Greg said:
>Congratulations to the Saints for a huge win under difficult circumstances.
>If they took advantage of a particular officiating style and Cornell did not
>-- well, to painfully paraphrase my own Faithful, "which team is the winning
>team?"
 
Yes, absolutely, St. Lawrence defeated Cornell.  Congratulations to them on
their victory.  Cornell took a hard-fought one from Clarkson the night
before, and it felt damn good, so this was a bit of a bring-down, but at
the end of the game St. Lawrence had more points on the board.
 
So be it.  Bring on Yale and Princeton.
 
As for Hansen:
 
1) In the third period, down 3-2, Cornell skated the puck into the St.
Lawrence zone, and through a crowd in front of the crease, a Cornell player
shot the puck into the net.  The puck crossed the line, hit the padded
bottom of the BACK of the net, and bounced all the way back out; the goal
judge turned the light on; the net remained on its moorings.  Hansen blew
the whistle and waved off the game-tying goal, declining to skate over to
either bench or to the scorekeepers to explain why.
 
2) Hansen failed to blow the whistle when a St. Lawrence player who had
lost his helmet played the puck.
 
3) After Heffler stopped Moynihan's penalty shot, he proceeded to toss the
puck into the air and kick it into Section A.  By the definitions I'm
familiar with, that's delay of game, and every other time I've seen
something similar, it's been called as such.
 
4) Marsh, the St. Lawrence coach, was just as livid at Hansen as Schafer
was; by the third period Hansen wasn't calling interference, tripping,
slashing, holding, or hooking on anybody, even though just about everybody
was doing it, and players were in genuine danger of getting badly hurt the
way things were going.  Just about the only time anything got called was
when it happened after the whistle in retaliation for an uncalled,
pre-whistle infraction.  One only hopes that Marsh will mention all this in
his report about the officiating; coming from the losing coach, it won't
mean much.  But Hansen doesn't belong in orange stripes; he obviously has
no idea how to maintain control of a game.
 
Jeffrey Anbinder, CU '94
Ithaca Times Hockey Columnist
 
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