1. An interesting point on the "sell out" at SLU on Saturday was that 
the SLU students are still on break for another week (Clarkson was back 
already) so the usual "student" section at Appleton Arena was turned 
into reserved seating and had lots of Clarkson fans  (including my 
father-in-law who played for Clarkson in the 40's then came back as a 
prof and founded their women's team in the 70's) sitting there instead 
of the usual mob of SLU students who were scattered among the 
non-reserved faculty/staff seats. .

2. ESPNU had relatively good coverage of the melee in the second game. 
SLU was killing a penalty when Clarkson coughed the puck up and SLU came 
in 2 on 2.  The Clarkson defenseman (Paquet?) misplayed the puck so that 
it slid slowly to the goalie's left. Paquet put a shoulder into SLU's 
McBride (interference?) as the goalie dove along the endline to his left 
(glove) side to cover the puck. This put him right in the entangled 
Paquet/McBride's path as they went by the side of the net (well outside 
the crease) with Paquet clearly hitting him and McBride possibly never 
touching him. SLU's Begosian who was just behind the play, disappeared 
along with McBride as they were pasted against the boards by four 
Clarkson players.  The fifth Clarkson player was not far behind and it 
was 5 on 2 for quite a while (8-10 seconds) as the two SLU defensemen 
were still far back up the ice (remember SLU was shorthanded). There's a 
good camera angle showing 3 yellow helmets going after McBride along the 
board while the linesman also decides to grab McBride who had the good 
(?) sense to get out of his helmet so that his head was harder to hang 
onto when the two SLU D finally arrived to even things up a bit. The 
interesting part was the creative refereeing that somehow managed to 
assign five penalties to the four SLU players and only four to the five 
fully involved Clarkson players. Despite the fact that even the 
announcers were calling the Touhimaa/Fensel "dance" pair, Touhimaa 
somehow magically avoided the box to give Clarkson a 5 on 3 power play.

Robin Lock
Unbiasedly SLU

Sara M. Fagan wrote:
> Isn't it nice to hear about these CCT alums listening or watching their alma mater lose?
>
> I don't think all these people read my original post but it is nice to see some traffic on a topic.
>
> SLU was a sell out for the Saturday night non-conference game against Clarkson and the school is still on break.  I think that speaks to the rivalry.  It is not just students who keep it going.
>
> Sara
> SLU '77
> Let's go SAINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> -------------- Original message -------------- 
> From: Todd Nielson <[log in to unmask]> 
>
>   
>> I spent Sunday shovelling snow, just like on Saturday, and Friday (I think 
>> that counts as yard work) and listened to my alma mater lose...again. 
>>
>> Personally, for me SLU and RPI are a distant second and third, respectively, 
>> to cornell on the "greatly dislike" scale. But that's just me. 
>>
>> -Todd 
>> CCT '86 
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Joe LaCour" 
>> To: 
>> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 4:35 PM 
>> Subject: Re: Clarkson at St. Lawrence (non conference) 
>>
>>
>>     
>>> I spent Sunday lying on the couch watching my Alma Mater lose again as it 
>>> was too cold to do yard work. 
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Tim Hale" 
>>> To: 
>>> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 4:23 PM 
>>> Subject: Re: Clarkson at St. Lawrence (non conference) 
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I'd love to be "stuck in Division III land". 
>>>>
>>>> The only hockey games I can go to is the University of FL play 
>>>> such other well known hockey powerhouses like Tennessee, Georgia, 
>>>> Georgia Tech, Embry Riddle, Florida State University, South 
>>>> Carolina, LSU and Clemson. 
>>>>
>>>> But then again, it was 72 on Sunday and I spent and enjoyable day 
>>>> working in the yard. 
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message----- 
>>>> From: - Hockey-L - The College Hockey Discussion List 
>>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rowe, Thomas 
>>>> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 11:39 
>>>> To: [log in to unmask] 
>>>> Subject: Re: Clarkson at St. Lawrence (non conference) 
>>>>
>>>> Tom Rowe, stuck in Division III land. 
>>>>
>>>>