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[TimV]

ND wins after a fun end of game flurry with an extra attacker goal making it 2-1, followed by a truly lucky bounce off the boards from the ND zone that trickled into the Union net just ahead of a frantic J. C. Brassard.

ND can now celebrate the new year in Schenectady!?$@#?!

::drunk::

P.S. A truly sold out Messa Rink with a deep SRO crowd surprised me.  But classes start on the 3rd which surely helped with the attendance.

I was at that game- full house it was, but I didn't see much of a student presence, seemed to be almost entirely locals.  There was an impressive UND contingent, they travel well.

I don't think they spent New Years Eve in Sctdy.  Game was over about 6:30.  If they got right on the bus they would be in NYC by 10 and fly home from there Sunday about noon.  I'd do that. ::banana::

[marty]

ND wins after a fun end of game flurry with an extra attacker goal making it 2-1, followed by a truly lucky bounce off the boards from the ND zone that trickled into the Union net just ahead of a frantic J. C. Brassard.

ND can now celebrate the new year in Schenectady!?$@#?!

::drunk::

P.S. A truly sold out Messa Rink with a deep SRO crowd surprised me.  But classes start on the 3rd which surely helped with the attendance.

I was at that game- full house it was, but I didn't see much of a student presence, seemed to be almost entirely locals.  There was an impressive UND contingent, they travel well.

I don't think they spent New Years Eve in Sctdy.  Game was over about 6:30.  If they got right on the bus they would be in NYC by 10 and fly home from there Sunday about noon.  I'd do that. ::banana::

I wonder how the Union box office sold the student season tickets to the townies. I'm impressed. Kathy Natole, the ticket sales manager is a very hard working woman who once bailed me out when I realized I lost my mailed tickets before one of the games.  It seems like it would be a lot of work to transfer student tickets to townies.

[upprdeck]

were the students tickets even part of the their season ticket package?  perhaps they gave them a choice to buy it or not in the beginning?

[abmarks]

I wonder how the Union box office sold the student season tickets to the townies. I'm impressed. Kathy Natole, the ticket sales manager is a very hard working woman who once bailed me out when I realized I lost my mailed tickets before one of the games.  It seems like it would be a lot of work to transfer student tickets to townies.

No idea how it was done in this case but I know how UVM handled it back in the 80s- I Might be off on a detail or two per ba memory but the gist of it is correct.  Student season tickets did *not really* include games over thanksgiving or Christmas break.

-Students did not buy those games with the season package.  Instead, they had first dibs on those tickets.  If a student wanted their seats for a break game, they just had to get to the ticket office and buy their specific seats anytime up until about 2 weeks prior to those games.

-At that ~2week prior mark, those seats were put up for sale to the general public.

Certainly as of the early 80s this resulted in sellouts een over break as locals scooped up all the extra tickets.

[Iceberg]

Union up 4-3 in the 3rd at BU, albeit a BU without seven of its best players thanks to the junior tournament.

Edit: BU wins 5-4 in OT.

[marty]

Tigers puck luck continuing.  Leading Duluth 2-1.

On CBS sports as I post.

[marty]

Tigers puck luck continuing.  Leading Duluth 2-1.

On CBS sports as I post.

Duluth ties the game with the goalie pulled, OT ends in a tie but the the second OT starts with 4 on 3 play (not 3 on 3) due to a tripping penalty at 3:32 of the first OT. Duluth gets the extra point scoring 18 seconds in.

The announcers explained that if the kill was successful the play would have been 4 on 4 at "full strength" moving to 3 on 3 at the first whistle.

[Jim Hyla]

Big controversy at the Q @ H game last night. Pecknold was ejected and got a 2 min "Abuse of Officials" and 10 min Game Misconduct". That was the decisive play, as H scored 3 goals in 44 sec. He was protesting that H's first 5 on 3 goal was kicked in.

Here's the link to the ILDN highlights. The event starts around 26 sec. As much as I don't like Pecknold, when I watch it in slo-mo, I have to say I agree with him.

Anyone at the game, watched it on ILDN, or heard anything from the CT press?

I can't remember an instance when I saw a coach kicked out for that, but it's probably just my bad memory.

[Jim Hyla]

I've decided not to go tonight, so someone please bring papers and feel free to bring Snickers. :-)

[RichH]

Tigers puck luck continuing.  Leading Duluth 2-1.

On CBS sports as I post.

By Tigers, you mean CC, not Princeton. Had to go check, based on the thread topics.

[Trotsky]

Big controversy at the Q @ H game last night. Pecknold was ejected and got a 2 min "Abuse of Officials" and 10 min Game Misconduct". That was the decisive play, as H scored 3 goals in 44 sec. He was protesting that H's first 5 on 3 goal was kicked in.

Here's the link to the ILDN highlights. The event starts around 26 sec. As much as I don't like Pecknold, when I watch it in slo-mo, I have to say I agree with him.

Those highlights don't show his pyrotechnics.  Did he say the magic words, or did he actually have physical contact with the officials?  If the latter that sounds like Suspension City.

[marty]

Tigers puck luck continuing.  Leading Duluth 2-1.

On CBS sports as I post.

By Tigers, you mean CC, not Princeton. Had to go check, based on the thread topics.

Yes, CC with back to back results that could be a turning point in their season. A tie vs #1 is impressive in spite of Duluth outplaying them in the third and the two OTs.

[andyw2100]

He was protesting that H's first 5 on 3 goal was kicked in.

Here's the link to the ILDN highlights. The event starts around 26 sec. As much as I don't like Pecknold, when I watch it in slo-mo, I have to say I agree with him.

I'm not sure. I could see this going either way.

Watching it the first time, at full-speed, I thought the puck just went in off the H player's stationary skate.

Watching it a few times in slow motion, it is clear that the H player's skate moves in the direction of the goal and does, in fact, direct the puck in, but I don't think it was "a kicking motion." I think the player was trying to get leverage to turn and attempt to shoot the puck in. In his attempt to get leverage, his skate did contact the puck, the result being the goal. I just don't think there was "a kicking motion", and I think the player genuinely did not intend to kick the puck in.

It's definitely a close call.

[David Harding]

Big controversy at the Q @ H game last night. Pecknold was ejected and got a 2 min "Abuse of Officials" and 10 min Game Misconduct". That was the decisive play, as H scored 3 goals in 44 sec. He was protesting that H's first 5 on 3 goal was kicked in.

Here's the link to the ILDN highlights. The event starts around 26 sec. As much as I don't like Pecknold, when I watch it in slo-mo, I have to say I agree with him.

Anyone at the game, watched it on ILDN, or heard anything from the CT press?

I can't remember an instance when I saw a coach kicked out for that, but it's probably just my bad memory.

I don't know what the officials saw.  To my eye, it is clear that the puck started toward the goal as a result of being propelled by #13's moving skate.  However, it doesn't look to me as though he was trying to kick the puck in (the "distinct kicking motion" referred to in the rule book as being needed to invalidate a goal), but rather was trying to turn to face the goal and accidentally pushed the puck.  I also can't tell whether or not his stick subsequently touched the puck in the crease just before it entered the net, the view being obscured by the goal post.  He was trying to ensure that the puck went in by giving it a tap, and if he did touch it the goal was certainly good.  My eye doesn't detect a change in direction of the puck as a result of possible stick contact, but I can't rule it out.

[marty]

Big controversy at the Q @ H game last night. Pecknold was ejected and got a 2 min "Abuse of Officials" and 10 min Game Misconduct". That was the decisive play, as H scored 3 goals in 44 sec. He was protesting that H's first 5 on 3 goal was kicked in.

Here's the link to the ILDN highlights. The event starts around 26 sec. As much as I don't like Pecknold, when I watch it in slo-mo, I have to say I agree with him.

Anyone at the game, watched it on ILDN, or heard anything from the CT press?

I can't remember an instance when I saw a coach kicked out for that, but it's probably just my bad memory.

Here it is.  Interesting is that Rand gets tossed before the play is reviewed.  It is borderline but there was no way that with a close call like this and Pecknold already gone that it would be overturned.

I apologize for the video going in an out if HD.  I think it is a combination of Windows, ILDN and the capture program causing agita in my i5 processor.