>Geez, the off-season sure is long... isn't it time we argued about bands
>again?
 
How about a weird-goal thread to make the summer pass by more bearably?
It does certainly beat bands, zambonis, season ticket policies, cheerleaders,
etc. etc.
 
I'll add one that's kind of similar to the Cornell-RPI goal, albiet D-III:
 
February 3rd, 1990 - RIT vs. Union at RIT's Ritter area.  This is a remach of
the prior year's ECAC West Championship game won by RIT at home, where they
erased a 3-0 Union lead and won 5-3. Union hasn't beaten RIT in 5 years. The
rivalry is intense, as is the play - easily the best game I saw that year.
Union ties the score at 2 late in the 3rd to send the game into ot. Their
goalie (Rob?) Kinghorn is playing out of his head, as is RIT's Fred Abraham.
The entire crowd stands during the OT as each team takes turns in end to end
action.
 
WIth less than a minute to play in the ot, the Tigers gain posession of the
puck and break out of their zone. They decide to do a line change and the
Tiger's Bill Gall, his back turned to the Union net,  flips the puck into the
Union zone  as he crosses the red line and heads for the bench.  The puck lands
on the ice just above the right faceoff circle and slowly slides towards
Kinghorn and the Union defense... then weirdness. For some inexplicable reason,
the Union defender, who is standing about 10 feet in front of the Union net,
places his blade on the ice to play the puck, and then, at the last minute,
lifts his blade and decides to let Kinghorn play it. Kinghorn, unforunately, is
at the opposite side of the net, and assumes that his defensemen has the puck.
2,000 people watch in stunned silence as the puck, which is moving *very*
slowly, slides just inside the right post into the net. Then total delirium.
Gall is credited with the goal,even though by now he's on the bench. Kinghorn
immediately skates off the ice as his teammates stare in amazement and the
Tiger bench emptys. Being a good sport, the Union goalie returned a few moments
later for the customary handshake.
 
Former RIT and then (and now) Union coach Bruce Delventhal said later that he
had never seen anything like that before.  Ditto.
 
Chris Lerch
Xerox
RIT '84 & '91
 
PS Anybody have any D-III schedules yet?