Cornell 2, Harvard 6

5 PP goals.

argh. HU sucks tonight???

for all the work cornell does to get a pP goal with no luck and harvard gets 3 on nothing but bouncing pucks..

Absurd bounce on that one. Nothing could be done.

i just hope we lose with more pride in ourselves than dartmouth--sorry for being pessimistic

this ref has totoally lost his mind..

Feola has certainly put his fingerprints all over the game.

the last buzzer hasn't sounded yet...

maybe it isnt much,, but the fact we have played from behind all night and taking chances yet not giving up any even strength stuff is a good sign.. we wont give up 5 PP goals next week even on a bad night.. harvard has generated very little even strength stuff..

Number 6, an even strength. Quite frankly, I'm doing my law school HW right now.

upperdeck
maybe it isnt much,, but the fact we have played from behind all night and taking chances yet not giving up any even strength stuff is a good sign.. we wont give up 5 PP goals next week even on a bad night.. harvard has generated very little even strength stuff..

You spoke too soon

To some extent, you have to hand to to HU. It's evident that they've been hell-bent on scoring goals.

Chabot's in.

Awful for Dave to get a shutout last night, and have a pretty bad game this night.

Hopefully, we'll meet and beat Harvard for the NCAA championship.

imafrshmn
To some extent, you have to hand to to HU. It's evident that they've been hell-bent on scoring goals.

It will just suck for the ECACHL when they lose to some scrub in the first round of the NCAA tournament

Chabot comes in. I feel terrible for Dave McKee, but....he hasn't been stellar

Harvard on PP for next min. 7:30 left in 3rd

4:37 to go, Cor PP begins

grizzdan24
Can't tell if cam is around, but Kindret has had a bit of ice time...someone must have given up their spot for him

Cam's playing, but Chris isn't. Big hit on face-offs, among other things.

PinkyGen
Chabot's in.

Awful for Dave to get a shutout last night, and have a pretty bad game this night.

Hopefully, we'll meet and beat Harvard for the NCAA championship.

Not gonna happen. This team has had problems scoring goals all season and once again it cost us. If you take away two of Harvard's goals as being dumb luck, which I do, its still a 4-2 score. Good offenses are going to find a way to score 3 or 4 goals against you and scoring 1 (last night) or 2 (so far tonight) goals against a high powered, and in this case an on fire offense, just isnt going to win you many games.

nananana nananana hey hey hey goodbye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hahaha, wow...

Goodbye? We're both going to the tournament.

Wait. Harvard has a fan?

I was joking.

The lack of offense is this team's big weakness. When Dave and the defense have off nights (and they do), this will happen.

Edit: The glaring weakness of the last two weeks has been the horrible PP. That unit needs to become much more effective. We've had games where we have gone 0 or 1 for 11.

Travis 02
Goodbye? We're both going to the tournament.

Where Harvard's recent performance has been abysmal.

PinkyGen
Wait. Harvard has a fan?

I was at the third Harvard St. lawrence (8-4) game at Bright on Sunday and there were, no kidding, not more than 400 to 500 people in the entire rink.
These tools now find the time to crawl out of their holes but its back into the hole next weekend.

just got back. glad we could make it. unfortunately it was not a great game to watch if you are a cornell fan. the first period was one of the worst periods of hockey I have witnessed cornell play (how many times have I said that this season?). That combined with hahvahd playing well and cashing in on their opportunities -> 3-0 deficit. cornell turned it up the rest of the game. the breakaway goal was sweet. the missed empty net on the pp had it gone in would have made the game 3-1, and if the other two goals had occurred it would have been 3-3. hahvahd was quicker to the puck, got the bounces and played a better game to get the lead and then just cashed in on 2 crazy goals and another loose puck in fron of the net. there were seriously at most 20 hahvahd fans at the game, not couting the band.

if any SUCKS bandies are here, the "warm up the gorge" cheer was classless.

lets hope the team picks up their heads and wins some games out of their likely #8 spot against michigan.

LGR!

Everything went wrong for us today. Everything.

1) The rink was an NHL lined rink, with the new blue lines. Larger offensive zones mean more offense, and this really hurt us, espcially because...

2) Feola was awful. Like, unbelievably awful. This had to be the worst officiating I've ever seen. Given I've only been following Cornell for a couple years, but still. He made all sorts of ridiculous calls against us in the 1st period (the interference on Sasha where Sasha didn't make contact with the player, who was diving into the net for a rebound, for example.) Then he tried to make it up to us in the 2nd, only to make a bad call on Krantz for hooking at the end of the period. Then he went back to penalizing us for any contact in the 3rd. The line judges also refused to drop the puck on faceoffs, leading to Pegs getting tossed out of the circle often, directly causing Harvard's momentum-killing 4th goal. Feola screwed us, and then made it up to us with calls that were honestly unfair for us, then screwed us again. And last...

3) No Chris Abbott. After I realized he wasn't dressed, I thought about what Abbott does for the team. He anchors a line that has beaten the stuffing out of everyone it plays. He solidifies the 2nd powerplay line, which was pathetic tonight. And he's one of our best penalty killers. No coincidence that this was our first game where our penalty kill sucked (did it against Dartmouth? I don't remember...)

Add these together, we barely stood a chance. If Abbott's not back for the NCAA's, things look grim.

Quit the whining, you got handily beat by Harvard, Cornell just sucked the big fatty tonight! =) BC's going to crush you as well, so unpack your golf clubs, your season is over.

Lynah Losers
Quit the whining, you got handily beat by Harvard, Cornell just sucked the big fatty tonight! =) BC's going to crush you as well, so unpack your golf clubs, your season is over.

We're gonna reach the Final Four? Awesome!

Dafatone

3) No Chris Abbott. After I realized he wasn't dressed, I thought about what Abbott does for the team. He anchors a line that has beaten the stuffing out of everyone it plays. He solidifies the 2nd powerplay line, which was pathetic tonight. And he's one of our best penalty killers. No coincidence that this was our first game where our penalty kill sucked (did it against Dartmouth? I don't remember...)

Add these together, we barely stood a chance. If Abbott's not back for the NCAA's, things look grim.

Keeping in mind that it is playoff hockey time, any general news on Chris? Did he get hurt in the Colgate game? or in the early part-warm-up of this game? I missed the pre-game and the first 10 minutes. Hopefully they kept him out for "precautionary" measures, knowing that we were pretty much assured a 5-8 seed and where exactly we end up would ultimately be decided by the committee.

One other thing. McCutcheon was fantastic tonight. Had a few great breakaways that led to Harvard taking penalties. Bitz also looked solid. Besides, this wasn't an official Cornell game. Seminoff stayed out of the box.

Dafatone
One other thing. McCutcheon was fantastic tonight.

No question.

Killer was the fourth goal, coming right after O'Byrne made it 3-2 and momentum appeared to have shifted. It looked like Harvard scored it off the same offensive-zone face-off play that they used to get the second goal (by Meintel) at Lynah. Fool us twice, shame on us.

i agree that the officiating was aweful. BUT the penalties of the third all looked legit except the charging call, it looked to me like he didnt take enough strides or leave his feet to get that call. the other calls in the 1st were STUPID penalties. the hooking call was bogus that gave them their pp and eventual 4th goal. feola missed a lot of calls both ways, though. including a few dangerous hits. cornell was outplayed though.

Al DeFlorio

Dafatone
One other thing. McCutcheon was fantastic tonight.

No question.

Killer was the fourth goal, coming right after O'Byrne made it 3-2 and momentum appeared to have shifted. It looked like Harvard scored it off the same offensive-zone face-off play that they used to get the second goal (by Meintel) at Lynah. Fool us twice, shame on us.

Yeah, that was the faceoff where the linesman threw out Pegs and then the Harvard guy from the face-off. Cam Abbott, who replaced Pegs, did not look set on the draw. I thought he just should have tied up the puck and the player rather than trying to win the draw.

In the Lynah game, Meintel scored the goal from McKee's right taking a pass across the front of the crease. It looked to me from the overhead view that last night McKee kicked his right leg out to stop a similar pass to the left winger who again was just to McKee's right. This time it appeared the puck was on goal and deflected off the inside of McKee's right leg and through the five-hole.

That goal was the crusher, and we clearly didn't learn from the experience at Lynah. Going into the third down by one and on a two-goal streak could have changed the complexion of the game.