Russian Red Stars

On January 3, Cornell will play an exhibition game against the Red Stars of the Russian Junior Hockey League, or MHL (Molodezhnaya Hokkeynaya Liga).

Here is the schedule for their tour. You should be pleased to know that we are considered to be one of "the strongest NCAA hockey clubs operating in New England’s counties."

Here is their preview of their game against Yale on 12/27. Please try not to laugh too hard.

Here is the roster. Wish me luck.

Paging Ryan Coon, Holden Anderson, Eric Sade and Craig Esposito; white courtesy telephone please.

The goalies, Romanov, Volkov and Khaniarova make for a good start. For Blazhievskii and Varfolomiev, good luck. For Shakvorostov, couldn't you buy a vowel for after the Shak part? Soliankin-Pasternak is like the Princeton player of 2003-7 years ago, Goeckner-Zoeller.

Usually, an announcer's skills are degraded by phlegm in the throat. Here it could be an ally. Good luck.

Yale beat the Russians 6-3 last night.

Trotsky
Yale beat the Russians 6-3 last night.

But were outshot 45-30, so it wasn't an easy win.

ACM
Here is their preview of their game against Yale on 12/27. Please try not to laugh too hard.

Pure gold.

Last year, now under Keith Allen’s mentorship since 2006, The Yale Bulldogs finally won NCAA title thus becoming the strongest U.S. college team.

The CU web site has no mention of tonight's contest.
Is it still a go, or is it too cold for the Russkies??

Johnny 5
The CU web site has no mention of tonight's contest.
Is it still a go, or is it too cold for the Russkies??

Much of Cornell U is on autopilot / holiday break until next week. With the bad weather, it might be challenging, perhaps dangerous, for an employee living far from Cornell to drive onto campus and log onto the CRTs that have CU's access to the world wide web mainframes containing Cornell's website. RS-232 cables have limited distance, I recall.

The Red Stars' game scheduled for yesterday afternoon at Merrimack (which was not listed on their original schedule), was cancelled due to the weather. I haven't received word yet as to whether they'll be able to make it to Ithaca for tonight' game.

Game was cancelled and then rescheduled, 4-4 tie

Red Russians (Team) spent the night in Albany

Snapper
Red Russians (Team) spent the night in Albany

I have to drive in from BF,E.
Any idea when the decision will be official?

Planning to drive up to game from 25 miles south - also like to know the status ?

P.S. about 10-12 inches of snow here low last night 0 degrees at my home currently high of 8 degrees here slightly breezy -

Hopefully CU will announce and email all ticket holders.

Jim Hyla
Hopefully CU will announce and email all ticket holders.

Just called the ticket office.
They say the game is a Go.

Johnny 5

Jim Hyla
Hopefully CU will announce and email all ticket holders.

Just called the ticket office.
They say the game is a Go.

Thanks, I'm leaving before 5, so it's nice to know. Amazing what a little communication can do.

Jim Hyla

Johnny 5

Jim Hyla
Hopefully CU will announce and email all ticket holders.

Just called the ticket office.
They say the game is a Go.

Thanks, I'm leaving before 5, so it's nice to know. Amazing what a little communication can do.

Yes. I'm going to go and start harnessing the dogs.

Good luck Arthur!

Loving the Russian flag. Did they do the anthem?

Yes, they had a recording of the anthem.

Trotsky
Paging Ryan Coon, Holden Anderson, Eric Sade and Craig Esposito; white courtesy telephone please.

And indeed, it appears we are going to see all of them. Esposito scored a goal and got a huge hometown hand.

I love that the team captains had a gift exchange before the match... kind of like how little pennants are traditionally exchanged before an international soccer match. Kirill Gotovets was, understandably as a Russian speaker, getting lots of attention from some Red Stars after the game, which was interesting to see. The team took full advantage of their size and physicality tonight and really dominated all facets of the game. I think it bodes pretty well for the return to league play. Also great to see the local boy getting his first collegiate goal.

Trotsky
Yes, they had a recording of the anthem.

And it was the right version.

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The Red Stars looked like a young and rather small team, they could skate, but as this was the last game of a long tour - and they had bus problems getting here - the kids looked really exhausted. Final shots on goal were 52-22 for us -
The Cornell team seemed to let up a bit in the third period after it was already 6-0 at end of 2 periods.

I would like to see a rematch when the Red Stars are fresh. It was a fun game and they showed talent in spurts, but there was a major case of bus legs and general road weariness out there.

It would be interesting to have the Russian team talk about all the schools they played. Maybe it was fatigue, I don't know, but they were outshot by Harvard, outshot Yale, and were pretty even with Colgate. And yet they lost all the games. I wonder how much practice as a team they had, especially on PP and PK. But even if they were tired tonight, we were still a much better team.

And as Age said in between periods, "How did Colgate almost lose to them?" And then to go on and put Minny in their own consolation game.

Bahnstorm
I would like to see a rematch when the Red Stars are fresh. It was a fun game and they showed talent in spurts, but there was a major case of bus legs and general road weariness out there.

Let's not also forget that we sat our #1 goalie (Iles), half our defense (Ryan, Willcox, Lewis), our captain (JMcCarron), and another regular forward (Knisley). Dustin Mowrey didn't play in the third, anyone have any idea why? We don't need another injury.

releck97
Good luck Arthur!

Thanks, but I don't need luck.

ACM

releck97
Good luck Arthur!

Thanks, but I don't need luck.

And you did a great job.