At 04:33 PM 3/8/98 -0700, John Whelan wrote:
>        BTW, are we sure there wasn't a penalty called for that?  I
>haven't seen a box score with penalties, but as I recall the sequence,
>there were coincidental minors, then a penalty on Cornell less then a
>minute later.  All three of those penalties were about a minute and a
>half over when Clarkson took another penalty and Schafer got hit.
>They showed the scoreboard afterwards, and there were two penalties
>for each team (all they had room for).  I believe the times remaining
>were about 0:23 and 0:34 for Cornell and about 0:23 and 2:00 for
>Clarkson.  Now, if all that is right, what should have happened was
>about 23 seconds of 3-on-3, followed by about 11 seconds of 4-on-4,
>followed by a Cornell power play.  And yet, with subsequent penalties
>called, Cornell managed to eventually go on the 5-on-3, and score the
>go-ahead goal.  This would make sense if there were *two* Clarkson
>penalties called--perhaps the initial one followed by a delay of game
>or unsportsmanlike conduct--since then we would have had a 3-on-3 for
>about 23 seconds, at which point the coincidentals would expire and
>the extra Clarkson penalty would start, giving Cornell a 4-on-3, which
>would soon become a 5-on-3.  Make sense?  So, does anyone have a full
>box or recall what penalties were called at the long stoppage?
>
Sorry for the long quote...
Neither of the penalties called at that stoppage were for unsportsmanlike
conduct or anything of the sort.  I believe they were a cross-check and a
trip.  Additionally, neither of the penalties were called on the Clarkson
player, Mitchell I believe, who (and it sure looked intentional from where
I was sitting) sent the puck into the Cornell bench.
 
-Josh Herman
Cornell '99
 
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