Brown 3 Cornell 3 Final OT

[rsafploc 03]

Hah.. Danus... :-D Was that what people were trying to call him tonight? I thought almost the whole of Lynah was just misinformed and/or conforming. :-P

[DeltaOne81]

I certainly mainly agree. To comment on a few things...

I didn't see the third Cornell goal, really. In fact, I think half the rink were taken by surprise by that goal. What exactly happened there? Did the puck just bounce into the net and behind Danis, then bounce right back out?

I actually thought it hit the crossbar, but if Murphy was so sure I wasn't gonna argue :-D . Although several of you seemed to have a better view than me, so I'll take your word for it. I actually was quite sure that that earlier one went it... it was almost like Murphy decided that two half goals are good enough... hehe.

What did you guys think about the officials tonight?

I thought they were a lot better than most of the crowd gave them credit for. There was that one BS call in which the Brown player looked like he just fell. People got on the refs backs a lot for no good reasons. Offsides that were actually offside, icing that our player actually let the puck go a foot before the red line, screaming for a "hand pass" when the next person to touch the puck wasn't a Brown player... just not that knowledgeable and/or completely, sickeningly bias. Unfortunately, it's been that way a lot this year.

Hah.. Danus... Was that what people were trying to call him tonight? I thought almost the whole of Lynah was just misinformed and/or conforming.

Well, no doubt some were, but yes, the mispronouciation is intentional. Knock him down a notch, and stretch the 'anus' .... "Gimme a D!" "Gimme a 'anus'!"...

[Ben Rocky \'04]

D. Murphey continues to be almost down with Hanson on my shit list.  He is a terrible ref that seems to want to make up for bad calls with random calls later in the game.

[DeltaOne81]

Murphy's usually pretty bad. Hansen, Dell, Kotyra... we're just awash with them. Just tonight I really don't think he was all that bad. I think people overreacted a ton.

[Jodi (tuba \'00)]

Does anyone know what happened to Gleed?  It looked like he got hurt (cut?) about halfway through overtime and didn't come back out on the ice.  The guys at the bottom of section D were going crazy trying to draw the ref's attention to something on the ice after it happened.  

The only two ref calls that I had an enormous problem with were Cook's "interference" penalty which was actually for "skating in the vicinity of a guy who tripped over the blue line."  And they called an icing in overtime on Cornell although a Brown player had touched the puck in his defensive zone at the top of the circle.  Some of the other calls were iffy when viewed through my biased eyes, but oh well.  It happens.  

In the first scrum, I though Cornell showed admirable restraint after two of their players got clocked in the head, and I thought they'd get a power play from it, but maybe stuff happened that I didn't see.

[Ken71]

Jon Gleed seemed to be cut in the neck, and there were many spots of blood on the ice in front of Sect. D, between the blue line and the faceoff circle.   He got quite a bit of attention from the trainer when he got back to the bench.

I think there were a lot of blown calls tonight - Cook's interference call was awful.  They blew several offsides calls as well - I thought the many errors went both ways, but it's a shame we can get better officials for our games.

I thought the intensity shown by the team and by the fans was great - I hope we'll raise that level a few notches more tonight.

LET'S GO RED !!

Ken '71

[Greg Berge]

The crowd's intensity even came across on the i2 broadcast.  Following the first Cornell goal, it sounded as if the entire rink was physically pushing the team forward, and that kept up for the rest of the game.

It's easy to be skeptical that it does any tangible good -- the players are focused when they're out there.  But generations of players (both good guys and opponents) have cited Lynah's noise level and continuous cheering as a factor in keeping their energy up.

This may have been the first game when the crowd realized that they were rooting for an underdog and had to show a little "unconditional love." ;-)

[jy3]

the third goal hit the back corner posts - there is no way that it could have come out of the goal the way that it did if it didnt hit the back post plus my seat on the goal line makes it easy to see the puck cross. it was a good call.

as for the crazy straight up in the air goal, it was danis all the way b/c he gave up big rebounds all night and it is funny that one went straight up and then in. what a crazy goal.

i hope gleed is allright.

anyone know who the stars were? I think that hynes was all over the ice and unbelievable last night.

[Jim Hyla]

[Q]Ken Deschere wrote:


Jon Gleed seemed to be cut in the neck, and there were many spots of blood on the ice in front of Sect. D, between the blue line and the faceoff circle. He got quite a bit of attention from the trainer when he got back to the bench.[/Q]In fact yhis seemed to be one of the worst ref times of the game. It seemed to me that one of our players was trying to tell Murphy to hold up play as Gleed was hurt and not off the ice and on the bench yet. However he would not listen, finally an assistant ref held up the face-off. Gleed was definately hurt and had a hard time getting off the ice.

[Fieldf04]

Gleed took a stick to the neck.  Don't know if the refs saw it, but it should have been a penalty - didn't look like an accident on Brown's part.  Murphy was awful last night.  He was laughing with the linesmen on several occasions DURING play.  He shouldnt even be talking to them unless play is stopped.  He seemed biased against Cornell, but I do remember a bogus interference call against Brown...maybe a make up penalty.  But can anyone remember a well called game by Murphy?...I can't.

As far as our play goes, we looked very good tonight, after we shook the butterflies out of our stomachs...first ten minutes were shaky.  McKee took until the 3rd to get his head together.  Moulson's goal came off a great shot.  I think the puck hit the inside corner of the pipes, bounced down and broke plane, and bounced out.  I could be wrong, though...it happened very quickly.

I thought we were going to get a penalty when I saw that bottle on the ice during intermission. :-(  I hope whoever threw that gets thrown out soon.  Fortunately Lynah only sells drinks in plastic bottles.

Lynah has been quiet this year....until last night.  The crowd was pumped and it was excellent. :-D

[Pete]

Does anybody remember the last time we had to chant "overrated" at the opposing team?  I can't remember if we did for the BU games last year.  I can usually hear the band play after goals from section E, but last night I couldn't hear a thing, the crowd was pumped  :-)

[Chips \'03]

There were definitely a few weird calls on the night, like when the stickless O'Byrne fell on the puck and drew a cross checking penalty. It -was- cross checking, but pretty insignificant.
There were a few good calls also that I think the crowd had absolutely no idea what was going on. The "Contact to the Head" call on Hornby was definitely one of them. Hornby skated a few feet and aimed a cross check at the guy, who ducked and Hornby fell over him. I thought it was cross checking and/or charging, but whatever. Definitely the right call there, loathe as I am to admit, even though Hornby ended up on his ass. Not to say that every call was correct, but hell, half the rink is booing them the moment they step on the ice, that can't be helping either.

[Pete]

[Q]It's easy to be skeptical that it does any tangible good -- the players are focused when they're out there[/Q]

Here's your answer Greg, from Moulson at least, in the Ithaca Journal:

"With this crowd, never say never. And we knew once we got that one goal to make it 3-2, we knew the crowd would be back in the game. It obviously sparked our team."

[profudge]

Great game -  Just a few comments:  

Since we sit in N I had great view of both in and out shots  first one:  Ref was not in best position to see I thought it hit the post near top corner and a bit of net  (my 13 yr old son - better eyes) thought it was in.

Second one:  The goal was a great top corner shot by Moulson that was in and out off back of net, off post,  so fast most people around us were not sure  (I was I was on my feet shouting!)  luckily  Dan Murphy was in excellent position and made a good  emphatic call for the goal.    

Both Gleed and Hynes getting the stick to the face/neck  towards the end of game and overtime should have been called but then I saw a dozen boarding *smacks*  we did to them  not called also.   So, in the end the reffing was not as bad as some folks seem to feel.  

Team's effort was great  -  a big star to Cam Abbott who was very impressive!  As was Hynes!  

Brown is for real and I think was one of better teams we will see all  year!    Yan Danis is for real!  he played a great game.  

But our hustle and up-tempo team-work in offense zone were wonderful to watch.

[O.S.B.]

I thought it was a goal, but what were the thoughts on the signs?