Cornell 3 Quinnipiac 2 (ot)

Revenge!

Most GA, Schafer:

0 - at Colorado College ... 11  1995-12-27  
0 - at Yale ............... 11  1998-02-08
0 - at Quinnipiac ......... 10  2013-03-16  ECAC QF Game 2
0 - vs Ohio State .........  8  2015-12-29   
1 - at St. Lawrence .......  8  2009-01-30  
4 - at Quinnipiac .........  8  2023-11-17

Suda out, Mosko moves up, Donaldson the extra skater. 4 of 6 D-men are freshmen.

Wow, is this pace fast.

Section A almost completely empty. Will BigDingus try to claim it was full?

We scored, but I didn't actually see the goal....

Bancroft

BearLover
Section A almost completely empty. Will BigDingus try to claim it was full?

Big Dingus is section A didn’t u know?

dag14
We scored, but I didn't actually see the goal....

I finally cracked the code. I just have to leave the room to pee.

I mean, I'm not sure I have to leave the room...

Updating after the Clarkson loss, winning percentage of derp points in conference:

 1. .848 Qpc
 2. .667 Clk
 3. .556 Cgt
    .556 Cor
 5. .545 Uni
 6. .487 Brn
 7. .481 SLU
 8. .417 Yal
 9. .394 Hvd
10. .389 Prn
11. .364 RPI
12. .333 Drt

This probably correlates strongly with how much we hate Q but... Pecknold coaches them to play with confidence and purpose. Their positioning in the defensive zone is clean, they are aggressive on the forecheck and they don't idly knock the puck back and forth when they have possession. We're holding our own but something about what I'm watching got my typing fingers going.

Thank god Fegaras let that one go (and good on Psenicka for calling for it and getting the tip). I was getting mad as hell about two more minutes of the umbrella bullshit on the PP.

The umbrella PP needs to go. Occasionally it works such as on the 2nd goal, but no movement below the faceoff dots makes it too easy for PKers

Shoutout to Hank Suarez... nvm

Iceberg
The umbrella PP needs to go. Occasionally it works such as on the 2nd goal, but no movement below the faceoff dots makes it too easy for PKers

I don’t think it “worked” on the 2nd goal. The second goal was a shot from the point that was deflected and didn’t have anything to do with the fact the D passed it around at the point repeatedly. The Cornell PP sucks. If the D isn’t giving you anything down low and is blocking the passing lanes, shoot it on net for a deflection or rebound. That’s how the 2nd goal was scored. Not from endless passing at the blue line.

BearLover

Iceberg
The umbrella PP needs to go. Occasionally it works such as on the 2nd goal, but no movement below the faceoff dots makes it too easy for PKers

I don’t think it “worked” on the 2nd goal. The second goal was a shot from the point that was deflected and didn’t have anything to do with the fact the D passed it around at the point repeatedly. The Cornell PP sucks. If the D isn’t giving you anything down low and is blocking the passing lanes, shoot it on net for a deflection or rebound. That’s how the 2nd goal was scored. Not from endless passing at the blue line.

I think he's saying the same thing. Ondrej made the play by stepping in front of the defender bodying him and calling for the puck. Possible that he gets benched by Schafer for moving his skates on the interior.

We have been playing well since our last kill.

Seger has recovered tonight in FO, 18-8.

We need to deaden the opponent's bench for stick banging, it's irritating.

Oh, Walshie.

Trotsky
We need to deaden the opponent's bench for stick banging, it's irritating.

Right? Like, stop that. Please.

Wooooo!

Wooo.

Woooooo

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Q drops from 5 to 8. We go from 16 to ……. 16. Discuss.

arugula
Q drops from 5 to 8. We go from 16 to ……. 16. Discuss.

Yeah, our spot in the Pairwise is brutal. As I mentioned yesterday in another thread, there was a big gap between Cornell and the top 15 heading into the weekend, and the top 15 is almost all national powers who have managed to keep winning over the past few weeks. The gap is now smaller, but it’s still enough that Cornell is in a very precarious position.

Cornell is playing pretty well, let’s hope they can keep it going and stack up wins. I remain worried about Harvard next week.

Awful second, great third. Overall I thought Cornell played alright against one of the best teams in the country. Our PP continues to be the weak link. It improved a bit as the game went on, but still way too little of getting pucks to the net.

Now I think we need to pretty much win out to lock up a spot. Against the remaining schedule it’s possible but hard to expect us to not slip up once or twice.

BearLover

arugula
Q drops from 5 to 8. We go from 16 to ……. 16. Discuss.

Yeah, our spot in the Pairwise is brutal. As I mentioned yesterday in another thread, there was a big gap between Cornell and the top 15 heading into the weekend, and the top 15 is almost all national powers who have managed to keep winning over the past few weeks. The gap is now smaller, but it’s still enough that Cornell is in a very precarious position.

Cornell is playing pretty well, let’s hope they can keep it going and stack up wins. I remain worried about Harvard next week.

An RPI of .54 is usually the cutoff to get in. We're just over .55. I'm not sure if it's usual for the top 16 to be higher earlier in the year. But I'm choosing to believe that this is a good sign. 10-4-3 with some big wins is very good.

Beautiful rip from Bancroft, what a win.

Dafatone

BearLover

arugula
Q drops from 5 to 8. We go from 16 to ……. 16. Discuss.

Yeah, our spot in the Pairwise is brutal. As I mentioned yesterday in another thread, there was a big gap between Cornell and the top 15 heading into the weekend, and the top 15 is almost all national powers who have managed to keep winning over the past few weeks. The gap is now smaller, but it’s still enough that Cornell is in a very precarious position.

Cornell is playing pretty well, let’s hope they can keep it going and stack up wins. I remain worried about Harvard next week.

An RPI of .54 is usually the cutoff to get in. We're just over .55. I'm not sure if it's usual for the top 16 to be higher earlier in the year. But I'm choosing to believe that this is a good sign. 10-4-3 with some big wins is very good.

I guess we need to hope the teams in the top 15 play each other and knock each other out. Aside from Quinnipiac, they’re literally all Hockey East, NCHC, or Big 10 teams.

St. Thomas is leading the CCHA? Huh.

I hope to hear the dull thud of that Bancroft goal over and over in my dreams tonight The guys were so pumped to win that one. It was great to see the synchronized bouncing in the celebration and also the way they raced up the tunnel after the salute. That was such a weird game. Under ten shots on goal into the third. A short handed goal against. A penalty shot goal. So many stops and starts with very little sustained play. The Big Red finally wore them down around the midway point of the third. Penney and Devlin both had some crushing hits. There hadn’t been much physicality early on so it was nice to get that part of their game going in time to turn the tide. That opened up the ice for them to find their offensive game. I’m going to believe all this upcoming week that tonight was the emotional turning point of this season.

VIEWfromK
Big Red finally wore them down around the midway point of the third. Penney and Devlin both had some crushing hits. There hadn’t been much physicality early on so it was nice to get that part of their game going in time to turn the tide. That opened up the ice for them to find their offensive game.

I was wondering if Schafer emphasized the hitting during the second intermission, because it was very noticeable given how little physicality there was in the first two periods. The big hits definitely seemed to help turn the tide, especially after going into survival mode for most of the second period.

VIEWfromK
I hope to hear the dull thud of that Bancroft goal over and over in my dreams tonight The guys were so pumped to win that one. It was great to see the synchronized bouncing in the celebration and also the way they raced up the tunnel after the salute. That was such a weird game. Under ten shots on goal into the third. A short handed goal against. A penalty shot goal. So many stops and starts with very little sustained play. The Big Red finally wore them down around the midway point of the third. Penney and Devlin both had some crushing hits. There hadn’t been much physicality early on so it was nice to get that part of their game going in time to turn the tide. That opened up the ice for them to find their offensive game. I’m going to believe all this upcoming week that tonight was the emotional turning point of this season.

My impression was that there we had a couple SOG in the first period that somehow didn't get counted. And at least one Q shot in the third that went wide that Shane gloved anyway that was counted.

BearLover
Our PP continues to be the weak link. It improved a bit as the game went on, but still way too little of getting pucks to the net.

the pp that got cut short by the Fegaras interference penalty was a blitzkrieg. more of that, please.

Great extended post game press conference with comments from Dalton Bancroft.

lol at the haters on the student section. Feels like at this point you guys enjoy when it’s empty

Mainly BearLover of course

Trotsky
St. Thomas is leading the CCHA? Huh.

2 leagues who wont likely get a top 16 team so need to find a way to get into the top 14.

even winning last night in Reg would have moved us to 15.

Root for BU/BC/Maine to play well down the stretch and Mass/Prov/UNH to stumble a bit more.

Umass has 5 games vs those top 3
UNH has 6
Prov has 5

lose all of them and then stumble a bit to lower teams would be nice.

ugarte
the pp that got cut short by the Fegaras interference penalty was a blitzkrieg. more of that, please.

That was one of the scummiest attempts to draw a penalty I've seen. The Q player clearly backed into him and them embellished so well that he could've gotten an Oscar nomination. Thankfully it didn't result in anything

Big Dingus
lol at the haters on the student section. Feels like at this point you guys enjoy when it’s empty

Mainly BearLover of course

It is what it is. I think the point is that people are going to push back when you come on here and declare how full it is but the broadcast shows huge empty sections.

We'd all love to see a full student section night in and night out. But that's not the present reality.

weather probably kept few people home last night, but student effort has been poorish for several years now..

upprdeck
weather probably kept few people home last night, but student effort has been poorish for several years now..

There have been some games this year where the student crowd sounded louder on the feed than I've heard them since 2019-20 or so, for what that's worth.

Aren’t students returning this weekend? If yes, I’d wait for the next home weekend to evaluate the student section.

Chris '03

Big Dingus
lol at the haters on the student section. Feels like at this point you guys enjoy when it’s empty

Mainly BearLover of course

It is what it is. I think the point is that people are going to push back when you come on here and declare how full it is but the broadcast shows huge empty sections.

We'd all love to see a full student section night in and night out. But that's not the present reality.

Some of this might be shenanigans but some can be attributed to perspective / site lines . I have been at games (not Cornell) and looked across the rink at a section and said “wow that section is half empty, I am going to cheat into that section for a better view than the seat I paid for.” But then when I actually get there in the thick of it, it seems there are WAY fewer seats than I saw, and it’s awkward, and I panic, and go back to my original crummy seat with my tail between my legs. Maybe it’s just me?

Iceberg

ugarte
the pp that got cut short by the Fegaras interference penalty was a blitzkrieg. more of that, please.

That was one of the scummiest attempts to draw a penalty I've seen. The Q player clearly backed into him and them embellished so well that he could've gotten an Oscar nomination. Thankfully it didn't result in anything

And came off the ice openly laughing about it!

JasonN95
Aren’t students returning this weekend? If yes, I’d wait for the next home weekend to evaluate the student section.

In our day we’d be sure to come back Friday when break ended to attend both of the weekend games. It was a sacrifice of course to spend the weekend at school with no schoolwork to worry about, but that was before Cornell apparently became a place where fun came to die.

I thought it was appropriate that Mack got credit for an assist on the game winner. He drove the offense on some of their finer scoring chances later in the game. How often though do you assist on a goal of a player who replaces you on a line change? Mack handed it off to Robertson as they exited the zone and went for the change. Bancroft comes on and meets Robertson as he comes around the net. Eleven seconds after Mack gave up possession of the puck the game is over. I’m sure it happens more often with this OT format as guys bring the puck back out and reset but I hadn’t considered it before.

scoop85

JasonN95
Aren’t students returning this weekend? If yes, I’d wait for the next home weekend to evaluate the student section.

In our day we’d be sure to come back Friday when break ended to attend both of the weekend games. It was a sacrifice of course to spend the weekend at school with no schoolwork to worry about, but that was before Cornell apparently became a place where fun came to die.

Exactly this! Some of the most memorable--or is it least memorable--parties I attended occurred on the Fridays and Saturdays (and often Sundays) right at the end of Winter Break. The band always came back to campus in style.

Last nite’s game was sold out. No tickets were available yesterday for the game. Re our frosh, they have been outstanding. They account for about 40% of our goals & assists this year. If Robertson gets drafted this year, that would make 6 of the frosh class.

CU2007

Chris '03

Big Dingus
lol at the haters on the student section. Feels like at this point you guys enjoy when it’s empty

Mainly BearLover of course

It is what it is. I think the point is that people are going to push back when you come on here and declare how full it is but the broadcast shows huge empty sections.

We'd all love to see a full student section night in and night out. But that's not the present reality.

Some of this might be shenanigans but some can be attributed to perspective / site lines . I have been at games (not Cornell) and looked across the rink at a section and said “wow that section is half empty, I am going to cheat into that section for a better view than the seat I paid for.” But then when I actually get there in the thick of it, it seems there are WAY fewer seats than I saw, and it’s awkward, and I panic, and go back to my original crummy seat with my tail between my legs. Maybe it’s just me?

Or lots of other people who had the same idea?

Big Dingus
lol at the haters on the student section. Feels like at this point you guys enjoy when it’s empty

Mainly BearLover of course

nobody is blaming you and the students there because you guys are the ones who actually show up. It’s just understandably disappointing to see less interest in something that we all care so much about.

CAS
Last nite’s game was sold out. No tickets were available yesterday for the game. Re our frosh, they have been outstanding. They account for about 40% of our goals & assists this year. If Robertson gets drafted this year, that would make 6 of the frosh class.

Yeah it was sold out.. aboout 10 min into the first period though Section O had a huge section of empty seats.

So people came late or spread out

Iceberg

ugarte
the pp that got cut short by the Fegaras interference penalty was a blitzkrieg. more of that, please.

That was one of the scummiest attempts to draw a penalty I've seen. The Q player clearly backed into him and them embellished so well that he could've gotten an Oscar nomination. Thankfully it didn't result in anything

I thought it was hilarious. He literally looked at him, backed into him, then threw himself on the ice sprawling.

Scersk '97

scoop85

JasonN95
Aren’t students returning this weekend? If yes, I’d wait for the next home weekend to evaluate the student section.

In our day we’d be sure to come back Friday when break ended to attend both of the weekend games. It was a sacrifice of course to spend the weekend at school with no schoolwork to worry about, but that was before Cornell apparently became a place where fun came to die.

Exactly this! Some of the most memorable--or is it least memorable--parties I attended occurred on the Fridays and Saturdays (and often Sundays) right at the end of Winter Break. The band always came back to campus in style.

In the late 80s, early 90s the ECAC schedule was pretty much fixed year to year. The first conference weekend in January was typically UVM-RPI, and we'd get extremely engaged crowds of the students who came back early both for hockey and, um. They were not numerous but if anything they were louder and more exuberant than normal -- what I imagine 60s and early 70s crowds to have been like. They tended to be a different type of crowd because the Facetimers were still back in NYC and Five Towns. There was also no band, and it was Fucking Cold, so the fans needed to create their own energy, and did.

That was a fun few years, about which I am hazy on details.

Also students just show up late. That definitely needs to be worked on but it fills up much more than at the start of the 1st

Big Dingus
Also students just show up late. That definitely needs to be worked on but it fills up much more than at the start of the 1st

Been true for 20 years. The solution (GA) is not practical though by god you'd see a real crowd then. Darwin works wonders.

As a student in the 60-70's, I didn't know enough to get season tickets. As a townie with season tickets [stood in line for a long time], starting in 1976, we arrived an hour early to watch warmups. And to get the best spots on the rail because standing room in old Lynah was way better than seats in Section N!

Scersk '97

scoop85

JasonN95
Aren’t students returning this weekend? If yes, I’d wait for the next home weekend to evaluate the student section.

In our day we’d be sure to come back Friday when break ended to attend both of the weekend games. It was a sacrifice of course to spend the weekend at school with no schoolwork to worry about, but that was before Cornell apparently became a place where fun came to die.

Exactly this! Some of the most memorable--or is it least memorable--parties I attended occurred on the Fridays and Saturdays (and often Sundays) right at the end of Winter Break. The band always came back to campus in style.

Given the preceding week is rush week, it's a good week to be back; even if you're not Greek, there are enough events here and there to keep one busy in between the games.

The students don’t come back now because they are all in Europe skiing. Welcome to the new Ivy League

Big Dingus
The students don’t come back now because they are all in Europe skiing. Welcome to the new Ivy League

Sounds similar to the old Ivy League.

scoop85
In our day we’d be sure to come back Friday when break ended to attend both of the weekend games. It was a sacrifice of course to spend the weekend at school with no schoolwork to worry about, but that was before Cornell apparently became a place where fun came to die.

And we spent the night at Barton Hall to buy session tickets the next morning. In the years before they opened Barton, we began lining up outside Teagle at five a.m. in the bitter cold. Just a bunch of pampered, over-privileged wusses today, too busy sipping craft cocktails in Collegetown.

Classes start tomorrow so I think this is a case of a lot of students just waiting until the last minute to return to campus. For all the folks like me who tried to get back from the break earlier, there were a great many who didn't and I'm sure that's still the case.


As far as rush week goes, it has changed a lot in the past one to two decades as Greek Life has been tagged with more restrictions. Up until a certain point in the Skorton years, rush week was a full week before classes, and so the campus would be very quiet and devoid of undergrads aside from the students who were participating in Greek Life events either as hosts or guests. For anyone who wasn't involved in Greek Life, there really wasn't anything to do. Usually, there would be hockey games on a weekend around that time but they definitely wouldn't be at full strength attendance or atmosphere.

I don’t think this is because of different generations, it can be traced back pretty clearly to the pandemic. Crowds in the 19-20 season were great and having a year off and then limited capacity is likely what did it.

upprdeck

Trotsky
St. Thomas is leading the CCHA? Huh.

2 leagues who wont likely get a top 16 team so need to find a way to get into the top 14.

even winning last night in Reg would have moved us to 15.

Root for BU/BC/Maine to play well down the stretch and Mass/Prov/UNH to stumble a bit more.

Umass has 5 games vs those top 3
UNH has 6
Prov has 5

lose all of them and then stumble a bit to lower teams would be nice.

UNH lost to UConn today, so we’re up to 15 now.

BearLover

upprdeck

Trotsky
St. Thomas is leading the CCHA? Huh.

2 leagues who wont likely get a top 16 team so need to find a way to get into the top 14.

even winning last night in Reg would have moved us to 15.

Root for BU/BC/Maine to play well down the stretch and Mass/Prov/UNH to stumble a bit more.

Umass has 5 games vs those top 3
UNH has 6
Prov has 5

lose all of them and then stumble a bit to lower teams would be nice.

UNH lost to UConn today, so we’re up to 15 now.

Looks like uconn and unh played a women's men's doubleheader. Wish there was more (any?) of that in the ecac.

we need another good weekend and get some help from the teams 3-4 spots ahead of us.

our margin is gonna be small.

upprdeck
we need another good weekend and get some help from the teams 3-4 spots ahead of us.

our margin is gonna be small.

We need seven more good weekends. But so what?

Some philosophy. This Winter is a lesson that the NC$$s can't be the overdetermining goal. Enjoy the games one at a time, and let PWR take care of itself. This is, in microcosm, the human problem of worrying about the future and never savoring the present.

We just beat Quinnipiac! Marinate in that. Enjoy the fruits of fandom.

Trotsky

upprdeck
we need another good weekend and get some help from the teams 3-4 spots ahead of us.

our margin is gonna be small.

We need seven more good weekends. But so what?

Some philosophy. This Winter is a lesson that the NC$$s can't be the overdetermining goal. Enjoy the games one at a time, and let PWR take care of itself. This is, in microcosm, the human problem of worrying about the future and never savoring the present.

We just beat Quinnipiac! Marinate in that. Enjoy the fruits of fandom.

Well said!

Trotsky

upprdeck
we need another good weekend and get some help from the teams 3-4 spots ahead of us.

our margin is gonna be small.

We need seven more good weekends. But so what?

Some philosophy. This Winter is a lesson that the NC$$s can't be the overdetermining goal. Enjoy the games one at a time, and let PWR take care of itself. This is, in microcosm, the human problem of worrying about the future and never savoring the present.

We just beat Quinnipiac! Marinate in that. Enjoy the fruits of fandom.

Not only beat them, but held them scoreless 6 on 6 and on the kill. With four freshmen d-men skating. And five freshmen forwards. Q was averaging 4+ per game, third (I think) in the country. Stop kvetching.

At some point we will have five freshmen on the ice at the same time. The last time I can remember that happening was around 1989 in Troy, and they scored on us in about 8 seconds.

Trotsky
At some point we will have five freshmen on the ice at the same time. The last time I can remember that happening was around 1991 in Troy, and they scored on us in about 8 seconds.

I think the coaches said at one pt vs Mass? we had 5 on and they had 4 5th yr guys on the ice.

upprdeck

Trotsky
At some point we will have five freshmen on the ice at the same time. The last time I can remember that happening was around 1991 in Troy, and they scored on us in about 8 seconds.

I think the coaches said at one pt vs Mass? we had 5 on and they had 4 5th yr guys on the ice.

LOL. Wow.

I'm not sure how we'd have 3 freshman forwards out there at once -- must have been on a change.

I'll need to do some fancy querying to figure out when the last time we had a 3-point all freshman goal.

Trotsky

upprdeck

Trotsky
At some point we will have five freshmen on the ice at the same time. The last time I can remember that happening was around 1991 in Troy, and they scored on us in about 8 seconds.

I think the coaches said at one pt vs Mass? we had 5 on and they had 4 5th yr guys on the ice.

LOL. Wow.

I'm not sure how we'd have 3 freshman forwards out there at once -- must have been on a change.

I'll need to do some fancy querying to figure out when the last time we had a 3-point all freshman goal.

I thought there was some point in the Q game where we had 5 freshmen out there.

Jeff Hopkins '82

Trotsky

upprdeck

Trotsky
At some point we will have five freshmen on the ice at the same time. The last time I can remember that happening was around 1991 in Troy, and they scored on us in about 8 seconds.

I think the coaches said at one pt vs Mass? we had 5 on and they had 4 5th yr guys on the ice.

LOL. Wow.

I'm not sure how we'd have 3 freshman forwards out there at once -- must have been on a change.

I'll need to do some fancy querying to figure out when the last time we had a 3-point all freshman goal.

I thought there was some point in the Q game where we had 5 freshmen out there.

I just realized the fourth line, at least in name, was all freshmen: Devlin, Catalano, Kraft. So any time they aligned with the Mosko-Fegaras pairings, we had 5 freshmen out there. I didn't notice but it must have happened, and fairly often, unless Schafer was explicitly avoiding it. Grady at least never mentioned it.

Trotsky

Jeff Hopkins '82

Trotsky

upprdeck

Trotsky
At some point we will have five freshmen on the ice at the same time. The last time I can remember that happening was around 1991 in Troy, and they scored on us in about 8 seconds.

I think the coaches said at one pt vs Mass? we had 5 on and they had 4 5th yr guys on the ice.

LOL. Wow.

I'm not sure how we'd have 3 freshman forwards out there at once -- must have been on a change.

I'll need to do some fancy querying to figure out when the last time we had a 3-point all freshman goal.

I thought there was some point in the Q game where we had 5 freshmen out there.

I just realized the fourth line, at least in name, was all freshmen: Devlin, Catalano, Kraft. So any time they aligned with the Mosko-Fegaras pairings, we had 5 freshmen out there. I didn't notice but it must have happened, and fairly often, unless Schafer was explicitly avoiding it. Grady at least never mentioned it.

Kraft is a sophomore.

Until this past weekend, when Mosko was inserted into the lineup, I believe each defensive pairing consisted of one freshman and one upperclassman. So outside of a jumbled or delayed line change, it would have been weird for five freshmen to be on the ice at the same time.

BearLover
Kraft is a sophomore.

Nope.

Trotsky

BearLover
Kraft is a sophomore.

Nope.

Oops. I confused him with DeSantis.

BearLover

Trotsky

BearLover
Kraft is a sophomore.

Nope.

Oops. I confused him with DeSantis.

don't worry nobody dropped out

Trotsky

Jeff Hopkins '82

Trotsky

upprdeck

Trotsky
At some point we will have five freshmen on the ice at the same time. The last time I can remember that happening was around 1991 in Troy, and they scored on us in about 8 seconds.

I think the coaches said at one pt vs Mass? we had 5 on and they had 4 5th yr guys on the ice.

LOL. Wow.

I'm not sure how we'd have 3 freshman forwards out there at once -- must have been on a change.

I'll need to do some fancy querying to figure out when the last time we had a 3-point all freshman goal.

I thought there was some point in the Q game where we had 5 freshmen out there.

I just realized the fourth line, at least in name, was all freshmen: Devlin, Catalano, Kraft. So any time they aligned with the Mosko-Fegaras pairings, we had 5 freshmen out there. I didn't notice but it must have happened, and fairly often, unless Schafer was explicitly avoiding it. Grady at least never mentioned it.

Grady wouldn’t have mentioned it. That would require paying attention. Jason perhaps. Not Grady.

On Quinnipiac’s SH goal, can someone explain why Rego played the guy with the puck rather than the open man (Z. Tupker)? Just a mistake? Tupker’s goal was way too easy.

BearLover
On Quinnipiac’s SH goal, can someone explain why Rego played the guy with the puck rather than the open man (Z. Tupker)? Just a mistake? Tupker’s goal was way too easy.

Can you explain why you would ask a question of us that you should ask of Rego?

I thought once we forced the puck down to such a low angle you let the goalie take him and play the pass.

arugula
Grady wouldn’t have mentioned it. That would require paying attention. Jason perhaps. Not Grady.

Grady is an excellent announcer. Your comment was bad and you should feel bad.

upprdeck
I thought once we forced the puck down to such a low angle you let the goalie take him and play the pass.

Yes.

I think Rego got caught trying to do too much. He tried to block the passing lane and close in on the skater with the puck, which is great if it works, but that's a big if.

The best defense is still just percentages and sometimes the baddies score.

marty

BearLover
On Quinnipiac’s SH goal, can someone explain why Rego played the guy with the puck rather than the open man (Z. Tupker)? Just a mistake? Tupker’s goal was way too easy.

Can you explain why you would ask a question of us that you should ask of Rego?

Because, as others in this thread have noted, defending 2-on-1s is fairly basic hockey strategy that even many of us laypeople are familiar with. As others said, the usual rule is to play the pass and let the goalie play the shot. Rego played the shooter, though, leaving Tupker wide open for an easy goal. As Dafatone noted, he didn’t do much to play the shooter either. I was wondering if somebody had an explanation, or if Rego just goofed.

Maybe they were just doing a solid for an old teammate?

Trotsky

arugula
Grady wouldn’t have mentioned it. That would require paying attention. Jason perhaps. Not Grady.

Grady is an excellent announcer. Your comment was bad and you should feel bad.

Unfortunately, Grady spends too many words on random tangents and not enough on the game itself. He needs to track the action better.

BearLover

Trotsky

arugula
Grady wouldn’t have mentioned it. That would require paying attention. Jason perhaps. Not Grady.

Grady is an excellent announcer. Your comment was bad and you should feel bad.

Unfortunately, Grady spends too many words on random tangents and not enough on the game itself. He needs to track the action better.

Exactly. Good pipes. Seems like a nice guy but too often ignores the game. I assume he would be different on radio.

BearLover

Trotsky

arugula
Grady wouldn’t have mentioned it. That would require paying attention. Jason perhaps. Not Grady.

Grady is an excellent announcer. Your comment was bad and you should feel bad.

Unfortunately, Grady spends too many words on random tangents and not enough on the game itself. He needs to track the action better.

I love him. I will grant someone needs to take him aside and explain nobody gives a shit about the Binghamton Rangers.

Trotsky
I love him. I will grant someone needs to take him aside and explain nobody gives a shit about the Binghamton Rangers.

Didn’t Colin Greening ‘10 occasionally play for the Binghamton Senators?

George64

Trotsky
I love him. I will grant someone needs to take him aside and explain nobody gives a shit about the Binghamton Rangers.

Didn’t Colin Greening ‘10 occasionally play for the Binghamton Senators?

2011 Calder Cup Champions

Trotsky

BearLover

Trotsky

arugula
Grady wouldn’t have mentioned it. That would require paying attention. Jason perhaps. Not Grady.

Grady is an excellent announcer. Your comment was bad and you should feel bad.

Unfortunately, Grady spends too many words on random tangents and not enough on the game itself. He needs to track the action better.

I love him. I will grant someone needs to take him aside and explain nobody gives a shit about the Binghamton Rangers.

I think he is capable of being a very good announcer, but at the moment, he simply doesn’t pay enough attention to the game or keep up with the action. The Binghamton Rangers stuff is the worst of all, but there are many other tangents he goes on during the game which have little or nothing to do with the actual hockey being played. There needs to be a rule that he can only bring up these topics during a play stoppage and he must commentate on the action while play is underway. It’s been pretty bad for several years now. I hope he can improve because he seems like a capable announcer and good guy.

BearLover

Trotsky

BearLover

Trotsky

arugula
Grady wouldn’t have mentioned it. That would require paying attention. Jason perhaps. Not Grady.

Grady is an excellent announcer. Your comment was bad and you should feel bad.

Unfortunately, Grady spends too many words on random tangents and not enough on the game itself. He needs to track the action better.

I love him. I will grant someone needs to take him aside and explain nobody gives a shit about the Binghamton Rangers.

I think he is capable of being a very good announcer, but at the moment, he simply doesn’t pay enough attention to the game or keep up with the action. The Binghamton Rangers stuff is the worst of all, but there are many other tangents he goes on during the game which have little or nothing to do with the actual hockey being played. There needs to be a rule that he can only bring up these topics during a play stoppage and he must commentate on the action while play is underway. It’s been pretty bad for several years now. I hope he can improve because he seems like a capable announcer and good guy.

He and Vannini have gotten a bit too chatty while the action is going on. He seems to stay better on task doing the women’s games. The young lady from IC who’s doing the color on the women’s games has been quite good for a newbie.

scoop85

BearLover

Trotsky

BearLover

Trotsky

arugula
Grady wouldn’t have mentioned it. That would require paying attention. Jason perhaps. Not Grady.

Grady is an excellent announcer. Your comment was bad and you should feel bad.

Unfortunately, Grady spends too many words on random tangents and not enough on the game itself. He needs to track the action better.

I love him. I will grant someone needs to take him aside and explain nobody gives a shit about the Binghamton Rangers.

I think he is capable of being a very good announcer, but at the moment, he simply doesn’t pay enough attention to the game or keep up with the action. The Binghamton Rangers stuff is the worst of all, but there are many other tangents he goes on during the game which have little or nothing to do with the actual hockey being played. There needs to be a rule that he can only bring up these topics during a play stoppage and he must commentate on the action while play is underway. It’s been pretty bad for several years now. I hope he can improve because he seems like a capable announcer and good guy.

He and Vannini have gotten a bit too chatty while the action is going on. He seems to stay better on task doing the women’s games. The young lady from IC who’s doing the color on the women’s games has been quite good for a newbie.

Grady has deliberately moved towards being more chatty. In his stint as the Cornell radio guy he was the second-best PBP man I have ever heard (Dean "Scooter" Vrooman) at any level. I assume he went to the more chatty persona to appeal to the derpier AHL audience.

Vanini is remarkable. His eyesight reminds me of Johnny Peirson on the Bruins' broadcasts. he sees stuff in realtime I have a hard time seeing on replay when I'm looking for it.

My nitpick about Vanini is that he uses the word "great" way too many times, making it lose its impact.

dbilmes
My nitpick about Vanini is that he uses the word "great" way too many times, making it lose its impact.

I had not noticed, but I will now.

Trotsky

dbilmes
My nitpick about Vanini is that he uses the word "great" way too many times, making it lose its impact.

I had not noticed, but I will now.

your endless capacity to be made angry by nothing is, in a way, inspiring.