Mike Eaves doesn’t think anything will come of it, but the men’s hockey coach and the University of Wisconsin are going ahead with a protest of Friday’s officiating error-tainted loss to Denver.
The aim is to have the defeat stripped from their record, replacing it with a tie in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association standings. But to Eaves, a consolation prize would be the restructuring of the video review and appeals processes to avoid similar snafus in the future.