DeNiro Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 McNally and the Crimson win the ECAC championship. McNally ends the night with 1G and 2A's. He was the second player to be handed the trophy after the Harvard goalie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoneypuckOverlord Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 McNally and the Crimson win the ECAC championship. McNally ends the night with 1G and 2A's. He was the second player to be handed the trophy after the Harvard goalie. Is he playing on crutches ? Incredible. In terms of end to end elite skating dmans, he's the only 1 we have in the system. Be nice to sign him and see what he can do. He has shown progress the past 4 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 With the win they now move on to the ncaa championship tourney. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Lol, I actually think it's August 15 if memory serves, but I didn't know it extended beyond the fourth year. Thanks avelanch. Hah, I knew it had a 1 in it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 McNally has 2 goals and 3 assists in 5 games since coming back early from his knee injury to help Harvard make the NCAA tournament Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rollieo Del Fuego Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 for a powerplay? absolutely. for a regular ES shift? i'd rather have them paired up with a couple stay at home guys. I haven't seen enough of either of them to say really, Hutton I know needs work on his defensive coverage, they both should get caught up the ice on occassion...but If they always have the puck and one is always covering for the other, they have the speed to get back. I'm thinking they may eventually have less brain farts than Edler or Bieksa who truly do make a bad pairing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Hutton is actually pretty decent in his own end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rollieo Del Fuego Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Seems to me it might just work as a one-two punch...a few quick passes back and forth in the D zone and then one of them skates the puck to the pinch and beats it with the feet or the pass at the O. blue line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 having 2 offensive minded d-men on the same pairing always seems like a good idea but it NEVER works out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 0:16 - McNally 1st Assist 0:35 - McNally 2nd Assist (his pass to his d- partner was before the clip started, Vesey had an amazing goal, but with an unbelievable amount of time to operate) 0:51 - McNally Goal He was on for every goal harvard scored, and only on for 1 against. LAKE PLACID, N.Y. – For the ninth time in program history, the Harvard men's hockey team raised the Whitelaw Cup as the ECAC Hockey tournament champion after defeating Colgate, 4-2, in the title game Saturday at the 1980 Rink in Herb Brooks Arena. The win earns No. 17/15 Harvard the ECAC's automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament. The NCAA will announce seedings and destinations for the regional round on ESPNU at 12 p.m. Sunday, March 22. With nine titles, Harvard has the second most in ECAC Hockey history, trailing only Cornell's 12. The championship is the first since 2006 for the Crimson and with the automatic bid in hand, Harvard will be making its 22nd appearance in the NCAA Tournament next weekend. In 11 seasons as head coach of the Crimson, Ted Donato has led Harvard to five tournament championship games and two victories. Following the tournament, ECAC Hockey announced that junior forward Jimmy Vesey was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Joining him on the all-tournament team was defenseman Patrick McNally and goaltender Steve Michalek. With two goals in the game, Jimmy Vesey improved his season total to 31. He is the first player to score at least 30 goals in single season since Mike Vukonich '91 (32) in 1990-91 and joins Tim Smith '86 (1984-85) and Lane MacDonald '89 (1988-89) at 10th in the Crimson record books. Vesey also set a new ECAC Hockey tournament record with nine goals this post-season, eclipsing Doug Marrett's (Cornell) eight set in 1973. Steve Michalek made 30 saves against Colgate to become just the second Harvard goalie to record over 1,000 stops in a season. He'll enter the NCAA Tournament with 1,004, just 17 shy of the Harvard record. His 21 wins moves him into a tie for second most in a season with James Bailey '57, who went 21-5 in 1956-57. McNally finished the ECAC playoffs with five points on two goals and three assists, including a goal and two helpers Saturday. The opening minutes were a physical battle with the teams trading heavy hits to set the tone. After a back-and-forth struggle through the first 12 minutes, the Crimson notched the game's first goal at 12:22. Patrick McNally carried the puck into the offensive zone sending a shot that bounced off Colgate goaltender Charlie Finn. Kyle Criscuolo dug it out from in front of the net and popped it over to Vesey who had the entire right side of the net open to slam it home. Just under three minutes later, the Raiders scored the equalizer with Darcy Murphy potting his 11th of the season with Mike Burkowski and Joe Wilson earning the assists. The teams headed to the first intermission with the score even at 1-1, but before the final horn, Colgate was whistled for a two-minute minor, setting Harvard up for 1:56 of power play time in the second. That man-advantage proved catamount for Harvard with Vesey pocketing his second of the night at 1:29 of the second period. Collecting the puck to the left of Finn, Vesey dangled it in front of the Raiders' netminder, deking him out to set up an easy forehand goal. Harvard's power play struck for the second time in as many opportunities at 8:16. This time it was Patrick McNally lining up a wrister from the slot that bypassed Finn and extended Harvard's lead to 3-1. Tyler Moy and Kyle Criscuolo were credited with the helpers on the play. In the third, Colgate closed the gap to one goal when John Lidgett scored at 12:17. Daniel Gentzler had the only assist on the goal. The Raiders continued to battle for the equalizer, but with the clock showing less than a minute to play and Finn pulled from the net, Colin Blackwell scored on the empty net to seal the title for the Crimson. Brackets announced tomorrow at 9 AM Pacific. for those of you with ESPNU you can watch it live on TV. I doubt it'll be shown in Canada... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaudette Celly Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 So on what basis does McNally get an "F" rating on HF? Their projection: After a checkered college career McNally's play this season has restored some of the luster to his profile as a prospect. The Canucks retain his rights until August 2015. If he is not signed he would become an unrestricted free agent. Long-term McNally projects as an effective puck moving defenseman who has sharp instincts and reads the play well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 well, it's HF, so the one fan guy that put the rating up just doesn't like him i guess. seriously, HF is the worst. I suppose him being drafted out of a relatively unknown prep league, being a year older than the other players in his grade, and his little academic mishap gave them a lack of confidence. plus the 2 years bookending the scandal he wasn't performing up to his first (and most recent) year, but that's understandable, considering the scandal was dangling over his head and fresh in his mind and whatnot. after this season i'd be surprised if they don't make an adjustment to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dasein Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 HF slept on the Baertschi trade so... (apparently he's not a prospect) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaudette Celly Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 He's played 66 NHL games, and their cut-off is 65. Would have made all our prospect positions look pretty stacked, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canucklehead44 Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 I wrote off McNally but now I am back on the bandwagon - amazing bounce back to his career that started off promising then completely de-railed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 checking out ESPNU's upcoming TV schedule, looks like they'll be covering 3 regional semifinals live on Friday, 1 tape delay EARLY and 3 live on saturday, 1 tape delay regional semifinal EARLY and 2 regional finals on sunday. so I should be able to see at least the first Harvard game (either live or on tape delay) and potentially the second (50% Chance, if they win their first game) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on the cycle Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Yeah HF is brutal. They make up bios about players describing them as a completely different player than they actually are. They often sit on their hands when it comes to adding prospects and ratings. They overrate and underrate all the time. They still say Horvat is an ideal 3rd line center but say he is also and below average first liner. Contradictory and inconsistent are two great adjectives for HF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dasein Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 He's played 66 NHL games, and their cut-off is 65. Would have made all our prospect positions look pretty stacked, though. Oh I see I didn't know that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Oh I see I didn't know that i still consider him a prospect until he plays a full season in the NHL or turns 26. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dasein Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 i still consider him a prospect until he plays a full season in the NHL or turns 26. I do too, but I was just saying that I didn't know that HF had that cut-off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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