Harvard 3 Cornell 1 ECAC semis - postgame

Most people want to write the end to the season already in the season postmortem thread. As for Friday's game:

Harvard was the better team Friday. Richter is a darn good goalie.

Penalties killed us.

We missed a a half-dozen great scoring opportunities. One thing about hockey is all the woulda, coulda, shoulda plays that might have gone for a goal had somebody gotten his stick down a microsecond sooner. We had them in droves.

Harvard missed one that with 6:00 left, had the Crimson lost the game, would have marked Steve Rolecek for life and undone the life's advantage of preparing at Andover: He had the puck five feet from the net near the left post, he was behind Scrivens, and shot wide right.

Cornell's first goal, the power play goal by Topher Scott (wait - our only goal, come to think of it), was a thing of beauty. Harvard extended its box almost out to the blue line, so we worked it down low, Sawada got the puck on the left side, passed it across the crease to the right, and Topher had a net nearly as wide open as Rolecek did -- and didn't miss.

We didn't have the horses this year and on this evening. With a different ECAC playoff draw or better luck we could have beaten Harvard but we didn't and, given the comparative level of play, the right team won, sending Harvard's fan (was there more than one?) home happy.