Harvard-Maine SPOILER thread

[Bahnstorm]

Anyone have stats on other teams that have blown a lead like Harvard did in the 3rd in NCAA tournament history? I really am shocked, not that Maine won, but how they did it.

[Jim Hyla]

Well I watched it at a sports bar and Hvd was outplayed, but great on PP (3/5). I think they just ran out of gas, as only 7 shots in the third period. Quite a scare however. Howard didn't look bad, but certainly not great. No defense by anyone till the third, when as I said I think Hvd was very tired. Shots 46-40 Maine ::nut:: .

I'd actually like to see Howard play tomorrow and lose it outright.

[Bahnstorm]

Allowing 4 goals on 7 shots is pretty poor. Did Dov get hung out by the defense?

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]Bahnstorm Wrote:

 Anyone have stats on other teams that have blown a lead like Harvard did in the 3rd in NCAA tournament history? [/Q]
Well, there was a certain NCAA semifinal in 1973 where a very fine team blew a three-goal lead with 12 minutes to play. :`(

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]Bahnstorm Wrote:

 Allowing 4 goals on 7 shots is pretty poor. Did Dov get hung out by the defense? [/Q]
The game-winner was shot from the point and was deflected twice--unintentionally--past Dov.  Lots of loose play by Harvard in their own end in that third period.

[DisplacedCornellian]

Great come back by Maine....in the 3rd they adjusted and stopped letting Harvard set up the trap.  Rather than setting up behind their own net, they just slapped it around the boards and took it to Harvard.

Harvard looked great through two periods.  Did Mazz forget to tell them that the games are still 60 minutes long in the post-season??

[Josh '99]

I think the Smuckers jar was empty after 2.

[Tom Pasniewski 98]

Thanks to NESN, got to see a triple-header of Harvard-Maine live, North Dakota-Holy Cross live and a full tape delay of Wisconsin-Ohio State - it was bad enough the last game was so boring but to have it on a 90-minute tape delay ::snore::  Only good part was seeing Adam W. for his on camera cameos instead of just off camera at Lynah.

First on the Harvard-Maine game, Harvard did what we wanted them to do - raise Howard's GAA average above Lenny's which I'm sure was the first thing on their minds :-P but as the numbers revealed after the second period, all Harvard had to do was win the game to officially end Howard's season and beat the (barely) #1 team in the country and preserve Lenny's record.  And they couldn't do it.  Howard escapes with a no-decision, could live to play another day and the EZAC chants will come back even though it shouldn't.  Harvard got to Howard like no other team has been able to ths season.

On the Holy Cross-North Dakota game, Holy Cross played good defense on the large ice sheet in Colorado Springs.  They had good goaltending from Quesada, an ailing goalie who lost his pre-game meal onto the ice during the third period - nice camera shot of him joking with the people in charge of cleaning up.  And he stayed in the game after that and was pulled later when the game looked lost to give the other goalie a chance to participate in an NCAA game and get on the boxscore.  When they scored in the first minute, I thought UND was headed for a blowout.  I think with Denver playing close to home, they have a shot at beating UND in today's final.

And all I can really say about the Ohio State-Wisconsin game is that it reminded me of the Cornell-Ohio State consolation at the 2002 Everblades which was a boring game to watch ending in a 1-0 Ohio State win back then but Wisconsin pulls it out yesterday.  Perhaps that extra week off helped.  With the game 90 minutes behind actual time and having already watched two games, it looked to me like skaters going back and forth but nobody really doing much to erase the goose eggs.  Anybody in Albany there and stayed to watch the whole game?  USCHO is comparing the Ohio State-Wisconsin game to the Ohio State-BC game of last year (also 1-0 Ohio State loss).  But that wasn't boring since we really cared about who won that game and hoped it would go to many many overtimes.

Anybody see the get your tickets for the 2005 Frozen Four commercial.  There was a brief (under one second) clip of a Cornell player stick raised from last year's FF.  Anybody see who that was?

[marty]

And because Wisconsin was in the house last night there were some Badgers at both of those games.  I hate to say that the 1973 game was more memorable than the game last night will be for me.  But that game in 1973 may haunt us forever.

At the game yesterday there were no replays on the big screen at center ice.  I was sitting in the back of the lower deck center ice section and the TV crew was behind us.  One of their monitors was visible and many of us were standing after the goals to see the replays during Maine vs. Harvard.  ::popcorn::

That is we were doing this until the security guard told us we couldn't look in the box!   ::screwy::

I imagine that if a company had paid big bucks to rent a box that they wouldn't want bozos turning around after every close play, but this was the television crew's box.  I can't believe that they cared.

If you heard the bozos yelling for replays during the first game, count me as one of those clowns.  I didn't know that the NCAA is forbidding replays at the games.

[marty]

The attendence is Albany was poor yesterday.  There were many more fans from Wisconsin at every other outing that I have seen them play.  The Ohio State University brought little more than the band and cheerleaders.  Their turnout was similar to Providence last year.

The only significant fan base was from Maine.

I expected to see the committee send Michigan to Albany to pump up ticket sales.  They could have switched Michigan and TOSU without upsetting the seeding to a great degree.  Since New Hampshire has been sold out for a couple of months this would have actually released some tickets there (as the student reserved tickets from TOSU would have been available for sale) and the Michigan fans would have made a showing in Albany.

[cornelldavy]

It must have been a lonely drive back from Albany...




Trust me, it's a funny picture. I'm just an idiot and can't figure out the tags. Go here: http://www.geocities.com/cornelldavy/photos.html

[Killer]

[Q]marty Wrote:

 The attendence is Albany was poor yesterday.  There were many more fans from Wisconsin at every other outing that I have seen them play.  The Ohio State University brought little more than the band and cheerleaders.  Their turnout was similar to Providence last year.

The only significant fan base was from Maine.

I expected to see the committee send Michigan to Albany to pump up ticket sales.  They could have switched Michigan and TOSU without upsetting the seeding to a great degree.  Since New Hampshire has been sold out for a couple of months this would have actually released some tickets there (as the student reserved tickets from TOSU would have been available for sale) and the Michigan fans would have made a showing in Albany.

 [/Q]

The Harvard radio announcers commented on the poor turnout by Crimson supporters.  They mentioned a wedge of about 70 fans in some section of the stands.

The Boston Globe reported about 4,000 Maine fans at the game.

[Killer]

[Q]Tom Pasniewski 98 Wrote:

Anybody see the get your tickets for the 2005 Frozen Four commercial.  There was a brief (under one second) clip of a Cornell player stick raised from last year's FF.  Anybody see who that was? [/Q]

I had a tape running from 5:00-11:00 because we had dinner guests.  I remember seeing the commercial when I was watching the last game, after everyone had left, and noticing the Cornell player.  Assuming they ran that commercial at least once in the 6-hour window of my taping, I'll see if I can nail down who it was.

[marty]

[Q]Killer Wrote:

 
The Harvard radio announcers commented on the poor turnout by Crimson supporters.  They mentioned a wedge of about 70 fans in some section of the stands.

 [/Q]


I guess I'm not surprised at this - those announcers are likely future Harvard TA's.

I counted about 7 fans.  

Attendance inflation.
  ::yark::

[nyc94]

Did anyone else notice that Harvard's "resume" graphic on the television broadcast listed their conference as "Ivy League"?  No love for the ECAC?