Eric Hoffman says
 
> I was in Section H and saw the whole play.  Cronan was in the no-mans
land
> 2 or 3 feet away from the boards and was checked pretty hard from behind
> by a Cornell player (sorry in the rush I didn't see who it was) and lost
> his footing simultaneously. Ala Travis Roy, he went head first into the
> the top of the boards, fell to the ice and did not get up.
 
and Greg Berge adds
 
> The player who checked Cronan must have been Tony Bergin.
>
> I infer this because, although I did not see the actual
> check, I did see:
>
> 1.  Cronan and Bergin disappear into the "dead zone" in front of D.
>
> <loud cheer from that section >
>
> 2.  Bergin comes out.  Nobody else (including Cronan) does.
>
>
> I always forget, is that deductive or inductive reasoning?  It's the one
> you use to assume that the sun will come up tomorrow.  Anyway; Bergin.
 
It was Bergin.  As I saw it from across the ice, but with a good angle
to see the area between the play and the boards, this was a clean, hard,
open-ice check near to but not involving the boards.  The other
interesting aspect to this sequence was that at the other end of the ice
a Colgate player wrestled down Jason Dailey in retaliation, who in turn
did nothing but was called for roughing--a call that surely would not
have been made except for the injury to Cronan.  Well, maybe it would
have been, since Dailey seemed to be a Noeth-Dell focus for much of the
weekend.
 
 
 
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