NCAA regionals 2011

[RatushnyFan]

Yale pulls it off.  3:16 anyone??

[RatushnyFan]

Rebound should have been controlled but great drive to the net by Ziegler.

[scoop85]

Well, I'm glad Yale won to at least some face for the League.  Should be a good game with UMD

[ugarte]

Nothing like a 10 minute goal review.........::rolleyes::

So what's the other possibility, get it wrong?

If you can't see definitively in the first 9 minutes, it is probably inconclusive.

This.  Plus it brings back 2003.

Did the officials have the angle from the opposite end of the ice?  That one definitely showed it over, no question; but the overhead, not so much.

Yeah, it was in. As you said the opposite end angle showed white. Put that together with the overhead, it's in.

I can't tell (a) who "scored" this goal or (b) if it ultimately counted. Did it change the outcome?

Thank you for not making the ECAC look completely silly twice in a day, Elis.

[billhoward]

Anyone else think ESPNU should have thought twice about their slogan, "Never Graduate"?

Like the seat belt campaign, "Belt Your Kids." Child-protection do-gooders came out of the renewable-growth woodwork.

[billhoward]

Air Force coach's pre-game wrap-up to his team was priceless:  "You aren't going to win this game in the first period.  You have to keep yourselves in a position where you can win it in the third."  

They are playing the kind of game we all would have liked to see Cornell play against Yale.  Play conservatively and take no chances that would give Yale transitions. Play with discipline and take few penalties.  Play defensively to hold the score down and hope for a late game break or two to sneak a win.  Despite at least as many bad passes (and catches) and whiffs on shots and clumsy breakouts as we've seen from Cornell all year, AF is right there in a position to win this game in OT.

We did a good job losing last week in the first period and certainly by 6:00 into the second when it got to 4-0.

Yale did not look good late in the game. But does anyone believe the Mitvack / Melrose blather about AF being better conditioned because they're military? Maybe a generation ago when conditioning wasn't so rigorous in sports (Cornell players described off-season workouts as the aluminum curl).

Nice that Yale survived to play for the Frozen Four slot. All that skating talent. Rondeau is not a strength. Okay goalie, good defense, great offensive system. ... I didnt' want the ECAC to have all is marbles riding on RPI. Their best shot at the Frozen Four is if the game outcome includes a fan vote on who does good video streaming.

[Jim Hyla]

Air Force coach's pre-game wrap-up to his team was priceless:  "You aren't going to win this game in the first period.  You have to keep yourselves in a position where you can win it in the third."  

They are playing the kind of game we all would have liked to see Cornell play against Yale.  Play conservatively and take no chances that would give Yale transitions. Play with discipline and take few penalties.  Play defensively to hold the score down and hope for a late game break or two to sneak a win.  Despite at least as many bad passes (and catches) and whiffs on shots and clumsy breakouts as we've seen from Cornell all year, AF is right there in a position to win this game in OT.

My thougts exactly.  AF's really got Yale on its heels ... OOPS, Yale scores a sort of weak goal to win

Weak? Three rebounds and they get the third.

[Trotsky]

Anyone else think ESPNU should have thought twice about their slogan, "Never Graduate"?

Like the seat belt campaign, "Belt Your Kids." Child-protection do-gooders came out of the renewable-growth woodwork.

Because child protection is something we should all fight against...

[billhoward]

Mississipi Reformed Sex Offenders A&M only plays cupcakes.

Sorry. That may have been an unfair slur on the Mississipeans.

[billhoward]

Can someone please tell Barry Melrose to shut up?

Yes, he's become insufferable

Barry Melrose like Don Cherry sportcoats are part of hockey you can live with. Maybe. I just say thanks that it's not Chico Resch. Mike Emrick is the best broadcaster in hockey and teamed with Chico, the Devils have an average broadcast team.

Note that if Melrose sees a team place twice and they win, he likes them for the Frozen Four. Us based on his seeing that 5-2 crushing of UNH on the road and I believe another game, Yale this year.

[Rosey]

Good. Glad they didn't lose.

I am impressed by the showing Air Force put in: they managed to make this a very close game that could have gone either way. Can someone do a comparison of Air Force's overall talent to Cornell's? K thx.

[billhoward]

Nothing like a 10 minute goal review.........::rolleyes::

So what's the other possibility, get it wrong?

Yeah, really.

In this case, it appears there was no film evidence to show exactly where the puck was, so I assume that meant the on-ice official's call stood.

Film? Firm? Do they have an officials-only camera that shoots from behind the net, like the one Cornell had that didn't work in the ECAC quaterfinals on account of somebody forgot to set it up, I believe is how Schafer described it?

[marty]

Anyone else think ESPNU should have thought twice about their slogan, "Never Graduate"?

Perhaps Melrose was the inspiration.

[scoop85]

Air Force coach's pre-game wrap-up to his team was priceless:  "You aren't going to win this game in the first period.  You have to keep yourselves in a position where you can win it in the third."  

They are playing the kind of game we all would have liked to see Cornell play against Yale.  Play conservatively and take no chances that would give Yale transitions. Play with discipline and take few penalties.  Play defensively to hold the score down and hope for a late game break or two to sneak a win.  Despite at least as many bad passes (and catches) and whiffs on shots and clumsy breakouts as we've seen from Cornell all year, AF is right there in a position to win this game in OT.

My thougts exactly.  AF's really got Yale on its heels ... OOPS, Yale scores a sort of weak goal to win

Weak? Three rebounds and they get the third.

What I meant is that it was weak from the goaltender's standpoint -- no way he should have left that 2nd rebound.  The Yale guy made a great, determined play to get to the puck and poke it in.

[Jordan 04]

CC putting on quite a show.