Meg Arnold writes > I was wondering if you could tell me more about the disallowed goal > on Saturday vs. Clarkson -- what time did it come, why was it disallowed > (offsides?),etc. As a Cornell fan, I really wish that you guys had > beaten Clarkson (since we can't seem to win by ourselves these days...) > because it would have given us first in the league. It is really ironic > that it all comes down to a disallowed goal. Well... As a Dartmouth fan, I certainly wish we had beaten Clarkson too. As Ben Smith said after the game, Clarkson tied Dartmouth - not Dartmouth tied Clarkson. Maybe this year we got all our bad breaks (legs, arms, wrists, jaws, puck bounces, bad calls, etc) out of the way. I was not at that end of the ice, but I will tell you what I saw and what I put together from talking to folks after the game. I'd be curious to hear what a Clarkson person saw. The Dartmouth non-goal came after Clarkson just tied the game with 1:52 remaining in the third period. There was a scramble in front of the Clarkson net and Dartmouth's Chris Driscoll lifted the puck over the goalie who was horizontal on the ice (it was not Rogles, who left at the end of the first period, and I can't remember his name right now, sorry). Someone got a stick on the puck (or it bounced off the crossbar), it bounced just INSIDE the goal line, and the goalie reached back, grabbed the puck, pulled it out of the goal, and held on to it. The Dartmouth players all raised their sticks, Clarkson skated away seemingly acknowledging the goal, NO GOAL LIGHT CAME ON, and the whistle blew. After some discussion, the goal was disallowed. Typical of our season! After the game, I spoke to the Dartmouth players who were on the ice and every one of them said the puck went in (at that point, they had no reason to not tell me what REALLY happened). Fans behind the goal said the puck went in too. Granted that these are all Dartmouth reports so they will be biased, but in the past some of these same folks have told me that some of the goals we DID get credit for were not real goals, so I tend to believe them - especially since there were at least 10 people who told me the same story. - Bob Gross