Ruggiero Has One Less Thing To Worry About
I was checking my referrer logs and a google search whose results brought up the post I made regarding U.S. women’s defense Angela Ruggiero’s whining that Canada was grossly outscoring their competition.
I noticed another result that caught my eye.
Yahoo! News - It’s no contest in women’s hockey: Canada, U.S. still dominant - Monday Feb 13, 2006
Intrigued, I clicked the link. Standard pre-today’s-stunning-Swedish-upset points were made throughout the article with more comments from the angel that is Angela Ruggiero:
Ruggiero also laments two games of “special-teams exhibitions.” Overzealous officiating crews have called 28 minor penalties on the North American teams and 31 on their opponents in the first two games.
Many of the whistles resulted from questionable judgment calls on body-checking, which is illegal — another object of derision both inside and outside the game — but highly subjective as a penalty.
“That’s women’s hockey. Some refs think that if somebody falls down, you’ve got to call it,” said Ruggiero, who did some hitting in an American men’s minor league last year. “Part of that is the talent differences, because things look different to the refs when two teams are playing at two different speeds. Hopefully they’re not doing that when we play Canada.“
I’m not going to harp on it. I just grew a little grin when I read that last sentence. On the plus side, that’s one less thing she’ll have to worry about. What a difference a week makes, eh?