ECAC 2015-16

[Give My Regards]

Total homer move, but I love the announcer hypothesizing that the officials were reviewing the play because they wanted to see it a bunch of times just like everybody else.

[Swampy]

Funny, nobody mentions they caught Miami in a line change or that the situation was essentially 4-on-2.  It's testimony to North Dakota's skill that they made all those passes, but they weren't under much pressure or moving down the ice at a particularly high speed. Instead, the passes just isolated one of the defenders along the boards and made the other, remaining defender have to decide between 3 other players.

I wish I could see a video of it to compare, and perhaps my mind is seeing it through red-tinted glasses, but the greatest goal I've ever seen in college hockey was in the 1966 ECAC Holiday Festival Tournament. Cornell was playing defending national champion Michigan State. With the game in overtime, Doug Ferguson forechecked in the neighborhood of Michigan State's blue line, took the puck puck away, raced down ice on a break, and at full speed dropped a pass to a trailing Mike Doran, totally faking out the goalie as Doran shot the puck into the upper right of the net.

Oh, if we only had video cameras back then. Instead, sports journalists had to sketch the action, and we had to take turns viewing the pictures with a camera obscura. And we liked it!

[Trotsky]

Oh, if we only had video cameras back then. Instead, sports journalists had to sketch the action, and we had to take turns viewing the pictures with a camera obscura. And we liked it!

The goal judge hung lanterns.

[Al DeFlorio]

Oh, if we only had video cameras back then. Instead, sports journalists had to sketch the action, and we had to take turns viewing the pictures with a camera obscura. And we liked it!

The goal judge hung lanterns.

And old guys on skates pushed tanks of water around the ice to resurface it.

Oh, wait...that's true.

[ursusminor]

WaP editorial on Brown's goal:

https://twitter.com/without_a_peer/status/667383842576146433

[Beeeej]

WaP editorial on Brown's goal:

https://twitter.com/without_a_peer/status/667383842576146433

Could've said exactly the same thing in many fewer words:

"Oh well, someone else got screwed and we benefited; whaddaya gonna do?"

[Beeeej]

Oh, if we only had video cameras back then. Instead, sports journalists had to sketch the action, and we had to take turns viewing the pictures with a camera obscura. And we liked it!

The goal judge hung lanterns.

And old guys on skates pushed tanks of water around the ice to resurface it.

Uphill, both ways.

[marty]

WaP editorial on Brown's goal:

https://twitter.com/without_a_peer/status/667383842576146433

The tweet (which I can't cut and paste here at work) makes comment about RPI TV's HD camera over the net.  So is "without peer" claiming two cameras over the net or did RPI TV donate a better than average cam for the cause?  Houston has to have the overhead shot available for the refs and either I'm confused by this or "wap" is perhaps just a little sloppy with their comment.

When reading the newspaper explanation I just assumed the feed from the overhead cam wasn't available on ice even though it was available on the RPI equipment.

I may need to bring my opera glasses to the game on the 24th to search for the second camera.::woot::

[ursusminor]

marty,

I don't know, but it sounds like there are two systems.

[sandrese]

Pretty sure I saw both up there when I was helping film this weekend's games, but RPITV has used two different above-goal cameras. The original, league-mandated camera (SD only) and the RPITV camera (1080p). Included clips of what each looks like below.

RPI vs Yale from Feb 2013, showing the SD camera for replay. Relevant footage at timestamp 12:09 of the 1st period video

RPI vs BC from October, showing the HD camera. Already queued up to relevant time.

I believe the official replay system still uses the original SD camera

[marty]

Thanks.

[upprdeck]

the question is why any replay system is using such outdated equipment when good stuff is not really that costly these days? cornell is pretty much in the same boat. the teams should find a sponser and every time they go to the replay system throw the name out.. a few hunder dollars and problem solved.

[billhoward]

Sheesh. RPI-TV has in-net goalie cams and high-def overhead cams.

[TimV]

I do envy that, and admire them for it.  But to be fair, it's their only Division 1 sport, and the athletic department offers 21 intercollegiate sports to our 35 or so.

[marty]

RPI TV is a well established club that builds year by year with great alumni support. They're legitimate geeks in the good sense and as you can tell I'm impressed.