Cornell in the Olympics

CUontheslopes · February 21, 2010, 03:28:45 PM

OK, technically not Cornell, but a friendly face, ECAC ref Peter Feola, just made a horrible penalty call during the Russia/Czech Rep. game and was ripped apart by the commentators. Bad call led to the first Russian goal. Glad to see we're not the only ones getting screwed by bad ECAC refereeing.

Tom Tone · February 21, 2010, 03:43:58 PM

Hard to believe he would make a holding call as a linesman. Pretty sure he was the one getting out of the way of the high sticks.

scoop85 · February 21, 2010, 04:15:01 PM

Quote from: CUontheslopesOK, technically not Cornell, but a friendly face, ECAC ref Peter Feola, just made a horrible penalty call during the Russia/Czech Rep. game and was ripped apart by the commentators. Bad call led to the first Russian goal. Glad to see we're not the only ones getting screwed by bad ECAC refereeing.

I'm pretty sure that wasn't Feola's call

Flyers1037 · February 22, 2010, 01:51:21 AM

Some good talk about Douglas from the commentators during the Finland game tonight. "... is the 5th player from Cornell to play in the Olympics, the previous 4 all having played for Canada." I'm fairly tired and out of it so I can't elaborate more. Some good hits from Douglas in the game, but playing his normal strong defensive presence which doesn't involve his name being called very often.

Josh '99 · February 22, 2010, 02:03:47 AM

Quote from: Flyers1037Some good talk about Douglas from the commentators during the Finland game tonight. "... is the 5th player from Cornell to play in the Olympics, the previous 4 all having played for Canada." I'm fairly tired and out of it so I can't elaborate more. Some good hits from Douglas in the game, but playing his normal strong defensive presence which doesn't involve his name being called very often.

He's definitely knocked down a few guys though. Starting to attract some more attention from Kenny and Joe now for that - they like that he's keeping Tuomo and Jarkko Ruutu from starting shit.

French Rage · February 22, 2010, 02:04:58 AM

Quote from: Josh '99
Quote from: Flyers1037Some good talk about Douglas from the commentators during the Finland game tonight. "... is the 5th player from Cornell to play in the Olympics, the previous 4 all having played for Canada." I'm fairly tired and out of it so I can't elaborate more. Some good hits from Douglas in the game, but playing his normal strong defensive presence which doesn't involve his name being called very often.
He's definitely knocked down a few guys though. Starting to attract some more attention from Kenny and Joe now for that - they like that he's keeping Tuomo and Jarkko Ruutu from starting shit.

Yeah at least 3 or so mentions in the last 30 minutes, including one just a second ago.

Josh '99 · February 22, 2010, 02:10:33 AM

Quote from: French Rage
Quote from: Josh '99
Quote from: Flyers1037Some good talk about Douglas from the commentators during the Finland game tonight. "... is the 5th player from Cornell to play in the Olympics, the previous 4 all having played for Canada." I'm fairly tired and out of it so I can't elaborate more. Some good hits from Douglas in the game, but playing his normal strong defensive presence which doesn't involve his name being called very often.
He's definitely knocked down a few guys though. Starting to attract some more attention from Kenny and Joe now for that - they like that he's keeping Tuomo and Jarkko Ruutu from starting shit.

Yeah at least 3 or so mentions in the last 30 minutes, including one just a second ago.

Joe is calling him "Doug" though. Do that at your own risk.

billhoward · February 22, 2010, 10:38:28 AM

Also in the first period, on a Sweden breakaway that was about to go the other way, he chugged inside the blue line to keep the puck from crossing out and got off a nice shot on net. Those of us on the the East Coast who stayed up late to watch are paying the price now in inattentiveness at work.

The Finland power play looked pretty potent the first couple times - they went in to the game something like 6x12 on PP - but their prowess was even less than Cornell's-of-late.

Nice hockey converage on MSNBC or CNBC or wherever it wound up. Loved that amazing ENG by the Rhan Kessler with a Canadian defender draped around him, and the Douglas-like hit Alex Ovechkin laid on Jaromir Jagr that led to Russia's winning goal over the Czechs.

RichH · February 22, 2010, 04:11:07 PM

Quote from: billhowardNice hockey converage on MSNBC or CNBC or wherever it wound up. Loved that amazing ENG by the Rhan Kessler with a Canadian defender draped around him,

Kessler was more or less doing the draping in this case. That made the ENG even more impressive, since he basically had to complete a hug in order to get his stick blade to the puck first and swat the puck towards the net.

I happened to record the 2 minutes or so they were talking about Murray's background that Flyers1037 described. I'll try to put it on YouTube when I get back from traveling later in the week.

Great day of hockey and curling despite the Czech loss (although I like the idea of a Russia-Canada knockout that set up). Good think ice dancing or whatever that was was the marquee event on the main NBC coverage. Otherwise I would've felt bad that I missed something interesting. I did turn my head during intermission and saw that the ski-cross thing looked somewhat cool.

Swampy · February 23, 2010, 12:10:17 AM

Quote from: Flyers1037Some good talk about Douglas from the commentators during the Finland game tonight. "... is the 5th player from Cornell to play in the Olympics, the previous 4 all having played for Canada." I'm fairly tired and out of it so I can't elaborate more. Some good hits from Douglas in the game, but playing his normal strong defensive presence which doesn't involve his name being called very often.

Does that include women's hockey?

Tom Lento · February 23, 2010, 01:17:53 AM

Quote from: Swampy
Quote from: Flyers1037Some good talk about Douglas from the commentators during the Finland game tonight. "... is the 5th player from Cornell to play in the Olympics, the previous 4 all having played for Canada." I'm fairly tired and out of it so I can't elaborate more. Some good hits from Douglas in the game, but playing his normal strong defensive presence which doesn't involve his name being called very often.

Does that include women's hockey?

It's possible. I'm pretty sure none of the women's hockey players ever played for team USA, and I only know of 2 past and present (both Canadian, and only one actually graduated from Cornell - the other transferred to a Canadian school).

jtwcornell91 · February 23, 2010, 07:45:50 AM

Quote from: Tom Lento
Quote from: Swampy
Quote from: Flyers1037Some good talk about Douglas from the commentators during the Finland game tonight. "... is the 5th player from Cornell to play in the Olympics, the previous 4 all having played for Canada." I'm fairly tired and out of it so I can't elaborate more. Some good hits from Douglas in the game, but playing his normal strong defensive presence which doesn't involve his name being called very often.

Does that include women's hockey?

It's possible. I'm pretty sure none of the women's hockey players ever played for team USA, and I only know of 2 past and present (both Canadian, and only one actually graduated from Cornell - the other transferred to a Canadian school).

Too bad they took down the Cornell Olympians banner in Lynah.

Jacob '06 · February 23, 2010, 08:55:38 AM

Quote from: jtwcornell91
Quote from: Tom Lento
Quote from: Swampy
Quote from: Flyers1037Some good talk about Douglas from the commentators during the Finland game tonight. "... is the 5th player from Cornell to play in the Olympics, the previous 4 all having played for Canada." I'm fairly tired and out of it so I can't elaborate more. Some good hits from Douglas in the game, but playing his normal strong defensive presence which doesn't involve his name being called very often.

Does that include women's hockey?

It's possible. I'm pretty sure none of the women's hockey players ever played for team USA, and I only know of 2 past and present (both Canadian, and only one actually graduated from Cornell - the other transferred to a Canadian school).

Too bad they took down the Cornell Olympians banner in Lynah.

http://www.tbrw.info/olympic_History/cornellInTheOlympics.html

They don't seem to have included women in that statement.

ugarte · February 25, 2010, 12:10:45 PM

Murray and Sweden were bounced by Slovakia in the late game. Did anyone watch? How did he look? He didn't score or get whistled, so all I know is that he was +1. I presume that means he had an awesome game and the rest of the team let him down.

Josh '99 · February 25, 2010, 03:34:11 PM

Quote from: ugarteMurray and Sweden were bounced by Slovakia in the late game. Did anyone watch? How did he look? He didn't score or get whistled, so all I know is that he was +1. I presume that means he had an awesome game and the rest of the team let him down.

Murray looked fine, solid on defense and composed with the puck. The rest of Sweden's defensemen forgot to play defense and gave up a ton of odd-man rushes.