Cornell@RPI- WHITEOUT Saturday 2/12

[DrDemento]

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Refs seem to have come up with a new interpretation of the Interference rule (call it the Brutlag amendment): "If two players collide, and one of the was skating forward and the other backward, call interference on the player skating foward."

On the TV interview SA alluded to the fact that some players dive and that you just cannot control the way the refs call a game. Interesting game to watch. Both teams had lots of opportunites to win and Cornell took advantage at the end of their PP chance and RPI did not. These games are just plain nail biters and expect them to be the same into the end of the regualr season and into the playoffs.

 

[Kepler]

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Bizarre game with the refs being such a large part of the outcome. I really thought Cornell had shot themselves with all the late calls. Very big win.

 

[hab]

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RPI got away with the same interference call about a minute before that time, also on an entry into the zone. You can't clip a Dman skating backward like that. Basic hockey right there.

I think that if you check the replay you will see that it would have been very difficult for Brutlag to avoid that collision. The D-man was backing into him with some momentum.

 

[Carmine Scarpaglia]

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I think that if you check the replay you will see that it would have been very difficult for Brutlag to avoid that collision. The D-man was backing into him with some momentum.

Well, there are other options. Go offside to avoid a penalty. Don't sit on the blue line behind defenders (if that's the system being run that is a risk involved with it). Either way, if you take a defenseman out like that it's going to be too good of a scoring chance... 2 on 1, 3 on 1, etc. and the ref will call it almost every time (I would have said every time but for some reason they didn't call the first one on RPI about a minute before).