TBRW Awards

[ursusminor]

Poor Erik Burgdoerfer, not only do all the Cornell fans hate him, they can't even spell his given name correctly. :`-(

[sah67]

[quote ursusminor]Poor Erik Burgdoerfer, not only do all the Cornell fans hate him, they can't even spell his given name correctly. :`-([/quote]

Can he spell it? ::rolleyes::

[Rita]

Natyshak-Paolini (Career Improvement): Evan Barlow

MacFarlane (Skating Beauty and Prowess): For pure beauty of stride and ease in skating, the Nash brothers. Unfortunately, IM(v)HO, it didn't translate to "intensity" to me. With B. Nash, many times, I got to see his skating stride as he was headed to the penalty box.  

Shippel-Hornby (Scrappiness and Effort): Tyler "Muggie" Mugford. As mentioned on  another thread, the audio from the ref's mic for the ECACs was priceless.  

Gage (Supporting Role): Scali/Nichols/Punches. They hustled, backchecked, and seemed to be a fine checking line. They had a lot of shifts where they got the puck into the offensive zone and kept it there by cycling and shots on net, unfortunately, their efforts rarely showed up on the scoreboard under "Cornell goals".

Schafer-Bâby (Leadership and Passion): Colin Greening

Carter-Moore (Respected Opponent): The Yale Bulldogs

Melrose-Nickerson (Least Respected Opponent): Eric Burgdoerfer (RPI)

Dadswell-Vesce (Freshman MVP): Keir Ross

Nieuwendyk-Murray (MVP): Jared Seminoff. He did a fine job anchoring the defense. I also can understand Greening and Barlow for this award too.

I think there should be some special recognition "Outstanding Playoff performance", "Self Sacrafice for the Team"  or something to that effect.  What Blake Gallagher went through to play (and play well) in the ECACs and NC$$s is amazing. I thought Chris Abbott's performance in Green Bay with the broken wrist was gutsy. However, Blake played with a bad ankle that had to support and move his body for 4+ games. Incredible. I hope his ankle heals well during the off season.

Kudos to the training staff for being able to treat is injury so that he could indeed play.

[Trotsky]

[quote Rita]I think there should be some special recognition "Outstanding Playoff performance"[/quote]

Hmm. What Barlow did this year may indeed need its own category -- the other post-season performance of equivalent dominance that comes to mind is Elliott in 1997.

Food for thought.

[jtwcornell91]

[quote Trotsky][quote Rita]I think there should be some special recognition "Outstanding Playoff performance"[/quote]

Hmm. What Barlow did this year may indeed need its own category -- the other post-season performance of equivalent dominance that comes to mind is Elliott in 1997.[/quote]

Oates (vs RPI, at least) in 1998?

[Rita]

[quote Trotsky][quote Rita]I think there should be some special recognition "Outstanding Playoff performance"[/quote]

Hmm. What Barlow did this year may indeed need its own category -- the other post-season performance of equivalent dominance that comes to mind is Elliott in 1997.

Food for thought.[/quote]

Probably not a yearly award (though I hope Cornell playoff hockey is!), but some seasons, there is that player who seems to do something that is just extraordinary and likely to be remembered in Lynah lore for quite awhile.

[Trotsky]

[quote Rita]Probably not a yearly award (though I hope Cornell playoff hockey is!), but some seasons, there is that player who seems to do something that is just extraordinary and likely to be remembered in Lynah lore for quite awhile.[/quote]

I've been toying with the idea of honoring Extraordinary and Not Otherwise Classifiable Contributions to Lynah Folklore.  It could be called the Damian Rocke Award.

[djk26]

Greg, for those of us who don't know, can you explain the Damian Rocke reference?  I see from the collge hockey database that he appeared in one game in 1996-1997 and had 15 penalty minutes.  How did he manage that?

[Trotsky]

[quote djk26]Greg, for those of us who don't know, can you explain the Damian Rocke reference?  I see from the collge hockey database that he appeared in one game in 1996-1997 and had 15 penalty minutes.  How did he manage that?[/quote]

I'll let somebody else do the honors, but suffice that Mr. Rocke may have the career record for PIM/TOI ratio among people not in federal prison.

[KeithK]

[quote Trotsky][quote djk26]Greg, for those of us who don't know, can you explain the Damian Rocke reference?  I see from the collge hockey database that he appeared in one game in 1996-1997 and had 15 penalty minutes.  How did he manage that?[/quote]

I'll let somebody else do the honors, but suffice that Mr. Rocke may have the career record for PIM/TOI ratio among people not in federal prison.[/quote]
Friday, February 21, 1997: http://www.elynah.com/news/PastYears/Box97/union.0221 .
Cornell is decimated by injuries heading on the Capitol District raodtrip.  Union and RPI were both good that year, finishing 5th and 4th respectively. Down to fewer than twelve forwards, Schafer brings Damian Rocke along on the trip, a Cornell soccer player with some hockey experience (may have been skating with the team in practice).  He is dressed at Union but didn't see any ice time until the game got out of hand. with the score 6-1 Dutchmen in the third, the legendary Rocke took the ice.  On his second shift he received a hitting frmo behind major and game misconduct. 15 minutes of penalty time in less than two minutes on the ice.

[djk26]

Thanks, Keith.

[Rosey]

[quote KeithK]On his second shift he received a hitting frmo behind major and game misconduct. 15 minutes of penalty time in less than two minutes on the ice.[/quote]
Something I've always wondered about this:

Was it Schafer's intent that Rocke go out and goon-up the joint, or did he just get a little over-excited during his second shift?

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote Kyle Rose][quote KeithK]On his second shift he received a hitting frmo behind major and game misconduct. 15 minutes of penalty time in less than two minutes on the ice.[/quote]
Something I've always wondered about this:

Was it Schafer's intent that Rocke go out and goon-up the joint, or did he just get a little over-excited during his second shift?[/quote]
Carpe diem!::fight::

[Trotsky]

The new phone books are here.

[ebilmes]

Keir Ross
Erik Burgdoerfer
MK is class of 2009.

Disagree with the choice of Punches, especially since he didn't start for a lot of the year. Aside from that you did a good job of justifying your choices.