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Date: | Sun, 2 Dec 90 13:44:35 EST |
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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!!!
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