As Glenn posted earlier, Clarkson and Harvard fought to a thrilling 2-2 tie. The crowd of over 3500 was one of the largest in Cheel Arena history and the game was certainly one of the most exciting. Clarkson got on the board late in the first period when Craig Conroy put a centering pass past Harvard goalie Tripp Tracy. Harvard tied it early in the 2nd on a series of crisp passes ended up on the stick of Steve Martins who put one over Clarkson goalie Jason Currie's shoulders. Martins tipped a point shot which went between Currie's legs late in the 2nd to give Harvard a 2-1 lead. Midway through the 3rd, a nice tic-tac-toe passing play on a Clarkson PP went to a wide-open Steve Palmer who wristed it past a helpless Tracy. The game was unfortunately marred by some very questionable officiating. It was uniformly awful. The Harvard fan standing next to me and I agreed that the referees (Murphy and Kelly) must have used a possession arrow (ala basketball) to determine who gets the next penalty. There were a lot of questionable calls, not so much because they were definitely not penalties, but in that often times, only a few seconds earlier, they'd let a very similar play go. The penalties alternated between the teams, until the mid-late 3rd period when Clarkson received 3 straight penalties (the possession arrow must have been stuck :). However, Harvard's power play looked very poor and the point man seemed to pass up a good shot all too often. The reffing aside, it was a fantasic game. Very hard hitting, yet, for the most part, very clean hitting. The stars of the game were both team's various backcheckers. The backchecking by both teams' forwards was what impressed me most about the game. Although they didn't have to make a LOT of saves, the shots both goalies faced were very good. Both teams missed TONS of opportunities and both goalies played very well. Most of the opportunities faced by the goalies were excellent scoring chances. Both goalies came up big in overtime. Currie, while lying on his back, got his glove on a weak shot headed into the net and deflected it wide. In the waning seconds of overtime, Tracy made a save on an initial shot ; with Tracy on the ice, Clarkson's Marko Tuomainen blasted one labeled for the top of the net but somehow, Tracy, form his back, made a spectacular save with his leg to deny a Clarkson victory. Steve Martins was the most impressive player on the ice. Harvard's center was nearly impossible to knock off the puck and had excellent speed. Craig Conroy and Steve Palmer played well for Clarkson. In the second period, both martins and Conroy got minors and a 10 minute misconduct; our best guess is it was due to persistent yapping between the two that was going on. THREE STARS 1) Steve Martins, Harvard 2) Tripp Tracy, Harvard 3) Jason Currie, Clarkson Craig Conroy, Clarkson UNOFFICIAL GOALIE STATS Tracy, Harvard 25 shots-23 saves Currie, Clarkson 31 shots-29 saves I know Brown was being pounded by SLU adn RPI destroyed Cornell so Clarkson moves 1 point ahead of Brown and 2 pts ahead of RPI. Brown visits Clarkson tommorow and RPI hosts Colgate. LET'S GO TECH *************************************************************************** Bri Farenell Clarkson '95 [log in to unmask] Glens Falls High '91 AHL and NCAA contact for rec.sport.hockey Go Erin Whitten (GFH '89)! Adirondack Red Wings, AHL Calder Cup Champs: '81 '86 '89 '92 '94? EMAIL ME FOR INFO ON THE COLLEGE HOCKEY CONFERENCES AWARDS POLLS AND THE AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE MAILING LIST