The "Identify that Hockey Highlight" Challenge

[dave1381]

Here's the challenge:

Watch the CSTV women's sports ad "Sugar and Spice" which includes several women's hockey highlights, linked here ( http://www.collegesports.com/sales/cstv-promos.html - just click the "watch" links to the right of it) The object here is for each highlight, to identify all of the players shown and the game it's from. Enjoy.

[dayglo]

Love that ad! unfortunately can't open it so will have to watch for it again on TV. Will you be posting the answers at some point?

[dave1381]

not if no one plays :p

All the highlights, I believe, are from the 2003 Frozen Four, I'll give you that much. Some of the IDs are easy since numbers are visible, some are not so easy.

[Angus]

That's definately Nora Tallus getting knocked into the glass at one point...definately not her finest moment from the 2003 Frozen Four.

(...popping videotape of the second OT period of the UMD-Harvard championship game into the VCR to see Tallus's finest moment from the 2003 Frozen Four...)

[dave1381]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but is the highlight with the "body checking" label actually bodychecking by the rulebook definition, because it looked to me like they're both going for the loose puck. End nitpick. ;)

[greenmtngirl]

Okay, I'll take a stab at the first (most obvious) details--then the rest of you all can fill in the hard stuff! :)

I count 5 hockey highlights in the ad. Here's what I can say about them (assuming they're all from the 2003 Frozen Four--that was a huge hint!):

1. #9 Ronda Curtin from the Gophers. Hard to tell which game since she's the only one in the shot, but she's in the Gophers' away uniform for what that's worth. Maybe from the semi against Harvard?

2. Harvard's #23 Lauren McAuliffe wiping out surrounded by several UMD players. It must be from the final.

3. Harvard's #2 Pamela van Reesma and the Gophers' #20 Natalie Darwitz colliding in search of the puck. Must be from the semi.

4. UMD's #18 (not that you can see the number) Nora Tallus slamming into the glass. Someone from Dartmouth is doing the slamming, but I can't see the number. Must be from the other semi.

5. I'm pretty sure this is Dartmouth again, but I can't tell who their opponent is. I see #2 for Dartmouth (Alex Zagaria). It's Dartmouth's goalie too, which would make it probably #31 Amy Ferguson since she played most of their games that year.

ADDENDUM: On second glance, looks like Dartmouth vs. Duluth in that last frame, meaning (if I'm right) that none of the highlights are from the consolation Dartmouth-Minnesota game.

Do I win a prize?