Game Thread: Cornell 4, OSU 3 (OT) FINAL

First four minutes ALL OSU. Three bad turnovers in front of McKee, but no goals.

cavanaugh... (bastard)

Shots are now 13-11, sounds like CU back on their heels a little.

Does that mean that Kolarik assisted on the goal?

[q]My wife, also a CU 81 grad, just suggested that I'm the oldest one in this group reading/writing on this forum.[/q]
Don't worry. I'm not the oldest regular, and I top you by nine years.

Thanks, David, I'm feeling a bit younger now!!

no. like how most people tend to follow harvard with (sucks), i tend to follow the mention of each player with (bastard)

Next four minutes much better, but still ZERO CU shots.

Plus, you have to figure that out of EIGHTY-ONE current visitors on elynah right now (!), a few are older than you .

Oh, just ignore the '05 after my name

cavanaugh...sucks
petit...sucks
kolarik...sucks
Heck they all suck

Abbotts generate some excitement but no good chances. Cornell seems to be hanging back.

Now Cornell with trouble clearing three times until Hynes finally gets it out of the zone. OSU buzzing.

9:47 to go in regulation.

05. My God!

CRAP.

Bad D. 3-3

Saw that coming from a mile away. Waddell ties it for Ohio State.

all we need to do is hold strong on d another goal would help also

there goes the strong d

harvard rules cornell stinks

OSU rings the post. Now going on pp. Ut oh. 6:47 in regulation.

I have heard of this crap website of yours

Now a misconduct on Caponigri, but Cornell still a man down.

McKee loses his stick but Cornell able to clear. Powerplay ends -- nice kill by Cornell. 4:36 to go in the third.

who is this harvard (bastard)

Greg, how much time left???

OSUs leading scorer that is dressed tonight...what happens if the game ends in a tie? OT? Shootout?

as many overtimes as needed

I dunno but you and him have the same first three digits on your IP address...

Caponegri out for the rest of the game after beefing about a close icing call!

i'm going to watch havard win

2:30 to go. AHA line sets up Cammy but he's robbed by Betz.

just jokin with ya

Time????

Betz robbed Abbott! Damn!

Betz with a great save. 2:14 left.

are u sure about the overtimes?
i thought it will go down in the books as a tie if the end result after reg. is a tie
any OT/shootout is merely for the tournament title?

Shots 20-15 OSU...9-4 this period in favor of OSU

1:36 to go in regulation.

Dartmouth beats Mankato 8-5, in a game that featured 4 goaltenders (Samuels started for Dartmouth, Yacey finished), 3 misconducts (2 to Dartmouth, 1 to Mankato), and plenty of goals.

Thank god that 9 game road trip is over.

Now you guys go beat tOSU for the ECAC.

Adam W guarantees that Steckel won't score the game winner this time...

Pegs' wide with a wrister, Cornell getting pressure. 1 minute to go.

end of regulation ...

OSU all sorts of chances but can't get it in at the buzzer. Whew, that was lucky.

Going into overtime.

Going to OT. Just barely. Cornell almost gave it up with seconds to go. Recap of 3d coming.

overtime format is 5 minutes + shootout... my mistake earlier

5 min OT then shootout

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

anyone want to confirm my ot/regulation/shootout suspicion?

OT is 5 minutes and then a shootout. Presumably it goes into the books as a tie afterthe five.

The 3d period was OSU's from beginning to end. Quick start means I don't have time to type the rest of the recap until later.

O'Bryne lets it get stolen by Kelly just misses.

there's probably more people watching the cornell game on cstv and listening on the radio than there are people at the dunkin' donuts center...

3:38 to go in overtime, Carefoot's 4th line is out there, I guess we aren't Mazzolini.

2:50 to go faceoff in CU zone.

ABBOTTT!!!!!!!!!!! WE WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!

HORNBY!

All-is-forgiven recap after I see the replays.



Post Edited (12-28-03 18:26)

Excellent!!!

Adam now saying it was Hornby. WHAT A HUGE WIN.

Any guesses on where we will be ranked tomorrow???? Certainly north of Brown, now.

Scoring on final goal:

4 2:30 Cor Hornby 2 (Cam Abbott 4, Chris Abbott 7)

Cornellians on all-tourny team:

Moulson, Knoepfli.

MVP: Iggulden.

Iggy gets the tourny MVP! Wow

so sick of the "hip-hop" Pepsi commercial...I think I heard "I'm Ghetto" twice.

finally more wins than ties...



Post Edited (12-28-03 18:32)

Fewer losses at this point in the season than last year.

very interesting point...I'd say we are way ahead of where Schafer expected us to be at this point



Post Edited (12-28-03 18:34)

Thanks for calling the game for us dish-less and CSTV-less alums. It's much appreciated. I hope I run into some of you in Providence on Jan. 10th.

Overall id like to say thanks to everyone who posted on here during this game and yesterdays game.
Thanks Guys
good job has to go out to Cam and Chris Abbott

how badly can they suck 3-1

Be seeing you all on Jan 9-10; I'm making the flight up.

Combined with Notre Dame and Ohio State both taking out Maine, this should help us out a little in the polls (I know -- who cares) and in the PWR (probably too little too late but again, better than losing )

Box for the game: [members.cox.net]



Post Edited (12-28-03 18:39)

about the 3-1 JK but it will be soon cause knights can't help us

1 nodak beat unranked findlay, beat unranked wayne state
2 bc beat #8 michigan, beat unranked mich state
3 maine lost to #11 osu, lost to unranked notre dame
4 wisconsin beat unranked union, plays unranked ferris state tonight
5 denver beat unranked niagara, plays unranked nebraska tonight
6 unh beat #13 miami, lost to unranked minnesota
7 colo college idle after losing two games to unranked alaska
8 michigan lost to #2 bc, beat unranked mich tech
9 umass tied #12 brown, plays unranked vermont tonight
10 st cloud beat unranked harvard, plays unranked providence tonight
11 osu beat #3 maine, lost to #15 cornell
12 brown lost to unranked wayne state, "tied" unranked findlay
13 miami beat princeton, lost to #6 unh
14 dartmouth tied #9 umass, beat unranked mankato
15 cu beat unranked nd, beat #11 osu
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"16" harvard lost to #10 st cloud, playing unranked clarkson now
"17" minnesota beat unranked princeton, beat #6 unh
"18" notre dame lost to #15 cu, beat #3 maine



Post Edited (12-28-03 18:55)

From that list I'd say we would jump over Brown and Dartmouth and maybe Miami. So, somewhere between 12 and 13.

The Brown consolation game again Findlay is officially a tie, but for the purposes of the tournament, they needed a 3rd place team so a shootout determined the team.

...and for us dish-less students

again, many thanks

Anyone catch whether the CSTV announcers ever mentioned for whom the championship trophy is named? And why?

The third period was just dominated by OSU. Cornell was content to just casually clear the puck, but they did a very poor job of it. They started the period by giving the puck away right in front of McKee three times, but McKee made a great save and OSU just flat missed the net twice. 12 minutes into the period, CU had only one shot.

All that mediocrity paid off when tOSU tied it up after winning the draw after a Cornell icing. Shortly thereafter, Caponigri committed the boner of the tournament. He mouthed off after getting called for icing with 5:02 (he thought he was close enough to the red line for government work) and was given a 10 minute misconduct. He missed the rest of the 3d and all of OT. Cornell generated one spectacular chance, but Betz saved the game (temporarily) by stoning one of the Abbotts with a little over 2 minutes left. As the clock ran out Cornell did all it could to give away the game, but a level head by McKee and some good fortune sent the game to OT.

Absolutely the worst period I've seen this team play all year. But then ...

The OT started badly as O'Byrne just handed the puck to tOSU in the slot 10 seconds into the period, but McKee saved O'Byrne's bacon. Finally the Red got the puck in deep on OSU, Cam tapped it to Chris who fed it to a charging Hornby; Hornby beat Betz to the short side. A great finish by Hornby, and a great play by the line.
I told you that the AHA line would generate a chance. See, First Period Recap.

General impressions. Great games from Iggy, Knoepfli and the AHA line.

It is tough to give defensive grades because there was so much sloppy D. O'Byrne may be big and strong, but his skating and stickwork is often oafish and he can get buffaloed by little guys. He may be a future-Bâby, but he isn't a present-Bâby. Moulson had a great goal, but I can't really describe the play because it developed so quickly and the replay by CSTV was awful (it was cut tight; all they showed was the shot).

McKee came up big when he had to, and only the third tOSU goal can really be pinned on him.

Caponigri can flat play. I hate him almost as much as Kolarik. Revenge is sweet. Down go the Buckeyes.

And the curse is off the Bell jersey. LET'S GO RED!!!

P.S. Starman sounds exactly like JD.



Post Edited (12-28-03 19:07)

so i have to say that the cstv hd broadcast was sweet. what a nice surprise to discover friday that the games would be on. cornell had their moments today and pulled out a tough win but betz was amazing and made two unbelievable saves else cornell would have had more goals. great win to avenge the loss earlier in the season.

jy3 wrote:

so i have to say that the cstv hd broadcast was sweet.

That was a nice surprise. I got home from the game Saturday night to discover TIVO had recorded it for me and I got to see myself cheering the 4th Cornell goal.

[q]Anyone catch whether the CSTV announcers ever mentioned for whom the championship trophy is named? And why? [/q]

I don't believe they did.

I vaguely recall seeing the trophy in some quick shots at the end of the HDTV broadcast and it might have had Ned Harkness's name on it...

Yes. They certainly showed it on a number of occasions. I don't ever recall any explanation behind the name though.

Which goalie was named to the all-tournament team?

Avash '05 wrote:

Which goalie was named to the all-tournament team?

The backup Notre Dame goalie, Morgan Cey, who shut out Maine today.

Really love how my OCSN Wireless cell text message phrased today's victory: "CORNELL 4, EVERBLADES CLASSIC 3".

Do you mean that the surprise was that TIVO found and recorded the game because you had previously set it to record all Cornell hockey or that the surprise was to see yourself in HD? I am TIVO-less and don't understand all the options that can be set for recording.



Post Edited (12-28-03 22:04)

Marty'74 wrote:

Do you mean that the surprise was that TIVO found and recorded the game because you had previously set it to record all Cornell hockey or that the surprise was to see yourself in HD? I am TIVO-less and don't understand all the options that can be set for recording.

Post Edited (12-28-03 22:04)

I have my TIVO set to record any sporting event with Cornell in the title or description. Not a common occurence, but you never know.

The surprise was that it was on my cable system at all. Cox in Gainesville doesn't carry CSTV, but it has a couple HD channels which aren't assigned full time to any station. They just pick up random HD programs and shove them on those channels. I've already written to thank them for picking up the Everblades tourney and asked them to show the Harvard game which CSTV said they were covering as well.

the trophy had ned harkness on it but i am not sure why

jy3 wrote:

the trophy had ned harkness on it but i am not sure why

Yes, it was clear on the broadcast that the trophy was named for Ned.

But I'm a little surprised the announcers, who fussed so much over Everblades' President/GM Craig Brush's being a former Cornell player, etc., never mentioned that the tournament's trophy was named for Brush's coach, who happened to have coached three NCAA championship teams. Either they're not very observant or they have no sense of college hockey history.

IIRC, it is the Harkness Cup, so named because the tournament founder, Craig Brush, played for Harkness on the 1970 National Champion.

Beat me by 2 seconds, Al.

bigredapple wrote:

I have to see the replay on the Moulson goal to see how he got set up. It was a great shot though, from a short angle to the goalie's right.

Moulson's goal came as a result of a truly classic Cornell line shift.

Vesce started the shift by winning a faceoff to Betz's left with 3:51 left in the second period. From that point Vesce, Bitz, and Moulson, with help from a pinch by O'Byrne, cycled the puck without losing possession for 51 seconds--the puck going from one sideboard to the other five times--until Moulson finally got possession of it alone behind the net, came out to Betz's right, centered it, then regained possession, waited for Betz to go down, and lifted it over him at the 3:00 mark.

Mike must have loved it.

That was the second holiday tourny championship in the 11 in Mike Schafer's tenure: [members.cox.net]



Post Edited (12-28-03 23:53)

The Cornell fans were certainly there. From the News-Press (the local paper) on Saturday’s game:

“About 500 Big Red graduates and fans sat behind the visitor’s goal and made a considerable ruckus. ‘Let’s go Red, Let’s go Red,” the group chanted as the team’s lead ballooned.”

The 500 seems an exaggeration (as does the 7,000 Saturday attendance) and, of course, we would have made just as much noise if Cornell was behind. The PEP BAND WAS BADLY MISSED (hope they get there next year), but we certainly did our best. They had recordings of each team’s fight song, but curiously rather than “Give My Regards to Davy,” it was the “New Song.” There were a good number of Maine fans but they were totally silent except when Maine scored.

It was hardly a dominant performance by Cornell, but basically all those near misses against Bowling Green, Ohio State and Marymount earlier in the season went in Estero. So maybe there is justice. Cornell just doesn’t win the battles along the boards as consistently as they did last season --it’s been a while since I saw a team cycle the puck against Cornell the way Ohio State did. Still, two tough wins against good teams.

[q]The PEP BAND WAS BADLY MISSED (hope they get there next year)[/q]

You paying?

[Q] Richard '70 wrote:

Cornell just doesn’t win the battles along the boards as consistently as they did last season --it’s been a while since I saw a team cycle the puck against Cornell the way Ohio State did. [/Q]
Granted, the team isn't as strong along the boards this year without Bâby, Palahicky, et al, but CCHA teams play a more Cornell-like (cycling) style than most other teams Cornell plays against. I think that this style has become prevalent in the CCHA because teams play each other two nights in a row. The thinking is that if you can bruise the other team along the boards the first night, you'll have an easier time the second night.

Marymount?

Who are the strongest guys along the boards this year? Bitz? Hornby? O'Byrne?



Post Edited (12-29-03 15:21)

I'd say Matt Moulson...he's added a lot of muscle to go with his good hands this year. During his games at Lynah, he's been breaking free from defenders regularly. Bitz is doing well too, that whole line has been doing great along the boards.

Richard '70 wrote:
They had recordings of each team’s fight song, but curiously rather than “Give My Regards to Davy,” it was the “New Song.”

Last year they played the New Cornell Fight Song ("C-O-R-N-E-double-L"; this year they alternated between NCFS and "Fight For Cornell". We should really let someone know beforehand next year.