College Hockey Thread
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UNH & Denver underway, and it's the Pioneers on the board first. Larkin Jacobson drives to the net and Daniel Doremus cleans up the rebound with 17:36 remaining.
And it's all over in Grand Rapids. North Dakota escapes 2-1. Great effort by the Purple Eagles, who were physically over-matched at every position except goaltender.
That was a sweet goal. Thrush snapped a quick wrister past Olkinuora's glove on a rebound that hit him square in the curve of his stick blade.
Denver retakes the lead on a Daniel Doremus goal with 2:34 left in the first.
2-1 Pioneers after one period. They've got a 19-14 shots advantage.
2-1 Pioneers after one period. They've got a 19-14 shots advantage.
ajml said:
And I would've sworn that puck had gone in the net and ricocheted out. Game of inches.
Denver's uni's are very nice.
UNH kid had half the net open on that mini 2 on 1 and out it right into the goalies pads.
UNH kid had half the net open on that mini 2 on 1 and out it right into the goalies pads.
Larkin Jacobson goes off for crosschecking with 7:06 remaining in the second. UNH on the power play.
SCORE! Tie game! PPG with 5:26 left in the 2nd.
Trevor van Riemsdyk with a wrister from the blue line.
Trevor van Riemsdyk with a wrister from the blue line.
kenneycb said:
That's the first time tonight Olkinuora has looked human tonight. He's been outstanding.
I thought they were white so not quite. I honestly like them a little less seeing that they're gold. I'm also just a sucker for any jerseys with ties.ajml said:
UNH getting aggressive, trying to take the lead, and now they draw a Denver penalty. Makowski sent off for tripping. 2:22 remains in the second. PP Wildcats.
Wildcats Score to take the lead! Dalton Speelman nails the loose puck off a rebound with just 12 secs left in the period.
3-2 UNH at intermission.
3-2 UNH at intermission.
Technically speaking, that last goal was even strength. But while the penalty had expired, the 5th defender hadn't returned to the play yet.
UNH's Kevin Goumas takes a wicked high elbow to the head and the refs missed it. He was down on the ice for about 30 seconds.
From USCHO's Jim Connelly: "I was just told that the ability during the NCAA tournament for officials to review video to view a penalty they missed was put in this past offseason"
More punk-ass play by Denver. Looks like another penalty on the Pioneers after punches thrown behind the UNH net. These teams absolutely hate each other.
After the refs review things, looks like a 5-on-3 for Denver with a double-minor on UNH. Can't figure that one out. Denver players clearly threw haymakers that landed.
EDIT - Ahhh, there were still 30 secs left on the previous UNH penalty. It'll be a 5-on-4 after that. Still doesn't explain why DU didn't get penalized.
EDIT - 4:00 left in the 3rd.
EDIT - Ahhh, there were still 30 secs left on the previous UNH penalty. It'll be a 5-on-4 after that. Still doesn't explain why DU didn't get penalized.
EDIT - 4:00 left in the 3rd.
What a shame Niagara couldn't hold off North Dakota. But I'll gladly take 3 of 4 WCHA teams losing on Opening Friday.
Enjoy your megaconference realignment, asshats.
Enjoy your megaconference realignment, asshats.
Pretty late to the thread but the UNH guy initiated everything with a pretty nice cross check to the middle of the body, setting off the entire thing. A punch to the face is understandable in that situation.ajml said:
ajml said:
Which, if he goes into the boards, is called boarding every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
Mr. Wednesday said:
Just wanted to revisit this post. Hockey in no way benefits from this arrangement. If anything, its importance in the ESPN portfolio has been significantly diminished ever since the Worldwide Leader lost NHL rights. If the NCAA were so effective in strong-arming ESPN to place its championships on stations reaching the most households, the NCAA would in fact dictate those terms. They would stipulate that the hockey playoffs be aired on ESPN2, which reaches the same number of households as ESPN.
But they don't. And that's why three of today's NCAAH games are on ESPNU (reaching only 75% of those with access to ESPN & ESPN2), while the other three games are relegated to online streaming via ESPN3. None of them are on ESPN2, which will instead air Sports Science, Competitive Cheerleading, and Dance Competitions from 12:30 pm to 5:30 pm, followed by a Roberto Clemente documentary (best suited for ESPN Classic) and Mexican League soccer.
The NCAA has no control over this whatsoever, and they're not making ESPN televise anything. All of this is an ESPN power play. They wanted all NCAA programming under their umbrella regardless of its low appeal, not because they have any plans to truly market it, but rather to ensure their competitors don't get a chance to do so.
As for the NCAA "bending the WWL over", that's preposterous. Remember that when the NCAA and ESPN reached this latest deal, there were no other competitive outlets for the NCAA to bring their programming to. As I noted in my earlier post, FOX, NBC/Comcast and CBS were still getting their shit in order to either launch or re-brand certain station properties as all-sports. So if, as you state, the NCAA made any threats or leverage plays (which I doubt), they were hollow and empty. ESPN knew it, and so did the NCAA. It would have been the easiest bluff on the planet to call. "OK. Go ahead, take your programming elsewhere and see (a) the paltry number of eyeballs it stands to get, (b) how unappealing such limited exposure will be to sponsors, and (.c) how much less cash these other networks will pay for the privilege. Maybe the History Channel or MTV will be interested."
ESPN couldn't get away with that today, now that two of their competitors are up & running and with FOX on the verge of doing so. They're all hungry for content and unafraid of any bidding wars, evidenced by the $600 million FOX is paying the new Big East for non-football content. Those bidding wars simply didn't exist before because ESPN was smart enough, and ruthless enough, to force the NCAA into a longer-term commitment before any other competitor was ready to ante up and start airing content.