John H writes >John Whelan writes... >>John H writes, in part, >>>Morrison as MVP. >>>Hopefully this clears things up for any Hobey voters that were >>>waiting to cast their vote based on what the "major" candidates >>>(which I'm considering to be Drury, Morrison and White) did in >>>their conference tournament. >> Gee, and I thought Todd White's hat trick in the ECAC >>semifinals would do that. :-) Looks like another case of Eastern fans >>getting a good look at White and Westerners at Morrison. I haven't >>seen the all-tourney team, but I assume White made it, despite being >>shut down by the Cornell defense on Saturday. >My point exactly! Where was White in the final?! Morrison >had three points in the semifinal win as well, but he showed >up for the championship game with 1-1--2, including the GWG, Okay, so I'm watching the CCHA final from last night's tape delay, and I have to say that maybe Morrison should win the Hobey from the ankles down. The assist was very weak; he happened to be in front of the net when the puck came out to Luhning, and if it hit him at all, in was in the left skate. His main contribution to the goal was getting both defenders to cover him and leave Luhning open. Morrison's goal was an impressive athletic achievement, but after watching numerous replays, I believe the way it went in was: Morrison skates in on Alban just ahead of the defender; the puck is a bit ahead of Morrison's outstretched stick, and Alban poke-checks it back, and it bounces off of Morrison's right skate; Morrison tries to put his stick on it, but Alban's left pad gets in the way, and the puck carries into the net of its own momentum. I don't know what Morrison's goal and two assists in the semifinal were like (and I also didn't have time to watch the entire CCHA final carefully enough to comment on Morrison's performance outside of the goals), but White had three solid goals in his semi. >against a very stingy MSU defense. Cornell neutralized >White...and, if there's any justice, any chance he had to >win the Hobey as well. >Morrison led his team to the championship and was named >MVP. White did neither. >Bottom line...Morrison produced, White didn't. Morrison had two goals and three assists out of the ten goals his team scored against the #21 and #12 teams in the country (by PWR); White had three goals out of the six his team scored against the #17 and #9 teams. Doesn't sound to me like Morrison's performance blew White's away; it was just that he spread it out between the two games. (Now, I'll grant that Chad Alban is a much better goalie than Erasmo Saltarelli, against whom White had the hat trick, but Bob Petrie doesn't sound so hot, saving only 19 of 26 shots. OTOH, Jason Elliott, who surrendered only one goal in the final, won the MVP in the ECAC tourney, and the entire defensive contingent on the all-tournament team came from Cornell.) John Whelan, Cornell '91 <[log in to unmask]> <http://www.cc.utah.edu/~jtw16960/jshock.html> Cornell Men's Ice Hockey: Back-to-back ECAC and Ivy League Champions HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.