Down Memory Lane...

[scottcomstock]

What is the most memorable Knights game you have ever seen?

In my case, it's the Clarkson-RPI game of 22 November 1997 in which the Knights won 11-0. That was, for me, the loudest and most celebrated game I'd ever attended, either in person or within the confines of WCKN's control room. I have a tape of that game, and it was loud enough that the audio guys had some problems keeping the sound levels from blowing up the mixer boards...

I remember also that Rick O'Donnell's old Roundtable was really hoppin' that night. How about you ?

[Clarkson_Bandie]

I would have to say the best Clarkson Hockey game I ever saw (in my short time here), was the 2-0 blanking the Golden Knight's gave Cornell on Saturday Knight, February 24, 2001. It was sweet payback for the 2-1 loss we suffered on the Cornell/Colgate roadtrip, it snapped like a 5-6 game losing streak to the Big Red and humiliated Cornell's Pepband, who happened to be in attendance. Plus, Stoch had the red and blue twirly lights! It rocked!

[Stripes55]

Hmmm...well, there were actually 3 that I would call the "most memorable", and I can't really narrow it down beyond that, so here we go:

1. 1987 Syracuse Invitational Championship. Clarkson, which had trailed Colgate 6-4 late in the third, rallied to tie it at 6, and then FINALLY Mike Morrison scored the winning goal on an assist from Shawn LaVoy in the 4th OT. One of the longest and most exciting games I've ever seen.

2. 1991 NCAA First Round game against Wisconsin. The last ever game played at Walker Arena. Clarkson was down 4-2 to the defending national champions in the second. Guy Sanderson scored late in the second to cut the deficit to 1, then Mark Green scored twice in the third to give the Knights the 5-4 victory in the game and a 2-0 victory in the series.

3. 1991 ECAC Championship @ Boston Garden. Hugo Belanger completed his hat trick early in the third, and Clarkson held on to defeat SLU 5-4, giving the Knights their first ECAC Title in 25 years.

Ah...such great memories...

[Pete]

Just a few season's ago Clarkson 5- SLU(t)-4. The loudest game ever in Cheel as well as the largest crowd. After trailing 3-0 Clarkson roars back with 5 staright goals and you couldn't hear yourself cheering it was so loud. Not even a late SLU(t) goal could take away from the noise. I tried to get a tape of that game, but could never find one. That is the kind of memory I live for.

[Stemmer]

This is an EASY one for me:

Feb 2, 1971...my freshman year. Clarkson 2, Cornell 1 in OT. Alf Maki scored with 11 (?) sec left in OT to gain a small measure of revenge for Tech's losses the previous year to the Big Red in the finals of the ECAC AND tthe NCAAs in Lk Placid in the Red's remarkable perfect 29-0 season.

Clarkson's 2 time AA Bruce Bullock, all 5' 7" of him, outdueled Cornell's Brian Cropper who was 5' 6" in a battle of the East's 2 best goalies. I still have the wellworn program from this game. Old Clarkson Arena started to fill at 4 PM for this long awaited tilt and the fans were not disappointed. This still ranks as my favorite hockey game I have ever seen at any level. The place was rockin' from the time warmups started and the scene at the end was pure bedlam! I'd pay a lot for a tape of this one!

[Dan]

I would have to go with the 11-0 thumping clarkson performed in 1997 over RPI. Hilarity ensued. That along with the 1999 ECAC championship game where the Knights beat SLU in Lake Placid.

[Spaceman]

Pete (06-09-2001 19:28):
Just a few season's ago Clarkson 5- SLU(t)-4. The loudest game ever in Cheel as well as the largest crowd. After trailing 3-0 Clarkson roars back with 5 staright goals and you couldn't hear yourself cheering it was so loud. Not even a late SLU(t) goal could take away from the noise. I tried to get a tape of that game, but could never find one. That is the kind of memory I live for.

Pete, I had taped that game. After the game I took it from my VCR and through it in the trash.

[Pete]

Spaceman (06-26-2001 14:21):
Pete, I had taped that game. After the game I took it from my VCR and through it in the trash.

Too bad, I probably would have bought it from you. Of course, positions reversed I would have done the same thing:)

[Bill]

[quote]Scott F. Comstock (06-08-2001 10:02):
What is the most memorable Knights game you have ever seen?

1962 NCAA Semis -- CCT vs Michigan and Red Berenson in the Utica War Memorial.... we were up by 3 goals going to the third -- Berenson skated through our whole team twice and scored BUT we won by one (5-4 as I remember). Great game and Berenson never forgot it either -- he referred to it in Cincinnati in 1996 at the post tournament press conference -- sour grapes. Unfortunately, we lost the final to a good Michigam Tech team led by Lou Angotti.One of our three second place finishes!!#$$#@!%^#*

[joecct]

I have two, one good and one bad -- but both were in the same building..

The good -- the 1991 ECAC Final. We finally won 2 games at the Boston Garden and captured our first ECAC title since 1966. I still have that game on tape somewhere.

The bad -- the 1977 ECAC semifinal vs. BU. Much has been said about that game on various boards. I was sick (figuratively) afterwards. Pete B. was sick afterwards (literally). :)

[Bill]

Scott F. Comstock (06-08-2001 10:02):
What is the most memorable Knights game you have ever seen?


Joining the discussion a little late, and not that this audience would particularly care to hear a die-hard Cornell fan's opinion on Clarkson's most memorable games, but...

Anybody remember the '89 ECAC quarters at Walker? After the Big Red finally dented evil genius John Fletcher for four goals in game 1 (winning 5-3 on an empty-netter), the two teams played the most nerve-wracking hockey game I've ever seen the next night. Backup Jason Poirier (sp?) and Cornell's Corrie D'Alessio were amazing in net as the two squads were held scoreless despite some outstanding chances at both ends.

Back then, there was no OT in the quarters, so a regulation tie would send the Big Red to the semis. So, with about 35 seconds left, Coach Morris used his timeout, ostensibly to get Poirier off for the extra skater. Ah, but the Clarkson coach had an ace up his sleeve, calling for a measurement on Big Red defenseman Dan Ratushny's stick. Which -- bloody hell! -- was illegal. So there were the Knights, skating 6-on-4, looking to score the game's only goal and send the series to one of those god-awful 10-minute mini-games (in which, by the way, Clarkson had dumped Cornell at Lynah in the QF's the year before). But it was not to be... after what seemed an eternity of finger- (not just fingernail-) biting, the Big Red preserved the scoreless tie and advanced.

Though I was happy, and more than a little relieved, with the result, I couldn't help feeling a little bad for Poirier, who had relieved Fletcher to start the third period of game 1 and had posted nearly four periods of shutout hockey, only to see his team's playoff run end.

Bill Fenwick
Cornell '86 and '95
LET'S GO RED!!

[jess]

See reply No. 5. above for my number one memory, Clarkson 2-1 over Cornell in Feb. 1971. Unbelievable electricity before, during and after the game. There was a lot of pregame hype, with Cornell's first visit (and first game?) with Clarkson after their 69-70 undefeated season beating Tech in the ECAC and NCAA Championship games, both of which I attended.

I was in Ithaca last weekend for the first time since my favorite memory game #2, again versus Cornell at Lynah Rink in Feb. 1972. Clarkson didn't have one of its best teams that year, but they knocked off Cornell 4-2, ending their 62 (?) game home winning streak. The looks of disbelief on the faces of the Cornell fans, many of whom had never seen their team lose at home, was something I've never forgotten.

[joecct]

Stemmer (06-10-2001 21:38):
Clarkson's 2 time AA Bruce Bullock, all 5' 7" of him, outdueled Cornell's Brian Cropper who was 5' 6" in a battle of the East's 2 best goalies.

Stemmer -- I recall in the lobby of Old Main two pucks, one looked hudge and the other looked like a BB. I think they were sent to Clarkson by Cornell saying that puck A was the puck that Cornell fired on Bulldog and the puck B (bb?) was the one we fired on Cropper.

Is that thing-a-ma-jig still around??