ECAC SF#2: Cornell 4 Princeton 3 - Postgame Thread

[JasonN95]

[quote jy3]

I was surprised that the Barlow goal was not on sports center this morning. What a great goal.
LGR![/quote]

Agreed, there were several less impressive, ho-hum plays selected (even trying to remove my bias). It may be that the broadcast caught no one's attention at ESPN.

[billhoward]

[quote JasonN95][quote jy3]

I was surprised that the Barlow goal was not on sports center this morning. What a great goal.
LGR![/quote]

Agreed, there were several less impressive, ho-hum plays selected (even trying to remove my bias). It may be that the broadcast caught no one's attention at ESPN.[/quote]
ESPN's crew putting together highlights top 10s is probably a small bunch of people under time constraints and what catches their attention outside basketball is the oddball event like our almost-against-goal. But, yes, Barlow's goal was simply amazing that he outwaited the goaltender and also didn't get pummeled by a Princeton defender or stick-checked. The puck has to bounce our way eventually. Speaking of bounces, at the start of each period with the ice just resurfaced, on some long passes and icing passes, the puck crossed the blue line or thereabouts and just flipped up in the air. Wonder if the ice surface was bad in other ways? The plexiglas panels were horribly pitted and not very clean.

[billhoward]

The box score lists attendance as 3517. So we could have held the event at Lynah and had room left over. Were there 250 Princeton fans there?

[Nathan Chicowdy 92]

I always remember Albany as having poor ice conditions.
That memory is most clear thanks to Harvard's rink-length shot at CU's empty net in the 2003 championship game.  I swear that puck was going in, before it skipped up on end after crossing the blue line and rolled wide of our net.  The resulting icing set up the face off in Harvard's zone that we scored off of to send the game into overtime.  What a game.  
Last night was amazing, too.  Wish I was there.

[jnachod]

I second the poor ice conditions.  It seemed that every time the two zambonis drove around the ice, they would miss small slivers of ice and have to go back again to fix what they didn't get the first time around.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

The other thing are the boards.  The boards near the Zamboni doors had a kink in them.  There were several passes around those boards that got re-directed, especially those that were at glass level.

[marty]

[quote billhoward]The box score lists attendance as 3517. So we could have held the event at Lynah and had room left over. Were there 250 Princeton fans there?[/quote]

More to the point, were there 3517 fans there?  I can't figure our why the east's fan base outside of the Boston area is so blase about the league finals.  I am also somewhat disappointed at the fan numbers during the Albany regionals.  It is a big arena to fill but there are always too many empty seats.

[Rita]

[quote JasonN95][quote jy3]

I was surprised that the Barlow goal was not on sports center this morning. What a great goal.
LGR![/quote]

Agreed, there were several less impressive, ho-hum plays selected (even trying to remove my bias). It may be that the broadcast caught no one's attention at ESPN.[/quote]

What?? Show a lovely coast-to-coast goal? Show a winning OT goal? Show one of the several late in the game goal flurries?  No. Not when you can show a Dwayne Wade shot from beyond half court that didn't even count. ::bang::

But hey, they did show a basketball highlight that involved a bounce pass. I didn't realize the kids today knew how to make a bounce pass.

Yeah, I too thought that ESPN just might have put on a college hockey highlight or two on. What was I thinking.