Subject: HOCKEY EAST FINAL: WORST OFFICIATING IN YEARS
 
Firstly, I agree that the officiating was hardly Championship caliber and BU
was definitely given the blind eye on quite a few calls, however I have to
respond to certain statements.
 
Andy Dursin wrote:
>4. PC's Chad Quenville carried one puck from the Terrier blue-line right to the
>back of the BU net as he was being held up by 2 BU players, neither of whom
>could keep up with his speed. I haven't seen such a perfect example of
>intereference all year, yet it wasn't called. (The fact that it was so obvious,
>coming right in front of the officials, made it even worse).
 
Can't say I remember the play you're talking about, but if Quenville is carrying
the puck, how can an interfernce call be made?
 
>5. The very first penalty of the game came when a BU player ran INTO Providence
>goaltender Bob Bell, obviously looking for a penalty--and got one because Bell
>had his blocker up at the time, and the BU player did another acting job to get
>a call from an (easily convinced) group of officials.
 
Sorry.  The replay showed that Bell interfered with the BU player.  Bell was
heading back to his crease and as the BU player was going around him, Bell
stuck his arm and leg out to trip him up.  I thought it was a bit of a dive
until I saw the replay.
 
>6. One PC odd-man breakout was called off when a BU player--down on the ice in
>the Terrier end--decided to PUT HIS HEAD DOWN when he saw that a PC breakout was
>about to take place. No one who saw it will deny it, either; he may have been
>shaken up, but he had his head UP after he got hit, and then quickly put it down
>and put on another Award-winning performance when he saw that the Friars had the
>numbers down ice. (Incidentally, he quickly got up when the refs blew the play
>dead).
 
The BU player accused of acting is Mike Prendergast who separated his shoulder
on the play.  Hardly something he would be faking.
 
 
Rich
Boston Univ.