Cornell 6 at Brown 0 11/14/09 Postgame

For a game with a 6-0 outcome, the reality is that it was much more closely contested than that score alone would indicate. Ben Scrivens had several great saves during the 2nd period, which if he had not made, the game could have had a different outcome. The fact that Scrivens was sharp tonight is welcome news--we all know how important goaltending will be for having postseason success this year, and Scrivens had looked rather pedestrian during his first few outings. On a negative note, our powerplay is wasting time sending non-deceptive, non-strategic passes around the perimeter, instead of creating scoring chances, reminiscent of 08-09.

Still, it's the top power play in the country

margolism
Still, it's the top power play in the country

I don't mean to be unfairly critical of the powerplay that has done a pretty good job so far, but a handful of our PP goals weren't scored in the traditional manner during an established control of the O-zone but instead happened on transition plays. Goals are goals, and I'm thrilled to see that we can score them on rushes, but we need to be able to score on a 4 man box consistently.

Well, I'm happy. Good play for 5/6 periods. Yes we lost to Yale, but we proved we could beat them. Our PP/PK are obviously good, but I was really impressed with our 4 on 4 play yesterday. We not only skated with Yale in that situation, but I think we out skated them. As said before the freshmen fit right in, to a "new" style. We are really moving the puck well, whether by passing or skating. I am concerned that we've lost some of our physical play, but for now we've made up for it by pretty offensive play.

Greening is going for gold. I could not have imagined 2 points per game and +1 per game. That's 66+ points thru the ECACs. Of course he won't keep it up, but he's playing extremely well and he's only had one penalty this year. Do you remember some of the stupid penalties he took last year? I have to give the coaches and him all the credit. It's obvious that he came back determined and he obviously ran excellent captains practices before the season started. Keep it up and he'll do well after this year. It does reinforce that 4 years here helps their maturation and that will be useful in convincing future students and their draft teams to stay around.

I don't understand what happened first period at Yale. Did we score too easily and forgot how we should play? Whatever, you have to be happy about how the coaches were able to turn the team around for the last two periods. My real worry is that we'll have a meltdown like we did in the first ND game last year, and then the coaches decide they have to turn it down again. As others have said this start of the season is a difficult one, and will be a good gauge. It's too bad that BU, UNH, and Maine look like they are not up to their best form.

Yes, there's a long season to go, but you have to like it so far.

Jim Hyla
Yes we lost to Yale, but we proved we could beat them.

I'm not convinced that that's been proven. I agree that we can beat them, and if I had to make a prediction then I'd predict that we'd earn a regular season split with them at Lynah, but I don't think you can say anything has been proven just yet. For what it's worth, we've played eighteen periods against Yale over the last three seasons and outscored them in two of those periods.

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Awesome. Five stars.

My favorite line: "They would just throw the puck and it would go nowhere."

Oh my God, this is the best blog ever. "Finally, I managed to attend the Fetish Night in Hell! I've been waiting to go therr for a long time. Finally I found a place where it has good music, and good... very good fetish. Where I could get whipped if I wanted to."

We need more "red-shirted players rucking" to the goal line. In football, too.

Is Borat the author???

One had to suspect that it was not Brown's night when Clemente, skating from the goal crease to the blue line during introductions, fell down after getting past the circles.

From the Brown thread on USCHO, describing Friday night's pregame introduction of their goaltender.