Cornell Penalty Shots

French Rage · November 28, 2006, 01:37:30 PM

[quote redice][quote Beeeej][quote RatushnyFan]Can we agree that Ross Lemon's miss was the one with the biggest impact? I remember that day like it was yesterday.[/quote]

It was also his birthday. And yes, I still remember that one vividly.[/quote]

Yes, and for you numerologists out there ::burnout::, I believe that was his 23rd birthday; would have been his 23rd goal; and he wore the number 23. Kinda strange.[/quote]

It's like a bad Dr. Pepper commercial.

marty · November 28, 2006, 05:37:37 PM

[quote jkahn]
O'Byrne is the missing Cornell shooter.[/quote]

Don't remind us. He is very much among the missing.::panic::

Larry72 · November 28, 2006, 06:47:09 PM

Not to embarrass "CalgAri" too much...he was sitting on my lap in the old Boston Garden when Ross Lemon missed that penalty shot. OK...he was only 5 years old. He cried when Cornell lost. I'll never forget that moment!!

Larry '72

Trotsky · November 28, 2006, 09:28:49 PM

Among the weirder trivia:

1/17/79 - 2/27/79, Cornell attempted 4 penalty shots (25% of all their attempts in history) over a period of 14 games, 3 of them by the same player, Brock Tredway.

12/29/81, each team (Cornell and Plattsburgh) had a penalty shot in the same game.

Give My Regards · November 28, 2006, 10:34:19 PM

[quote Trotsky]He faked Duncan down and had the entire net, but couldn't lift the puck off the ice. One of the all-time worst hockey memories. :-/[/quote]

Worse -- it was Sean Kennedy, ostensibly the BACKUP, ferchrissakes, who barely pinned the shot to the ice with his knuckles. I don't recall Kennedy doing much else in an RPI uniform, but he had a career day that game, stopping something like 42 shots.

Sixteen and a half years ago, and I still need to go do this ::bang::

Chuck Henderson · November 29, 2006, 04:36:03 AM

[quote Give My Regards]1/20/73 -- Carlo Ugolini, vs Toronto (Anderson) -- score
[/quote]

This is the one that really stands out in my memory. Ugolini did a complete 360 as he came in on the goalie. Is that even legal now?

ACM · November 29, 2006, 09:30:49 AM

[quote Chuck Henderson][quote Give My Regards]1/20/73 -- Carlo Ugolini, vs Toronto (Anderson) -- score
[/quote]

This is the one that really stands out in my memory. Ugolini did a complete 360 as he came in on the goalie. Is that even legal now?[/quote]

What goalie? The player who defended the penalty shot, Warren Anderson, was a defenseman, inserted by Toronto coach Tom Watt for reasons apparent only to him. The bizarre move obviously didn't work very well.

ursusminor · November 29, 2006, 10:14:12 AM

[quote Give My Regards][quote Trotsky]He faked Duncan down and had the entire net, but couldn't lift the puck off the ice. One of the all-time worst hockey memories. :-/[/quote]

Worse -- it was Sean Kennedy, ostensibly the BACKUP, ferchrissakes, who barely pinned the shot to the ice with his knuckles. I don't recall Kennedy doing much else in an RPI uniform, but he had a career day that game, stopping something like 42 shots.

Sixteen and a half years ago, and I still need to go do this ::bang::[/quote] Kennedy played slightly over half the minutes for RPI that year as a Soph, http://www.augenblick.org/rpi/h_02g.html. He was beaten out by Neil Little in later years.

Will · November 29, 2006, 11:12:14 AM

[quote ACM][quote Chuck Henderson][quote Give My Regards]1/20/73 -- Carlo Ugolini, vs Toronto (Anderson) -- score
[/quote]

This is the one that really stands out in my memory. Ugolini did a complete 360 as he came in on the goalie. Is that even legal now?[/quote]

What goalie? The player who defended the penalty shot, Warren Anderson, was a defenseman, inserted by Toronto coach Tom Watt for reasons apparent only to him. The bizarre move obviously didn't work very well.[/quote]

Did he actually dress Anderson in goalie gear for that shot? Was he dressed as a goalie for the entire game?

jtwcornell91 · November 29, 2006, 12:32:18 PM

[quote Will][quote ACM][quote Chuck Henderson][quote Give My Regards]1/20/73 -- Carlo Ugolini, vs Toronto (Anderson) -- score
[/quote]

This is the one that really stands out in my memory. Ugolini did a complete 360 as he came in on the goalie. Is that even legal now?[/quote]

What goalie? The player who defended the penalty shot, Warren Anderson, was a defenseman, inserted by Toronto coach Tom Watt for reasons apparent only to him. The bizarre move obviously didn't work very well.[/quote]

Did he actually dress Anderson in goalie gear for that shot? Was he dressed as a goalie for the entire game?[/quote]

I believe the rules used to be less specific about this; it didn't have to be a goalie defending the shot.

Killer · November 29, 2006, 12:49:37 PM

[quote ACM][quote Chuck Henderson][quote Give My Regards]1/20/73 -- Carlo Ugolini, vs Toronto (Anderson) -- score
[/quote]

This is the one that really stands out in my memory. Ugolini did a complete 360 as he came in on the goalie. Is that even legal now?[/quote]

What goalie? The player who defended the penalty shot, Warren Anderson, was a defenseman, inserted by Toronto coach Tom Watt for reasons apparent only to him. The bizarre move obviously didn't work very well.[/quote]

YES!! That's absolutley right...and I've been looking for someone else to confirm this. I watched that shot from behind in Section A, so it must have been the 2nd period of the game. I always figured that the Toronto coach assumed Carlo "The Magician" was going to make his goalie look foolish, so he decided to throw him curve by putting in a defenseman and having him skate out to challenge Carlo early.

Regarding Will's post in response to this, it didn't matter how Anderson was dressed for the shot (and no, he wasn't in goalie gear), 'cause "The Magician" totally undressed him in front of nearly 4,000 people. The kicker was that when Carlo got behind him with the puck, he stopped in front of the net and looked back at Anderson before netting it. The place went friggin' nuts.

CM cWo 44 · November 29, 2006, 01:00:00 PM

This seems very strange to me. What exactly would constitute a miss on a defender opposed penalty shot? A simple poke check? A steal of the puck? Time experation?

P.S. That's a pretty embarassing statement for the goalie, to suggest that a strong defender in front of an open net is better defense than a goalie. They may as well have played with 6 skaters all game if that were the case.

CowbellGuy · November 29, 2006, 04:36:09 PM

[quote Larry72]He cried when Cornell lost.[/quote]
I think you got your verb tense wrong.

Steve Rockey · November 29, 2006, 04:40:30 PM

I recall a penalty shot scored by Peter Shire where he unleashed one of his brutal slap shots from just inside the blue line. This was his regular place to shoot from and he scored a lot from that range. I think it also caught the goalie totally off guard.

It was probalby his senior year 1978 when he scored 24 goals and it was a home game.