cornell - quin sat night

[sah67]

Schafer and Andy Noel released statements following the announcement of the suspension:
http://ithacavoice.com/2014/11/cornell-hockey-coach-suspended-coming-defense-players/

[Larry72]

The scoring play should have been reviewed.  Why have the equipment and not use it?  

I was at the two UVM-Maine games last weekend.  There were five reviews in the two games. One was a goal review where there might have been goalie interference (there wasn't). Three were on plays where there were scrambles around the net and the refs wanted to make sure puck never crossed the line and one was on a crossbar shot. None of the reviews took more than a couple of minutes.  It seemed evident to me that Hockey East encourages their referees to use replays when they see fit.

Over the last 40 years, we've gone from one referee and one linesman to two referees to two refs and one linesman to two referees and two linesman today.  Overhead cameras are installed at every rink and virtually all games are now televised in some fashion.  And we still don't have consistently implemented replay rules in the ECAC.  Why not?

[dbilmes]

Here's an interview with Schafer and Bardreau.

[Johnny 5]

Is it hypocritical to think both that Schafer was right to make those comments and that he should be suspended?

Not at all.

Coach Schafer is a known quantity.
What other coach, when a CU player, broke his stick over his own helmet to fire up his teammates and terrify his opponents?
What other coach played to the fan chant of, "Kill, Schafer, kill!!"
No, somehow Mike Schafer telling Rand Pecknold, "Now, gosh darn it, Rand. I'm really upset with your behavior tonight"... that just doesn't cut it.
Yes, it was a violation of all things Emily Post. And, coach should be sanctioned; I guess.
Especially after he politely asked the fans (several years ago) to stop chanting stuff like, "The ref f*#%s sheep".
Hey, hockey is a family sport, right? The line in the cheer is, "Rough 'em up, Rough 'em up". Yes??

But, now the bigger questions are:
1.) What affect will all of this have on the team?
2.) Will Coach need to wear a disguise to get into Lynah Friday night!?

This ain't tennis, Nancy!

::cheer::

[Trotsky]

Meh, it gives a certain type of person the excuse to clutch their pearls and cluck about the tragic loss of civility in contemporary society.  So there's that.

I wonder whether it was a calculated move.  Now you have a team where they're circling the wagons and feeling "it's us against the world," which carries great currency for young boys looking for dragons the slay.

We were all there. We all saw it with our own eyes.

 Dave.

 Goddamn lardass, Barclay Donaldson. I'm tellin' you, he jumped us.

 Gloves off, stick down, no warning. He challenged the Chiefs!

He called us names. (Called us names!)

But Dave was there. (Dave's a killer!)

Dave's a killer.

(Dave's a mess.)

 OK, but Dave's out.

Who's gonna take his place?

(pause)

Is the answer Jesus?

[jtwcornell91]

The germane part of the interview for the future: "If it was his kid that went into the boards, I think I'd be a little frickin' concerned! Maybe not anymore..."

Ummm... yikes. Not the words you want to hear coming out of Schafer's mouth. Let's just hope that playoff seeding is on everybody's minds on February 6th.

If someone from the soccer team dresses for that game, watch out. ::uhoh::

[George64]

USCHO reporting coach suspended for Friday night by the league.

Mike got off easy.  Jets' Rex Ryan fined $100,000 for post-game profanity.