MSU- 4 Cornell- 3 FINAL (Sat 10.29) - Game Thread

Let's get things rolling! Pregame webcast is up and running. Here's hoping things run as smoothly as last night, both on theice and the web.

Let's Go Red!

Shots: 
Cornell   7    5    13
MSU       5    17    1

First Period
11:03    COR-1     PPG     Moulson (Scott; Bitz)

Second Period
5:06     MSU-1     PPG     Crowder (Lerg; Howells)  
6:58     MSU-2     SHG     Howells (Lerg)
15:10    MSU-3     PPG     Howells (Miller; Lerg)
19:39    MSU-4             Warner  (Lerg)

Third Period
2:47     COR-2             Chris Abbott (Barlow; Gleed)
6:20     COR-3     PPG     Sawada (Moulson)

[Q]ben03 Wrote:

Pregame webcast is up and running. Here's hoping things run as smoothly as last night, both on theice and the web.

Let's Go Red![/q]

Agreed with all you said, Ben.

LGR!

[Q]ben03 Wrote:
Here's hoping things run as smoothly as last night, both on theice and the web.
[/q]
Well, if I had to choose one...

Keep the commentary coming...guys and Liz. We're counting on y'all.


LGR!!!

Lerg gets the start for MSU(ck) Vicari on the blueline door for the evening.
In the words of Mills Lane ... "Let's get it on!"

Well, so far we've had the National Anthems. Not much more.

Drop the puck already!

Safety Sieve!

Game on. I can't decide whether I prefer fuzzy image on tv or sharp but tiny image on computer.

Lerg just got his first collegiate save.

Cornell's got it in the msu end...doing nicely. can't decide whether we're more energetic than msu or just got it set up quickly.

back and forth, topher battles for the puck, back into cornell end. crowd chanting potter (he's on the ice and they clearly don't like him)...sasha hits hard and we hear a whistle. 2 min for interference, around 17 left in the period?

Awesome color commentary, Liz. Never got to say thank you for last night.


LGR!!!

save by mckee (sorry i got distracted by the conversation around me). faceoff with potter being pest-like again. save by mckee, rebound, shot was from lerg, and o'byrne clears it away. i think we've given him too hard of a time - either that or he's just done a good job defensively this year so far. and the pk is almost over, with a whistle.

pp over. even strength. msu sucks.

thanks again kaaren (you did mention it last night - sorry that the server crashed and i couldn't finish it)

back and forth action, lots of stoppages, and hence lots of pep band. game on, lerg the skater is playing a lot, but lerg the goalie isn't seeing much action. we haven't managed to get much going in their end, but lerg just got called for something, so we're on the pp. see ya!

Cornell PP coming on a Lerg trip

eek, we're not playing like we're on the pp - mckee just had to make a save. we're back in their zone, but not quite setting up our cycling. along the boards, out of the zone, thanks to potter (boo). minute left on the pp, and we're back in their zone, but still not doing much. faceoff just outside the blue line, and we're trying to get something going, and almost have it. lgr! moulson almost got it, rebound, topher tries, and lerg freezes the puck. good attempt at the end by the red, and hopefully will continue.

lerg is off for msu. maybe someone for the red?

nope, pp for cornell.

Lerg for hitting from behind CU PP

Only two minutes for hitting from behind?


LGR!!!

so we start this pp like we played at the end of the last one, cycling nicely. the occasional one-timer from people, topher's flailing as he gets hooked not once but twice. min left in the pp, delayed penalty on msu, mckee out of net, but msu touches the puck. 5x3 now, i think

extra skater for the red CU pp to come

BALD chant. i love it!

Too many men, 42 second 5x3

YEAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY MOULSON GOAL - pp just like last nite

msu trying hard on the pk...they're being really aggressive. only three players makes it hard for them, as we get a few shots in...5x4 now. lgr from the crowd, and we're not quite as dominant....score!!! MOULSON!!

Moulson's on fire!


LGR!

sweet passing down low!!!!

assists from scott and bitz.

msu skates hard down the ice, shot, net off. abdulkatur and gleed (?) mixing it up. but somehow drew miller goes off the ice for msu. announcers saying it was a frustration penalty. hehe - frustration and there's still 8:29 left in the 1st period.

pp again, and pegs misses a pass from barlow (settling the question of whether barlow's playing tonight after the misconduct last night). apparently the pass would've been a beauty.

we haven't gotten it set up in the msu end yet, because potter and lerg keep on clearing it out. about halfway through the pp, play stopped because the puck went off the net. topher gets the puck from the faceoff, but we don't manage to keep it in their end...pp over, but another penalty coming up. bitz off for cross-checking.

Liz, you're just awesome

live mIRC chat at #lynah for anyone interested

liz is awesome even if she did leave her car overnight in an albany garage

6:16 left to go, our pk looks solid, and we clear. actually doesn't look too different from our pp, except that we're in our own end a little more.
commentators saying that msu is doing a much better job of getting their pp set up as compared to last night.

shot blocked by cornell, pk almost over, and i think there have been a ton of whistles tonight already. pk over, topher freezes a puck while battling 2 msu players, meaning topher rocks.

that is low, and funny as fuck

Time left in the first?


LGR!!!

and we're about to have a brawl MSU is gooning it up out there

thanks, mike. but just imagine if i hadn't...all those pssst, hey guys things would never have happened.

3:20ish left, mckee saves (no rebound). all the 5x5 play hasn't been really dominated by either team, though it looks like we might have a bit of an edge because we hold the puck against the boards when we can in their end. 2:45 left, play stopped again. commentators mentioning topher a lot, sasha almost got something there, but lerg knocked it "out of the air". fuzzy screen means i can't quite see where the puck is, though i can guess. carefoot and barlow playing nicely, mckee saves, scrum around the net. freder and nightingale are fighting with cornell, mccutcheon is fighting abdulkatur. 2 (freder and nightingale) off for msu, kennedy and mugford off for cornell. (bullshit calls from the crowd)

what just happened with abdelkader (in front of the goal?)? why are we waiting?

1.35 left in the first i think

No, damnit! I don't want to loose any players for the ECAC/Ivy opener!

Wow....MSU is pretty dirty.

actually, only nightingale is on the board right now. commentators think there's a double minor against him and the refs are just trying to sort the rest of the penalties out.

ok, we're on the pp.. i can deal with that. what were the other penalties? the announcers didnt say

5x4 pp for cornell.

other comment from the radio guys was that msu is trying alternative ways to get at mckee. i think the whole thing started with msu taking a swipe at mckee.

Make 'em pay, Red!

i have no idea what the other penalties were.

shots by us, ob shot, save, pokuluk shot, save, we were doing a good job on this pp until then. 20.9 sec left in the first.

10 sec...barlow shot, but blocked....meh. 15 sec of pp left for the red in the second period.

Sounds like MSU is trying to provoke them. Stay cool RED!


LGR!!!

Per Lametracker, penalties were:

Mugford - Roughing
Kennedy - Roughing
Fretter - Goalie interference
Nightingale - charging, roughing

According to gametracker, mugford and kennedy, 2 min each for roughing. MSU - fretter 2 for goalie interferance, nightingale - 2 for roughing, 2 for charging

Elswhere in the ECAC (all end of 1):

Colgate 2 - Bentley 0
Lowell 2 - Union 1
Yale 2 - Concordia 0
Dartmouth 1 - Sucks 1

and with 12:00 left in the first, no score at Clarson.

Intermission interview with O'Byrne. I missed most of it. oh well. dave's wearing a gold helmet and a black cape tonight.

A Roman centurion, maybe?

shots 7-5 in our favor. go us

teams on the ice...deep in the heart of texas

game on. shot by abbott, but nothing came of it. pp over.

back and forth action again, hanging out behind our net and we try to bring it up the ice. bitz just tried to skate through three msu players, kinda got off a shot, but lerg stopped it.

again with stuff in the neutral zone, into our end, save by mckee, sasha just hit someone over and got called for being too big.

so we're on the pk, msu cycling, one-timer failed. they're getting a lot of shots off, play stopped. second pk unit on, i think, we're blocking shots or trying, carefoot and abbott get a 2x1, but lerg saves off of carefoot's shot. lgr!

28 sec left on their pp, we're clearing well right now, and they almost got it in from the side of the net. shooting again, mckee saves with a rebound, and sasha's out. still in our end, mcc gets it out, sasha trips as he tries to follow it, and line change...stuff happens, play stopped.

announcers discussing the lerg family.

cam abbott off for holding. no idea what time it is

Stuff happens, play stoped ?

Adam Wodon you're not, but keep 'em coming Liz.

this series is very clearly all about special teams. msu skating up the ice...passing around, and score for msu.

tim thromen (?) with the ppg from about a foot away from mckee.

jeff, i got lost as i tried to keep up. it wasn't very important.

announcers didn't see the penalty, but abdulkatur just got called on a hard check, so he's off. pp for cornell.

moulson just got a shot off, but deflected by msu. we're skating in our own end, getting ourselves together and up against the boards in their end, but we didn't get anything together. msu on a breakaway...and score, shg. msu sucks.

msu 2, cornell 1. 6:58 in the 2nd period.

i think there was a missed pass in there that led to that breakaway.

we're still on the pp, setting something up, but the pp's over. icing on msu.

announcers off air.

lynah's a bit quieter, we're fighting for the puck as we bring it up ice, and no one's getting anything at all set up as there's more back and forth stuff. whistle blows.

potter seems to be working hard to break up our chances. a cornell player just got hit in what looked like the back of his head, behind the play, nothing called.

cowbell.

abbott had a chance there, barlow and carefoot working against the boards and trying to cycle. sadly, they get it out of their end...mckee saves, cornell players all fall down in fron tof the goal as they attempt to keep the puck from going in.

puck just hit the post. eek. lgr - get it out of our end and keep it out. play around our net again, pegs goes off.

faceoff near our net. mcc gets it into the msu end - announcers say he's impressing on the pk and i agree. hand pass called (also because of mcc).

1:32 left on the pp. puck in our end, msu cycling, as we try to break it up. cam abbott clears into msu zone. :45 left. i think we're playing better on the pk, though without the offensive opportunities of 5x5.

:10 left on the pp...msu cycles, puck gets caught up in front of the net, dave dives to cover it as we get back to even strength.

potter being harrassed by the faithful

We're never going to get anything going if we keep taking penalties. All four MSU goals have been in special teams situations.

battles in our corners, got it out for a second there, but dave just had to make another save. cornell player in the box again (6th penalty of the night, team penalty, i think i heard arthur say). lgr, as msu cycles, one times, and mckee saves with his glove

really good save by mckee - post-to-post i think, but i missed it. 1:12 left on the msu pp, puck in neutral zone, back to our end. msu cycles, shoots from up close, save but a rebound, and the same player i think puts it in. second pp goal of the night/period for him (or maybe they meant for the team). 4:50 left in the period.

3-1, MSU powerplay goal. McKee made a few great saves but had no chance on the rebound.

MSU really taking it to us this period.

Seminoff gets it out of our end, moulson and sawada playing hard in their end, but the puck goes out. cornell end now, mckee saves.

3:29 left. 3-1, all msu goals in the 2nd period.

in our end, still. moulson and sawada had the first enxtended pressure for us in a while...we need more of that. speedy skating going on, with a lot of passes and chasing pucks. we're in the msu end, finally with abbott and topher doing well...pegs keeps it in, but lerg clears. back into our end, and we shoot, but miss wide. lgr from the crowd, we seem to be more intense than earlier in the period, possibly because we're finally not playing on the pk and have gotten a bit of a rythem going iwith 5x5.

one minute.

Good stretch of control in the MSU end, but not getting any good shots. But at least we are showing a bit more urgency.

faceoff, we win. on the boards, in front of their net...and it's cleared. we get called for icing. msu scores off the faceoff. (lerner...SUCKS!)

we need to get back on our game, because 4 goals in one period is not so good. in fact, it's downright awful.

period over, 4-1 msu.

Terrible icing by Kranz -- he had no pressure and iced it five feet before the red line. MSU's goal came directly off the ensuing faceoff.

When have we last given up 4 goals in a period?

fire alarm, and the faithful are chanting "we're not leaving"

msu now ahead on shots 22-12.

i hear the alma matar.

pep band playing "3 blind mice"

and the teams are on their way onto the ice.

game on.

looked for a moment like we came out a little more intense, but i'm now not so sure. against the boards in msu end after a few hard hits from us.

announcers saying that msu's trying to take moulson ineffective and let us do whatever else we want. might actually be a good diea on their part. 17:45 left.

mcc chasing the puck into msu end, shoots, and save lerg. mcc looks really good tonight

ABBOTT!! (chris)

for those wondering, we worked around the goal some, pass to chris from barlow, and then he chipped it in (at least that's what it looked to me).

energy on our part - it looks like we've started to get back on top of our game. energy from the crowd too, esp as sawada checks hard (though i think he just got called for it...like 30 seconds later)

a rope, a tree...

about 15 min left. msu pp.

Pegoraro with a clean short-handed breakaway, but can't get a shot off after the deke... grrrrr

"kill schafer kill" as feola goes over and chats with him. play's been stopped for a while, but we're back on.
msu shot, blocked, pegs picks it off and runs away with a msu player chasing...he got close to scoring, but didn't manage it. back into the other end, but pegs is down on the ice. for a really long time....trainer's on the ice, team discussing strategy with schafer. pegs off the ice (to the locker room, i think). stitches to the face, the announcers think he'll need (yes, i sound like yoda).

faithful cheering "throw him out"

what are they doing to our guys?! they're carrying carefoot off too? (my two current favorites )

i'm blind, i'm deaf - at a ridiculously high decibel level.

msu penalty. 5 min major on #18 (abdulkatur), along with game dq.

him being gone is good for us, as abdulkator has been a good player this weekend.

apparently blood was scraped off the ice, though, so the incident as a whole is not good for us.

mitch is also off the ice, though i have no idea why (moulson and krantz helping him). i guess there was an incident previously that schafer had been talking to feola about that has him woozy.

cam and chris on ice together as play starts again. we're close to keeping everything in their end.

4 -3 sawada from moulson!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1 goal game!

we're on the pp, mcc still carrying the puck everywhere, mugford also playing...moulson to sawada...SAWADA!

moulson shot, rather, deflecting off sawada into the net.

1,2, 3 we want more!!

I can't believe it! WTG RED!!!!!!!!!!! WTG Ray!


LGR!!!

still on the pp, because it's a major. about 13 min left in the third. potter keeps clearing the puck, we keep bringing it back...msu just cleared into the cornell bench. sawada with another chance, but save. mugford to the glass into the crowd.

tubas.

apparently quick line changes as we work to keep the pp advantage. 1:53 left on pp.

cowbell

mcc and abbotts on ice...with krantz. had some pressure going there, but back into our end. we keep it center/their ice, whistle for offsides. :51 left on pp.

i think i was wrong on the time left in the period earlier.

cornell timeout.

10.07 left in the game. LGR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think I saw Pegoraro back, wearing Kindret's sweater.

Edit: I am confident that Pegoraro has returned.

2nd edit: Jason Weinstein got word that Pegoraro is indeed wearing Kindret's sweater. Pegoraro's sweater is blood-stained.

icing MSU 6:56 to go

sorry, all, my computer just died, had to be plugged in and restarted. what laptop doesn't give you warning when the battery's dying?

anyway, in general, we seem to be playing very hard, with a lot of time in their end, and a lot of chances, but nothing scored.

kindret's playing. topher's excellent.

moulson slap shot, save by lerg, with ray sawada ready to hit home the rebound.

4:05 left.

how can kindret be playing if we wasn't among the starting 18? Does NCAA allow injury subs?

[Q]redGrinch Wrote:

how can kindret be playing if we wasn't among the starting 18? Does NCAA allow injury subs?[/q]

That's Pegoraro wearing Kindret's sweater.

cornell momentum, icing on msu.

faceoff into boards work. lots of frosh out there playing, gleed has a shot, mugford apparently gets the puck into the crowd.

hmmm...pegs is in the kindret jersay...wonder if kindret's played at all then. cornell controlling the puck through center ice and into msu zone...cleared into cornell end. under 2 min in the third. lgr!

hand pass called.

1:39 left in the third

i can't see faces in the webcast, and the announcers just recently noticed it was pegs.

we keep on shooting, just wide or bouncing off the glove of lerg. mckee on the bench, extra skater for us.

someone shoots, rebound to sawada, and lerg somehow manages to save it. lerg keeps on saving :45 left.

:24 left...lerg saves again as we get half a dozen shots off. crowd mics seem to have been turned up, because lynah is really loud.

faceoff to ...another whistle. :14.4

nice try. oh well.

faceoff...people tripped, msu cleared out of our end, pegs skates in, but can't get a shot off...and the buzzer sounds.

student sections throwing stuff onto the ice? eek, hope that was very quickly squashed. loud lgr going on now...and loud booing of the msu players. msu players won't get off the ice, so sawada goes and helps them out...cornell skates back to center ice for the stick salute. at least there's a lot of appreciation for what they did tonight, even if they did lose.

okay, all. i'm off to a halloween party - hope my commentary was helpful