Did anyone else catch this? Check out the question from "Joe B." in Boston:
http://www.collegesports.com/chat/013105aac.html
I don't care that he was a Harvard goalie. I don't mind that he wrote a book called "Crimson in Triumph." His columns always impress me, and his heart seems to be in the right place. Another artifact of how foolish the former ECAC structure was:
http://www.uscho.com/news/1997/02/26_000748.php
Too bad Bertagna is commisioner of Hockey East rather than ECAC now ECACHL. NOte that Bertagna helped beat Cornell in the 2002 ECAC finals:
>>> Bertagna started working primarily as the public relations coordinator for the ECAC following a stint as the sports information director at Harvard, his alma mater. He is credited for creating the ECAC's tournament television package, regular season television package and corporate sponsorships with Bauer and Karhu. He was a driving force behind the Hockeyfest Tournament at the Boston Garden in 1991 and 1992 and played an instrumental role in moving the ECAC Championships to Lake Placid, N.Y., the tournament's home since 1993. http://www.uscho.com/news/1997/02/26_000748.php
... which has the wider 200x100 ice surface that played to Harvard's not Cornell's strengths in that multi-OT title game.
[Q]billhoward Wrote:
NOte that Bertagna helped beat Cornell in the 2002 ECAC finals:[/q]
Oh, for fuck's sake, can we please stop blaming that loss on the Olympic ice? We lost because we played like shit. We would have lost in regulation if Dov had been less of a sieve.
Of course, Buttafuoco's dealings with Lake Placid were much more admirable. ::rolleyes::
What JTW said.
Gonna blame the big ice for our 7 wins on that sheet too? The last time I worried about that "big sheet plays to our disadvantage" garbage was after we beat a very fast, and very talented Clarkson team in both '96 and '97.
What would the excuse have been for 2003, had the last 2 minutes not happened, Bill? Maybe it would've been Steve Hagwell's fault for not swatting a fly on his desk in 1999.
Edit: Forgot to make the point that UHN plays their home games on Olympic ice. So the smaller sheets in Worcester and Buffalo would play to our advantage, right?