By Currier Times Staff///
For the first time in history, the Curry Colonels Men’s Hockey team is advancing to the Frozen Four in the NCAA Division III tournament, after defeating the Hamilton College Continentals 4-1 at the Canton Ice House, on Saturday March 22nd. They are now just two games away from becoming the National Champions in Men’s NCAA Division III Hockey.
Curry will face Utica in the Semi-Finals, while defending champions Hobart will play SUNY Geneseo. Puck drop is this Friday, March 28th in Utica, NY. Hobart/Geneseo is at 3:00 p.m. and Curry/Utica is at 7:00 p.m. at Nexus Center.
More than a thousand fans crammed into a sold out, standing room only Ice House as the Colonels hosted their first-ever NCAA DIII tournament game at home. And the energized crowd got their money’s worth, while thousands of other viewers watched online through the NCAA.com portal which also streamed/televised the game.
In the first period, it looked like Hamilton had the upper hand, with more shots on goal, but the game remained scoreless as the period ended.
The Colonels roared to life in the second period when Taurin Haddon-Harris scored a goal at the 17:55 mark to put the Colonels on the board first. Around four minutes later at the 13:21 mark, Nolan McDonough scored giving the Colonels a 2-0 lead.
A scary moment came at the 4:26 mark in the second when Hamilton appeared to score a goal, but the referees declared otherwise. Shane Soderwall, the sophomore goalie who has become one of the best goalies in the nation, stayed flat on the ice motionless for a number of seconds. He was shaken up but never left the goal post, as the second period ended at 2-0.
In the third Hamilton came out hot when Luke Tchor scored at the 18:50 mark, making Curry’s lead 2-1. But at the 7:04 mark Taurin Haddon-Harris scored his second goal of the game for the Colonels making the score 3-1.
Grady Friedman added an empty net goal to seal the deal for the Colonels at the 3:15 mark to make it 4-1.
This was Curry’s first game against Hamilton in 13 years, the last time being a regular season game in 2012 which Hamilton won 2-0.
The Frozen Four was scheduled to be played in the West, but with the final four teams all East teams, the new venue will be in Utica, New York, likely at Utica University’s Nexus Center, even though Curry is the #1 seed. The Utica Aud, a larger city venue, currently has a scheduled event on Friday when the Frozen Four begins. Curry will play Utica, while Hobart will play SUNY Geneseo.
According to Athletic Director Vinnie Eruzione, the Canton Ice House is not big enough to host the games, and games cannot be played at a neutral site, ruling out other larger venues within driving distance of Curry College.
The Frozen Four, as mentioned above, will have semi-final games on Friday March 28th and the National Championship game will be held March 30th at 7:00 p.m.
For more, here is a link to the post-game News Conference.
Stay with The Currier Times as the Colonels continue their quest for a National Championship.
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wash. I watched ONLINE in Florida and it was great.
Congratulations to the Colonels! But, if the game was shown online, it was not “televised.” In order to be “televised,” something must be on television, and a computer program is not television. This is all part of a sinister and cynical scheme by “disrupters” to destroy something they call “linear television,” a phrase that has no meaning, as “linear television” is just television. It is all part of a cynical scheme in which computer programs cheat to try to win an Emmy they do not deserve. (I might as well say that a painting of mine, never shown on television, should win an Emmy.) It is probably too late to stop this nonsense now, but, as a matter of principle, someone should stand up for television against those who are trying to destroy it whilst claiming to enrich it and make it better than ever before.
It was available on television as streaming apps like Roku and others allowed for viewers to watch on any TV. We watched on a large screen TV ourselves.
Your answer exactly proves my point. Once you get into “apps,” that is something a computer (or smartphone) has, not a television. And if it allows viewers to watch “on any TV” (and I am most certain that a “streaming app” would not allow viewers to watch on my parents’ 1984 television set), it ceases to be television; what you are doing is using the television screen as a computer monitor, and what you see on it is no more television than what I am typing now, here, on my laptop, is “television.” There has been a wholesale effort, seemingly coming from nowhere, to “disrupt,” to destroy, actual television, to confuse people about what it is by inventing nonsensical phrases such as “linear television.” (All true television is, by definition, “linear.”) And no one will, it almost seems as if no one is allowed to, anymore, defend and insist on the true definition of the medium and its beauties, because it has been destroyed, removed and practically replaced by an ersatz simulation that is in many ways lacking the beauty, some of which, perhaps, lives in its limitations, of the medium. But I will stand up for television, and I will criticize, even if it is unpopular, the streaming programs (really computer programs) which have cheated in order to win Emmys.
Chevalier Daniel C. Boyer
I watched online from florida and I’m okay with that. Great game.