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from the Woodbury Bulletin
http://www.woodburybulletin.com/article ... n=homepage

(note that Nowicki scored while wearing a borrowed skate after his own blade failed him)

So you think Papa Nowicki will call Elite league to mention they over-looked his son again this year or just send in the article?

biscuit in the basket wrote:It came down to WB just didnt finish their chances and Woodbury did.
I'll also give credit to Ness as he made some big saves point blank.

not to bash any player or anything, but i don't think he played that good... i think he got lucky a lot! if i were him, i would be buying lottery tickets right now.

mvhockey12 wrote:White Bear is bad.

No, the officiating was bad.

I'm an official myself in another sport, so I'm reluctant to criticize, but there were two bad misses early in the game.

About two minutes in, a WBL defenseman who was facing the boards behind his goal got crosschecked in the back and fell hard into the boards. There was no ugly-looking head snap and he wasn't injured (thankfully), but it was about as clear a checking from behind incident as I've seen. It's obvious on the tape, as well.

Linesman, whoever you are, you can't allow that sort of thing to happen or a kid is going to get his neck broken. The safety of the players is the paramount concern of officials in ANY youth sport.

The second bad miss came at about five minutes in. WBL had the puck behind its goal. A forward for WDB came rushing into WBL's end and passed another WBL player who was moving slowly in the same direction. As the forward passed the WBL player, he whipped his stick around and in front of him, knocking him to the ice. It happened very quickly, but it was an obvious case of interference -- dropping a player who is nowhere near the puck -- and it was pulled off with remarkable skill.

A practiced bit of stick-swinging while you look the other way? Not sure. Somehow all three officials missed it, but many in the stands did not. Anthony LaPanta did not miss it, and observed that one of the officials had his arm in the air for a penalty, but then inexplicably brought it down.

If the arm is in the air, call the penalty. If you're unsure, don't raise the arm. It's that simple. It's worse if you raise it and then take it down, especially if the penalty is obvious and it's early in the game. You look indecisive, which is a fatal error.

The whistles were in the pocket for the rest of the game, but the remaining misses weren't as bad. To their credit, they let the WBL holding in OT go on for as long as they could, avoiding a whistle until it was too obvious to ignore.

The Gumper wrote:

mvhockey12 wrote:White Bear is bad.

No, the officiating was bad.

I'm an official myself in another sport, so I'm reluctant to criticize, but there were two bad misses early in the game.

About two minutes in, a WBL defenseman who was facing the boards behind his goal got crosschecked in the back and fell hard into the boards. There was no ugly-looking head snap and he wasn't injured (thankfully), but it was about as clear a checking from behind incident as I've seen. It's obvious on the tape, as well.

Linesman, whoever you are, you can't allow that sort of thing to happen or a kid is going to get his neck broken. The safety of the players is the paramount concern of officials in ANY youth sport.

The second bad miss came at about five minutes in. WBL had the puck behind its goal. A forward for WDB came rushing into WBL's end and passed another WBL player who was moving slowly in the same direction. As the forward passed the WBL player, he whipped his stick around and in front of him, knocking him to the ice. It happened very quickly, but it was an obvious case of interference -- dropping a player who is nowhere near the puck -- and it was pulled off with remarkable skill.

A practiced bit of stick-swinging while you look the other way? Not sure. Somehow all three officials missed it, but many in the stands did not. Anthony LaPanta did not miss it, and observed that one of the officials had his arm in the air for a penalty, but then inexplicably brought it down.

If the arm is in the air, call the penalty. If you're unsure, don't raise the arm. It's that simple. It's worse if you raise it and then take it down, especially if the penalty is obvious and it's early in the game. You look indecisive, which is a fatal error.

The whistles were in the pocket for the rest of the game, but the remaining misses weren't as bad. To their credit, they let the WBL holding in OT go on for as long as they could, avoiding a whistle until it was too obvious to ignore.

I agree those refs missed alot. the check from behind no-call definatley should have been called I agree. Also White Bear probably could have been called for interferance about 5 times in that game and they never got called for it. But in the end bad calls and missed calls are just part of the game and players and coaches just have to deal with it.