Riley Nash Brown Goal

Well I finally got around to posting


it on YouTube. Quality needs to be improved, but it's the best I could do last night. I couldn't upload the mov file so I had to mp4 it. Any suggestions?

I especially like the announcers stating "another good kill" just as he was breaking in to score.

Nice work, Jim. Simply love it. Looks even easier in the video than in person.

Thanks, Jim! Now many of us can die in peace.

Is that a huggy bear at center ice at Brown too?

Thanks from here too, Jim. As one of the announcers said, Riley make it look easy. One for the ages!!

Any chance we could arrange a penalty shot for Nash so maybe we can get off this horrendous decades-long schneid?

Ditto!

What a letdown.

Not that it was a bad goal, obviously, but he really only beat one player, (right at the blue line), and that guy only gave a halfhearted poke check because he knew there were two defenders behind him. They just stood still and let Riley split them.

Definitely a heads-up play by Riley to see the opening and go for it, and it's great that we have a player with the jets to make two defenders look like they're standing still, but the defense didn't do themselves any favors, either. I was expecting Riley to have to deke at least one more time based on the descriptions, but he basically just walked in on goal from the blueline.

Good on him, but shame on the defense!

Agreed, I remember it being more spectacular in person. That said, the move he put on the goaltender was very nice, and I don't think that part showed well in the video. Additionally, the complete shock our entire section was in at Brown must have meant it was pretty incredible.

Part of the impact was that he did skate almost the length of the ice (especially if you count the big loop back toward our goal after he first got the puck in the neutral zone). Give him credit both for swerving around one man at the center line and one at the blue line, then maintaining control and composure as two defenders converged on him in front of the goal.

BCrespi
Agreed, I remember it being more spectacular in person. That said, the move he put on the goaltender was very nice, and I don't think that part showed well in the video. Additionally, the complete shock our entire section was in at Brown must have meant it was pretty incredible.

Yes it was a lot more impressive in person. just listening to the Brown announcers should tell you that. The spontaneous "highlight reel" and all the talk about how impressive he was, his points total for the weekend, discussion about him being on the way to a weekly award, surely lets you know how impressed they were. It's also better in a better video format, so I'll try and work on getting a mov file uploaded. Anyone got any suggestions about why it might not have worked?

The problem is the actual filming. When you watch NHL or even CSTV, they'll zoom in on a player as he maintains control of the puck (and even the initial zoom is considerably closer). It's very difficult to see stickhandling from space. Still you can tell that he pulled off some nice moves.

BCrespi
Agreed, I remember it being more spectacular in person. That said, the move he put on the goaltender was very nice, and I don't think that part showed well in the video. Additionally, the complete shock our entire section was in at Brown must have meant it was pretty incredible.

Yeah. Pausing the video at the point he's approaching the blueline, I think most of us in the arena just assumed a dump-in for a line change to go back to 5x5. Suddenly, and without much frenzy, the red light was on. I think it took about 2.5 strides to make it from the blue line to the shot. Our shock was how fast it happened, when a second before there were 3 defenders. That's something about the Nash brothers...they're just so calm and quiet with their skating. If the moves were actually more spectacular and frenzied, we would've gone more berzerk as it was happening.

Jim Hyla
Yes it was a lot more impressive in person. just listening to the Brown announcers should tell you that. The spontaneous "highlight reel" and all the talk about how impressive he was, his points total for the weekend, discussion about him being on the way to a weekly award, surely lets you know how impressed they were.

Especially astounding since the Brown announcers were, as usual, huge tools for the other 99% of the broadcast with gems like:

"Yeah, these Cornell kids really love to play road games, because then they get to escape from Ithaca."

"I once saw a bumper sticker that read "Happiness is Ithaca in the rear-view mirror...I couldn't agree more with that."

"Cornell is offsides AGAIN! Unbelievable...do they know where onsides is?"

And my personal favorite, after an advertisement for Spats (sic) Pub:
Color: "Do you want to get a bite there after the game?"
Play-by-play: "I'm more worried about my pipes after announcing three games"
Color: "Gotta get some fluids in you"
Play-by-play: "I hear you can do that at Spats too."