At 9:32 AM -0600 12/9/97, John Perkins wrote:
 
>Somewhere in the second period Adam started flipping coins on whether or not
>to call a penalty.  As usual, the home team was victimized by the ref more
>often than the visiting team (I estimate by 3:1).  A very marginal penalty in
>the third period lead to the first power play goal by NoDak; at that point
>Wisconsin was starting to look weak.  The second goal was a defensive
>breakdown from the cardinal and white.  Our offense had a few good shots that
>just weren't quite on net.
 
>
>In short, I think the score would have turned out to be 2-1 NoDak had Adam not
>been there to screw things up.  Then again, that's typical WCHA officiating,
>isn't it?  Judging by the number of times the crowd outright boo'ed the refs
>after blowing the whistle, I'm not the only one who thought the zebras screwed
>up.
 
Has anyone else noticed that the Badgers seem much chippier this season? I
don't think it's my imagination.. but I can't remember, as a team, taking
this many penalties.. they seem to be killing off penalites every 5
minutes. I'm not sure it's the refs "bad calls".. there were a couple dumb
penalties by Wisconsin, (Raygor's slash especially .. I'd expect more
composure from the captain)  The last thing we need is a team of Sean Hills
and Jason Zents, without the scoring ability... just an opinion.  You can't
score from the penalty box, boys.
 
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