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Sanctuary! Sanctuary!  I still hear the bell-like ring of PC's shot like it was yesterday.

I agree with Keith.  DU's shots in game 2 were just not the in-close, quality shots of game 1, they were often outside the faceoff circles.  So the SOGs were very misleading.

My wife, who was seeing her first-ever hockey game on Saturday, did think that Cornell lacked the skills of the players on the DU team.  It's nice to get a perspective of someone who isn't hopelessly biased.

Eventually my wife got into the game enough to join me on "Let's go Red!"  She couldn't quite work herself up to ["Denver returns to full strength"] ..."they still suck."

Tom

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Quote from: captens1Game 2:  CU fans were more lively, and the game was more evenly played.

I suppose I could be reading too much into this, but when Denver has 16 second period shots to Cornell's 2, it does not give the indication of being "evenly played."

When I looked up at the shot counter late in the second or early in the third on Saturday I was shocked at the discrepency.  The shot count did not at all reflect how even the game was.

The two majors oskewed shot totals a bit. Denver also did a good job of blocking shots. We also hit iron three times in the game.  If you counted quality offensive chances I bet you'd come up with a pretty even total.

It's hard for me to judge the first major penalty since it occurred on the otehr side of the ice (as captens1 noted the Cornell section was behind one of the goals). The second major call was an absolutely horrible cell. Axell was completing a check and got kicked out for it.

Cornell kind of got embarrassed on the ice on Friday night (though the first half of the game wasnt bad). Saturday was a hard fought tight game. Having two guys tossed on weak calls certainly had a significant affect on how the game was played in the third period and may have unfairly decided the outcome.

Well, as to the hockey games ...

I was at both games in the Cornell alum section, which was behind the nets.  I'm hoarse like the old days in section B.

My summary of game 1: we got beat at a kinda dump and chase style.  Denver seemed to be saying "ok, you wanna play that dull, we will too.  They made the best of their opportunities, we did not.  Passes were consistently two feet off where they needed to be.

Game 2:  CU fans were more lively, and the game was more evenly played.  There was certainly some hometown reffing going on.  Whistle to stop play with a live puck in the crease, and the game misconduct certainly wasn't obvious from my angle.  Big Red did a lot better to keep DU from having quality SOGs they had in game 1. so the shot count wasn't indicative of the evenness of the play.  A loss, but not embarrassing.  Team was gassed in third period.

For this now-Coloradan, it was a pleasure to see our Big Red live in the Springs this year, a Saturday game where they totally outclassed the (then highly ranked) local boys.  Come back soon (preferably to visit DU).  And seeing them beat Michigan was wonderful.

Thanks, seniors, for four years of quality Cornell hockey, and for the underclassmen, we look forward to 2012-2013.  Let's go Red!

Tom H, BS '85, Ph.D. '97

PS:  Our new car (Prius C, 50+ mpg's), in "Carnelian Red" I like to think.

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Yes, we want Weder.

All puck control and no cross-ice passes makes Jason a dull boy.

Regarding the noisiness of the Faithful, we did have the advantage that one of our sections was right under the announcer's booth.  To be fair, were they announcing from across the arena, we probably wouldn't have sounded like much.

I certainly didn't see Ferlin do anything that deserved the 10 minutes, so I concur that he must have mouthed off.  Actually, I'd have to say the reffing was much better than the ECAC I remember, with the possible exception of a dive by CC on the last tripping minor on CU.

Hi all,

Reactions from someone who was at the game, but who hasn't seen much of Cornell since '97 or so when I left.

First, thank-you-Schafer for finally getting CU to come to Colorado again.  There were ~250 of us alums up in the nosebleed seats of the arena hungry for our Cornell hockey again.  We couldn't out-noise the piped-in NBAish crap music, but we could out-noise the CC fanbase.  They clapped their walrus flippers together perfunctorily and arf-arf'ed for a few seconds after a goal, but otherwise they mostly laid about and cast disbelieving glances at us.  How dare we tell them their goalie that it was all his fault!

The game was nothing like the dump and chase goonfest I fondly remember the old mid-90's CU hockey games to be.  Perhaps in part because of the altitude here, it didn't appear like the players had a lot of gas in the tank.  What was surprising to me was much crisper passing and better puck control than I remember of the teams of old.  On a big sheet of ice on Saturday night, with the exceptions of the start of the game and the first few minutes of overtime, it felt like Cornell had the better of the possession.  It was fun and refreshing to see Cornell win a game with a very different style of play.

Come back soon!  How about Denver U?

I expect to be there Saturday night.  Still trying to see if I can convince a friend or two to join me.

Tom Hamill '85, PhD '97

I think there is an uncertainty principle at work.

Here's my skeptical bear.  Perhaps Reacharound Bear is so ubiquitous that newer folks don't know what we're talking about when we talk about Skeptical Bear.

Dog bless you ... "Reacharound Bear." (snort)

I still mourn the changeover from skeptical bear to huggy bear.  Skeptical seems so much more appropriate for an academic institution.

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Quote from: TrotskyFun fact of the night: IINM, the last time we scored 6+ goals against a team in the top 10 was over 12 years ago.

Wasn't Colorado College in the top ten when we lost to them in that 11-0 Denver Cup debacle in 1995?  I seem to recall that Denver gave them their first loss of the season the following night.

Very likely.  I have solid numbers on the rankings of our opponents only after about 1998.  Someday I will discover a hitherto unknown buried treasure of weekly poll data going back to 1957.  Until then, any time somebody finds proof of an opponent ranking in a game I'd love to hear about it.

I think we were trying out Jean-Marc Pelletier in goal that night, when we lost 11-0.

Saw the movie "Chicago" again recently and I thought one of the songs would be wonderful to add to the Lynah repetoire, with a little change.  I'm thinking of the song "Mr Cellophane" with lyrics (modifying the pronoun) that go like

"Cellophane, Mr Cellophane, shoulda been his name,
Mr Cellophane.
'Cause you can look right through him
And walk right by him
And never know he's there."

This song, of course, would be sung after a particularly egregious goal given up by the opponent's sieve.

It's a very singable song (not a large dynamic range; even I can sing it in the shower and sound creditable), and I can imagine the Pep Band having a good time with it, for it lends itself to orchestration.