Wisconsin and Northern Michigan split their weekend series. Northern has obviously improved considerably since early in the year when they got wiped out in Madison. Northern has a good shot at finishing 3rd in the league. I believe they have the 2nd best home record in the WCHA. It will be interesting to see how they do when they host Minn-Duluth in a few weeks. Steve C. already posted the Friday night box score. He mentioned an incident in Friday's game involving Wis. goalie Jim Carey. Carey saw the ref signal an upcoming penalty and skated to the Wis. bench thinking the penalty was on NMU. In fact, the penalty was on Wis for too many men on the ice. NMU shot the puck into the empty Wis. net. Carey was quite upset with this incident. He claimed that referee Jim Burlew signaled the penalty while Wis. had the puck. Hence if the penalty were on Wis. the whistle should have been blown immediately. I didn't see the play so I am just relaying Carey's version of the play. ---mg ###################################################################### Saturday, Feb 13, 1993 Wisconsin------------- 0 1 1 - 2 N. Michigan----------- 2 1 2 - 5 First Period NMU 6:35 Smith 8 (Karlander) NMU 18:45 Riplinger 12 (pp) Second Period NMU 14:05 Frederick 19 (sh) Wis 14:45 Francisco 6 (Rafalski, Zent) (pp) Third Period Wis 1:37 Moore 8 (Tucker, Ma. Strobel) NMU 6:42 Simpson 5 (Riplinger, Hadden) NMU 8:35 Simpson 6 (Karlander) Saves Carey (Wis) ----------------- 9 10 7 - 26 Saurdiff (NMU) -------------- 10 8 7 - 25 Penalties Wis 9 2-min & 1 10-min misconduct NMU 9 2-min Power Plays Wis 1 for 6 NMU 2 for 7