St. Lawrence @ CU 1/24/14

[sah67]

I was simply, in as loud a voice as I could, yelling "Baker Sucks!!" over and over again. Nothing more.

I basically told the usher to go take a hike that I was doing nothing wrong. I was not using profanity or being disruptive or any other "offense" listed on the tickets. There was a couple of SLU fans (parents?) who my wife thinks took exception to my comments and complained.

I am planning on speaking to someone of authority about the incident as I believe I was not doing anything that deserved being threatened and I want an explanation. I am concerned as I have been planning on giving a very hard time to Neiley when Dartmouth visits.

It was pretty ridiculous, especially given the loud "ASS-HOLE" chant coming from A&B after the handshake line dust-up. The ushers over there didn't seem to care about that at all. We're a few rows over from you in L, and when the usher threatened you with expulsion, we started loudly telling each other how we sucked: she didn't seem amused, but didn't threaten to toss us for inappropriate self-deprecation at least.

She's the same usher who had to deal with the drunk guy challenging Goulakos to a fight during the Colgate game, which lead to Goulakos squirting water at Section M. Maybe she just didn't want to see another interaction between townies and a penalized visiting player escalate, but we've never been accosted for yelling "_______ sucks" before, and the Goulakos situation was the only time I've ever seen it escalate beyond that. And that was mainly due to the drunk guy who wasn't even sitting in any of the surrounding sections.

[sah67]

Also: any response to the atrocious officiating, particularly from the new guy, Suhovic? I think the only bright spot I can recall was when one of the Careys blatantly embellished to draw a boarding call and then tried to get right back out there for the ensuing PP. Suhovic spotted him and told him to get back on the bench. Then again, if that's the case, why didn't he penalize him for the embellishment in the first place instead of scolding him on the bench?

Speaking of the Carey brothers: boy, are they ever talented, but man oh man do they play dirty. I think the vast majority of the late hits, cheap shots, diving, and yapping came from those two. The most egregious example I can recall was one of them staying offsides (despite his whole bench and the linesman yelling at him to get on), so he could take a run at one of our guys.  It was nice to see one of them get booted at the end, although I wish it had happened earlier.

[profudge]

I felt the game got way too chippy partially due to lack of calls on some of the off the puck slashes, hooks and plan instigating use of stick I was observing from SLU players - Mind you, we retaliated pretty strongly!   One example I think was Lowery getting hit with a stick as he headed to the bench and turning and slashing across SLU players ankles (SLU player went down) and there was no call on either infraction (well away from the play and the puck).   Before that off the puck,  Cole B. got 'sticked' in crotch fairly hard and again no call.  

Early in game we dominated (1st period) and we made two defensive mistakes and both cost us.  First was a 3 on one clean break and good finish by SLU and then shortly there after we missed a defensive coverage when puck carrier curled around from boards to center ice between the circles while another  SLU forward curled in opposite direction...  both Cornell defending players took the man without the puck leaving the puck carrier wide open.   This led to SLU second goal.    I was encouraged by our effort to come back and get the third goal.

I felt that both the SLU keeper and Andy played good games ... I was impressed with Carey brothers foot speed and play together.   SLU  played very hard if nasty but I believe we matched them in those categories.  I liked our hustle and most of the time our coverage of Carey's that kept them in check most of game -   Although Greg was very effective playing point on power play.  

I believe our power play  will be more productive as season goes on.

LGR

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Hard to fault Iles on either of the first two goals.  The first was a tape-to-tape pass on a 3-on-1, and the second one he was screened.  If anything, we did not do a good job of getting the screens out from in front of him.  I noticed that several times during the game.

I have to admit with about 10 minutes left I found myself thinking, "We're going to give up a dumb penalty and let them tie it up."  I didn't actually see the penalty, because I was sitting in K, but I know Schafer was livid with the call (and was still yelling at the ref even after the game ended).

The penalty shot was disappointing.  Cole just came in and shot it right at the goalie.  Somebody suggested that the goalie' coming so far out of the net and then backing up threw Cole a bit, but who really knows.

[Trotsky]

Speaking of the Carey brothers: boy, are they ever talented, but man oh man do they play dirty.

I didn't see Greg playing dirty, and he's by far the better player.  Matt, who is a solid player (and seemed like he was approaching about 40 TOI) is a nasty piece of work.  I look forward to next year when his numbers go in the toilet without his linemate sibling.  That cheap shit might fly when you have 1.5 PPG, but not when your numbers look like just another 3rd liner.

[upprdeck]

you dont usually get a board call when the hit takes place at the red line and the only reason the player even hits the boards is because he throws his hands out to make contact with the wall..

the scrum at the end was a bit wierd, first ferlin gets a slashing call when the STL player drops his stick and ferlin is trying to go around him with one hand to gain back the puck.  then the major happens but no call takes place until after ferlin starts to retaliate, without that i dont know if any penalty is called on STL unless the ref outside the zone called it because the one 3ft way didnt call anything.