The games in Ann Arbor had their share of unusual calls.  One
commonality is that they were all with the same officiating crew.

In the St. Cloud - Michigan game there was of course the foot in the
crease call.  I wouldn't call that so unusual unless something interesting
comes out of the question on the Maine game.

One of the linesman had a habit of yapping at the players and not
dropping the puck.  It got pretty irritating for everyone in the arena.
Apparently, one pair of players just weren't able to deal with it anymore.
One got called for slashing and another for delay of game.  How do you
get called for a delay of game when you're in the circle trying to face off?
The next period that linesman started dropping the puck quicker.  I
wonder if someone talked to him between periods.  Of course, just to
make this game that much more interesting, there was also the tossing
out of the mascot.

Then there was a non-call.  Under pressure in the Michigan zone up
against the boards, one Michigan player reached down to the ice and
picked up the puck.  The play was called.  The player flipped the puck to
an official and it was just considered a frozen puck, not a delay of game.

The same crew officiated the Denver - Michigan game.  The most
interesting call was when a puck flipped up high in the air.  A Michigan
player caught the puck in the air and in one motion launched it down the
ice.  He was at his blueline and the puck landed near the other blueline.
Although it was one motion, it was a catch & throw and not just a batting
of the puck.  He was pretty surprised when he found out he couldn't do
that.  I figured he had been called for an illegal forward pass, but more
accurately it is that you can't throw the puck.

There was one other play that only the officials know what went on.  They
stopped play and one official went to the phone.  He spent more time on
the phone for this one than the waved off goal from the previous day.
Nothing seemed to come from it.  Maybe it was a pizza order.  It was
pretty loud in the arena at the time so I'm sure he would have had to
repeat it.

Doug Peterson