Cornell alumni in the pros: April 2004

[DisplacedCornellian]

WILD game between Cleveland and Hamilton tonight, the refs completely lost control.  Brawls, brawls, and more brawls.  Cleveland won 4-1, Murray scored a PPG in the 2nd period.  About 9 minutes into the 1st period, Hamilton's Alexander Perezhogin took a minor slashing penalty.  10 minutes later, Garrett Stafford fell on top of Perezhogin in front of the net.  Perezhogin got up took a two-handed swing at Stafford as he was getting up from the ice (sending Stafford to the hospital with possibly a broken cheekbone, concussion, fewer teeth, and who knows what else).  Murray had seen enough at this point and decided to lay the smack down on Perezhogin.  Perezhogin got a 5 minute slashing major and 2 minutes for roughing (and was tossed from the game), Murray got 2 for roughing.  A really, really, really nasty incident.  

Second period was rather calm....only one fight.

All hell broke loose in the third period.   Clowe and Beauchim got into it at 14:04.  Then Murray and Benoit Gratton threw down the gloves at 15:27 (Both got 5 for fighting, Doug got 2 for elbowing,  Gratton got the 10 minute misconduct and 2 min for instigating).  Gratton apparently invited Murray to fight, and Dougie graciously accepted, flattening Gratton.  When they were separated and he got up, Gratton proceeded to challenge the entire Cleveland bench.  At 17:17 Hamilton's Benjamin Carter got called for slashing...and 5 for fighting along with Nick Bootland.  Another big brawl at 17:27 (I believe Cleveland's radio guy used the word donnybrook..), with the goalies skating out to meet each other, but not actually exchanging punches.   Somewhere in the neighborhood of 86 penalty minutes were given out in the third period alone...(for a game total of 131)

All in all an ugly game.  Cleveland now trails 3-2 in the series...game 6 is sunday afternoon.  

[Brian]

They showed a clip of the two handed slash to Stafford's head on ESPN Sportcenter.  You can also see Murray standing right next to Stafford as he watched the incident take place in front of him.

[Chris 02]

I went looking on ESPN.com for the video of that incident.  All I found was an article on it.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=1793369

[Chris \'03]

I don't think it's been posted here, but the Utah Grizzlies are the new AHL affiliate of the Phoenix Coyotes. Guess Lenny and JMP will be out in Utah next year.

http://www.canoe.ca/AHL/News/2004/04/28/439781.html

[Brian]

They also showed the clip on ABC at the end of the broadcast of the Detroit/Calgary game.

[Jim Hyla]

Hey, it's May guys.:-D

[DisplacedCornellian]

Hamilton finished off Cleveland this afternoon, 3-1.  Only 19 penalty minutes in this one.  Cleveland jumped out to an early 1-0 lead, but Chris Higgins scored midway through the 2nd to tie it up.  Benoit Gratton scored midway through the third to give Hamilton a 2-1 lead, and Duncan Milroy added an empty netter to seal the deal.  Not Murray's best game, he finished at -3 with 0 points.  

[Chris 02]

Update on the suspensions of the stick swinging incident:

http://www.canoe.ca/AHL/News/2004/05/07/450875.html

[Chris 02]

This should probably go in a "Cornell alumni in the pros: May 2004" thread.  But it'll go here.  

Chicago and Baby's season was ended on Friday night the 14th of May in double OT 4-3 by Milwaukee.  Baby was -1 with no shots and 2 PIM.  He finished the playoffs at +4 with 1G and 5A and 6PIM.  

Milwaukee heads onto the conference finals against Rochester.  I think this wraps up anymore former Cornell hockey players' seasons.

[profudge]

In San Jose paper today saw this on Sharks season summary:   [Q]emerging minor league defenseman Doug Murray (shoulder) are also scheduled for surgery.[/Q]

[dss28]

Rochester is still in the race for the Calder Cup (as is Hartford)... who knows, maybe Paolini will be called up again.