Maine - Denver: Championship Game

[judy]

Denver 1 Maine 0
SOG
Denver 4 Maine 6

[KeithK]

Right call on the crease violation, just a bad rule.  He was definitely in the crease (something I noticed long before Norton) but it had no effect on the play.  

[marty]

Is Daina's show at Yale Rep?

[judy]

i'm not sure.
possibly? she was at a random computer lab for the first half hour...

[Greg Berge]

I wonder if ESPN made any of these cuddly, inane profiles for Cornell last year (even though they were rendered OBE)?  Those would be funny.

[Al DeFlorio]

Still 1-0 after two.  This would be the worst possible final score as far as I'm concerned.  Howard gets the record and the trophy stays west.  Yikes! ::help::

[Mike Hedrick 01]

I can't believe two such good, well-coached teams are passing up on so many quality shots!    

Anyway, Denver needs to score one more for Lenny, although worse things could happen than a North Country boy breaking his record.   Even if he does break it, he only played 21 games this year.  

[Avash]

Wow, Maine's going to have a minute and a half of 5 on 3 here....have to root for Maine to score, so that Denver can get that 2nd goal in OT....

[min]

denver wins.

[Avash]

Maine fails to score with a minute of SIX on three at the end of the game! So Howard has the record, and Denver wins the championship.

[Greenberg \'97]

You know, if he was going to break the record, he could at least have won a national championship in the process.

Definitely an exciting finish to the season though.  How's that countdown to the red/white game coming?

-G

[Will]

What's Howard's final GAA now?

[Mike Hedrick 01]

That was pathetic.

In Maine's defense, however, is there any stronger evidence that the NCAA has to wake up and adopt the NHL crease rule?  Its disgraceful that a championship game is partially decided by something so silly.

[Mike Hedrick 01]

Whatever it is, I reiterate that he played less than half of Maine's games this season.

[underskill]

He also carried his team to the championship game