Game Thread: Cornell 4, Notre Dame 0 (FINAL)

Goal! Amazing shot! A laser! Maybe went off the stick of a defender! 6:21 from Knoepfli, assists from Hynes and Wallace!!

3 6:21 Cor Knoepfli 3 (Hynes 4, Wallace 3)

OByrne hauls down his player as he gets beat...another PP for ND

He was asked if he was happy to get so many minutes in place of Marr...and he turned it around saying he wasn't happy or lucky that Todd was injured...he was just happy that he was able to perform well when given the opportunity.

back to 5 on 5...Adam thinks ND has had the better play this period but Cornell has a real cushion...they're happy with how McKee has played...As I'm typing...GOAL Pegeraro! His first of the season!



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For those like me who have neither audio nor video feed....

[www.rso.cornell.edu]

gotcha.

3rd goal- woohoo!!!
(i think i cheered a bit too loud on that last one, as the family is giving me some strange looks. )

9:20 Knoepfli and Hynes on the assists?

1 08:30 Cor Knoepfli 2 (Moulson 12, Cook 8) pp
2 16:37 Cor Chris Abbott 2 (Pegoraro 1) pp
3 06:21 Cor Knoepfli 3 (Hynes 4, Wallace 3)
3 09:20 Cor Pegoraro 1 (Hynes 5, Knoepfli 8)



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haha, awesome link! Thanks!

Another penalty on the Red...this time on Hornby...6th PP for ND

ND on two man advantage.
Nope, Adam reverses himself -- still 5-on-4.



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5 on 4 as ND gets the diving penalty..."how do you get a diving penalty when the other team is penalized?"

Who do we want to play tomorrow? I'd like to play Maine because it would be a great barometer as to where we are at the mid point of the season but I'd love to avenge the early season result with Ohio State.



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After the timeout, another penalty on ND...the 5th PP for Cornell



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Maine will be without Jim Howard who is vastly overrated anyways (in my opinion)

We might as well play the best possible opponent. I doubt Cornell has a shot at an at large even if they run rampant through the league, but hey, gives em the best possible chance.



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Would definitely be nice to get another crack at ohio state, but playing a highly regarded and highly overrated team like maine would also be nice.

Back to 5-on-5. 4:57 to go.

back to even strength

Dartmouth 3, UMass 3 3rd
Wayne St 1, Brown 1 mid 2nd

highly over rated? Granted their big wins were their first two games (Minnesota and Wisconsin), but their two losses came on the road at UNH and BC...that isn't over rated, IMO. If anything, people could say we are over rated based on our PWR



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Is PWR out yet?

Cornell pp coming up.

PP #6 for the Red

when you see the team play, you'll know they are definitely not the third best team in the country as they are ranked. they are well coached but still are not even close to the caliber of BC or UND. I expect that they will fall off just as they did last season. Don't forget their hot start last season and how the second half ended up. their big names like Jackson and Shields have really started to cool down after hot starts. their strong defensive scheme will cover it up for the short term but I am not even remotely confident in their goaltending and the defensive scheme will eventually crumble as a result like last year. overrated.

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Thought I could manage to get away from family fun to find a local DirectTV enabled tavern, but couldn't. Great to hear that the Knoepfi-Hynes-Pegoraro line has finally made an impact. I've been waiting for that break-out moment from them.

Post game and then Ohio State and Maine! I'll post some of Adams thought from the post game (three stars, etc)

You dodged the question about us being over rated...

at 22, cornell isn't placed all that bad especially if they can come up with another win tomorrow. if they can crack the top 12, they'll be in good shape for an at large bid. with all inner conference games in the second half, they SHOULD be poised to win a fair amount and get up their in the PWR. of course, their results against the Browns, Dartmouths, Harvards, and even RPI's will be VERY important in determining their PWR standing. Regardless, win the ECAC post season and we don't have to worry about it. Anything can happen in the playoffs.

That's the ninth Cornell shutout in the 2003 calendar year.

Adam, we can talk about Maine later. It's 1:22 here and I'm going to bed. Talk to you guys tomorrow night. Good win. Big win. Big game tomorrow.

Someone check my math: 151:39 of straight shutout time for McKee now, right?

Adam: thanks in advance for relaying the post-game thoughts, and transcription of the McKee interview. I had 870 AM just fine in Rochester, and then they had to power-down right near the end of the 1st period. I'll watch the Final (Great to say that) in Ithaca.

It's the first time Cornell has advanced to the Championship of "their own tournament"...Cornells first power play really changed the momentum of the first period after ND came out quickly. ND dominated most of the 2nd period, 14-7 on shots in favor of ND during the period, but Cornell was able to hold off ND and increase the lead to 2. Cornell was the "quick strike" team tonight. Knoepfli's "bolt of lightning" was a very impressive goal and McKee made a sick save when he dove head first to block an open side of the net. After the 4 goal lead, Schafer gave some of the guys that are lower on the depth chart more playing time instead of pressing for Knoepfli's hat trick.

Three stars of the game...coming up

night! Thanks for hanging out and chatting!

Tony's Three stars

3. Pegeraro
2. Knoepfli
1. McKee, shutout and quality saves in the second and third periods

Thanks everyone for the game updates

Until tomorrow....

yup, I'm out too! Great win even if the score doesn't necessarily convey the flow of the game!

Pregame is at 4:00pm and the puck drops at 4:30

wow for some reason i thought the game was on at 7 and i MISSED it.. oh well, thanks for the updates and WE WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who are we playing tomorrow? I confused myself

Adam Brown wrote:
It's the first time Cornell has advanced to the Championship of "their own tournament"

Nope. They beat OSU and lost to Maine in the championship game in the first year of the tourney.

HC: We play the winner of the 7:30 OSU-Maine game. We should know our opponent in a couple of hours.

[Q]Adam Brown wrote:
After the 4 goal lead, Schafer gave some of the guys that are lower on the depth chart more playing time instead of pressing for Knoepfli's hat trick.[/Q]
It was great to see Knoepfli, Carefoot, and McCutcheon play forward for a shift during the last power play. I thought it was a nice combination of giving fourth-line freshman power-play time and giving Mike Knoepfli an opportunity to score his third goal. Also, Evan Salmela played with Ben Wallace on that shift.

Knoepfli had a great chance for a hat trick earlier in the period, but Scott Brown stopped his shot from the slot.

Other than the first 16 or so minutes of the second period, Cornell played great hockey. Let's hope the third-period comeback against Brown proves to be the turning point of the season.



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OSU up 2-0 in 2nd, Maine playing very poorly.

I can't believe it. I thought we were the late game. I have nobody to blame but myself, I guess.

Are we DEFINITELY the early game tomorrow?

Big win. We needed to slap around an OOC team. Congrats to the guys.

According to uscho, the game is at 430.

dss28 wrote:

According to uscho, the game is at 430.

The consolation game is at 1pm EST followed by the championship game--supposedly at 4:30.

thanks for the correction!

Ohio State 4, Maine 2 F

Maine was underprepared for this game. They came out slow and were very sloppy for much of the game. We have an opportunity to get some revenge on Ohio State tomorrow

Am I crazy to have actually wished to take on Maine instead of Ohio State tomorrow? Granted, Maine has been ranked higher in the polls, but Ohio State already played us this year and would theoretically remember how we play better than Maine would.

Well, half the team didn't make it down there until 3am because of flight cancellations and delays due to fog.

How bout McKee today??? He's really stepped up his game. While some of his saves were very acrobatic, it's even more encouraging that he was making a lot of solid stops just from having good positioning on the shooter.

His current shutout streak is now at 151 minutes, 39 seconds. The Cornell record is 189:48, set by Brian Cropper during the season.

Two more periods will do it.

I was actually hoping that we would play Maine tomorrow, but for a different reason (if my reasoning is sound).

Our non-conference performance up to this point in the season had been bad. So, my reasoning was that playing and beating a higher ranked team would help us out more, and losing to them can't do too much damage. Playing a lower ranked team (albeit higher than us) seems to me would be a 0 sum gain.

As to the point of OSU knowing how we play, 2 points against that reasoning. 1st, I think we've developed quite a bit from the beginning of the season, so in effect, I think we are a different team. 2nd, if, however, they do know how we play, then we know how they play, and Coach Schafer is pretty good at figuring teams out, so I don't think we'd be at any particular disadvantage.

Just my $0.02.

Report from Estero: Very impressed with McKee - terrific positioning and poise, despite heavy ND pressure in 2nd period and parts of third. Never seemed to get flustered at all. Our penalties were either on freshman, who will learn to get better position rather than take the penalty, or on Hornby. Of all the freshman, O'Byrne appeared to be the one having the most trouble adjusting to playing at this level - but that's a quick one game conclusion and I'm sure he'll improve immensely.
On a lighter note, in between the 1st and 2nd period, Traveling Faithful Larry Weintraub and Jeff Newman defeated two ND fans in the "alligator race." Although Mike Craine didn't win the bicycle race after the 2nd period, he quickly reminded his ND opponent of the real contest, by pointing up to the center ice scoreboard.

For anyone who missed yesterday's CSTV broadcast, they're showing the Cornell-Notre Dame game again at noon today (Sunday) and also at midnight tonight.

The CSTV schedule shows the Cornell-OSU broadcast starting at 4pm today.

Al DeFlorio wrote:

For anyone who missed yesterday's CSTV broadcast, they're showing the Cornell-Notre Dame game again at noon today (Sunday) and also at midnight tonight.

The CSTV schedule shows the Cornell-OSU broadcast starting at 4pm today.

Thanks! Great catch.

As is CSTV's wont, the Everblades games will be repeated several times during the week. Check here for specifics:

[cstv.com]

The recap of this game has finally been posted at:

[uscollegehockey.com]

Frank Doyle just made an awesome save to keep Maine down by only one to Notre Dame with seven some minutes left in the second. A win by Notre Dame would be...um...good

Link to listen to the game is here:
[www.warpradio.com]

Notre Dame wins over Maine 1-0...undoubtedly, an indirect victory for us.

Notre Dame pulls out the win 1-0 as Maine drops two this weekend! I guess Ari was right about Maine...

Second year in a row that the favored team does very poorly in this tournament.

Good news for Cornell. Now if they can win tonight, they might see their PWR rise to meet their ranking next week.

And second year in a row that the consolation game is a 1-0 score