ELynah Forum

For the 5x3:
I'm pretty sure I heard Princeton's coach yell "you're screwing up the game" while he was going absolutely ballistic after the penalty whistled directly in front of the bench. To me it looked like the ref Teed him up as you would in basketball.

Other observations:
As for the last goal against Scrivens, from behind the CU bench (opposite blue line) I was completely shocked. The only note I had was that the puck was about head high (relative to Scrivens) and flying 'on edge.' I couldn't tell if it curved, but still he should have had it. Garman came in and was immediately tested, flashed a quick glove, and made 2 huge saves.  He did have a few near misses in the 3rd when he'd get most of a shot and it would flutter over the cross bar.  Then there was the attempt at the 50/50 puck out past the face off dot; all I can say is they didn't score.  But I though he did a good job, considering he can't have expected to actually see ice time.

Greening's goal was great individual effort, I'd say highlight reel worthy, cycling out from around the net and across the crease before potting the puck. He was a beast all game.  I thought Esposito looked fast; I'm not sure if he did anything spectacular, but I tended to notice him on the ice.

The powerplay:
scored on the 1st 5x3 on a nice one timer.  
Decent puck movement when we got set up.  I forget when (I think late 2nd), but there was a great backdoor chance that just missed  Then there were some ugly looking PP, that exemplified all previous lamentations on this board.

Good fight till the end, too bad we spotted them 2 in the first.

he's a faster skater from the goalline to the bench :-}

He didn't stop at roughing...
Doug lands a few, or at least one
CBS recap has the photo

Who's tonight's blind man with a whistle and stripes?

I'm somewhat fond of what my Clarkson friend told me:

"Around the bowl, down the hole,  GO BROWN GO" ::nut::

Although our old outlawed one seems the most true, it's a shame I never got to hear it.  :`(



Post Edited (12-05-03 02:32)

Actually, hahvahd (Sucks) is not even a safety school for CU engineers, so, at least, I always got a big rise out of chanting safety school at all the liberal arts Ivies.
But, then again, all us engineers are a little on the  ::screwy::  side.

According to the Live Stats:

Cornell 13 shots (Cook has 4 no one else more than 1)
M-hurst 5 shots

The live stats thing seems to be updating in a reasonable time frame thus far tonight, which is nice to see.

wow, his doesn't stink!

Well Murray had his share of penalties as a Freshman. However, I remember him having a huge shot on the power play and seemingly would lay out at least one guy a weekend. I don't remember anyone on Cornell really plastering a princeton kid.  So as long as O'byrne gets in a couple nice clean hits I'll take 6 PIM a weekend (that's a bit much for a single game though). He can't be afraid to use his size. Will he get whistled just because he's bigger than the litte twerp he flattened, most likely.  Also I didn't see him take any slap shots, so can't judge.  Can't argue with his size.  Remember that Baby had a lot of PIM too until he learned to skate at a D1 level.

Also on McKee, he did get a shutout, which is a feat no matter who you play especially with the amount of PP time for Princeton.  Although more than once I recall thinking: 'good thing these bums can't shoot'
He seemed to give up a lot of rebounds, but more often than not on Sat. he seemed to direct them away from the slot.  I seem to remember our previous goalies giving up rebounds, but our D-men would always be the two closest guys to the puck, so it looked very controlled.  The current crop is still learning their positioning.

Hey if Cornell can score 13 goals/wknd they'll win plenty (not going to hold my breath on that)
I think we are all a bit slanted as we are trying to recall what last year's top players were like as freshman.  Remember when they were freshman Cornell was not a national contender and I'm not sure they were faced with the same expectation of winning every game and allowing less than 2 GAA. So let them learn.  Might there be a loss or three because of freshman mistakes? probably, but there is a reason all these Frosh are here and playing: Coach believes they will produce.  For now that's good enough for me.

nice to see the team battle back.

Defend that old barn!!!!!!!!!!!!:-(

UGH, another infidel scores.

Granted listening to the WMU broadcast makes it tough to tell if its sub par goaltending or poor defensive play, but the guy did say WMU was taking advantage of a frosh goalie.

I wonder what kind of hook Coach has?  Haven't really had this problem in recent years.

Some people just can't handle the truth

Favorite Quote from the interview with Murray:
Announcer: (paraphrase) So you cut down you're penalty minutes:
Murray: "I got soft..."

I missed the rest of his answer I was laughing so hard.

It's contagious:
Even Nieuwendyk scored!
I put this in the other thread, but I thought I'd inform all of those too engrossed in the CU-union "game"

GOAL!!

Nieuwy Scored at 11:18 of the 1st period, unassisted.