Women's Hockey 2014

The women beat Brown 3-1. Saulnier scored short-handed for the first goal -- highlight reel material if those responsible for highlight reels actually thought that women's sports were worth noting on a highlight reel.

It was a rusty effort by the women tonight, especially in the first period. To use a sports cliche, they found a way to win. The top line of Fulton-Campbell-Saulnier were frustrated for the most part, and Brown goaltender Aubrey Moore made her share of saves to keep her team in the game. There were several defensive lapses that Brown failed to take much advantage of--a clear sign of an inferior opponent. Brown's commentator, who's the same guy who does the men's games at Meehan, was an entertaining homer as usual (but he doesn't get as outraged during the women's games). Campbell took a penalty in the final minute of play which he thought was convinced was a dangerous hit from behind but replaying the video in slow-mo shows it was benign.

Women defeat Yale 3-0. Again, not our best effort but also we faced solid goaltending by Yale [35+ saves]. Most disappointing was our power play that only went 1 for 6/7 [haven't yet seen the box score so am relying on the stats provided by the Yale b'cast crew].

Got an email today that tickets for the Saturday game against Sucks are $1 for men's season ticket holders.

MattS
Got an email today that tickets for the Saturday game against Sucks are $1 for men's season ticket holders.

That's awesome. Fill the rink.

Trotsky

MattS
Got an email today that tickets for the Saturday game against Sucks are $1 for men's season ticket holders.

That's awesome. Fill the rink.

Also awesome, let's hope they also fill the rink. Cheers to the Blues.

Jim Hyla

Trotsky

MattS
Got an email today that tickets for the Saturday game against Sucks are $1 for men's season ticket holders.

That's awesome. Fill the rink.

Also awesome, let's hope they also fill the rink. Cheers to the Blues.

Ice hockey -- the best sport on earth at every level!

Harvard decided to do some decorating in the visitors' locker room.

[twitpic.com]

This is pretty funny stuff. Got to hand it to Harvard for doing and tweeting this

Weder
Harvard decided to do some decorating in the visitors' locker room.

[twitpic.com]

I am glad they left a big spot in the middle for people to wipe their feet. Now we just need a dog.

Women lose to Harvard 1-3 [ENG]. They looked better than we did in all aspects of the game.

dag14
Women lose to Harvard 1-3 [ENG]. They looked better than we did in all aspects of the game.

I thought Cornell dominated large portions of the game. They did a good job on FOs and outshot Harvard comfortably. The big difference to me was the goalie play.

ithacat

dag14
Women lose to Harvard 1-3 [ENG]. They looked better than we did in all aspects of the game.

I thought Cornell dominated large portions of the game. They did a good job on FOs and outshot Harvard comfortably. The big difference to me was the goalie play.

I agree. I thought Cornell played well except for two soft goals.

ECAC Hockey suspends Cornell women’s forward Campbell one game.

At the 19:55 mark of the third period, Campbell was given a major penalty for hitting from behind and a game misconduct penalty.

Read more: [www.uscho.com]

Cornell got a recruit who decommitted from Harvard [www.cyahockey.com].

ursusminor
Cornell got a recruit who decommitted from Harvard [www.cyahockey.com].

"Harvard wanted me to PG a year but I'm ready for college right now."

What's up with that?

Their loss is our gain.

Jim Hyla

ursusminor
Cornell got a recruit who decommitted from Harvard [www.cyahockey.com].

"Harvard wanted me to PG a year but I'm ready for college right now."

What's up with that?

Anticipating a season heavy with senior defensemen and wanting to spread out the talent?

In case anyone hasn't seen this yet...

WIH awareness games

It will feel weird not to wear red on Friday.

MattS
In case anyone hasn't seen this yet...

WIH awareness games

It will feel weird not to wear red on Friday.

Red is a bright color. You can wear it Saturday.

Cornell escaped a tough game with Yale, scoring three times in the third to win 6-3. It was our first win in four games, and the first time over that stretch we scored more than 1 goal.

Standings:

1. 27 Hvd (1 extra GP)
2. 24 Clk
3. 23 Cor
4. 20 Qpc
5. 17 SLU

PWR:

1. Minn
2. Wisc
3. Hvd
4. Cor
5. Clk
6. RMU
7. BC
8. NDak
9. Mcy
10. Qpc

Our next five games are against the four bottom teams in the ECAC, so hopefully there is momentum to do some serious damage.

Cornell completed a weekend sweep of Colgate.

.833 Hvd
.806 Cor
.778 Clk

Gagliardi is one of five finalists for Hockey Humanitarian Award.

Cornell back in first with Harvard and Clarkson 1 point back.

I can't believe Harvard came back to tie Yale, and now be tied with us. They win the tiebreaker, so we drop to third.

I live in boston.

Was at a bar in Harvard square last night with my (Cornellian) wife. I was describing the game because she hadn't gotten to see it.

A lady next to us accosts us and says "devastating, wasn't it?" We get to taking. She says she's an assistant coach at Harvard, her boss is the clash for team USA, and some of her players are on the team.

She asks how we became hockey fans. I say through college. She asks where. We say we met at Cornell.

She gets this look.... And she knew. "You cheered for Canada, didn't you?"

BMac
I live in boston.

Was at a bar in Harvard square last night with my (Cornellian) wife. I was describing the game because she hadn't gotten to see it.

A lady next to us accosts us and says "devastating, wasn't it?" We get to taking. She says she's an assistant coach at Harvard, her boss is the clash for team USA, and some of her players are on the team.

She asks how we became hockey fans. I say through college. She asks where. We say we met at Cornell.

She gets this look.... And she knew. "You cheered for Canada, didn't you?"

Yes!!!!! (I cheered full-heartedly for Canada as well)

By finishing as they did, the women get to host Princeton next weekend, in best of three. They also fall to 6 in PWR.

From ECAC:

Women’s Championship Pairings Set

ALBANY, N.Y. -- ECAC Hockey announced the pairings for the 2014 ECAC Women's Hockey Championship 
featuring an eight-team tournament field comprising the top eight seeds based upon the final 
regular season standings.

The eight teams, in order of seed, are Clarkson, Harvard, Cornell, Quinnipiac, St. Lawrence, 
Princeton, Yale and Dartmouth. The 30th annual championship will commence with quarterfinals 
competition Friday, February 28 at on-campus facilities. The quarterfinals winners shall 
advance to the championship semifinals and finals, which shall be conducted the weekend of 
Saturday, March 8.

The 2014 championship will continue to follow the format adapted for the last four season’s 
championships for the semifinals and championship games. The format for the semifinals and 
championship game shall be conducted on the campus of the highest remaining seed.

Listed below is a summary of the upcoming tournament schedule:
QUARTERFINALS (Friday-Sunday, February 28-March 2 - Best-of-three games)

No. 8 DARTMOUTH at No. 1 CLARKSON
Friday: 3:30 p.m.
Saturday: 3:30 p.m.
Sunday: 2 p.m. (if necessary)

No. 7 YALE at No. 2 HARVARD
Friday: 7 p.m.
Saturday: 4 p.m.
Sunday: 4 p.m.

No. 6 PRINCETON at No. 3 CORNELL
Friday: 3:30 p.m.
Saturday: 2 p.m.
Sunday: 2 p.m. (if necessary)

No. 5 ST. LAWRENCE at No. 4 QUINNIPIAC
Friday: 7 p.m.
Saturday: 4 p.m.
Sunday: 2 p.m. (if necessary)

SEMIFINALS
March 8

CHAMPIONSHIP
March 9

So it's likely that next weekend will be the last at Lynah for the women.

A number of awards:

From cornellbigred and usahockey, "Jillian Saulnier Named Top-10 Finalist For Patty Kazmaier Award In Women's Hockey."

Again cornellbigred and ivyleaguesports "Saulnier Named Co-Player Of The Year, Bunton Rookie Of The Year In All-Ivy Picks."

2013-14 WOMEN'S ICE HOCKEY ALL-IVY 

CO-PLAYERS OF THE YEAR
Jill Saulnier, Cornell (Jr., F - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
Emerance Maschmeyer, Harvard (So., G - Bruderheim, Alberta, Canada) 

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Hannah Bunton, Cornell (Fr., F - Belleville, Ontario, Canada) 

FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY^
Emily Fulton, Cornell (Jr., F - Stratford, Ontario, Canada)
*Jill Saulnier, Cornell (Jr., F - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
Lindsey Allen, Dartmouth (So., F - Toronto)
Miye D'Oench, Harvard (So., F - New York)
*Alyssa Gagliardi, Cornell (Sr., D - Raleigh, N.C.)
Sarah Edney, Harvard (Jr., D - Mississauga, Ontario, Canada)
*Emerance Maschmeyer, Harvard (So., G - Bruderheim, Alberta, Canada) 

SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY^
Jessica Campbell, Cornell (Sr., F - Melville, Saskatchewan, Canada)
Hillary Crowe, Harvard (Jr., F - Eden Prairie, Minn.)
Mary Parker, Harvard (So., F - Milton, Mass.)
Denna Laing, Princeton (Sr., F - Marblehead, Mass.)
Rose Alleva, Princeton (Sr., D - Red Wing, Minn.)
Tara Tomimoto, Yale (Sr., D - Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Aubree Moore, Brown (Sr., G - Bowie, Md.)

HONORABLE MENTION ALL-IVY
Phoebe Staenz, Yale (Fr., F - Zurich)
Hayleigh Cudmore, Cornell (Sr., D - Oakville, Ontario, Canada)
Cassandra Poudrier, Cornell (So., F - Mont-Laurier, Quebec, Canada)
Marissa Gedman, Harvard (Jr., D - Framingham, Mass.)
Lauren Slebodnick, Cornell (Sr., GK - Manchester, N.H.)

 *Unanimous Selection
^The number of forwards on the first and second teams expanded to four due to ties in voting

women trailing Princeton 2-0 midway through the 2nd after consecutive PP goals within a few seconds of each other. Cornell seems to have lost its mojo of late.

Second period, Cornell gives Princeton a 5x3 advantage and the Tigers bang in two goals inside of a minute. 2-0 Princeton. Ouch. "Hit everything that moves" was instructions for the 7 pm game.

At least one key Cornell player was sick this week. I suspect that she was/is not alone. This may have an impact on their play.

now tied at 2 early in the third

3 unanswered goals in the 3rd period so Cornell takes game one.

dag14
3 unanswered goals in the 3rd period so Cornell takes game one.

Whew!

Saulnier 2G, 2A, come back from 1-0 deficit to beat Princeton 5-3. Cornell wins the series 2-0.

ECAC Playoffs

Saturday, March 8
Semifinal Game One - 1 p.m. - No. 4 Quinnipiac at No. 1 Clarkson
Semifinal Game Two - 4 p.m. - No. 3 Cornell vs. No. 2 Harvard

Sunday, March 9
Championship Game - 1 p.m.

How They Will Here
QUARTERFINALS (Friday, February 28 - Sunday, March 2 - Best-of-three games)

No. 8 DARTMOUTH at No. 1 CLARKSON
Friday: 3:30 p.m. - At Clarkson 2, Dartmouth 0
Saturday: 3 p.m. - At Clarkson, Dartmouth 0
Clarkson wins series (2-0)

No. 7 YALE at No. 2 HARVARD
Friday: 7 p.m. - Yale 3 at Harvard 2, (2ot)
Saturday: 4 p.m. - At Harvard 3, Yale 2 (2ot)
Sunday: 4 p.m. - At Harvard 4, Yale 0
Harvard wins series (2-1)

No. 6 PRINCETON at No. 3 CORNELL
Friday: 3:30 p.m. - At Cornell 3, Princeton 2
Saturday: 2 p.m. - At Cornell 5, Princeton 3
Cornell wins series (2-0)

No. 5 ST. LAWRENCE at No. 4 QUINNIPIAC
Friday: 7 p.m. - At Quinnipiac 5, St. Lawrence 0
Saturday: 4 p.m. - At Quinnipiac 2, St. Lawrence 1
Quinnipiac wins series (2-0)

Interesting that for the second and third games against Yale this past weekend, Harvard started Laing instead of Maschmeyer in goal. I wonder why? Here are their conference stats:

Goalies
No. 	Name 	                Yr 	Pos 	gp 	gs 	min 	 ga 	gaa 	sv 	sv% 	w 	l 	t 	win %
1 	Brianna Laing 		Fr 	G 	 3 	 3 	179:40 	  1 	0.33 	66 	.985 	 3 	0 	0 	1.000
38 	Emerance Maschmeyer 	So 	G 	19 	19 	1150:28  29 	1.51 	526 	.948 	13 	3 	3 	 .763
  	Totals 	                                22 	22 	1335:00  30 	1.35 	592 	.952 	- 	- 	- 	-
  	Opponent 	                        22 	22 	1335:00  59 	2.65 	488 	.892 	- 	- 	- 	-

Anybody know more about it? Maschmeyer played both games against us, Clarkson, and Quinnipiac, and went 3-1-2.

Harvard lost to Yale on Friday, and didn't beat them during the regular season--all games with Machmeyer in net, I think. Also, Yale is the only ECAC team that Harvard didn't beat at least once this season. Coach Crowell probably just wanted to change things up, in an attempt to "solve" Yale. Lucky Harvard has two great goalies.

The ECAC will now charge us to watch the women's semi-finals and finals. IIRC, they used to be streamed free of charge.

[www.ecachockey.com]

Games are $9 each. No word on any post-season discounted package. Guess it is time for my annual email to Steve Hagwell.

Saturday's semi-final game times from the ECAC site.

Quinnipiac at Clarkson
1:00 PM

Cornell vs. Harvard
4:00 PM

(MICE: Princeton @ Clarkson, 7:30 pm on Saturday, which might not be enough of a buffer).

Rita
The ECAC will now charge us to watch the women's semi-finals and finals. IIRC, they used to be streamed free of charge.

[www.ecachockey.com]

Games are $9 each. No word on any post-season discounted package. Guess it is time for my annual email to Steve Hagwell.

Boo.

You missed that we get to pay an extra dollar to watch on a mobile device!

The NCAA women's games are free. The conference needs to charge? For what? To make up a small fraction of the cost at the expense of losing casual fans who might actually go to games in the future? How many paying customers will they get per game? 50? That might be optimistic.

I've come to accept the playoff extortion on the men's side as the current reality but I'm be hard pressed to justify paying $9 each for as many as 7 games. That's basically a whole season on ILDN.

Considering most rinks can't even reach 50% capacity to see a game in person and for free, I would guess the entire audience will be family members too far to travel.

It's worse than a crime; it's a blunder.

You all know what's next I assume? Charging double price for a full playoff package of mens and womens games. You know: added value for their customers!

Trotsky
You all know what's next I assume? Charging double price for a full playoff package of mens and womens games. You know: added value for their customers!

Don't give them any ideas.

Rita
The ECAC will now charge us to watch the women's semi-finals and finals. IIRC, they used to be streamed free of charge.

[www.ecachockey.com]

Games are $9 each. No word on any post-season discounted package. Guess it is time for my annual email to Steve Hagwell.

Here's a great message for Steve:

I got a response from Steve Hagwell. In it he said that the women's ECAC championship game will be streamed live on ESPN3. Only the semi-finals will be PPV on America One.

Does Clarkson (or Q) provide free audio for women's hockey? I would listen to the audio for that, and then pay for the Cornell video.

USCHO -
Minnesota sophomore forward Hannah Brandt, Clarkson senior forward Jamie Lee Rattray and Cornell junior forward Jillian Saulnier are the final three players up for the top individual honor in women’s hockey.

Read more: [www.uscho.com]

Clarkson wipes up Quinnipiac 6-0 in the first ECAC semifinal at Cheel. They await the winner of Cornell-Harvard, which starts at 4 pm.

Anyone around to chat during the women's semifinal? LGR!

Women beat Sucks 6-4.

women won today and play tomorrow

Cornell leading Clarkson 1-0 8:59 to go in the third.

ECAC Champions!

CHAMPS! @CornellWHockey blanks @CUknights for the #ECACHockey title! pic.twitter.com/nVb6X7zgx9

— Mark H. Anbinder (@mhaithaca) March 9, 2014

Great job. Well done, team!

And they move to second in USCHO PWR. I don't know how acurate that is.

BU just tied BC 2-2 in third. If BU wins, Mercyhurst is tossed out. RIT won CHA and will be 8. If BU wins, I think we play them, if BC then Mercyhurst?

If BC live stats is correct, BU beats BC 3-2 to take the Hockey East title. According to USCHO's pwr table, that should knock Mercyhurst out, and put BU as the #7 seed.

The women's bracket supposedly comes out at 6 pm tonight.

[www.ncaa.com]

Jim Hyla
BU just tied BC 2-2 in third. If BU wins, Mercyhurst is tossed out. RIT won CHA and will be 8. If BU wins, I think we play them, if BC then Mercyhurst?

I don't think CHA has an auto-bid yet, and even if it did, RIT is ineligible for the NCAA tournament as part of its transition from D-III to D-I. Robert Morris could represent CHA as an at-large selection.

Weder

Jim Hyla
BU just tied BC 2-2 in third. If BU wins, Mercyhurst is tossed out. RIT won CHA and will be 8. If BU wins, I think we play them, if BC then Mercyhurst?

I don't think CHA has an auto-bid yet, and even if it did, RIT is ineligible for the NCAA tournament as part of its transition from D-III to D-I. Robert Morris could represent CHA as an at-large selection.

You're right.

We get Mercyhurst.

BU @ #1 Minnesota Saturday 3/15 @ 5 pm (EDT)

Harvard @ #4 Wisconsin Saturday 3/15 @ 8 pm (EDT)

Mercyhurst @ #2 Cornell Saturday 3/15 @ 3:30 pm (per Mercyhurst's website, listed as tentative start time)

BC @ #3 Clarkson Saturday 3/15 at 4 pm per the Clarkson MICE announcers.

Games are on either Friday or Saturday. I guess to be announced shortly by the host schools.

Bummer that three of the games will be airing concurrently.

Rita
BU @ #1 Minnesota

Harvard @ #4 Wisconsin

Mercyhurst @ #2 Cornell

BC @ #3 Clarkson

Games are on either Friday or Saturday. I guess to be announced shortly by the host schools.

For what it's worth, the NCAA site lists all games as Sat. 3/15.

Jim Hyla

Rita
BU @ #1 Minnesota

Harvard @ #4 Wisconsin

Mercyhurst @ #2 Cornell

BC @ #3 Clarkson

Games are on either Friday or Saturday. I guess to be announced shortly by the host schools.

For what it's worth, the NCAA site lists all games as Sat. 3/15.

I thought the talking head who read the pairings said the games would be held on 14th/15th. Given that the FF is in Hamden, CT, I would suspect that Minnesota and Wisconsin would prefer to have Friday games to give the winners an extra day for practice travel back east.

Interestingly, the ECAC title game had the largest attendance of the 4 leagues. That includes BU-BC and Minny-N Dak. Those 2 were not on home ice, however.

Jillian Saulnier voted a first-team all-American and Alyssa Gagliardi is on the second team.

Clarkson women beat Minny for NCAA title 5-4.

Congrats to the Clarkson women.

Larry72
Congrats to the Clarkson women.

Wow. good for them.

But is a stronger ECAC good for Cornell?

Jim Hyla
Clarkson women beat Minny for NCAA title 5-4.

Clarkson's WICE should change their nickname to the "Lady Golden Gopher Killers". Congrats to them!

Congrats to the Clarkson women. Nice to have the title in the East for a change.

This is good for us. Better competition means a better team.

Yes. I'm happy for them, really. Thrilled that an Eastern team finally broke through. The 1st Eastern team to win this NCAA tournament since it began in 2001. Clarkson has only had a team since 2004.

Then the memory of the 3OT loss in 2010 marches into my brain, and the hurting starts. Again.

Goddammit.

RichH
Yes. I'm happy for them, really. Thrilled that an Eastern team finally broke through. The 1st Eastern team to win this NCAA tournament since it began in 2001. Clarkson has only had a team since 2004.

Then the memory of the 3OT loss in 2010 marches into my brain, and the hurting starts. Again.

Goddammit.

Anytime you go 3 OTs, you can't but recall all the almost-goals. Good for Clarkson.

And here we thought Clarkson would never win a national championship.