> From: David Parter <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Thoughts From a trip to Milwaukee...
>
> The other WCHA ref was Brian (?) Ricci. He did a terrible job in the
> semi-final. I thought Sheperd did a good job. I have no idea why they
> paired Ricci with Shep.... I don't think they worked as a pair during
> the regular season. Jim Berlew would have been a better choice...
 
Once again, david is right on.
 
> According to Charlie Shub (when we asked the same question between
> periods Saturday), since the refs had to be either ECAC or WCHA, they
> brought in one team from each league, and chose the better team based
> on the semi-final games.
 
that was partly a guess on my part.  Clearly (and this was confirmed
by ned bunyan thursday afternoon) there could be no CCHA nor Hockey
East officials at either game.  The NC$$ can save money by bringing in
2 sets of officials instead of 3.  I speculated that the saturday
officials were chosen on the basis of better performance on thursday.
so....   The tongue in cheek comment was that we could thank Ricci's
not doing so well thursday night for the ECAC officials on saturday.
 
>         --david
 
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