I was at the Dartmouth-Clarkson game on Saturday night and saw the
disallowed goal. Being a member of the Clarkson Pep Band, some of you
may think me biased.
From where we were sitting, we could not see much. The band was sitting
in the back row at about mid-ice. Our view was obscured by the players
and so I didn't actually see the non-goal, but I was talking to Jason
Currie, the freshman goaltender for Clarkson who played the second and
third periods, after the game.
He told me that, after the scramble in front of the net, he was on the
ice, and the puck was loose. The Dartmouth player then took four swipes
at the puck and on the fourth swipe, knocked it into the air over his
pads. He said the puck went over him, but he reached up and caught it.
The puck never hit the crossbar or landed on the ice.
If the puck did cross the line, the goal judge didn't see it, or
else the goal light would have come on, and the ref didn't see it or he
would've called it a goal on the spot. In fact, they even consulted one
of the linesmen, who apparently had a better view of the action. Maybe
the ref wasn't sure of the goal, so he didn't make the call, in any case
he didn't call it a goal, much to the Band's relief 8-).
- Ted Weiler '94
***Clarkson U. Pep Band***
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