I agree with all your points.  The most annoying thing to me was the lack of
hockey knowledge.
 
In the BC/Maine game, late in the game with Maine putting on intense
pressure, the BC net got displaced.  A BC player got a penalty for delay of
game.  Given that set of circumstances, anyone with the least bit of hockey
knowledge knew exactly what the penalty must have been called for.  But  not
this guy; he was completely baffled, speculating whether the BC player had
intentionally shot the puck into the crowd.
 
Clay
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George & Terri Downing [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 1999 12:54 PM
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> Subject:      Re: "U-Maine?"
>
> Joel Mack writes on April 1 1999:
>
> ----------
> > Is Maine now going by "U-Maine", or is Dave Ryan just making things up?
> > For some reason it was bugging the heck out of me...
> >
>
> They were both making stuff up all night. Corey-Joe Ficek became C-J,
> somehow Mike Weaver switched teams from MSU to UNH, and Jason Krog was
> described as "one of the overwhelming favorites to win the Hobey Baker
> (that's an Enlish major issue: how can you have more than one overwhelming
> favorite?). They were also mangling sayings all night: "Make hay while you
> can" - isn't that "make hay while the sun shines?" And if Dave Ryan used
> the phrase "he's trying to create" one more time, I was going to climb
> into my TV and beat him senseless. Imagine that on the radio: "Allen
> passes up to Gionta, who tries to create. He's still trying to create.
> He's behind the net creating." Can anyone picture what that might look
> like?
>
> And while we're on the subject, what was with the camera angles? The
> overhead cam was overused, particularly since it makes the game look like
> a Disney production - "Antz on Ice" - and the producers jumped from camera
> to camera so much that I thought I was watching an episode of Homicide.
>
> Of course, all that aside, it was nice to be able to watch both games live
> all the way over here on the East coast. Particularly since they were both
> excellent hockey games. So perhaps I shouldn't complain quite so much.
>
> George Downing  UNH '92
>
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