Maine - Denver: Championship Game

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[Q]Avash '05 Wrote:

 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.[/q]

there was the one shot that hit the post, and another that hit the crossbar.
tough, tough break.

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first title for du since 1969.  is cornell now the school with the longest span between championships?

[Will]

Colorado College's last national championship was in 1957.  Cornell is #2 on the list, though.

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thanks

[Avash]

[Q]underskill Wrote:

 He also carried his team to the championship game[/Q]


Indeed, and that's an understatement. Maine won all of its 7 postseason games going into tonight by only one goal. Howard was huge in many of them (not including the Harvard game, of course).

[jy3]

i calculated it out to 1.952 for howards GAA assuming uscho updated their stats page since the end of the game. that is with 26 goals against in 1305.216666 or 21.7536111 games. is that the correct count?

[Mike Hedrick 01]

Certainly, and I wasn't trying to downplay that at all.  Its particularly great to see a kid from Ogdensburg succeed.

But, when you are considering the single season GAA record, it isn't exactly on point.   He certainly didn't put in the time Lenny did, and I consider Lenny's accomplishment and consistency with regard to all of last season somewhat more impressive than Howard's.

[jy3]

although realize too that howard made the same march that lenny did thru the post season. that is impressive as well. i agree though that i think he didnt play enough games. but so be it congrats to denver on the title. now cornell vs. cc next year and the year after and cornell wins one (i would love two ) it the year after then the longest three eliminate that from their portfolios

[KeithK]

[Q]Mike Hedrick 01 Wrote:
...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.[/q]Absolutely.  Kotyra made the right call based on the rule book but it's a dumb rule.

[Greenberg \'97]

[Q]jy3 Wrote:

 although realize too that howard made the same march that lenny did thru the post season. that is impressive as well. i agree though that i think he didnt play enough games. but so be it  congrats to denver on the title. now cornell vs. cc next year and the year after and cornell wins one (i would love two ) it the year after then the longest three eliminate that from their portfolios[/q]

Spoken like a Red Sox fan.  I say we win it all next year, but keep a good healthy drought going.

[Avash]

Looks like it is an official NCAA record, after all, at least according to Jim Connelly's article on USCHO:

"We have a wealth of the team coming back next year," said possibly the brightest of returning bright lights, Jimmy Howard, who, ironically, by allowing only one goal Saturday, broke the all-time NCAA record for goals against average.

In ten years, I'd like to see Phoenix, with LeNeveu in goal, beat Detroit, with Howard in goal, in game 7 of the western conference finals, 1-0 in the 7th overtime :-).

[DL]

Not the most desirable mention, on Collegesports.com:
"The game was just the third shutout in championship game history, the second involving the Pioneers, who beat North Dakota 4-0 in 1968. Boston University beat Cornell 4-0 in 1972. "

[dss28]

[Q]marty Wrote:

 Is Daina's show at Yale Rep?
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Just saw this now:  yes.  

[dss28]

I heard this was the lowest scoring championship game in NCAA history.

From what I saw of the Denver-UMD game, Denver certainly proved themselves... too bad they couldn't have won it 2-1 in OT, though =/

I'd like to see a 0-0 championship game sometime... decided by a 5th overtime or something

[jkahn]

Only ties the record for lowest scoring Frozen Four game though.  1967 semifinal: Cornell 1 - No. Dakota 0.  And they were two of the most exciting games I've ever seen live.  I don't know if there were any other 1-0 semifinal scores.