Minnesota a "free" time-out so to speak.
 The Gophers came right back to score two quick goals and silence the raucous
 UND crowd. UND never regained their composure and the Gophers scored another
 goal less than two minutes later and sealed the win even though a little less
 than half the third period remained. I believe Gino Gasparini was quite vexed
 at the UND fans because he was quoted in the Trib as saying: "Our fans dumped
 all that stuff on the ice after we scored and it delayed the game 15 minutes
 and killed our momentum". It was not 15 minutes, but must have seemed like it
 to Gino!! Woog's comment was: "Our best play of the game was the 75th cup
 their fans threw on the ice."Maybe, just MAYBE the UND fans will remember this
 the next time we play up there and change their minds about dumping stuff on
 the ice. UND could have won the game if it hadn't been for their fans, this
 was real justice for the Gophers who have had to endure showers of poor dead
 little prairie dogs for far too many years.
 Carol White
 U of M
 GO Gophers!!!