Cornell alumni in the pros: April 2004

[DisplacedCornellian]

Murray and the Barons won game 2 of their best-of-3 qualifying series last night 2-1 in the second OT to avoid elimination.   Murray scored on the powerplay in the second period.   Game 3 is at 4pm this afternoon.  

[Avash]

After losing game 1, Doug Murray and the Cleveland Barons came back to win the qualifying series against Toronto 2 games to 1. They begin a best of 7 series against #1 seed Hamilton on Tuesday night.

Baby has 9 shots (and is +1) through the first two games, but hasn't scored. Chicago leads Grand Rapids 2 games to 0 in the best of 7 series after winning game one 4-3 in OT and game two 1-0.

Here's the AHL Calder Cup Playoffs schedule

 http://www.theahl.com/AHLCalderCup/schedule04.html#H



Also, the Central Hockey League finals start tonight as Travis Bell and the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs play at Laredo in game 1.

[Avash]

In game 1 of the CHL finals tonight, Travis Bell opened up the scoring late in the first period. Laredo answered back a couple minutes later, and the game was tied 1-1 until late in the third period, when Laredo scored twice (including an ENG) to beat Bossier-Shreveport 3-1 and take a 1-0 series lead.

[DisplacedCornellian]

Rough night for Murray and Cleveland last night as they were outshot 46-17 and lost to Hamilton by a score of 4-0.    It was 1-0 until  Hamilton scored 3 goals in a span of 5 minutes in the third period.  Murray finished at 0 in the +/- department, with 1 shot on goal and 16 penalty minutes (one roughing call in the second, and then it appears he lost his cool in the third period: a double minor for roughing and a 10 minute misconduct for abuse of officials).

[DisplacedCornellian]

Chicago gave Grand Rapids an old fashion whoopin' tonight, up by a score of 8-0 early in the third before Grand Rapids scored a pair of PP goals to end it at 8-2.  Baby had 1 goal and 2 assists, finishing +3 on the night.  With the win the Wolves swept the series 4-0 and move on to the Western Division finals.  

[Avash]

No more Cornell alums involved in the ECHL playoffs; Shane Palahicky and the Alaska Aces lost their series against Idaho 3 games to 1.

Exciting news about Travis Bell in the Central Hockey League finals. Last I updated, Bossier-Shreveport lost game one 3-1. They rebounded to win game two 4-2 and game three 1-0, to set up game four earlier tonight. The game was tied 1-1 going into overtime. Just 58 seconds in, Bell assisted on the game winner, and the Mudbugs, who lead the series 3-1, are a win away from their fourth championship. It was Bell's 6th point of the playoffs (in 14 games).

Notice who's one of the "power players" on the right hand side of the screen :-) : http://www.centralhockeyleague.com

The accompanying blurb says....

Travis Bell
Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs

Bossier-Shreveport defenseman Travis Bell assisted on the game winning goal in Saturday's 2-1 overtime win over Laredo in Game Four of the 2003-2004 Ray Miron President's Cup Finals. Bell received the puck on the faceoff and wired a hard low shot that was saved by Marco Emond, but rebounded to Forbes MacPherson who slammed home the game winner.

[Pete Godenschwager]

What's with the five days in between games 1 and 2 of the Cleveland/Hamilton series!?  ::help::

Hopefully it'll squash any momentum Hamilton had.  Let's go Barons!!

[DisplacedCornellian]

Cleveland won game 2 in overtime 4-3.  Murray scored a PP goal early in the third period to give Cleveland a 3-2 lead at the time.  He finished at +2 on the night.

Chris Higgins scored 2 goals for Hamilton...but finished -3 in the game.  

[pfibiger]

how is that possible? even if he was on the ice for every cleveland goal, with his two goals he'd only be -2 for the evening.

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]pfibiger Wrote:

 how is that possible? even if he was on the ice for every cleveland goal, with his two goals he'd only be -2 for the evening.[/q]
It is possible if either or both of his goals were on a power play.  Power play goals don't count toward +/-.

[DisplacedCornellian]

Al has it.  Both of Higgins' goals were on the PP.

[DisplacedCornellian]

Rough night for Murray and Cleveland as they lost 5-3 to Hamilton.  Murray finished at -2 on the night with 0 points.  Hamilton now leads the best of seven series 2 games to 1.  

[Avash]

After Travis Bell assisted on the game winner in overtime on Saturday night to help Bossier-Shreveport take a 3-1 lead in the best of 7 CHL Finals, I thought that, by the time I checked today, the series would be over. Unfortunately, Laredo rallied to win games 5 (4-2) and 6 (5-1) to set the stage for a huge game 7 tonight for the Cup (the Presidents' Cup, that is :-) ). Bell was +1 in game 5 and -1 in game 6.

BTW, since the winner of the Hamilton/Cleveland AHL series (HAM leads 2-1) will face the winner of Syracuse/Rochester (SYR leads 3-2), there is a chance that, if CLE and SYR win, some of us might get to see Murray play on TV in the North Division Finals, since Time Warner Sports in Ithaca shows a lot of the Syracuse Crunch games.

[Avash]

Bossier-Shreveport lost game 7 of the CHL finals tonight after leading the series 3-1. The score was 3-2 in OT. Travis Bell was unfortunately a -2 and even took a slashing penalty in OT. The Mudbugs had a 2-1 lead in the third period, but couldn't hold on.

This leaves Murray, Baby and Nieuwendyk as the only Cornell alums still playing hockey this season.

[DisplacedCornellian]

Another rought night for Cleveland and Murray, as they gave up 3 third period goals (two within 30 seconds of each other...::help:: ) and lost to Hamilton 4-3.  Murray finished with no points and was even in the +/- department.  He received a 10 minute misconduct at the end of the game for what I assume was a little extracurricular activity...