It’s incredibly frustrating to watch week-after-week as officials completely ignore the actual rules in the actual rulebook and enforce a standard of actively searching for any minor technicality to disallow a goal. Nobody on Alaska’s team offers even the slightest protest after the goal was scored. If you need the Hi-def slow-motion frame-by-frame forensic analysis to disallow a goal, it’s not an egregious error. The rulebook is exceedingly clear that video review should only be used to correct “egregious errors” and that the standard of evidence needed to overturn a call is significant. I sat through this game and believe me when I tell you: these teams were doing just fine at not scoring goals on their own.
I really can’t understand the purpose of this rule. If any part of the puck is touching the blue line before the attacking player is 100% inside the blue line, that should be good. But fine, if we have to keep offsides out of tradition, at the very least, the offensive team should be given every benefit of the doubt at the line to avoid blowing the play dead. Nobody is buying a ticket to see anything happening in the neutral zone. I guess the argument is that if you slow it down frame-by-frame, there’s a possibility that the puck isn’t 100% across the blue line before Kukkonen is all the way in the offensive zone. VAyBRQECN4- Chris Dilks October 14, 2022 I honestly don't even know what we're doing anymore. This isn’t a great video, but you get the gist: I hate absolutely everything about the decision to overturn Michigan Tech’s goal in the first period. I don’t think it’s fair to expect Halonen-like production right away, and the depth probably isn’t there behind them. Will that be enough to carry Michigan Tech this season? Probably not. But family connections-his aunt is Michigan Tech’s athletic director-brought him to Houghton and he should be a major contributor for them.Įven though Kukkonen only ended up with one assist on the scoresheet, I thought he did a really nice job driving the play and using his speed and skill to draw in defenders and create open space for Mosley and Pietila multiple times throughout the game. Kukkonen is a bit of an outlier in that he’s an NHL draft pick that doesn’t come from Tech’s normal recruiting footprint of the NAHL and the Pietila family. But I’m intrigued by what freshman Kyle Kukkonen brings to that line. Mosley and Pietila have never been huge scorers, though Pietila did have 13 goals last season, which adjusting for Michigan Tech, is like 50 elsewhere. The big question for Michigan Tech was where would the offense come from after losing a superlative offensive talent in Brian Halonen, along with a handful of other key seniors that dotted the top of Michigan Tech’s team scoring list last year. The difference-maker in this one was Michigan Tech’s first line of Ryland Mosley-Logan Pietila-Kyle Kukkonen, which had a hand in both goals and should have had a third if not for a video review that we’ll discuss further.
#Fairbanks alaska time zone series
The two teams will complete their series late Friday evening in a game that starts at 7:07pm Alaska Time/11:07pm EST. The shutout was the 11th of his career for Michigan Tech goalie Blake Pietila, which set a new Michigan Tech school record. The Huskies allowed 14 shots on goal in the the third period to just six put on Alaska’s net, but Michigan Tech did an excellent job of limiting high-quality chances and the Nanooks were never able to seriously threaten getting back into the game.
Mosley’s line would strike again at 12:19 of the second period when Logan Pietila jammed home a goal at the netfront for a 2-0 lead.įrom there, the Michigan Tech defense went into lockdown mode. 2:59 into the second period, Mosley scored a short-handed goal to put Michigan Tech in the lead. Michigan Tech’s Ryland Mosley appeared to give the Huskies a 1-0 lead late in the first period, before the officials headed to the video review booth and, rather inexplicably, overturned the goal, claiming Michigan Tech was offsides on zone entry.īut the puck doesn’t lie and Mosley would not be denied his goal. The two teams played a scoreless first period, though not without a little controversy. The Huskies took the first game of the series on Thursday night with a 2-0 victory. Michigan Tech made the trek way up north to Fairbanks, Alaska for a Thursday-Friday non-conference series against former conference foe Alaska Fairbanks.
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