Brian said:
>I'm pretty sure it was a high stick.  When I saw the goal I thought Laing
>had just whiffed--he stuck his glove out and the puck wasn't there.  When
>I got home I saw the replay on Fox23.  Kovack clearly has his stick held
>above his shoulder.  Definitive.  According to Noeth, Kovack never touched
>the puck.  But in this morning's T-U Kovack admits he touched the puck,
>calling it "my goal":"I can say I touched it, but I can't say how high the
>stick blade was."
 
Well, I was originally going to respond to John Whelan's inquiry by saying
I definitively saw that the puck sailed right by Frank Kovac's stick within
mere inches, but didn't touch it - but if Frank thinks he touched it, I
won't argue.  To be sure, though, the RPI defender skating with him got his
own stick on Frank's, and it's entirely possible that Frank merely felt the
impact of the Engineer's stick - it would explain what I saw, which was the
puck taking a clear, uninterrupted path into the net.  Apparently Mike
Noeth saw the same thing, which - as RPI fans would tell anybody who cared
to listen after game 2, and are now forced to stick with - is all that
matters.
 
>Those are the breaks of the game.  RPI's D simply got lost every time
>Cornell put the puck behind the goal, so I'm not sure whether the goal
>would have mattered or not.  And of course the Cornell fans think it was
>payback for Saturday.
 
Payback?  Hardly - the Lynah Faithful aren't spiteful, nor are they in the
revenge business (just ask the RPI band - who was gracious enough to offer
their prematurely reserved hotel rooms in Placid to the grateful and
friendly Cornell band).  It felt a little more like justice than payback to
me.  On the other hand, I suspect a few of the Faithful are quietly
relishing the knowledge that the Engineers are, at this very moment, lacing
up their Rollerblades or golf spikes, and wondering what the weather is
like in Lake Placid this time of year.
 
Jeffrey Anbinder, CU '94
Ithaca Times Hockey Columnist
 
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