2/13/09: Cornell 4 Dartmouth 5 (Final)

[RedintheGreen]

I had a pretty good angle and saw the goal bounce in and out.  I was surprised to see the ref had waived it off.  
I think the team looked pretty good tonight and could have easily won.  Sometimes the puck just doesn't bounce the way you want it to.

[CU at Stanford]

I hope the team looks good tomorrow night and the puck bounces our way!

This is not how I want us to start this road trip :-(

[Trotsky]

[quote RedintheGreen]I had a pretty good angle and saw the goal bounce in and out.  I was surprised to see the ref had waived it off.[/quote]My only thought was that it was a crease violation.  There was no question that it went in the net.

[RichH]

[quote Rita]Anyone who watched the video (or who was there) want to describe it better than Jason did?  [/quote]

Yes, because I was there, and I happened to be staring at Gaudet for about 4 seconds before he scored.  (Why?  Basically because I thought "gee, Dartmouth has been timing the back-door play pretty well tonight.  Let's see how they try to set that up.")

The puck came from behind the net and worked its way around the near corner to near the left face-off dot.  Gaudet came from the play behind the net to the far post.  I remember thinking with the traffic we had placed between the puck and the net as well as the bodies we had on the offense that there's no way they could zip the puck to him...and then in a blink, *zip* *bang* in, done.  He didn't even have to move his stick, he angled the hard pass and the puck jumped straight up and hit the "ceiling" of the net over Scrivens's left shoulder first and dropped down.

The ref first made a "wave off" motion and then held up his hands.  He said a word to his colleagues and gave a long look at the goal judge.  The Dartmouth bench had spilled over the boards to celebrate, but had to stop in their tracks as the entire ref crew (save for one linesman separating the 2 benches) went over to the scorers table and talked with at least the goal judge via walkie talkie.  I had no doubt it was a goal, I don't even know why there was debate.

Also interesting was the fight the Cornell captains put up, with all 3 of them all emphatically demonstrating the "wave off" motion about a dozen times while holding court with the 3 refs by the scoring table before handshakes. Scrivens even came over and did the "wave off" motion and also gestured to the back of his thigh as if to say, "no, I felt it hit my thigh so it didn't go in."

[Johnny 5]

[quote RedintheGreen]I had a pretty good angle and saw the goal bounce in and out.  I was surprised to see the ref had waived it off.  
I think the team looked pretty good tonight and could have easily won.  Sometimes the puck just doesn't bounce the way you want it to.[/quote]

Or, the way your goalie expects it to.

::doh::

[Beeeej]

[quote RichH]Scrivens ... gestured to the back of his thigh as if to say, "no, I felt it hit my thigh so it didn't go in."[/quote]

Perhaps he was just saying, "Okay, now that the game's over, let's go get some fried chicken.  I prefer dark meat."

[tretiak]

it's winner winner chicken dinner... losers get nothing!

[JDeafv]

Mike and Joe add another to the list of brothers scoring in the same game.