Semi #2 BC vs. Maine

[froboymitch]

Game time is 6

[Will]

Maine puts one past Matti with 30-something seconds left in the first period.  Maine 1, BC 0 at the end of the first period.

[nyc94]

1-1 with about 6:00 to go in the 2nd.  Howard just made a great save with BC on a 5 on 3 powerplay.  Graphic says he has already made 30 saves.

[Bio '04]

Maine won, 2-1.

I think Adam Wodon mentioned that Howard had 41 saves tonight.

[billhoward]

Watching BC go down the tubes 2-1, helped along by its 0-for-7 power play, had me thinking: Haven't we seen this before, a team with incredibly precise stickhandling and passing on the power play - truly a thing of beauty - marred only by the team's seeming reluctance to TAKE A SHOT AT THE NET.

Actually, I was also thinking: So Maine goalie Jim Howard is like 1/100000000 of a percentage point worse the LeNeveu 1.20000000001 to 1.200000000 (or close) for best season GAA ever going into the NCAA semis and thinking, it's okay if Maine wins tonight, but lord, let it be 3-2 or 4-3 not 2-1 or 1-0.

[Killer]

So what now?  I guess we root for Maine to win and bring the title to the east, but hope that Denver can light Howard up for at least 2.  Besides, then we can have few beers and come up with some convoluted arguments that since we won the Everblades...  Holds about as much water as Georgia Tech's preseason win over UConn in basketball, but what the heck.

[Robb]

Yep - I'm hoping for a 9-8 Maine victory in quintuple overtime - what a great game to watch that would be...

[Killer]

You got my vote on that.  What's the longest game so far?  I know when Maine beat UMass in 3OT, they mentioned it being the 4th longest ever.  I seem to remember that they still had a ways to go to get any of the top 3 spots.

[JordanCS]

I want no overtime and 2 goals scored by Denver.  Other than that, I'm OK.  That said, you have to hand it to Howard...watching him play is just amazing.  I'd have to say, he's likely a better goaltender than Lenny was last year....but I still don't want Lenny's record to fall so soon.

Jordan

[Will]

[Q]Killer Wrote:

 You got my vote on that.  What's the longest game so far?  I know when Maine beat UMass in 3OT, they mentioned it being the 4th longest ever.  I seem to remember that they still had a ways to go to get any of the top 3 spots.[/q]

The longest NCAA D-I game was CC vs. Wisconsin, 3/8/1997, in the WCHA tournament first round.  Maine vs. UMass was about twenty minutes short of that game.

More info: http://www.uscho.com/m/ncaad1/?data=longest_games

[Pete Godenschwager]

During the game, ESPN was showing fans with different jerseys on and showed two fans with Cornell jerseys, way to represent!  Anybody know who they were?

[billhoward]

[Q]Pete Godenschwager Wrote:

 During the game, ESPN was showing fans with different jerseys on and showed two fans with Cornell jerseys, way to represent!  Anybody know who they were?[/q]

Emotionally, that was *all* of us in Boston Garden of old and Fleet Center of modern day, cheering on Kennedy and Dryden and Lodboa and Ugolini and Nieuwendyk, Schafer the defender and Schafer the coach, and LeNeveu and Vesce.

[RichH]

[Q]Pete Godenschwager Wrote:

 During the game, ESPN was showing fans with different jerseys on and showed two fans with Cornell jerseys, way to represent!  Anybody know who they were?[/q]
Unless there are any more details, or one of us taped the game, it's hard to say.  There was a healthy number of people in Cornell gear at the games.  2 groups of us were in the only section that had a band for all 3 games (oddly enough, the losing band for each game) so there was a TV camera crew hovering about.

Another great moment: During intermissions, they show an several minutes of legendary NCAA games of the past (almost always OT endings) on the scoreboard.  For one of the semis, they had the ending of the 1989 NCAA final.  For the 1st intermission of the Championship game, they put on last year's Cornell-BC game.  Fantastic.

[Tom Pasniewski 98]

'......and the 23-year wait is over' sounded so much better on the Fleet's speakers than on my computer or tv speakers.  Again you just hope that those words will never be uttered live again later this century but rather the 35-year wait is over headline and quote that's bouncing around Denver right now might be able to be reused next year for us.