Question to Kenny Zalewski, and anyone else who isn't yet convinced that for the most part the Div 1 refs often stink. Did you see the Harvard-RPI game Friday?? 2 things to go over (apologies in advance for missing some names/numbers) The power play that led to Harvard's go ahead goal came on a call by referess MacConeghy (sp??). The call was on number 4 of RPI for a hooking call. The play occurred at center ice, pretty much directly in front of where I was sitting. MacConeghy was in front of the Harvard bench and both players involved had their backs to him. From my vantage point what I (and those around me) saw was RPI #4 deliver a vicous shoulder check to the Harvard player who reached out and grabbed the RPI players stick on his way to the ice. What MacConeghy called was a hook on the RPI player. How he could have seen this to call it when both players backs were to him and their sticks in front of them is a mystery to me?? This was a case where a bad call by a referee changed the course of the game substantially. The other indcident is even more egregious and inexcusable. Mid way through the 3rd period the play was down in RPI's end. An RPI player (sorry again missed the number) delivered a vicious but legal check into the boards on Ciavaglia (Harvard #17) behind the RPI goal. the puck squirted loose and play proceeded up ice, with the exception of Ciavaglia, the RPI player and MacConeghy. Ciavaglia then hit the RPI player in retaliation away from the play, and to the left of Little the RPI goalie. This occurred 5 feet in front of MacConeghy who was FACING the altercation and watching with the whistle in hand. The RPI player started to get up and Ciavaglia hovered over him and pushed him back down onto the ice. By this time the play was out of the RPI zone and up to the center line. MacConeghy was standing his ground, whistle in hand raised to his lips. Everyone around me thought for sure he was calling an interference against Ciavaglia. Instead he simply waited for Ciavaglia to skate away, and the RPI player to get up, and then skated away to catch up with the play, making no call at all on what was a BLATANT Interference penalty which occurred 5 feet in front of him. Now in all fairness I was impressed with the way MacConeghy called the first 40 minutes of the game. I thought the officiating during the first 2 periods was as good as I had ever seen in the ECAC. This included a call on a blatant hook that an RPI player commited against a Harvard player who had a 2 step breakaway, a call the fans booed, but I thought was a deserved penalty. The problem I had was that for the last 20 minutes of the game MacConeghy trailed the play constantly, and made several lousy calls. His officiating of the 3rd period was completely incosistent with that of the other 2, and had a large part in changing the flow of the game. While it can't be argued that RPI this year has been a bunch of angels (they lead the ECAC in penalty minutes), they (and all the other ECAC and NCAA teams) deserve officials capable of officiating a game in a consistent manner, and capable of keeping with the play for a full 60 minutes. So I'm wondering what you're perception of this game was, and anyone else who might have been there?? And to the net in general has anyone else seen this particular ref?? Has he shown this type of Jekyll & Hyde behavior before?? Is this phenomena isolated or are their other refs in Div 1 that show similar inconcsistencies during the course of a single game?? - Jay H Wondering if the unoffical theme song of NCAA referess is Talking Heads "Crosseyed & Painless" ?? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gaia Erda Anat Danu Kali Mawu Disclaimer: Don't have a cow man