Sellingguy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2019 4:47 am
mcleod with a oops and pulled mid game. i didnt even notice!
i watched the game without sound. i hope that i would have been alerted to "what did i just hear" if i was-but i don't know. hard to imagine where i line like that could come from in this day and age though. thoughtless rambling i guess.
MCleod comes across as one of the least prepared play-by-play guys ever, he uses the same, lame cliches over and over -- not sure how he cold think this was appropriate or even remotely humorous in 2019 -- have to wonder if his days broadcasting the Gophers are over now as well
why isn't Frank "the mole" Mazacco doing any of these games if they are doing blasts from the past ???
Sellingguy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2019 4:47 am
mcleod with a oops and pulled mid game. i didnt even notice!
i watched the game without sound. i hope that i would have been alerted to "what did i just hear" if i was-but i don't know. hard to imagine where i line like that could come from in this day and age though. thoughtless rambling i guess.
MCleod comes across as one of the least prepared play-by-play guys ever, he uses the same, lame cliches over and over -- not sure how he cold think this was appropriate or even remotely humorous in 2019 -- have to wonder if his days broadcasting the Gophers are over now as well
why isn't Frank "the mole" Mazacco doing any of these games if they are doing blasts from the past ???
He said something in regards to White Bear lake fans bringing out the "Lynching ropes" after a Blaine goal......
They had Wally Shaver Wednesday. Surprisingly no one got called a hose head.
SC Cathedral vs Greenway in the final....Great game by Greenway to beat the Zephyrs..Will they have anything left for the championship game?..They only have 11 players..Go Crusaders!
Jaamz wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2019 4:40 pm
SC Cathedral vs Greenway in the final....Great game by Greenway to beat the Zephyrs..Will they have anything left for the championship game?..They only have 11 players..Go Crusaders!
I’d like to they will. They’ll have it to start out, and they found it again at the end of this one when they needed to.
I laughed when the Mahtomedi coach bitched about protecting his goalie, after the contact his boys were making with the Raider goalie.
'The Back Door' was a wonderful quirk in hockey tournament's history
By Patrick Reusse FEBRUARY 28, 2016 — 3:36PM
Gene Aldrich was the athletic director for the St. Paul high schools when he started pushing the idea of a state hockey tournament. It came about as an eight-team invitational in mid-February 1945.
The state was then divided into 32 districts and eight regions for the state basketball tournament. Aldrich and his organizers tried to approximate those regions in rounding up teams.
One problem: Six of the 32 districts had no hockey teams. There were no teams in Region 2 (Districts 5 through 8) in south central and the southwestern corner of Minnesota.
For some reason, Minneapolis did not send a team to St. Paul for the first tournament.
Aldrich found Granite Falls to represent Region 3, St. Cloud to represent Region 5 (later Minneapolis), Staples to represent Region 6 and deemed White Bear Lake to be the Region 2 representative.
The Granite Falls lads did not have real uniforms and only a modest understanding of the rules of hockey. They also had the misfortune and being pitted against Eveleth – Minnesota’s earliest high school power – in the first round.
The score was 16-0. And, according to historians, the game was stopped several times for the referee to explain to Granite Falls such intricacies as what it meant to be offside.
Minneapolis did have West High in the 1946 tournament and St. Cloud Tech came back as the representative from Region 6. Granite Falls was back to represent Region 3, then Willmar in 1947, and St. Louis Park – from that suburb way out west – in 1948.
There remained some mismatches and it was determined in 1949 that an attempt had to be made to create deeper fields for the eight-team tournament. It was then that it was decided to create space for three teams from the two northern regions (7 and 8) and three teams from the Minneapolis and St. Paul regions (4 and 5).
The third team from the north would represent Region 3 and the third team from the Twin Cities would represent Region 1. In hockey parlance, this became known as the “back door’’ for entry into the tournament.
The Region 1 back door was in effect from 1949 to 1967. Immediately, there was a playoff game between the runners-up in the Minneapolis and St. Paul regions to determine the Region 1 representative.
Starting in 1960, it became a four-team playoff between the runners-up in Regions 2, 4, 5 and 6 to decide the Region 1 entry. I had forgotten all about the four-team “back door’’ playoff that took place from 1960 to 1967.
And it remains my perception that the difference between determining the Region 1 and Region 3 entries was this:
In the Twin Cities, a team had taken advantage of a second chance to reach the tournament. In the North, a team had come through “The Back Door.’’
Up there in hockey land, The Back Door came with caps, particularly on the Iron Range and in the Northwest strongholds of hockey such as Roseau, Warroad and Thief River Falls.
There was something else I had not realized, until talking with Doug Johnson at Let’s Play Hockey and taking advantage of the impeccable history provided by Vintage Minnesota Hockey’s website:
For the first 16 years (1949-1964) of the northern Back Door, there wasn’t a game between the Region 7 and 8 runners-up. The regions alternated sending a runner-up to the state tournament.
No kidding. Williams went from Region 8 in 1949, International Falls from Region 7 in 1950, Williams again in 1951, then Eveleth, Warroad, Duluth Central, Thief River Falls, International Falls, Hallock, Duluth East, Thief River Falls, Duluth East, Hallock, Greenway, Warroad and International Falls, in that order from 1952 through 1964.
In 1960, Duluth East lost to Eveleth in the Region 7 final, but it was an even-numbered year and that gave The Back Door to the Greyhounds. They used it to become Duluth’s only state champion in the one-class tournament era [1945-91].
In 1964, International Falls was upset by Duluth East in the Region 7 final, then won a 2-1 rematch with East in the first round. The Falls would cruise to a 7-2 victory over St. Paul Johnson in the final.
So, there was actually only 10 years of The Back Door game in the North. The winners: 1965-Thief River Falls. 1966-Greenway. 1967-Hibbing. 1968-Greenway. 1969-Warroad. 1970-Greenway. 1971-East Grand Forks. 1972-Grand Rapids. 1973-Hibbing. 1974-Hibbing.
Greenway came through The Back Door in 1968 and won the state title with a 6-1 victory over South St. Paul. Hibbing came through The Back Door in 1973 and won the title with a 4-1 victory over Alexander Ramsey.
Private schools were admitted to the Minnesota State High School League for the 1974-75 school year. The influx of hockey schools in the metro closed the North’s Back Door. Hill-Murray was the new Region 3 champion in 1975.
Years later, I see The Back Door as having been a great thing, if for no other reason than it enabled Henry Boucha and the Warroad Warriors to reach the state tournament in 1969.
My deep thoughts on where that tournament stands as a historical event for state hockey can be found on the blog posted one day ago.
Sellingguy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2019 4:47 am
mcleod with a oops and pulled mid game. i didnt even notice!
i watched the game without sound. i hope that i would have been alerted to "what did i just hear" if i was-but i don't know. hard to imagine where i line like that could come from in this day and age though. thoughtless rambling i guess.
MCleod comes across as one of the least prepared play-by-play guys ever, he uses the same, lame cliches over and over -- not sure how he cold think this was appropriate or even remotely humorous in 2019 -- have to wonder if his days broadcasting the Gophers are over now as well
why isn't Frank "the mole" Mazacco doing any of these games if they are doing blasts from the past ???
Play-by-play announcer Doug McLeod apologized Friday after referring to “lynching ropes” while calling a quarterfinal game in the state boys' hockey tournament on Thursday afternoon. McLeod issued a statement to the Star Tribune, saying he was “mortified.”
Sellingguy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2019 4:47 am
mcleod with a oops and pulled mid game. i didnt even notice!
i watched the game without sound. i hope that i would have been alerted to "what did i just hear" if i was-but i don't know. hard to imagine where i line like that could come from in this day and age though. thoughtless rambling i guess.
MCleod comes across as one of the least prepared play-by-play guys ever, he uses the same, lame cliches over and over -- not sure how he cold think this was appropriate or even remotely humorous in 2019 -- have to wonder if his days broadcasting the Gophers are over now as well
why isn't Frank "the mole" Mazacco doing any of these games if they are doing blasts from the past ???
I really can’t stand the guy. You are right Leon his use of over used cliches gets old real fast. I couldn’t care less of what he said but obviously in today’s world that’s a no no.
