Cornell v Yale, 11/3/23

I'm planning to attend the game at Yale and have some questions:

1. Where are the best seats for visitors?
2. The Yale website offers parking, apparently for an extra fee. Is this really necessary, or is free parking readily available nearby?
3. Is there anythng else one should know about attending the game at Yale?

I’ll be there too. Don’t know where the best seats are for visitors. I’ve sat all over that rink and there are Cornell fans everywhere. Band is usually by the right corner nearest the main entrance so that’s a loud area.

Can usually find street parking a short walk from the whale. Neighborhood is pretty quiet on the edge of campus. Feels safe. The garage is a fee and takes a bit of time to get out.

Swampy
I'm planning to attend the game at Yale and have some questions:

1. Where are the best seats for visitors?
2. The Yale website offers parking, apparently for an extra fee. Is this really necessary, or is free parking readily available nearby?
3. Is there anythng else one should know about attending the game at Yale?

Only thing I would note is that the rink is an archetectural landmark if you’re interested in such things. Saarenein (sp?). Nice little hall of fame downstairs. The best pizza in the world imho in New Haven so worth the trip for that. I’m partial to sally’s but Pepe is also great. Some love Modern. Not me.

Swampy
I'm planning to attend the game at Yale and have some questions:

1. Where are the best seats for visitors?
2. The Yale website offers parking, apparently for an extra fee. Is this really necessary, or is free parking readily available nearby?
3. Is there anythng else one should know about attending the game at Yale?

I think the whale SRO on the blue line is about as good a seat as there is in the ecac. Cornell fans will be basically everywhere. Band is committed to football and will not be present this weekend.

Easy to park for free and walk.

Insert mandatory new haven pizza reference here.

There’s an old guy who always sits near Cornell fans and tries to shout “BLUUE!!” over “RED” during every single “Let’s go RED” cheer with the intensity and fervor of an 8 year old.

I hate that old guy.

We usually park on Hillhouse Avenue. Block from rink.

Same same on parking and New Haven pizza.

For seating, Yale's so bad now it may be like the 90s when you could just walk around and plant yourself anywhere in the rink.

Beautiful rink with atrocious facilities.

The Yale crowd is divided evenly between (1) students, (2) 8-year olds, and (3) 80-year olds. It's like a football game in terms of the number of sheer fossils, and they are all ill-natured and aghast that there are fans of the visiting team. Apparently this didn't happen during the good old days of redlining.

Trotsky
Same same on parking and New Haven pizza.

For seating, Yale's so bad now it may be like the 90s when you could just walk around and plant yourself anywhere in the rink.

Beautiful rink with atrocious facilities.

The Yale crowd is divided evenly between (1) students, (2) 8-year olds, and (3) 80-year olds. It's like a football game in terms of the number of sheer fossils, and they are all ill-natured and aghast that there are fans of the visiting team. Apparently this didn't happen during the good old days of redlining.

FWIW, Yale's ticket website is saying "[ticket] Availability Limited." Looking at seats and at center ice behind the Visitor's bench, it seems most seats are taken.

Cornell-at-Yale tickets are available, Yale says "limited," but there is standing room. Availability is certainly better than in the years around the national championship year (2013). You can find parking on-street, it'll be a 5- or 10-minute walk. The paid-parking garage is quite near, easy-in, but a wait to get out post-game. The New Haven deal for many includes dinner at one of the Wooster Street pizza/Italian restaurants. Take your pick, Modern, Sally's, Pepe's.

billhoward
Cornell-at-Yale tickets are available, Yale says "limited," but there is standing room. Availability is certainly better than in the years around the national championship year (2013). You can find parking on-street, it'll be a 5- or 10-minute walk. The paid-parking garage is quite near, easy-in, but a wait to get out post-game. The New Haven deal for many includes dinner at one of the Wooster Street pizza/Italian restaurants. Take your pick, Modern, Sally's, Pepe's.

Don't look for Modern on Wooster Street.

Swampy
I'm planning to attend the game at Yale and have some questions:

1. Where are the best seats for visitors?
2. The Yale website offers parking, apparently for an extra fee. Is this really necessary, or is free parking readily available nearby?
3. Is there anythng else one should know about attending the game at Yale?

Back in February, I had a ticket for a seat in aisle 3, but I sometimes stood up in that general area. As another poster mentioned, the Cornell band is usually in that vicinity, and it offers a very good view of the play. There happened to be some Yale fans because it was the senior night, and I expect with it being the regular season home opener that there also be a decent number of people affiliated with Yale who attend the game.

Street parking should be available within 1-2 blocks of the rink and there are meters which accept payment. Don't try to park near a nonfunctional meter, because those clowns in the New Haven government will still ticket you. Even if a meter is busted, they still expect you to pay via whatever app the city uses.

Ingalls is a great place to watch a game and if I didn't live so far away, I'd probably go there every season like I do with Baker rink. Along with Harvard and Princeton, it's probably one of the most well-attended road games as far as Cornell supporters is concerned and I think whichever place is #4 doesn't even come close (not counting MSG since that's a neutral site and not a college rink). Maybe RPI is #4? Someone who has actually been to all the other in-league road sites should comment. I know Brown and Dartmouth don't get a lot of people, but I haven't been to Q, Union, Colgate, or the North Country.

Swampy
I'm planning to attend the game at Yale and have some questions:

1. Where are the best seats for visitors?
2. The Yale website offers parking, apparently for an extra fee. Is this really necessary, or is free parking readily available nearby?
3. Is there anythng else one should know about attending the game at Yale?

Street parking in the neighborhood around the hockey rink used to be free at night, but is no longer. You will have to feed a meter.

arugula

Swampy
I'm planning to attend the game at Yale and have some questions:

1. Where are the best seats for visitors?
2. The Yale website offers parking, apparently for an extra fee. Is this really necessary, or is free parking readily available nearby?
3. Is there anythng else one should know about attending the game at Yale?

Only thing I would note is that the rink is an archetectural landmark if you’re interested in such things. Saarenein (sp?). Nice little hall of fame downstairs. The best pizza in the world imho in New Haven so worth the trip for that. I’m partial to sally’s but Pepe is also great. Some love Modern. Not me.

I'm from the area and imo it goes: Modern, Pepes, then Sallys but they are all great

Also heard great things about BAR but haven't been

Will also be coming down for the game from Boston tonight, would be cool to meet up with Red fans anywhere before or after if people have plans LGR!

There is a Cornell Hockey reddit site r/LynahFaithful if you want to use it to coordinate seating (shameless plug, I am co-mod).

cornell -180 favs.. not used to seeing cornell lines on most of those sites.

upprdeck
cornell -180 favs.. not used to seeing cornell lines on most of those sites.

Whazzat mean? Bet 180 to win 100? 64% odds to win? I'd take that action -- what happens if they get an otw or sow?

Trotsky

upprdeck
cornell -180 favs.. not used to seeing cornell lines on most of those sites.

Whazzat mean? Bet 180 to win 100? 64% odds to win? I'd take that action -- what happens if they get an otw or sow?

Yeah, bet $180 to win $100. I don't see the Cornell game available on any of the legal sites in my state at a quick glance, though there are a handful of lines on women's games now too. One site in my state has Cornell to win the NCAA title at +4200. (Another has it at +2800, so this is not a super efficient market.) The women are at +2600.

ETA: The lines I see indicate that OT counts, so my guess is anything that goes to a shootout is a push. You can also bet on regulation outcome only, but that's a 3-way bet so you'd lose on a game that goes to overtime if you didn't bet on a tie.

I have cornell at 50-1..
Women are 20-1

you cant bet cornell in ny..

Game Notes from the Cornell AD.

Lines tonight:

Sullivan Mack has to be injured, right? I know the kids are good but I thought he looked solid last year.

Down 1-0 about 8 minutes in. Yale looking much more cohesive so far than they have in recent years. Doesn’t look like tonight will be a cakewalk.

scoop85
Down 1-0 about 8 minutes in. Yale looking much more cohesive so far than they have in recent years. Doesn’t look like tonight will be a cakewalk.

By contrast, women leading #6 Yale 5-1 after two.

Al DeFlorio

scoop85
Down 1-0 about 8 minutes in. Yale looking much more cohesive so far than they have in recent years. Doesn’t look like tonight will be a cakewalk.

By contrast, women leading #6 Yale 5-1 after two.

Pleasant surprise after we had the 2 tight wins last week in the Capital Region

scoop85
Down 1-0 about 8 minutes in. Yale looking much more cohesive so far than they have in recent years. Doesn’t look like tonight will be a cakewalk.

Devlin's first goal ties it. 1-1 at the first intermission.

Walsh makes it 2-1 on the PP with 15:55 left in the second

Who signed off on a skater having a uniform number > 29??

Dunc
Walsh makes it 2-1 on the PP with 15:55 left in the second

i wonder if that one gets switched to robertson. i think it may have been tipped by an eli in front.

Dunc
Walsh makes it 2-1 on the PP with 15:55 left in the second

Very nice deflection at the top of the crease. One thing we’ve been missing the past couple years, IMO.

Are the Yalie announcers on ESPN+ having a competition to see how many inaccuracies the can sneak in? Between pronouncing Seger “See-Jer” and how Cornell’s head coach was a goaltender, it been hammering on my inner fact-checker.

The good news is we have the lead after 2. But that was clearly our worst period so far this season. Lots of fumbling pucks, undisciplined penalties, and we’re struggling with Yale’s forecheck. Shane and the PK have been solid and the power play continued its hot streak, but otherwise not so good

RichH
Are the Yalie announcers on ESPN+ having a competition to see how many inaccuracies the can sneak in? Between pronouncing Seger “See-Jer” and how Cornell’s head coach was a goaltender, it been hammering on my inner fact-checker.

The See-Jer thing is getting to me.

Total shots Yale 38, Cornell 21. Second period 21-6, Yale. Yikes!

Al DeFlorio
Total shots Yale 38, Cornell 21. Second period 21-6, Yale. Yikes!

What's with the Yale announcers keeping track of "total shots" separately from "shots on goal"?

Six penalties aren't helping.

ugarte
Sullivan Mack has to be injured, right? I know the kids are good but I thought he looked solid last year.

We’ll find out tomorrow night whether he’s injured. I’m sure Schafer would like to sit about half of tonight’s lineup.

…and just like that, however temporarily, we’re #1 in the pairwise.

Not our best-looking game, but we kept Yale from getting a lot of good chances and took advantage of ours. Wouldn't shock me if Yale is decent this year.

Beeeej
…and just like that, however temporarily, we’re #1 in the pairwise.

And Brown is 13.

ugarte

Dunc
Walsh makes it 2-1 on the PP with 15:55 left in the second

i wonder if that one gets switched to robertson. i think it may have been tipped by an eli in front.

watched it again and i'm even more sure it was an own goal.

Dafatone
Not our best-looking game, but we kept Yale from getting a lot of good chances and took advantage of ours. Wouldn't shock me if Yale is decent this year.

They're certainly better than they were last season--much quicker and tenacious. Cornell still has more talent but Yale is obviously a team not to be taken lightly

Just got back from the rink. This was an ugly win. Yale dominated the second period, even though we scored the only goal of the period. We did a great job all night blocking shots, though (19-3 advantage), making Shane's job easier. The PK had to be called upon too many times, but did a great job, especially of mucking the puck along the boards in the Yale for lengthy stretches. We got lucky on the five-minute major to Psenicka that Yale took two penalties during that time. We were also lucky that Psenicka didn't get a game misconduct. I'm sure Schafer wasn't pleased with Rego taking two ill-advised penalties.
It was nice to see Seger get rewarded with an empty-netter. He played well all night, and only a great backchecking effort by him kept Yale from getting a clean look on a 2-on-1 break.
Our biggest problem was our inability to carry the puck into the Yale zone. Most of the night we ended up dumping and chasing. I know we can't compare this year's team to last year's, but last year it seemed we were able to carry the puck into the zone on a regular basis.
As for the atmosphere at the rink, there were no pep bands, just annoying piped-in music. A good Cornell contingent, Felt like it was close to 50-50 ratio.
We'll need to play better at Brown, especially since its win over Colgate will give it some confidence going into Saturday's game.

dbilmes
Just got back from the rink. This was an ugly win. Yale dominated the second period, even though we scored the only goal of the period. We did a great job all night blocking shots, though (19-3 advantage), making Shane's job easier. The PK had to be called upon too many times, but did a great job, especially of mucking the puck along the boards in the Yale for lengthy stretches. We got lucky on the five-minute major to Psenicka that Yale took two penalties during that time. We were also lucky that Psenicka didn't get a game misconduct. I'm sure Schafer wasn't pleased with Rego taking two ill-advised penalties.
It was nice to see Seger get rewarded with an empty-netter. He played well all night, and only a great backchecking effort by him kept Yale from getting a clean look on a 2-on-1 break.
Our biggest problem was our inability to carry the puck into the Yale zone. Most of the night we ended up dumping and chasing. I know we can't compare this year's team to last year's, but last year it seemed we were able to carry the puck into the zone on a regular basis.
As for the atmosphere at the rink, there were no pep bands, just annoying piped-in music. A good Cornell contingent, Felt like it was close to 50-50 ratio.
We'll need to play better at Brown, especially since its win over Colgate will give it some confidence going into Saturday's game.

I think one of Rego’s penalties was hooking a Yale player who was wide open in the slot, which may have prevented a goal. Yale seemed to win the vast majority of loose pucks. Blocking shots is nice, but when you block way more shots than the opponent it usually means you’re badly losing the possession battle. It was a very ugly win.

Duluth lost to the Goophers 5-1. Not sure how good Duluth is this year, and Yale sure looked like a more difficult opponent, for one night at least.

scoop85
Duluth lost to the Goophers 5-1. Not sure how good Duluth is this year, and Yale sure looked like a more difficult opponent, for one night at least.

Their only goal came on a lucky 2-on-1 break in the closing minutes, probably from Minny playing it a bit loose with a 4-0 lead.

Some surprising results tonight. Princeton sort of beats Harvard. Quinnipiac. League looks wider open.

RichH
Are the Yalie announcers on ESPN+ having a competition to see how many inaccuracies the can sneak in? Between pronouncing Seger “See-Jer” and how Cornell’s head coach was a goaltender, it been hammering on my inner fact-checker.

The one that got me was when "Costanza".for in alone and hit the pipe. (Which makes me even more certain I heard vanini inadvertently say Costanza last week.)

Here's the clip [youtu.be]

abmarks

RichH
Are the Yalie announcers on ESPN+ having a competition to see how many inaccuracies the can sneak in? Between pronouncing Seger “See-Jer” and how Cornell’s head coach was a goaltender, it been hammering on my inner fact-checker.

The one that got me was when "Costanza".for in alone and hit the pipe. (Which makes me even more certain I heard vanini inadvertently say Costanza last week.)

Here's the clip [youtu.be]

It's not just the Yalie announcers. I was watching the Cornell-Harvard field hockey game last weekend and the Cornell announcer kept referring to "penalty corners" as "penalty shots." Eventually, someone must have corrected him, because he finally stopped doing it. Not to mention the fact that he rarely called any players by name. He would just say "Harvard passes the ball up the field," or "Cornell makes a nice defensive play." For Cornell, the only players whose names he mentioned were the two Ramsays and our goalie.

There were several times the Cornell speed created plays. If the breakaway goes in much less stress down the stretch.

Much of the Yale forecheck was helped by Cornell deciding to play thru it instead just getting the puck into clean spots.

The good news it so far it looks like no one line is going to be the dominant force creating chances.

Yale didn't create many scare rushes, it was really off of some decent puck control once it got along the boards.

Yale was happy to take long shots into traffic and we blocked 19 and a few become dangerous.

PP/PK it would be nice to get a few more chances and take a few less bad penalties.

I thought the major was more the big kid getting into a small kid, if he was 6-2 I don't think anything happens but he can't be reckless.

upprdeck
I thought the major was more the big kid getting into a small kid, if he was 6-2 I don't think anything happens but he can't be reckless.

I didn’t go back to watch again but when it happened I thought it was Psenicka skating hard in a line, the Yale player coming in from the side trying to lunge with his stick and leaned down and forward, and the sweep of Psenicka’s arm as he was striding brought his elbow through the Yale player’s lowered helmet.

JasonN95

upprdeck
I thought the major was more the big kid getting into a small kid, if he was 6-2 I don't think anything happens but he can't be reckless.

I didn’t go back to watch again but when it happened I thought it was Psenicka skating hard in a line, the Yale player coming in from the side trying to lunge with his stick and leaned down and forward, and the sweep of Psenicka’s arm as he was striding brought his elbow through the Yale player’s lowered helmet.

Exactly how I saw it

scoop85

JasonN95

upprdeck
I thought the major was more the big kid getting into a small kid, if he was 6-2 I don't think anything happens but he can't be reckless.

I didn’t go back to watch again but when it happened I thought it was Psenicka skating hard in a line, the Yale player coming in from the side trying to lunge with his stick and leaned down and forward, and the sweep of Psenicka’s arm as he was striding brought his elbow through the Yale player’s lowered helmet.

Exactly how I saw it

At the rink, watching the play, there was nothing obvious. Completely phantom, replay five.

upprdeck

I thought the major was more the big kid getting into a small kid, if he was 6-2 I don't think anything happens but he can't be reckless.

Agree, tho I don't think it was a penalty at all after watching the replay a bunch of times.

The elbow did connect with the head, but in no way did 26 try to hit the kid. He was skating back towards the blue line on the right side of the Offensive zone, curled around to the left and works back down towards the goal line (the puck is beyond the goal line on the left hand side/corner)

He seems to be looking for/ready for a possible pass- stick down, head is still, right elbow was locked in one position (what looks like the natural position for a left hand shot with stock on the ice). he never moved it towards the kid or even adjusted his body position at all. His head was motionless as well, seemingly with his eyes on the puck.

JasonN95

upprdeck
I thought the major was more the big kid getting into a small kid, if he was 6-2 I don't think anything happens but he can't be reckless.

I didn’t go back to watch again but when it happened I thought it was Psenicka skating hard in a line, the Yale player coming in from the side trying to lunge with his stick and leaned down and forward, and the sweep of Psenicka’s arm as he was striding brought his elbow through the Yale player’s lowered helmet.

Watched it 10 times. There wasn't even any arm sweep. It was still.

Is it really a major penalty when a short.guy puts his head in an inconvenient place?