Cornell 1, Dartmouth 1

[dbilmes]

Driving from Boston to Hanover in snowstorm. Terrible conditions with lots of accidents along road. Let's hope the Big Red make the trip worthwhile!

[marty]

Driving from Boston to Hanover in snowstorm. Terrible conditions with lots of accidents along road. Let's hope the Big Red make the trip worthwhile!

Driving and posting in a snow storm?::drive::

I hope everyone arrives safely.

[flyersgolf]

Tonight's video is outstanding it's up on the big screen.  Last nights feed from Harvard was so bad we could not see the puck.  Go Big Red.

[BMac]

Fuck dartmouth! A few seconds after OT ends, a player clobbers one of our guys who had let up. Totally still for a minute or two, thankfully gets up on his own.

Fuck. Dartmouth.

[Trotsky]

Bob Gaudet.  There is no substitute.

[ithacat]

Bob Gaudet.  There is no substitute.

Throw your clipboard...

[nyc94]

Fuck dartmouth! A few seconds after OT ends, a player clobbers one of our guys who had let up. Totally still for a minute or two, thankfully gets up on his own.

Fuck. Dartmouth.

From Twitter it sounds like Eric Neiley got a DQ.

[BMac]

Who was our player who got hurt?

[Jordan 04]

Who was our player who got hurt?

Bardreau.

[cquinn]

Bardreau

[BMac]

FUCK Dartmouth.

[BearLover]

Anyone who saw the injury want to give their thoughts?  Is this the second year in a row we lose Bardreau to a complete cheap shot?

[RichH]

Anyone who saw the injury want to give their thoughts?  Is this the second year in a row we lose Bardreau to a complete cheap shot?

We will have to wait to see if Cole will miss any time, but yeah...a cheap shot.  My memory isn't able to determine exactly how long after the final buzzer the hit took place, but it was probably at least several seconds, possibly more.  I wasn't watching that part of the ice to see anything that happened before the hit (if there was shoving or gestures), but I happened to turn my head just in time to see Neiley's arms come up to deck Bardreau high and hard at the Cornell blue line.  The hit was at the head. The nearest ref instantly reacted by shouting and putting a bear-hug on Neiley, probably partly in anger himself and partly because he knew the retaliation was about to come.  And it did. Within a few seconds, a group of CU skaters had Neiley down on the ice in a scrum, with a few other Dartmouth players joining the fray.  Cole was being tended to by the trainer only a few feet away, and he was face down on the ice for maybe 2-3 minutes. No real haymakers were thrown as players circled each other, and credit the officials for separating the teams quickly and containing that powder keg about as much as anybody could.  One ref reacted physically and proactively with Ferlin as the benches were being emptied; it looked like Ferlin was about to go after someone.  Both teams were obviously directed to the locker rooms without handshakes, and Dartmouth drifted to center ice for a second or two for a weak stick salute to the fans that was met with boos from our Cornell corner.

It's ironic now that late in the third, I had thought to myself how this was the cleanest game I had ever seen from a Gaudet team. The only issue was a bit of jawing & shoving near the benches at the end of the 2nd period that resulted in offsetting roughing penalties to start the 3rd (Freschi & McNally).  And then this happened.  I see from the box score that Neiley got a 5 + DQ, and the emotional homer in me wants to see extra games tacked on, considering it was a head shot to a player who had recovered from a broken neck.

Good job by the officials Dumas & St. Lawrence all weekend, but especially at the end of this game. I imagine whichever ref crew gets assigned the Dartmouth-Cornell game in Ithaca will have their hands full.

The game itself was poor on both sides. It was more like watching pinball than hockey. Neither team had any sustained 5x5 attack at all.

Gaudet remains a disgrace to this league.

[andyw2100]

Anyone who saw the injury want to give their thoughts?  Is this the second year in a row we lose Bardreau to a complete cheap shot?

We will have to wait to see if Cole will miss any time, but yeah...a cheap shot.  My memory isn't able to determine exactly how long after the final buzzer the hit took place, but it was probably at least several seconds, possibly more.  I wasn't watching that part of the ice to see anything that happened before the hit (if there was shoving or gestures), but I happened to turn my head just in time to see Neiley's arms come up to deck Bardreau high and hard at the Cornell blue line.

The game is still available on the Ivy League Digital Network. I say "still available" because I think I remember people here talking about it taking them a couple of days to have the games available as archived games. I didn't find it there, but rather exactly where I would have found it last night if I logged in and selected "Cornell" as my school of choice.

Watching the replay, the hit happened 4-5 seconds after the buzzer. And the only thing that happened immediately before that was that another Dartmouth player had a little inconsequential shoulder to shoulder contact with Bardreau a second earlier. If anything, the Dartmouth player was the one at fault there too, but it was really not much of anything.

I hope the powers that be take a look at this and assuming the rules allow for it do add on additional game suspensions. A rough hit during a game is one thing. This really was something else entirely.

[Trotsky]

It's ironic now that late in the third, I had thought to myself how this was the cleanest game I had ever seen from a Gaudet team. The only issue was a bit of jawing & shoving near the benches at the end of the 2nd period that resulted in offsetting roughing penalties to start the 3rd (Freschi & McNally).

Neilly and Knisely were going at it all night, with little slashes, slaps, hooks, and various aggression en passant.  I thought at one point (about 5 minutes before the end of the second) that they might drop all pretense and just have at it.  And all this was just what I could see on the video; god knows what was going on out of frame.

I wish Gaudet would just go to a juniors team where his guys could fight and head hunt all they want.  Everybody would be happier.