Enjoy lapanta while he is here, they don’t make em like that anymore. 
I’ve hated him since he called the gophers. My jaw about hit the floor when he got the wild job. I heard he has some significant connections at Fox that made him their baby. Shame.
I love listening to Lou on kfan. He tells some pretty awesome stories and gives a unique point of view when they talk about the wild. Just give me a freaking break about Edina for one year. Please!
Looks like Edina will be out. Duluth leads 4-2 with under a minute left.
Very good game.
Is this the year of the pristine waters of Minnetonka? Orono wrapped up class A and Tonka has to be a big favorite tonight…
Tonka might be favored but I expect Duluth East to show up.
Tonka might be favored but I expect Duluth East to show up.
Agreed, looking forward to it, and cheering for the hounds!
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Tonka might be favored but I expect Duluth East to show up.Agreed, looking forward to it, and cheering for the hounds!
Tuff one for me, I did attend Minnetonka HS…but have always been fond of the northern schools and the Greyhounds have been a program to not help but root for.
I’m old enough to remember Louie playing for the North Stars.
Same here, those were the infancy of my fandom of hockey. Early 70’s, at the old Met. Dad would get tickets which were difficult especially if you wanted the Rangers, Blackhawks, or Montreal Canadiens. I remember all he could get for him and me were seats back to back, not next to each other.
Lou Nanne along with JP Parise, Jude Druin, Murray Oliver, Denny Hextall, Bill Goldsworthy, Maniago and the “Gumper”. Gump Worsley…one of the last NHL goalies to go without face mask. Goldsworthy was my favorite…anyone remember the “Goldie shuffle”? Come to find out he had a sad ending. 
Still so thankful to my dad for taking me, was able to see Goldie and the Gumper live at the Met. Priceless.
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Thats Goldies kid coaching Minnetonka. (Being a alum I know you know that)
Thats Goldies kid coaching Minnetonka. (Being a alum I know you know that)
Actually didn’t know that until I read it in the newspaper a few days ago. Was surprised. I also didn’t know what became of Goldy until a couple years ago and was shocked and saddened about what happened. For those of us that remember him as a player and don’t know can “google” it out of morbid curiosity.
Anyway, don’t want to bring this thread down…HS Hockey last game on now!
Lou’s ramblings about how it should be legal to run a goalie like Duluth did twice were absolutely hilarious. I love how people still pretend like the game hasn’t passed him by.
Passed him by? Really? Is has forgotten more about hockey then either you or I will ever know. I don’t recall the specific thing you mention but he has always promoted the safety of the kids so that surprises me.
Duluth East had one guy get his stick stuck under Minnetonka’s goalie and instead of releasing the stick he kinda can openered the goalie, then a few minutes later another Greyhound skated right over the goalie at full speed without even attempting to slow down, stop, or avoid the goalie without having anyone even touch him. Lou’s Edina blinders caused him to go on some bizarre rant about how the goalies in the NHL get too much protection and seemingly suggest that Duluth shouldn’t have gotten called for a penalty.
Also in the first period Lou couldn’t figure out why they were looking at the video review when Minnetonka scored the first PP goal when it was obviously because Duluth nearly scored that shorthanded goal. Lou’s stories on KFAN are great, but like I said, the game has passed him by if he can’t figure out concussions are a serious thing and why things are getting reviewed. And that’s without even bringing up his obsession with Edina, which could possibly explain why he was so anti-Minnetonka I guess.
Duluth East had one guy get his stick stuck under Minnetonka’s goalie and instead of releasing the stick he kinda can openered the goalie, then a few minutes later another Greyhound skated right over the goalie at full speed without even attempting to slow down, stop, or avoid the goalie without having anyone even touch him. Lou’s Edina blinders caused him to go on some bizarre rant about how the goalies in the NHL get too much protection and seemingly suggest that Duluth shouldn’t have gotten called for a penalty.
Lou clearly stated multiple times that the in-crease steamrolling WAS rightly called a penalty. You obviously don’t like the guy, so you’ve got the earplugs in and aren’t listening to what he’s saying.
The contact when the Minnetonka goalie was out of the crease and playing the puck was very open to interpretation. The puck went off the blocker and was bobbled by the goaltender when contact was made. Yes, there was a questionable issue with could he have released the stick sooner, but anyone who thinks these calls are easy to make in real time has never spent a single minute refereeing a game.
Regarding his point about NHL goaltenders being over-protected, again he’s absolutely right.
The calls of goaltender interference when goalies are stickhandling behind the net are beyond ridiculously soft. I’m not talking about running over or checking a goalie, I’m talking about multiple calls made every month where a player is attempting to get past and makes incidental contact. Not only are the calls ridiculously soft, but the flopping and embellishment the goalies go through after one of these touch-and-go incidents would shame a South American soccer player, yet last I checked there has never been an embellishment call on a goaltender.
Louie has forgotten more about MN hockey than most will ever know. One of the major reasons he’s good is that he has first-hand knowledge of why MN hockey is where it is and who did what to get it there.
Grouse
The game has not passed by Lou and never will. Maybe play by play is not his strong poin but he knows the game and is always great to get his view points.
If that is your opinion that’s fine, but it just seems like a really strange time for Lou to go on that rant when the goalie just got run over in the crease. If that is what Lou was trying to communicate he did an incredibly awful job of making his point, which is yet another reason he just plain isn’t a good color guy. Like I said, I enjoy his stories on KFAN, but I just do not like his commentary in games.
The days of really good play by play announcers is heading the way of T-Rex. With today’s technology & liquid stats your forced to listen to the hundreds and hundreds of expert analysis why plays occur. Dang hard to really know what’s happening ON THE ICE!
If you enjoy hearing 1, 2, sometimes 3 peeps opinions of dang near EVERY play, I’m sure you see it quite different. That’s Ok. My play by play ear was groomed listening to Twins baseball while farming. Amazed me how good some were at painting the game like you were sitting there. Very rare today… constant love tests & knowledge boasting…
Kinda reminds me of the internet, lol
I digressed. Thanks for all the memories Lou. Enjoy your next chapter….
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