Wow, let us be friends here. Have any of the people griping about Wisconsin's after game practice ever been on a hockey team? I played Junior B from when I was 12 years old until I started playing university club hockey: this "qualifies" my following comments. We had closed door meetings sometimes. We practiced after games also. The meetings were to air out things: more hustle needed, do not like aspects of breakout, change power play setup, etc. Yeah, we even yelled at each other. However, the captains had no hold over the rest of us; they may have started the meetings, but we all "finished" them. Besides, we were all around the same age, and there was no way in heck I was going to let some other guy my same age bully me into doing something against my will. I am not stating that I am some sort of bad man, but think about it ... how much control over the most important aspect of a player's career on a team (playing time!) do the captain's have? With respect to after game practices, we all agreed to them because we all agreed that the main source of our problems was not hustling. We were probably wrong about *that* but it felt good to blame the bad effort on something and then work hard. It left us feeling good. Besides, if a hard practice was what the coach thought we needed, we would get it on Monday, Tuesday, ... anyway! The Wisconsin after game practice was legal. End of story. Did it serve a purpose? I hope so. Do I wish Wisconsin would win every game? Sure. But then again, college hockey is exciting in spite of someone losing. If every one of Wisconsin's games were like last years' NCAA loss to Michigan, I would be happy (well not *that* happy): it was just a great game and that is what it is all about.