CU-Princeton

Thought I'd start this one as I won't be able to listen . Also to ask someone who goes if Beeeej followed through with the candy .

Who all is there? The chat room's very quiet - are MHA and Age down there too?

19 minutes to go...I am in! Live from the Bay Area.
I can only "listen" to the live stats, but only until 5:00 pm. Then, I have to go to an early dinner party.
LGR, LGR!

Matt McRae is sitting out tonight, and Paul Varteressian is playing in his place. Doug Murray is back in the lineup.

Fred: You listening to WHCU?

Didn't Matt sit out Hahvahd, too? I guess he is still a little hurt.

Yep; sat out against Harvard too. Hopefully he can recover over the next couple weeks before the playoffs.

Also, Trevor Clay is NOT in goal for Princeton (the goalie who got the 2-1 W vs. Hahvahd). Their other kid is; forget his name now....

Anthems now.

O Canada, our home and native land....

That "Red!" sounded like a home game.

Game on.

As usual, I'm at work, stuck without audio and without the chat. If someone could IM me (Lynah98) with score updates, I'd very much appreciate it!

LeNeveu with a nice kick save on a breakaway

to answer the question posed to me that I just saw: yes, listening to WHCU via the airwaves

14:30 to go in the 1st; Cornell without a shot yet

Live Stats seem totally useless tonight so far. It is still saying "Game not started."

I could be wrong, Tom, but I think it only works for home games.

It posted Princeton as the home team, and Cornell as visitor. Template is all set up, but nothing is happening.

That sounds encouraging.

Gonna need your help to keep us "in the game," so to speak...

Cornell to go on the PP now

The maroon "U" in the upper left corner of livestats does not bode well...

Al, you are right about that. However, somebody did pencil in Princeton in the lower block...Of course, I stop holding my breath.

Cornell finally getting some decent shots on goal, though the PP is over.

According to Yahoo sports, harvard is up 2-0 against clarkson already still in the 1st period

I believe Ben Wallace is getting called for tripping. First PP for Princeton coming up.

Yep, 2-0 Harvard; Yale and Colgate tied at 1

Cornell kills it, and Cornell will now go on the power play.

MURRAY. score. 1-0 Cornell

Clarkson's probably too far below .500 in RPI for that to matter to us very much.

Cornell opponents near .500 in RPI (with our record against them)

.5292 Western Michigan (2-0)
.5198 Yale (2-0)
.5188 Dartmouth (1-1)
.4992 Brown (1-0-1)
.4758 Colgate (1-1)

End of the first period.

Let's Go Red!
(Davy playing in the background....)

As guessed by Adam:

19:32 Cor pp Murray 5 (Bâby 26, Mark McRae 16)

Good way to end the period, especially as Princeton may have outplayed us so far.

Brown's got a shot with two at home this weekend and likely hosting a first round or quarterfinal playoff series. Dartmouth leading RPI 2-1.

Though Clarkson has come back to tie Harvard 2-2, end of 1st.

SOG:

Princeton 9 Cornell 8

ECAC score updates:
Hahvahd 2, Clarkson 2
SLU 1, Brown 1
Yale 1, Colgate 1

elsewhere:
UNH, BC knotted at 1
BU-Maine still scoreless

EDIT: 1-0 BU, after Maine was dominating and Fields was standing on his head

Was Murray's a blast from the point sort of goal?

Now would be a good time of year for his aim to improve.

That's precisely what it was. Described as a "laser" that the Princeton goalie had "no chance with."

Also --
BU takes a 1-0 lead over Maine

A Nordic blast, perhaps? Go MURRAY!

2nd period underway

Pegoraro scores. 2-0

EDIT: assists tentatively to Knoepfli and Hornby

I hope the Red can light a fire under themselves. Getting outshot by Princeton is pretty pathetic...even if it is only for one period. If we come out like that against any team in the NCAAs, we'll get smoked. Hopefully Schafer let them know what's up during the intermission...with Pegoraro scoring 2 minutes in, it sounds like that may have happened.

Jordan

Kinda like a replay of the first period against Union last week.

Nieuwy is apparently in the audience tonight, as the Devils have the night off.

Did the rest of you hear that Joe Nieuw. is cheering the Red on. Probablty has a decent seat.

Hello, Ken!

Colgate 3, Yale 2

Brown 3, SLU 1

Now 3-2 Brown

Princeton begins a PP

Clarkson 3, Harvard 2

Dartmouth 4, RPI 1

Ugh.

What's "ugh?"

SLU ties Brown at 3

A sound of disgust as Princeton scores a power play goal. It's 2-1

ya know of course the one game i can listen to that i am not at...i cant listen to. this stinks.
come on Cornell!

Yep, that's an "ugh" alright.

2-1 Cornell, end of the 2nd period, but Princeton will have 1:49 of a power play to start the 3rd.

We won't win tomorrow if we play like this.

After 2, Maine 0 BU 1

BU (sucks) still over Maine 1-0 after 2 periods.

did the 3rd start yet?

Yes. Apparently 12 minutes into the period we have 0 shots. It's still 2-1, and Cornell is about to go on pp.

There's 8:30 left in the game, and I don't believe Cornell has had a shot yet this period. I'm not joking.

ten min to go still 2-1

About 13 left in the 3rd. 2-1 still

Coach calls a timeout as Cornell is about to go on the PP

Moulson hits the post on a wrap around attempt. PP over

Princeton kills off the pp, then Moulson hits a post. 2-1, 5 mins to go.

hmmmmm i do hope we play better tonight...not too impressed wit our playing tonight.....but whatever we're winning!!!!!!

game over. 2-1 us. phew

Maine 2, BU 1
8 min left in 3rd

Merely by playing Princeton, our RPI dropped over 0.0050 - shooting us well below Maine, which we were 0.0002 ahead of before.

Colgate 4 Yale 2

And with the win, Cornell clinches their 7th ECAC Regular Season title.

Maine beating BU now 2-1. Game almost over.

BU Scores!!
Maine 2. BU 2
2:20 in 3rd

3-2 BU now winning.....guess this BU/Maine game is not over til its over.

BU scores again
Bu 3, maine 2
2:18 in 3rd

TWO BU GOALS WITHIN 3 SECONDS! (officially, the announcer said the clock didn't start quite quick enough)

3-2 BU!

Maine 2, BU 4
0:30 in 3rd
but i guess our RPI will still be lower than Maine's

Yup, Maine drops to .5906 - but that's relatively close

Yeah, I would say the clock didn't start soon enough. The goal 3 seconds later had 2 assists. Now lets see 3 people touch the puck and get it in from center ice in 3 seconds. Empty net?

And hey, anybody at the game, including BeeeeJ, did he throw candy?

'fraid not, Jim - I tried to remember to pick up a bag of Snickers minibars on Nassau Street before the game, but failed to. I did buy myself a pack of Nutter Butters during the first intermission, though...

Beeeej

OK. Back from the game. First game in a few years, and it felt damn good to see the Red in action. I felt like a kid again, and loved everything about the atmosphere. All of the chants, all of the cheers, all of the songs. And of course the cowbell. (I had a fever, and . . . nevermind.)

From singing My Old Cornell before the arena filled up (never would have guessed that I'd remember the lyrics - I had to look up the name of the song (thanks JH '98)) to the countdown at the end of the game it was a blast. Even Macho Man.

And for all those who think that the crowd has fallen on hard and desperate times with a current student body that relies too much on "Sucks", I say nuts to you. Maybe it is just the Travelling Faithful, but the band and the students were great. The player specific songs are new to me, and a great addition. (S-V-O-B-O-D-A is dadaist and spectacular - glad I was at a game where I could hear it.) Kudos to the guy in the back row of the band for "The Ghost of Hobey Baker called . . ." and to the guy in the back of the neighboring section who hauntingly intoned "And I want you out of my rink!" after we all told the goalie what ol' Hobey thought of him.

And finally, for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the ECAC, there is a great little ice cream Parlor at 183 Nassau Street. You can skip the Thai restaurant a little further up Nassau ("up" meaning away from the rink), but the liquor store across the street had one of my favorites (2001 Toasted Head Chardonnay) for a good price (and chilled), and they seemed to have a good selection.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow's Yale game, and now I wish I had a Live at Lynah CD to play as I watch. Thanks to all of you in the pep band. Hope we see each other again in an Eastern regional.

back home and barely alive...

and i can't understand why the 4 away games i've seen this year (with the exception of first period at harvard(sucks!)), we play like crap!
dartmouth, brown, harvard, and princeton.

(sorry, a moment to vent)

dartmouth - first game i see of the year and the team i had heard about wasn't there. boucher (bastard) says bend over, and the guys say okay.
brown - memory's a little hazy right now but they definitely were not playing like i know how the could play
harvard - the first period was nice, and then i think they forgot who they were playing and lost focus. if they had kept it up, the score coould've been run up to 6 or 7 goals before the game was thru...instead...
princeton - one of the things that sometimes bother me about our team is that sometimes, they only seem to put in as much effort as they feel they need to get a win... and if it means playing at a lower level... someone (don't remember who) put it best tonight that we won and we sucked but it was only cuz they sucked more.

we play like this tomorrow and we will get our asses kicked all the way back to ithaca.

cleary cup...where is that thing anyways? anyone wanna trade it for a whitelaw...?

otherwise, it was nice to hear the cheers done the 'proper way'
oh how i miss 'DIE!' - short, sweet, and to the point.
and was definitely a fan of the "ghost of hobey called" series.

sleepy time...been up too long...

Jude - you forgot RPI and Union and neither of those games were horrible!

oh yes, that's right
union was fine, though it did get boring quickly in the first period
but you must admit, rpi was a little scary too.

sorry everybody, i was just very very upset last night after the long drive and seeing that...game...

USCHO front page..."First, Cornell didn't back into the Cleary Cup, but the Big Red might have felt like it after a difficult 2-1 win over bottom-feeding Princeton."
yup. Anyone remember the SLU(T) game last year? their archives said it was a tie and that's how we got the damn thing last year.

Sorry for the late post - got back in very late Saturday night/Sunday morning from the roadtrip. Did want to note that I spotted the Cleary Cup being taken to the team bus after the Yale game. Was being carried like any other piece of equipment. I don't have to state the obvious that the team will take the trophy but it's not what they're after.

Disappointing that Providence wins the tiebreaker with BU and hosts BU. Would have been a great series to go watch next weekend with us off. Guess I could alternatively route for Merrimack at BC and hope Merrimack goes all the way to displace a team. Alright its early I must still be dreaming.