I am at the game. What I saw was their player grabbing Cooley’s arm and wrapping himself. They showed one brief snippet of a replay.
I really hated the style what we did after the 2 goal lead. We aren’t a team built to do a defensive shell. Our defense’s best attribute is grabbing pucks and starting a breakout. We stopped doing that and just tried killing it. We dropped and didn’t chase with a forecheck. Those are the things that make us hard to play against.
The best thing about this conference is the pettiness we have towards each other, worth way more than all the SEC titles.
Quinnipiac is the best team I’ve ever seen in the one major college hockey game I’ve been to. A very deserved championship.
First. Others expected to sign include Faber, Johnson, LaCombe and likely Koster from the D corps as well as Cooley. I expect Snuggerud back. Based on what recruits are coming in we have needs and that there is speculation that Close (G), Jaxon Nelson and Brodzinski could be offered the extra COVID year.
For whatever its worth, Pat Micheletti said on KFAN today that he thought there was a real chance that Cooley would come back next season.
It would be awesome but I find that to be doubtful. GPL has implied he likes the hockey more than the school.
There’s no way you can call those two equal acts. The initial grab/hold by Cooley. The high stick by Cooley. The punch to the face at the end by Cooley.
Both players in my mind committed penalties on the play. One player had a smorgasbord of calls to choose from.
It was 3 separate offenses by Cooley. - He took his hand off his stick and used his hand to hold the defender. That’s an easy call - His stick got up high. This one is probably the most questionable, which makes it ironic that it got called. But it’s still a stick riding under a guy’s cage - He throw a punch I understand he embellished at the end to make it look mutual, but he was the instigator in the entire action. It was clear QU should have gotten a PP from this, especially given how soft the previous slashing call was on QU (in addition to the lack off a call on the hook on Minnesota right after the QU penalty ended).
To be fair, it what initiated Cooley was his stick getting held under the arm to start the altercation.
Embellishment wasn’t the call I would have made on the Quinnipiac player. The earlier slash they called was a penalty but to the softer side and it surprised me they called it. But they did interfere with him and take away a scoring attempt in the second period which was a far more obvious call.
[QUOTE="Rabid, post: 18830025, member: 283"]I expect Snuggerud back. Based on what recruits are coming in we have needs and that there is speculation that Close (G), Jaxon Nelson and Brodzinski could be offered the extra COVID year. [/QUOTE] Well, fucking A, how about that? In addition, the last couple days goalie Justen Close and 2nd line center Jaxon Nelson have announced they are back for a 5th year.
Brodzinski is now confirmed back for a 5th year. With the Frozen Four in St. Paul it has a feeling of title or bust.
I think it’s much more common for certain programs to compete above. I can’t think of any where a D1 school competes at something lower.
You can have a sport or two bumped up from D2/D3 to D1 (like UAF, St. Cloud State, UMD in hockey, or Johns Hopkins in lacrosse) but not the reverse. Also, D2 hockey isn't really a thing - there are six schools in the Northeast 10 that play D2 hockey, but otherwise it is all D1 or D3.