Boy do I wish I'd gone to the Brown - SLU game last night -- apparently I
missed a miracle:
 
>Brown goalie Holowaty appears to have been huge in this game but really
>wasn't...he was credited with 49 saves, but really only made about 2 big
>saves...this is not to say that SLU's chances were not huge, because they
>were...SLU had enough quality scoring chances to score a season's worth of
>goals...but in some strange manner Holowaty was able, by flopping onto the
>ice, to put some portion of his body in front of some of the intensest
>pressure I have seen SLU put on in years...
 
A goalie plays a crappy game, flopping all over the ice like an idiot, an
still manages to stop 49 of 50 shots, many of which were huge chances.
 
Reminds me of this other goalie I saw once.  He had strange positioning,
flopped all over the place, and basically violated every rule of
goaltending.  I think his name was . . . Hasek.
 
Now before the flames begin, I'm not saying Holowaty is the next Hasek; but
you've got to give  him at least a little credit for 49 saves.
 
And BTW, you can talk all you want about Holowaty being saved by posts, or
shots blocked before reching the net, but those things are not shots on
goal.  At least one observer, whose job it is to count, saw Holowaty stop
the puck 49 times.
 
Say you don't know how SLU lost?  I think you do. . .
 
Carl Sussman
Brown '96
Harvard Law '99
 
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