heimer wrote:Its obvious to me that there is an anti-Grand Forks bias at the state hockey tournament.
The Grand Forks teams got zero calls from the officials.
The All-tournament teams heavily slanted toward the west, both genders
Even the sound crew used the UND goal song for goals by west-region teams. At the Ralph, they put that song away and no one gets it.
It is what it is, but the west should feel pretty filthy right now. Minot was a legit boys champion. A co-op of Bismarck-Bismarck Century-Bismarck Legacy-Bismarck St. Marys-Bismarck Shiloh Christian (for a while, even Kidder County was in there) should be ashamed of scoring 13 goals against Dickinson.
It's clear the west doesn't have a lot of experience with success at the state tournament. Otherwise, they'd behave as if they had been there before.
I guess I saw that the all-tournament teams were heavily slanted towards the teams that won, but I would think they could have pick a player or two who accomplished a lot by simply getting their teams there and tried to compete. I have to agree that cheering for a team that is represented by 5 high schools was pretty tough especially since they play 8th and 9th graders, and have upperclassmen on the bench.