"Off the Crossbar" today

Al DeFlorio · March 25, 2009, 07:32:52 AM

Gallagher and both Devins to miss the NCAAs with injuries:-/. Bridgeport::banana:: and Lake Placid::yark:: bidding for ECACs?

http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20090325/SPORTS/903250322/1006

scoop85 · March 25, 2009, 07:45:00 AM

[quote Al DeFlorio]Gallagher and both Devins to miss the NCAAs with injuries:-/. Bridgeport::banana:: and Lake Placid::yark:: bidding for ECACs?

http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20090325/SPORTS/903250322/1006[/quote]

I was just about to post the article. Tough break missing these three. Unbelievable effort by Gallagher this past weekend to play as well as he did.

I'm confident Whitney can play well this weekend. I assume either Roezler or Kary will fill-in for Gallagher; I think Roezler would be a better fit.

While Albany is convenient for me, if they made a move (and I can understand why they would) I would much prefer Bridgeport.

Jeff Hopkins '82 · March 25, 2009, 08:05:10 AM

[quote scoop85][quote Al DeFlorio]Gallagher and both Devins to miss the NCAAs with injuries:-/. Bridgeport::banana:: and Lake Placid::yark:: bidding for ECACs?

http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20090325/SPORTS/903250322/1006[/quote]

I was just about to post the article. Tough break missing these three. Unbelievable effort by Gallagher this past weekend to play as well as he did.

I'm confident Whitney can play well this weekend. I assume either Roezler or Kary will fill-in for Gallagher; I think Roezler would be a better fit.

While Albany is convenient for me, if they made a move (and I can understand why they would) I would much prefer Bridgeport.[/quote]

Friday night, Kary was warming up, I assume in case Gallagher couldn't go.

jtwcornell91 · March 25, 2009, 08:21:04 AM

[quote Al DeFlorio]Bridgeport::banana:: and Lake Placid::yark:: bidding for ECACs?[/quote]

Your smileys are backwards. :-P

Al DeFlorio · March 25, 2009, 08:22:49 AM

[quote jtwcornell91][quote Al DeFlorio]Bridgeport::banana:: and Lake Placid::yark:: bidding for ECACs?[/quote]

Your smileys are backwards. :-P[/quote]
Not according to scoop85.**]

Trotsky · March 25, 2009, 08:32:10 AM

[quote Al DeFlorio]Gallagher and both Devins to miss the NCAAs with injuries:-/. Bridgeport::banana:: and Lake Placid::yark:: bidding for ECACs?

http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20090325/SPORTS/903250322/1006[/quote]

Excellent quote by Marsh.

The debated change in the travel partner system is a little worrying, but it comes up as often as the BTHC.

I've never been to Bridgeport. Lake Placid would be great. If the tournament is only going to draw 5-7k, might as well have it in paradise rather than some hole.

andyw2100 · March 25, 2009, 08:45:36 AM

Excerpt from the article referenced above:

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But scheduling and the league's travel partner system could be debated again in cost-cutting terms. Members schools could cut travel expenses by playing an unbalanced schedule where it plays both weekend road games at the same school, then plays the same school at home twice the following season.
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Can someone explain to me how this could possibly save anything more than a pittance? The traveling teams are still going to need to pay for a bus and driver for the entire weekend. They're still going to need to pay for the same number of hotel nights. The only savings I see would be the cost of gas to travel between the partner schools.

Am I missing something?

pfibiger · March 25, 2009, 09:33:52 AM

[quote scoop85]
I was just about to post the article. Tough break missing these three. Unbelievable effort by Gallagher this past weekend to play as well as he did.[/quote]

Here's an article from his local paper about Blake Gallagher. It talks about his injury and how they treated it.

http://www.metronews.ca/halifax/sports/article/202343

Jordan 04 · March 25, 2009, 09:34:48 AM

Marsh does realize that his game was a tie, right? Does he expect to be able to play endless overtimes in a consolation game that precedes the championship?

Oh, and +1 for Bridgeport!

ftyuv · March 25, 2009, 11:09:35 AM

I somehow missed the chatter about the Barlow goal earlier. Sounds pretty amazing! Is there a link to it anywhere?

Give My Regards · March 25, 2009, 11:12:48 AM

[quote Jordan 04]Marsh does realize that his game was a tie, right? Does he expect to be able to play endless overtimes in a consolation game that precedes the championship?[/quote]

Maybe his point was that they shouldn't have bothered with the shoot-out -- they should have just called the game a tie after the five-minute OT and gone home, as the ECAC has done a couple times in the past with a tied consolation, and as College Hockey America did just a week earlier when their consolation game between Alabama-Huntsville and Niagara was tied after OT.

Trotsky · March 25, 2009, 11:51:42 AM

[quote Give My Regards][quote Jordan 04]Marsh does realize that his game was a tie, right? Does he expect to be able to play endless overtimes in a consolation game that precedes the championship?[/quote]

Maybe his point was that they shouldn't have bothered with the shoot-out -- they should have just called the game a tie after the five-minute OT and gone home, as the ECAC has done a couple times in the past with a tied consolation, and as College Hockey America did just a week earlier when their consolation game between Alabama-Huntsville and Niagara was tied after OT.[/quote]

Exactly. Don't tacitly condone shootouts by holding them, even in such a meaningless situation. The Princeton kid who made the dipsy-doodle move had the best response to it: if this is a joke, let's make it a joke.

If you have to have overtime at all, then five minutes of 5x5 and put it in the books.

CowbellGuy · March 25, 2009, 12:04:34 PM

Not sure why everyone is getting so bent over a meaningless shootout. The only thing on the line here was a trophy that neither team could give a rat's ass about. At that point, the game was over and the shootout was purely for entertainment value. I thought the spin move was entertaining and it made for some good shots from behind the net. Lighten up. I'll get off your lawn now.

jtwcornell91 · March 25, 2009, 12:04:41 PM

[quote Trotsky]If you have to have overtime at all, then five minutes of 5x5 and put it in the books.[/quote]

Having seen games with no overtime, I prefer having it so that teams fighting to tie the game still have a chance to win it. I'd be happy to extend non-playoff overtime to 20 minutes (and deal with the resurfacing) if it reduces the number of ties enough to kill the shootout madness. Overtime should absolutely be 5x5 and in other respects like the game itself.

jtwcornell91 · March 25, 2009, 12:05:58 PM

[quote CowbellGuy]Not sure why everyone is getting so bent over a meaningless shootout. The only thing on the line here was a trophy that neither team could give a rat's ass about. At that point, the game was over and the shootout was purely for entertainment value. I thought the spin move was entertaining and it made for some good shots from behind the net. Lighten up. I'll get off your lawn now.[/quote]

What bugged me was the PA announcer (and scoreboard operator, who changed the scoreboard to read 3-2 after the shootout was over) pretending the shootout decided the winner of the game.