Update: University of North Dakota coach Dave Hakstol wrote an apology letter for "flipping the bird" to WCHA referee Don Adam during a game against Minnesota on Saturday night. Later he held the "Bird Apology" Press Conference.If you read LetsGoDU on a semi-regular basis you won't learn much about hockey, but you'll certainly become proficient on apologizing.
Yesterday the WCHA apologized to the Badgers about the "Expired Time Goal" against Denver.
But there have been other equally compelling Apology Letters written in the past few seasons in college hockey.
Who can forget the WCHA Apology Letter to St. Cloud earlier this season?
Sometimes the WCHA likes to make others apologize, such as when they forced North Dakota's Joe Finley to apologize for slashing the Wisconsin mascot Bucky Badger.
Of course, no one was laughing when the four Colorado College hockey players apologized for dressing up in "blackface" during a team golf outing.
Even the WCHA Director of Officials got into the act of apologizing after disrupting a little league baseball game.
Perhaps our favorite apology is DU hockey player Max Bull apologizing to several North Dakota hockey fans. He ruined their trip to the Frozen Four after knocking the Fighting Sioux out of the playoffs in 2004 with a slap shot in the NCAA Regionals.
The North Dakota "Bad Boyz," Robbie Bina, T.J. Oshie & Jonathan Towes' apologized to North Dakota hockey fans after getting arrested at Judy's Tavern in Grand Forks, ND.
Former DU Athletic Director Dr. M. Dianne Murphy created a stink at Columbia University when she made the club hockey team apologize for posting off color posters around campus. We think she owes the DU community an apology for killing our beloved mascot the Denver Boone.
Sometimes not getting an apology can lead to a "curse" being unleashed on your hockey program. When a hockey fan dressed in UAA garb demanded an apology from Minnesota hockey coaches Don Lucia and John Hill and didn't get it, all hell broke loose.
When the WCHA mistakenly printed "North Dakota State" on the Red Baron Frozen Four Poster, LetsGoDU immediately apologized to Red Baron for the Fighting Sioux fans. Not to be outdone the WCHA apologized for misprinting the poster.
Perhaps we're just overly sensitive to the apology, since the University of Denver refused to apologize to the NCAA in the Seventies and DU was placed on probation. The probation might have cost DU the 1978 National Championship (below).
Who can forget the WCHA Apology Letter to St. Cloud earlier this season?
Sometimes the WCHA likes to make others apologize, such as when they forced North Dakota's Joe Finley to apologize for slashing the Wisconsin mascot Bucky Badger.
Of course, no one was laughing when the four Colorado College hockey players apologized for dressing up in "blackface" during a team golf outing.
Even the WCHA Director of Officials got into the act of apologizing after disrupting a little league baseball game.
Perhaps our favorite apology is DU hockey player Max Bull apologizing to several North Dakota hockey fans. He ruined their trip to the Frozen Four after knocking the Fighting Sioux out of the playoffs in 2004 with a slap shot in the NCAA Regionals.
The North Dakota "Bad Boyz," Robbie Bina, T.J. Oshie & Jonathan Towes' apologized to North Dakota hockey fans after getting arrested at Judy's Tavern in Grand Forks, ND.
Former DU Athletic Director Dr. M. Dianne Murphy created a stink at Columbia University when she made the club hockey team apologize for posting off color posters around campus. We think she owes the DU community an apology for killing our beloved mascot the Denver Boone.
Sometimes not getting an apology can lead to a "curse" being unleashed on your hockey program. When a hockey fan dressed in UAA garb demanded an apology from Minnesota hockey coaches Don Lucia and John Hill and didn't get it, all hell broke loose.
When the WCHA mistakenly printed "North Dakota State" on the Red Baron Frozen Four Poster, LetsGoDU immediately apologized to Red Baron for the Fighting Sioux fans. Not to be outdone the WCHA apologized for misprinting the poster.
Perhaps we're just overly sensitive to the apology, since the University of Denver refused to apologize to the NCAA in the Seventies and DU was placed on probation. The probation might have cost DU the 1978 National Championship (below).
Though this Canadian junior issue was complex, by the mid 1970s, the NCAA wanted a resolution. The NCAA asked Denver (and other schools) to declare certain players who had played Canadian major junior to be "ineligible," and in return, the NCAA would "restore" those players' eligibility — thus grandfathering the current players with an eye toward eventually stopping the practice altogether.
Denver wanted nothing to do with such a plan. Denver Chancellor Maurice Mitchell and coach Armstrong stood up to the NCAA, refusing to [apologize] call their own players "cheaters." The NCAA then slapped Denver with serious sanctions for refusing to "whitewash" their players.
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Fine work, DG.
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