Larry writes:
>With the score 3-1, LSSU appeared to close it to 3-2, BUT
>the LSSU goal scorer HAD 1 FOOT IN THE CREASE!  The announcers,
>apparently pro-guys, commented that the goal would NEVER
>have been waived off in the pros (any comment?)...
 
Yes: these two guys were meatheads.  I also noticed that even though the
referee was two feet away from the LSSU guy who scored the goal and
immediately waved it off (and this was on camera), they proceeded to
announce the goal and run the replay and it took them a while to disocver
that it had indeed been waved off.  The call was of course a correct one.
As far as whether it would have been waved off in the pros, that's
completely irrelevant - this isn't the pros!  But when the NHL had their
in-the-crease rule, I saw plenty of goals waved off when guys had one foot
in and even some waved off when he was only close.  I thought they took an
unnecessary shot at the referees by saying, "You can tell they aren't pro
referees because if they were, that goal would have counted."  Yeah, and if
this were pro, we'd have also seen a few guys trying to bash each other's
heads in.
 
They had one interesting comment at the start of the second, the color guy
said that he thought the lack of a two-line offside (i.e. the red line not
coming into play as in pro) made for less aggressive forechecking because
players were afraid to allow the long breakout pass.  But that is a
decision college has made to open up the game more.  You will still see
teams employ good forechecking though, they just make sure to cover the
neutral zone better which IMO makes for more strategy than in pro where
they don't have to worry about it.
 
Anyone know what the attendance was for any of the games?  It looked sparse
as expected but better than last year's games which were played in front of
a nearly empty house.
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Mike Machnik    [log in to unmask]   Color Voice of the Merrimack Warriors
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