Scores and notes from Saturday's games
Harvard 5, Army 2
Princeton 9, Dartmouth 0
RPI 4, Yale 3 OT
UVM 5, Brown 0
What was to be a great weekend of hockey in the North Country turned into a
horrendous weekend of officiating. Thanks to Gallagher and "The Great One"
himself, the star of the weekend, Pierre Belanger.
Gallagher called back two Colgate goals during the Clarkson game and gave
SLU a goal in their game against Colgate. A goal which nobody in the build-
ing but Gallagher saw. Even the "scorer" Wells.
Now Pierre called 20 penalties in the SLU-Cornell game, but he was not to be
out done in the Clarkson-Cornell game where he called 21, 15 against Clarkson
and 6 against Cornell. He also called back a definite Cornell goal. More
about this below.
SLU 5, Colgate 3
Colgate scored the first two goals in this game: Cooke @ 4:24 and
MacKenzie @ 9:11 (pp). Lacroix of SLU scored a short-handed goal @ 10:39.
The two teams traded goals in the second period: Cooke @ 9:13 and
Albert @ 9:41.
SLU tied the game up with a goal by LaPerriere @ 5:50 in the third.
The game winning goal was scored by Wells @ 13:58. Nobody on the ice saw
the puck go in the net, except for Gallagher who was standing on the end line.
Wells shot from 30 ft. out on a bad angle from the right wing to beat Colgate's
goalie Ken Baker past his glove. The puck appeared to strike inside the goal
and pop out, stopping 10 ft. outside the crease to the left of the goal.
Coach Slater of Colgate did not believe that the puck could have gone into the
goal and stop outside where it did on a bad-angled shot. The goal judge never
turned his light on. Colgate was to give up an empty net goal @ 19:58 to
Allain. Baker had been pulled for the last 45 seconds. Both Baker and Kuntar
finished with 32 saves.
Clarkson 3, Cornell 3 (yet again, #4 in a row)
"Referee" Pierre Belanger royally screwed up what should have been a
great game between the league's two best teams. With his excessive and invi-
sioned penalty calling, Clarkson killed 10 of 12 penalties. In the first
period Clarkson was a man down for 8:48, and for 9:34 in the second. Coach
Morris called the 15-6 differential in penalties a "travesty."
Cornell controlled most of the even man play in the first period.
Jason Currie was in goal for Clarkson and came up big with 14 saves in the
first period. He kept Clarkson in the game. However, when Clarkson was on
the offensive, they seemed to have better chances at scoring. Freshman
Craig Conroy of Clarkson scored his first goal @ 1:44 after picking up a long
pass from Miko Tavi behind the Cornell defensemen. Thankfully for Clarkson,
Corey D'Alessio did not stone-wall Clarkson which he has done in the past.
At 12:28 Cornell scored on the pp. A pass to Andison of Cornell redirected
off the Clarkson defenseman's skate into the net. Pierre having the two
players between him and the goal assummed that the puck went off of Andison's
skate. So he called the goal off. Clarkson scored on their first of three
pp chances. Freshman Henrich scored at 13:04 on a well screened shot 25' out.
With Cornell on the pp some more, Joe Dragon broke in on Currie who came up
big with a glove save. But 20 seconds later, Dragon scored between Currie's
legs @ 19:23. The two teams were skating 3 on 3. Currie was upset for missing
this shot after such a good period. Clarkson had 4 men in the penalty box
at the end of the period, Cornell had 3. What should of been more Cornell
man advantage time was avoided. Kind of hard to play 2 on 1. One of the
Clarkson players was serving a bench minor because Pierre decided that they
had taken too much time putting the men on the ice or Coach Morris said a
word to Pierre.
For all but about four minutes of the second period Clarkson had
less than five men on the ice. Two of the penalties were for dumb mistakes,
too many men and playing with a broken stick. This allowed Cornell to tie
it up at 2-2 when Vogel scored @ 4:12 (pp). During the period when it was
5 on 5, Clarkson looked much better and was controlling the game more. Hugo
Belanger scored @ 8:05 to put Clarkson up. With the Clarkson defense playing
very well it lokked as if the one goal would hold.
The third period saw Clarkson only a man down a few times. They even
got a pp later in the game before Cornell tied it. I believe Cornell only
had 1 or 2 pps. The last one was a feeble call on hitting from behind. With
the penalty killing squad getting a little tired, Derraugh of Cornell received
a pass in the slot and shot it past a well screened Currie @ 15:53. With the
teams back at 5 a piece, Clarkson controlled the game but could not score.
In overtime, Clarkson had their third pp chance but Cornell did a
good job of keeping Clarkson out of the zone and not allowing anything to be
set up. Clarkson couldn't figure out what to do with the extra 2 guys,
skating with 4 or less most of the game.
Usually when Cornell plays @ Walker they complain about the bell and/or
the pep band. I don't know if it was at Cornell's beckoning or Pierre took
it on himself to try and keep the band from playing. Nobody heard the announced
warning. The whole arena was standing and yelling at Pierre for a good two
minutes after that.
Currie finished with 30 saves while D'Alessio had 28. Again Clarkson
let the opponents shot in the first period (14) before tightening the defense
up. Both teams had 2 shots in OT.
Many of the fans felt that the game would have been much more
exciting and victorious if Clarkson wasn't forced to kill of 12 penalties.
Coach Morris felt that the team could have scored twice as many if it was 5
on 5 hockey. Cornell's coach McCutcheon went out to talk to Pierre after
the game had ended. I don't know what he thought about the game. I would
be interested in all Cornell opinions about the game (Bill).
I hope that this report wasn't too biased. I try to keep it neutral.
Mike Zak
Clarkson '87, '90
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