Cornell 3 at Yale 0 FINAL

Unlike when Yale played at Cornell, Yale audio is working since we're at The Whale.

LGR!!!!!

EDIT: Uh oh, I think it's the Yale basketball game.

Lots of hitting early in the game. Gartner just barely stopped Cam Abbott and Hornby on an odd man rush. VERY fast pace.

Well, I can't get the broadcast, so keep me in the loop.

9:33 to go in the first. Indeed, an incredibly fast pace. Cornell with the better chances so far. Still 0-0 though.

Penalty (interference) on Charlie Cook. PP for the Bulldogs

4 shots each, Steeves just had a great chance robbed. Yale will be on pp.

Wax denied from right in front. Yale with many great chances on the pp.

Steeves steals Lenny's play around the net, passes in front, but Lenny somehow gets back in time to stone the backhand!

1 minute to go in period, 0-0.

Pegoraro alone in front with an empty net has stick held and Gartner covers. Words but no punches. 31 seconds to go in first, 0-0.

end of the 1st period, 0-0. Pretty entertaining 1st.

Cornell with two more decent chances before time expires. Shots were 11-8 Yale, probably indicative. Great period. 0-0.

2nd period underway

Other ECAC scores after one period

St. Lawrence 0 Harvard 3
Clarkson 2 Brown 0
Colgate 1 Princeton 0
Vermont 0 RPI 1
Dartmouth 1 Union 1

HE Scores

UNH 2 BC 0
Maine 2 BU 0

Cornell does not convert on its first PP chance of the night

Yale an effective kill of our first pp. 15 to go in the second, 0-0.

and now Yale will go on the power play

Yale will now go on pp on a slash. Vesce, Murray, Bâby and Wallace on the kill.

And Yale is now 0-2 on the PP

Very nice kill for Cornell. 0-0, about halfway through the game.

And now Cornell will go on the power play. LGR!

Yale kills it off.

Bâby whistled for interference.

SCOOOOOOOOOORE

And Cornells kills Yale pp #3.

Ben Wallace, they think. Cornell scores first

Goal by Ben Wallace or a deflection. Either way, under 4 mins to go with Cornell up 1-0.

Was that a shorthanded goal?

16:42 Cor Wallace 3 (Hynes 9, Paolini 16)

It was an even strength goal.

nope, it was an even-strength goal right off a face-off

Shots are 24-20 Yale, end of 2nd.

ECAC all after 2
Colgate at Princeton: 2-0 Colgate
Dartmouth at Union: 1-0 Dartmouth
Vermont at Rensselaer: 2-1 RPI
Clarkson at Brown: 2-1 Clarkson
St. Lawrence at Harvard - 4-0 Harvard (SUCKS)

OOC
UNH 3 BC 1
BU 2 Maine 1

Hopefully Maine will continue to drop like a debutante's... you know.

On the Yale pp, Bell with a huge block and Lenny with a big save, and Cornell kills it off. Yale 0x4, 14:15 to go in regulation, 1-0.

Cam Abbott called on a penalty right in front of the Yale net. (?)

Yale going on pp#5.

Cornell kills it, Yale now 0x5. 6 minutes to go in the game.

Yale now on a clean break off a turnover, but the Yale player misses the net. 5:47 to go, still 1-0.

CHARLIE COOK!!!!!!!!!

15:36 Cor Cook 3 (Bâby 27)

2 goal lead on the timeout with 5 minutes to go.

Hittingn from behind on Pegoraro. Yale going on their 6th powerplay.

What's the deal with all the penalties tonight? Is the reffing bad, or are we extraordinarily undisciplined tonight?

Yale tries to call timeout, Cornell steals the puck on the faceoff, and Bâby comes down and hits the post!!!

Yale calls timeout, 9 seconds to go in the powerplay, 1:24 to go in the game, and puck in the neutral zone.

The ref hasn't had a hairtrigger (Yale has just 2 penalties). I think we may just be getting called for being too large.

:45 to go, Yale now 0x6, Yale empty net -- Pegoraro hits it, 3-0!

That's kind of what I meant about bad reffing...the 6-2 penalty edge to Yale seems a bit off, since we usually don't take that many penalties. Just wondering if we were getting a bit too physical, or if they were kind of bogus calls.

Icing on Yale. :21 to go for Lenny.

Lenny with #7 - And he's still got some games to go this season. Wow. I bet he didn't think he'd have 7 SOs this season. Amazing job, especially with the amount of shots he faced tonight....what was the final total?

7th Shutout!!!!

Awesome game. Congrats to the Big Red, Coach Schafer, and Lenny!

Lenny had a season-high 31 saves tonight, and saved 54 of 55 shots on the weekend (.982 save percentage).

If 54 of 55 shots, a 0.50 GAA for the weekend, plus breaking Ken Dryden's all time school record and setting an ECAC RS record for shutouts in a season in a 31 save performance doesn't net Lenny USCHO Defensive PotW honors, then there's something wrong. Did you notice he wasn't even one of the finalists last week? He hasn't even gotten a mention in that category all year...yet he is dominating every statistical category there is. I think Lenny is upping his Hobey stock every game. Just my opinion.

Jordan

yeah the reffs did a sucky job, didnt call to many penalties on yale that should have been called....anyways it was a great game and CONGRATS TO LENNY!!

I remember back when I was a student reading Dryden's records in the hockey program and thinking how it seemed almost absurd that someone could have a GAA of 1.46 over the course of a season. That was 40 goals in 27 games. It seemed hard to imagine.

At this point Lenny's allowed 29 goals in 25 games.

Wow.

24-4-1 regular season, fantastic! Has Schaer done an unbelievable job? He took over a floundering program and made it one of the best in the country.

Well, he certainly had an amazing weekend...
However, when it comes to the GAA statistic, give credit where credit is due to Cornell's NCAA leading defense. (MURRAY FOR HOBEY).

Lenny for Hobey too!!!

And Bâby for Hobey. What the hell, there are three finalists.

The Ref didn't call matching minors when he should have.

He was consistent in the calls he made, and Yale wasn't doing anything he was calling, but what he called was often incorrect.

He showed no knowledge of the gravitas of the situation in giving Yale a PP with 3 minutes left as LeNeveu was trying to hold on for the shutout up 2-0.

[Q]He showed no knowledge of the gravitas of the situation in giving Yale a PP with 3 minutes left as LeNeveu was trying to hold on for the shutout up 2-0.[/Q]
He seemed to be calling ticky-tack stuff to me too, but I don't think a ref should call a game based on any record that may or may not be set. It's not his job.

[Q]If 54 of 55 shots, a 0.50 GAA for the weekend, plus breaking Ken Dryden's all time school record and setting an ECAC RS record for shutouts in a season in a 31 save performance doesn't net Lenny USCHO Defensive PotW honors, then there's something wrong.[/Q]

Ferris St. goaltender Mike Brown stopped 75 of 75 shots this weekend vs. UNO. The records may give Lenny some sentimental appreciation, but with 2 shutouts and a lot more pucks, I could see it going to Brown.

A USCHO poster suggested that Matt Moulson may have fractured his hand last night. I didn't hear any mention of that on the TV broadcast - hopefully this isn't true. Any thoughts?

> Any thoughts?

Only that if he has, the team won't admit it...

Matt McRae is still out right? Does anyone know why?
-the abbott fan

Maybe a little confusion because Yalie Nick Deschenes left with a hand injury?

There didn't seem to be any confusion with the Yale player because the poster suggested that, in ADDITION to Deschenes, Moulson's hand may also be fractured, "according to a parent" with whom he spoke after the game.

This really may be nothing, since I think Matt played the entire game, but hopefully he (as well as our other Matt) is okay.

Avash '05 wrote:

This really may be nothing, since I think Matt played the entire game...

Moulson did not play the third period. I don't know why, but I don't we should speculate about possible player injuries based on something heard "from a parent", especially given that if a parent ever says anything like that, it should be implicit that it's said in confidence and should not be publicized.

It seems to me that I saw Moulson get hit pretty hard in the hand by a puck at some point during the second period. He headed right for the bench kind of shaking his hand as though it were stinging. Unfortunately I can't remember exactly when during the second that was. I'm probably going to watch the TV coverage of the game tonight (my own personal tape delay), so I'll see if I can spot it.

Hopefully he's ok.

LGR!

His index finger was in a splint after the game.

Age, I like the idea of a Cleary Spitoon.

So I watched the game last night. With just a little more than 2 minutes left in the second, our 24 gets hit on the right hand with a shot from from the point by Yale's 24 (Bob Norton notes the deflection), though it is tough to see the puck with my crappy EP vcr recording. Moulson finished out his shift, and then gives his hand a shake as he heads towards the bench.

At the end of the period as they show the players leaving the ice, Moulson does have his stick in his right hand, though...

Hope he's ok.