ECAC Finals: Clarkson 3 Cornell 2 (OT)

[RichH]

Malott's injury looked ugly.  I hope he will be ok for next season.

Coach Schafer mentioned that surgery is coming with an 8-month recovery time. That timeline takes it to late November, plus he'll have to get into condition. I'm guessing he won't be back until January after the break.

[cth95]

Being there, I thought the review was to see if he was in the crease.

[BigRedHockeyFan]

Right before the shot.

[marty]

Albany Times Union coverage of the games.

[upprdeck]

it is interesting how they often ignore guys in the crease and other times dont.. is it more about interfering with the goalie that they care about?

[sah67]

Schafer's comments on the Galajda situation:

"The million-dollar question is do I want to coach in the NCAAs or do I not want to coach in the NCAAs. That's my goal in this press conference, so I'll answer that question very carefully.

Why [do] the officials want to keep the net on in that situation that cost my starting goaltender, our starting goaltender, a knee injury? For what? To keep the play going? They messed up the call and the kid got hurt. For no reason. The Clarkson kid's trying to help him. That's the kind of sportsmanship. The goalie's down on his knees, the thing's on the back of his neck and yet they can't blow the whistle. And it hurt a student-athlete. I just think that's unacceptable from an officials standpoint.

And great sportsmanship. Like our guys started helping, the Clarkson kid was trying to help him. The only ones that weren't trying to help him were the officials. They were the only ones not doing their job. ... I mean It was just a weird play, and it's just unfathomable why they would [not] stop to blow the whistle and protect everybody involved."

[sah67]

Video of the Malott injury/"penalty" for those who haven't seen:

https://twitter.com/zachsilver/status/1109608557345980416

[BigRedHockeyFan]

it is interesting how they often ignore guys in the crease and other times dont.. is it more about interfering with the goalie that they care about?

I'm guessing the crease violation looked minor to refs and because there was no contact between Austin and Klack, they didn't call it.  

Still, planting his skate in the crease gave Klack an advantage in scoring the goal.  In my opinion, no goal.

[BigRedHockeyFan]

Malott's injury looked ugly.  I hope he will be ok for next season.

Coach Schafer mentioned that surgery is coming with an 8-month recovery time. That timeline takes it to late November, plus he'll have to get into condition. I'm guessing he won't be back until January after the break.

Losing Malott bothers me a lot more than losing the game.

[redice]

Albany Times Union coverage of the games.

They really "hit it out of the park", didn't they?   SMH!!!

The Ithaca Journal (online edition), on Saturday, didn't mention the Men's semifinal win... But, they somehow managed to cover the Saturday loss in today's edition... Interesting..

[scoop85]

Malott's injury looked ugly.  I hope he will be ok for next season.

Coach Schafer mentioned that surgery is coming with an 8-month recovery time. That timeline takes it to late November, plus he'll have to get into condition. I'm guessing he won't be back until January after the break.

Losing Malott bothers me a lot more than losing the game.

Possibly losing Galajda probably even worse.

[LGR14]

it is interesting how they often ignore guys in the crease and other times dont.. is it more about interfering with the goalie that they care about?

I'm guessing the crease violation looked minor to refs and because there was no contact between Austin and Klack, they didn't call it.  

Still, planting his skate in the crease gave Klack an advantage in scoring the goal.  In my opinion, no goal.

The player has to be "substantially occupying" the crease.  The skate in the crease didn't inhibit McGrath from making a play on the puck.  There were a ton of egregious calls in this game, and horrible reffing in general (e.g., Donaldson high stick, not being in position on the clears, Galajda net, etc.), but eh.

[BearLover]

I don't know if I could have scripted a more nightmarish loss than last night's. Lose in OT in the championship game on a blown call, give up the other two goals on bad penalty calls, possibly lose your starting goalie on a blown call, lose your second-line forward for the season and likely part of next season. I guess it could have been against Harvard or something, but it doesn't get much worse than last night.

[BearLover]

Yeah, I don't see any offsides. Topher let his partisanship show with his immediate "should have been offsides" comment

To be fair, the RPI play-by-play guy said something like "should be offsides, but they play on..." All skaters clearly touched up and were onside.

I didn't realize the play-by-play guy was the same bozo who claimed in the game at RPI a few months ago that Malott was faking an injury when he stayed down on the ice after getting pushed head-first into the boards.

[upprdeck]

i still dont see any reason why he didnt blow the whistle on that play..   but then he also didnt blow the whistle on the play where the clarkson goalie almost get speared on a loose puck scramble ealier