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Post by breezy on Nov 25, 2016 8:54:19 GMT -5
For those who do not follow Twitter, here is a summary of the team's trip to Notre Dame yesterday for the game tonight.
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Post by rgs318 on Nov 25, 2016 9:20:13 GMT -5
Thanks for posting breezy.
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Post by purplehaze on Nov 25, 2016 9:50:38 GMT -5
no charge to see the game on watchnd.tv
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Post by cruskater31 on Nov 25, 2016 12:01:04 GMT -5
HC is 2-1 against teams ranked in the top 20 and is facing off against #12 ND. The Irish are #10 in the Pairwise rankings, while our Saders are #34. A pair of losses by Providence and a lacklustre performance against AIC dropped our ranking from a high of #16 after the Union game
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Post by deep Purple on Nov 25, 2016 20:06:00 GMT -5
1-1 end of 1st
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Post by HC13 on Nov 25, 2016 20:25:27 GMT -5
HC goal off the ND goalie error on a clearing pass HC 2-1 early in the 2nd
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Post by HC13 on Nov 25, 2016 20:44:35 GMT -5
ND scores on a tip, 2-2, despite HC dominating play in the 2nd
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Post by HC13 on Nov 25, 2016 20:47:23 GMT -5
HC kills off one penalty but give up another just before the first ended, defense on the power play has been stout
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Post by HC13 on Nov 25, 2016 20:48:00 GMT -5
ND scores half way through the PP, ND 3-2
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Post by HC13 on Nov 25, 2016 20:53:41 GMT -5
ND 3-2 at the end of 2, will have about 1:40 of a PP to start the 3rd as HC picked up a penalty off a very late whistle for icing and a hit after the call.
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Nov 25, 2016 21:29:26 GMT -5
ND 4 HC 3. 9 mins left in 3rd
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Post by HC13 on Nov 25, 2016 21:36:27 GMT -5
Final ND 5-3, good game.
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Post by HC92 on Nov 25, 2016 21:49:39 GMT -5
We'll play Yale tomorrow in the consolation game. They lost to Clarkson in a shootout.
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Post by deep Purple on Nov 25, 2016 21:49:50 GMT -5
ND 5th goal on empty net
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Post by deep Purple on Nov 25, 2016 21:54:29 GMT -5
We owned them in the 2nd period and then made dumb penalties. Tough loss.
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Post by hc87 on Nov 26, 2016 11:01:02 GMT -5
Why does hockey seem to get so little activity here, particularly in comparison to football and/or hoop? If we had played ND in either of those sports yesterday....and played them very competitively (kudos Sader pucksters!) like we did, Id say the thread for those games would be about 10 pages long at the very least.
Is it no real institutional history at the D1 level until recently? Hockey too much of a niche sport? Both? Other reasons?
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Post by sader1970 on Nov 26, 2016 11:17:00 GMT -5
Because ND is a football school first, reputationally. A distant second, basketball. Hockey for ND is off the radar scope nationally. Yes, hockey is a niche sport for ND, Holy Cross and just about any other school outside of the HE and some midwest schools like Minnesota and the Dakotas. We love to see the Crusaders win in any sport but we will never play ND in football; play them in a blue moon in basketball (and win! ); and pretty much ho-hum in hockey. Though beating them would be very nice, beating BC, BU or even PC is better than beating ND in hockey. P.S. Time to trot out one of my favorite lines/stories by Jack Donohue. When having one of his chats with the students, one guys asked him why we didn't play Notre Dame in basketball? Digger Phelps had not gotten to ND yet and ND was pretty lousy in basketball. Holy Cross was much better than ND in those days. Jack said "I'd love to play Notre Dame in basketball but they insist that we must come to South Bend and will not play us in Worcester. I said to them, 'oh, you must have me mixed up with the Holy Cross football coach!' We will never play them in South Bend if they won't come to Worcester." Donohue made Bill Gibbons seem boring by comparison. One of the best story tellers ever.
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Post by hchoops on Nov 26, 2016 11:33:25 GMT -5
Because ND is a football school first, reputationally. A distant second, basketball. Hockey for ND is off the radar scope nationally. Yes, hockey is a niche sport for ND, Holy Cross and just about any other school outside of the HE and some midwest schools like Minnesota and the Dakotas. We love to see the Crusaders win in any sport but we will never play ND in football; play them in a blue moon in basketball (and win! ); and pretty much ho-hum in hockey. Though beating them would be very nice, beating BC, BU or even PC is better than beating ND in hockey. P.S. Time to trot out one of my favorite lines/stories by Jack Donohue. When having one of his chats with the students, one guys asked him why we didn't play Notre Dame in basketball? Digger Phelps had not gotten to ND yet and ND was pretty lousy in basketball. Holy Cross was much better than ND in those days. Jack said "I'd love to play Notre Dame in basketball but they insist that we must come to South Bend and will not play us in Worcester. I said to them, 'oh, you must have me mixed up with the Holy Cross football coach!' We will never play them in South Bend if they won't come to Worcester." Donohue made Bill Gibbons seem boring by comparison. One of the best story tellers ever. And a wonderful man as well.
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Post by HC92 on Nov 26, 2016 16:27:08 GMT -5
Tied at 1 with 7 min left in first period.
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Post by HC92 on Nov 26, 2016 16:46:05 GMT -5
1-1 after 1.
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Post by hcgrad94 on Nov 26, 2016 17:18:08 GMT -5
Because ND is a football school first, reputationally. A distant second, basketball. Hockey for ND is off the radar scope nationally. Yes, hockey is a niche sport for ND, Holy Cross and just about any other school outside of the HE and some midwest schools like Minnesota and the Dakotas. We love to see the Crusaders win in any sport but we will never play ND in football; play them in a blue moon in basketball (and win! ); and pretty much ho-hum in hockey. Though beating them would be very nice, beating BC, BU or even PC is better than beating ND in hockey. P.S. Time to trot out one of my favorite lines/stories by Jack Donohue. When having one of his chats with the students, one guys asked him why we didn't play Notre Dame in basketball? Digger Phelps had not gotten to ND yet and ND was pretty lousy in basketball. Holy Cross was much better than ND in those days. Jack said "I'd love to play Notre Dame in basketball but they insist that we must come to South Bend and will not play us in Worcester. I said to them, 'oh, you must have me mixed up with the Holy Cross football coach!' We will never play them in South Bend if they won't come to Worcester." Donohue made Bill Gibbons seem boring by comparison. One of the best story tellers ever. And a wonderful man as well. Sadly a mediocre basketball coach.
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Post by HC92 on Nov 26, 2016 17:27:36 GMT -5
2-1 Yale late in the second.
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Post by HC92 on Nov 26, 2016 17:28:16 GMT -5
And a wonderful man as well. Sadly a mediocre basketball coach. Said the guy who is relentless in his defense of Tom Gilmore.
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Post by HC92 on Nov 26, 2016 17:37:03 GMT -5
Down 2-1 after 2.
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Post by sader1970 on Nov 26, 2016 17:39:00 GMT -5
94, and you would know this how? If you, in fact, graduated from HC in '94, Jack had moved on and Blaney was coach.
There seems consensus that Ralph Willard was a pretty good coach and his career record at HC is 192-117 for a .615 winning percentage. Ralph indeed brought Crusader basketball back from the nadir.
Jack's HC career record was 106-66 for a .616 winning percentage.
While it is true Jack had schollies the whole time, Ralph got schollies when many of our opponents did not. While we played some patsies under Jack, we also routinely played a much better BC team twice a year, PC and St. John's regularly and even a game against invincible UCLA.
I am not saying RW was a mediocre coach but neither was Jack.
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