Alumni in the Pros - April 2006

[jkahn]

[quote Rita]Lenny is playing tonight vs. the Sharks.
They are about ready to drop the puck in Phoenix.[/quote]
Tough assignment for Lenny tonight as Sharks have been as good as any team in the league recently.  No mixed loyalties as Murray is again not dressed.
Back on March 2 I attended a Coyotes game and wore more Cornell jersey.  I was 4 rows directly behind where Gretzky was standing on the bench.  Before the game he turned around and saw me standing there with my Cornell jersey and gave me an acknowledging smile.
Sharks just scored at the end of a full 2 minute 5 on 3 after some great saves by Lenny.

[Josh '99]

Tough night for Dave, as he gets the short end of a 3-2 score.  SJ converted both ends of a 5x3 mid-2nd period to go up 3-1 and Phoenix didn't have the guns to tie it back up.  Tough to get wins when your team goes 0x5 on the power play and the other team goes 2x7.

In related news, Matt Carle and Tom Preissing both had assists last night for San Jose.  Considering how well those two guys are playing, I'm kinda nervous about Doug's chances of picking up too much playing time in the near future.

[Trotsky]

[quote ugarte][quote Trotsky](Sorry.)[/quote]If you have to cite 1982 to jab someone, I'd say "sorry" is about right.[/quote]

Nobody is more aware of this than us, believe me... :`(

[ebilmes]

Lenny ended up with 23 saves. Gretzky says he'll start in Nashville on Saturday.

[profudge]

And  with the signing of Dan Spang from BU  playing in Cleveland  - SHarks have a nice deep young D'man lineup

[redhair34]

Joe has a hat trick tonight against the leafs

[redhair34]

[quote calgARI '07][quote The Rancor]why hasnt Moulson gone up? is it because the Pens wont make the playoffs?[/quote]

If he were going to sign with the Penguins, it would have happened already.  He'll be a free agent this summer and will end up somewhere I'm sure.[/quote]

I spotted this interview on Hockey's Future...
http://hockeysfuture.com/article.php?sid=8604&mode=threaded&order=0

[Q]
HF: Now that your collegiate career is done at Cornell, any chance that we'll be seeing you in Pittsburgh anytime soon?

MM: Hopefully we'll be able to get some things worked out here. We'll see what happens. Hopefully, I'll be there in a Penguins jersey next year.
[/Q]  

That seems to me like code for "I don't like what I'm hearing from the Pens so I'm shopping around."  I think Ari is probably right.

[jkahn]

LeNeveu on in relief of Sauve at 8:57 of 2nd period after Coyotes trailed Avs 6-0.  It's now 6-1 early in 3rd.

[French Rage]

[quote redhair34]Joe has a hat trick tonight against the leafs[/quote]

#20 all-time in goals!

[bernie]

http://www.protrade.com/insight/InsightArticleDetail.html?sp=KRC967942&x=x

a pretty interesting analysis i found when searching for nhl face-off leaders.  it'd be equally interesting to see an analysis done for lacrosse...

[Scersk '97]

Very intereting indeed.  There's no question that Nieuwendyk is and has been one of the more dominant face-off men in the League, and there's also no question that our face-off percentages take a jump when Joe is available for some part-time, part-season volunteer assistant coaching.  I'm sure no one here is hoping for an early end to his career, but the Big Red are distinctly helped by his presence...

[cth95]

http://www.phoenixcoyotes.com/news/story_details.php?ID=4921

The Coyotes will next play at Nashville on Saturday and will conclude their 2005-06 campaign in St. Louis on Sunday.  David LeNeveu is expected to start against the Predators while Curtis Joseph will play in St. Louis.

[Trotsky]

Has a Cornell player ever scored on a Cornell goaltender in an NHL game?  (Nieuwy and Hayward would be my guess.)  Have two Cornell goaltenders ever faced each other in an NHL game?  (Hayward and Eliot, perhaps?)  Have two Cornell players ever played together on the same team in an NHL game?  (Nieuwy and Dadswell?)

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I doubt Hayward and Eliot played in the same game, because Eliot didn't play in that many games.  ::rolleyes::

Were there any Cornell goalies active when Manderville was playing?  Not that he scored a whole lot of goals, mind you.  Did he ever play with Nieuwy?  

I'd suspect, as you, the best possibility for a Cornell player scoring on a Cornell goalie would be Nieuwy and Hayward.

[Rita]

Doug Murray is playing tonight.
Midway through the 2nd, kings 2-0 over the sharks (shg and a ppg). Doug wasn't on the ice (or in the box) for either of the kings goals.

But in the 3rd, Dougie delivers a hit on KOSTOPOULOS who then hits Doug from behind,  but no call, so they decide to settle it themselves, but the refs decided that was "unsportsmenlike".

3-0 Kings, about 13 minutes left.

Final 4-0 Kings. Doug finished a -1 on the night. It was Lucky Luc Robatille's last game, but he did not register a point in tonight's game.

Sharks face Nashville in the first round of the playoffs, The Kings are golfing.