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Norwich hockey 2012-2013: Our thread closed before Owsego's

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Many season ticket holders, and others, buy their seats, but then spend the entire game being rail rats, watching from the upper promenade. SRO ticket holders often gravitate to the sold but unused seats as the game progresses.

Never quite understood why people do that, either. If you don't need a seat, don't buy one.
 
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First you give the Season ticket holders a chance to buy their seats, then you have to allow for the seats allocated for the visitors. Once the deadline for season ticket holders runs out (Wednesday), and they know how many seats are taken by the other schools, then they can release the rest.

Actually, NU's policy is a whole lot better than what they do at Plattsburgh, which is absolutely silly.

You can always just buy SRO tickets and take a chance.
Prof is right on. We are required to offer each visiting team 15% of our seats and standing room. Season ticket holders have until Wednesday to purchase their tickets. All tickets that are not purchased or reserved by the visiting teams will be released at that time. As season ticket holders decline to purchase we put their seats up for sale immediately. Look at it this way, we have 950 season ticket holders, 200 student reserved seats, 50 for the parents of each team, and then their ticket allotment. We have a total of 1400 seats, you do the math.
 
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First you give the Season ticket holders a chance to buy their seats, then you have to allow for the seats allocated for the visitors. Once the deadline for season ticket holders runs out (Wednesday), and they know how many seats are taken by the other schools, then they can release the rest.

Actually, NU's policy is a whole lot better than what they do at Plattsburgh, which is absolutely silly.

You can always just buy SRO tickets and take a chance.

Silly??? In the 21st century, it is simply proof of incompetence :mad:
 
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Prof is right on. We are required to offer each visiting team 15% of our seats and standing room. Season ticket holders have until Wednesday to purchase their tickets. All tickets that are not purchased or reserved by the visiting teams will be released at that time. As season ticket holders decline to purchase we put their seats up for sale immediately. Look at it this way, we have 950 season ticket holders, 200 student reserved seats, 50 for the parents of each team, and then their ticket allotment. We have a total of 1400 seats, you do the math.
1400 seats means 1600 standing...at the second whistle, if the seat is vacant, take it.....
 
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Highlights from Friday's 6-2 ECAC East semifinal victory over Castleton courtesy of Brady Farkas, NU Sports Information and NSN footage.

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Also recap now posted on Norwich Athletics website: http://www.norwichathletics.com/sports/mice/2012-13/releases/Castleton_3-1-13
 
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Well, it's Babson tomorrow after a hard fought game with UMB. Both teams could have won it, Not sure I would want to face Testa tomorrow, but facing Andrews would not have been an easy task either. Great offesive effort against a hard hitting Castleton tonight, Wick. Good luck to all, but let the Cadets prevail and find their power play. We know they had it before Christmas, it has to be somewhere in the areana. You can do it! Go Cadets!!
 
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Well, it's Babson tomorrow after a hard fought game with UMB. Both teams could have won it, Not sure I would want to face Testa tomorrow, but facing Andrews would not have been an easy task either. Great offesive effort against a hard hitting Castleton tonight, Wick. Good luck to all, but let the Cadets prevail and find their power play. We know they had it before Christmas, it has to be somewhere in the areana. You can do it! Go Cadets!!

Like to see them find the penalty kill, too - although if you stay out of the box, that is less of an issue. For some reason the Cadets always take more penalties against Castleton than anybody else.
 
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Anyone know how many UMB fans got kicked out of Kreitzburgh last night? They were the worst fans I have ever seen in Kreitzburgh. The staff did a great job but never should of had to baby sit all night.
 
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Norwich loses to Babson 2-1 on an MVP effort by Testa stopping 45 +/- SOG.
 
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Norwich loses to Babson 2-1 on an MVP effort by Testa stopping 45 +/- SOG.

Since Babson doesn't have a thread, here's the place to offer congrats to the Beavers for a really great performance. I hope we see you guys again up the road (like at Lake Placid) and we can figure out how to beat Testa. He is the real deal.
 
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Since Babson doesn't have a thread, here's the place to offer congrats to the Beavers for a really great performance. I hope we see you guys again up the road (like at Lake Placid) and we can figure out how to beat Testa. He is the real deal.

Yes the real Deal
 
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Exactly, potential Goalie of the Year for the NCAA's. However, great effort Cadets, fans couldn't ask for more.
 
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Since Babson doesn't have a thread, here's the place to offer congrats to the Beavers for a really great performance. I hope we see you guys again up the road (like at Lake Placid) and we can figure out how to beat Testa. He is the real deal.

We already knew he was the real deal. The kid has played well against Norwich for four years. This year he finally started getting the results. Lets remember that in four his first five career starts against Norwich he went to overtime.
 
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Here is the Norwich sports information recap: http://www.norwichathletics.com/sports/mice/2012-13/releases/Babson_3-2-13

Men’s Hockey: Babson edges Norwich 2-1 in ECAC East title game

By Derek Dunning, Norwich Director of Sports Information


NORTHFIELD, Vt. – All season long Babson and its senior goaltender Zeke Testa have been the kryptonite for the Norwich University men’s ice hockey team.

The trend continued on Saturday night in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Men’s East Tournament Championship game as Testa made 39 saves, including 20 in the third period alone, to stymie the high-octane Norwich offense and lead the Beavers to a 2-1 victory.

Testa was named the Most Valuable Player and ended Norwich’s run of three straight ECAC East Tournament titles. The title was Babson’s fifth overall and first since 2009.

Babson (17-6-5) also extended its unbeaten streak over Norwich (23-3-1) to four straight games, including a 2-0-1 mark against the Cadets this season.

Despite outshooting Babson 40-13, Norwich junior forward Travis Janke’s (Swift Current, Saskatchewan) goal 3:02 into the game was the only time the Cadets could get anything by Testa. Janke beat the Babson goalie with a quick one-timer through the five-hole from the low slot off a feed from Colin Mulvey (Worcester, Mass.) from behind the net after he picked off a pass from a Babson defenseman.

However, Babson countered with two goals 1:30 apart just past the midway point of the first period to take the lead for good. Trevor Hines knotted the game at one at the 10:23 mark by tipping a shot past NU sophomore goalie Matic Marinsek (Ljubljana, Slovenia) after Matt Leer intercepted a clearing attempt along the side boards. Leer trapped the puck along the boards and then fired a pass to Hines who got a stick on the puck and lifted it over Marinsek.

Moments later Babson struck again when Jared Wiedemann fired a slap shot from the point that found its way through Marinsek’s five-hole to give the Beavers a 2-1 lead that they would cling to for the rest of the game.

NU head coach Mike McShane pulled Marinsek for junior Parker Carroll (West Chester, Pa.) after Babson’s second goal and Carroll went on to stop all eight shots he faced in relief.

After a back and forth second period, Norwich did everything right but score in the final stanza. The Cadets completely dominated the possession and outshot Babson 20-2, but they weren’t able to light the lamp again.

Testa stood on his head all period long making highlight reel saves with glove, leg, blocker and he even had the help of a goalie’s best friend with Norwich clanging two shots off the post. Janke was robbed at the last second on the backhand with a quick right pad save with 16:40 left and the frustration only mounted for the sold out Kreitzberg Arena faithful from there.

Chris Duszynski and Gerard McEleney each had quality chances turned aside before the halfway mark of the period by Testa. Duszynski tried beating Testa five-hole with a quick shot from the bottom of the left faceoff circle and then McEleney was stuffed by the blocker. With just over seven minutes left, Thomas got a step on the Babson defense with a quick burst of speed up the left wing. He fired a shot wrist shot that Testa blocked and then the NU senior barreled into the Babson net to force a stop in play.

With 4:57 left in the game Blake Forkey was robbed by a glove save by Testa on his backhand from the middle of the slot. Less than a minute later Dean Niezgoda slid a puck off the right post from the left side of the net that clanged off the iron and never fully crossed the line before being swept away by a Babson defenseman.

Norwich continued to amplify the pressure and went on a power play with a little over three minutes left when Wiedemann was whistled for a boarding penalty. Just seven seconds into the power play, Pier-Olivier Cotnoir let go of a howitzer from the point that Testa snatched up with his glove to rob the NU captain.

Mulvey wristed a shot off Testa’s chest with a little over two minutes left and then Janke rifled a shot off the post moments later. As soon as Wiedemann’s penalty expired, McShane pulled Carroll for an extra attacker in frantic search for the equalizer.

The Cadets had one last shot at a late-second miracle, but senior forward Tory Allan was denied once again by Testa in the final 10 seconds. Allan corralled a pass in the middle of the slot and with a defender draped on his back he turned to his right and tried to sneak the puck past Testa to the left side of the cage. However, the Babson goalie quickly slid over side to side and just stuck his pad out at the last second to kick the shot away and the Cadets’ last quality chance to tie it.

Janke and Forkey were each named to the All-Tournament team for Norwich, while Babson’s Ryan Smith, Wiedemann and junior defenseman Ryan Heavey rounded out the squad.

Norwich will now wait to see if it is selected as one of the three at-large teams that make the 11-team NCAA Tournament field. Coming into the weekend, the Cadets were the No. 1-ranked team in the NCAA’s East Region rankings which are the same rankings that are used to select the tournament field.

Babson will be in the NCAA Tournament after the Beavers claimed the ECAC East’s automatic bid into the field by winning the postseason tournament title.

The NCAA Tournament selections will be announced on Sunday night at 10 p.m. Details will be posted on www.norwichathletics.com as soon as the field is determined. You can also follow @NorwichCadets on twitter for the latest up to date news on Norwich’s NCAA Tournament selection hopes.
 
Re: Norwich hockey 2012-2013: Our thread closed before Owsego's

We already knew he was the real deal. The kid has played well against Norwich for four years. This year he finally started getting the results. Lets remember that in four his first five career starts against Norwich he went to overtime.

There are some goalies who seem to just raise their level when they play Norwich. Torris is another one who gave us fits.
 
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