Shake off those hockey blues :D and gear up for the next step of the defending national champs in their run to repeat!
Is it snowing?? :(
Yale 2-0 three minutes in ...
Yale 4-1 seven minutes in ...
Long pole Walker Schwartz scores with an assist from goalie Matt Tully :D
Willem Firth on man-up unassisted
Yale 4-3
Box score says Melkonnian is 6 for 7 on face offs and Cascadden is 1 for 1. Great job by Melkonnian and good news for Cornell if Cascadden is back.
5-5 end of Q1
Yes Cascadden took one face off. I assume he's not 100%, but great to see him on the field
Red takes its first lead, 8-7 midway through Q2
Goldstein 0,0!
9-7 Red at the half
10-10 end of Q3
12-10 Yale, 8 min to go. Red has 1 goal in the 2nd half ...
Shay is somehow shutting down Goldstein...or he's hurt.
13-12 Yale, final :(
Quote from: CU77 on March 28, 2026, 05:31:52 PM13-12 Yale, final :(
Down 2, got one with 20s left. Then Jack won the faceoff and Goldstein had a good look to tie with 5 seconds, but it didn't go. Yale goalie came up big, 19 saves.
Was at the game in person and boy was it cold! I thought Cornell's defense starting out flat and especially in the first quarter hung Tully out to dry on a couple of those first 4 goals for Yale. It was good to see Cascadden out there taking a few faceoffs and hoping starting down the stretch run he will back up to snuff. Take nothing a way from the Yale Goalie as he was excellent in the cage but also credit Yale's defense in the second which limited the quality of shots available. Also Goldstein's defender did a number on him. And like any game-a game of inches-Firth got a great shot off in the middle of the 2nd half but it bounced off the crossbar-like hockey did not get any puck luck on that one. I thought after Princeton the Red were in good shape but the Ivy League looking like a true gauntlet.
One edit to my comments-did not realize Goldstein was playing hurt. Hoping to some of the guys in street clothes back for next weekend. Am afraid Nurry is out long term being on the leg scooter.
Not to look too far ahead, which means look ahead to the other key games. As of the last weekend in March Harvard is 2-0 Ivy (NC game Sunday vs. North Carolina in Maryland), Princeton (lost to Cornell), Cornell (lost to Yale) and Penn (lost to Harvard 12-9) are 2-1.
The loss to Yale was one I was not expecting but then Princeton only got by Yale 11-10 in New Haven.
The Ivy League tournament has been at site of the top seed in 2024 and 2025 and it was easy to determine when Cornell was Ivy-unbeaten last year or one loss in 2024 and Princeton-Yale-Penn were 4-2. In 2023 it was neutral site, Columbia.
Quote from: rss77 on March 28, 2026, 06:48:12 PMCornell's defense starting out flat and especially in the first quarter [and] hung Tully out to dry on a couple of those first 4 goals for Yale.
Tully looks a better goalie eight games in (with five to go).
Apropos of little: Game 9 is our first game to be played in April. The 1971 national championship team played its first game of the year April 1 (only loss, 10-9 at Virginia). 1971 was also the first year for artificial turf on Schoellkopf Field, donated not so much by an alum trying to help lacrosse but to give then-junior Ed Marinaro a surface with more grip.
Great game by the Yale goalie. 20 saves and not many of them easy. He was the difference.
We had 32 shots on goal to their 24. Still, it felt like our offense was pretty one-dimensional and predictable. We moved the ball around with each player taking turns trying an iso until the clock wound down and we hurried a shot at the end (or turned it over). There wasn't a lot of movement off ball and very few cutters (if any). This kind of offense will work with a CJ Kirst to bail the team out, but not like today when only one of our guys has some success beating his guy one-on-one. I would like to see more movement, off ball screens, and more of a cutter offense to beat great goalies and tough defenses that we're going to face down the stretch.
Also, there are ways to get around the "locked off" attack. We can use v cuts, screens, or even shooting high and having Goldstein bring it in from the back line. We are a better team when the ball goes through X.
I'd say Andy Shay earned his pay this week.
I was unable to watch the game live and have not yet watched the archived version. That being said, looking at the box score, we played pretty even with Yale in all categories but 2. The first is faceoffs where we won about 2/3. The other is goalie saves where we had 11 and they had 20 in a game where we outshot Yale 32-24. I am a goalie parent so there is no way I am going to blame this statistic solely on poor play by Tully because the defense has responsibility for goals scored as well.
If we won significantly more faceoffs, outshot Yale, scored on 2 of 3 man-up situations, picked up our share of ground balls, and cleared very well, it is hard to be too critical of play in the offensive end. Defensive play lost this game.
the first half scoring 9 goals and the 2nd struggling to get 2-3 and for most of the half not even getting shots off was the real issue