Cornell at Yale (2/25/23)

[Give My Regards]

Yale coach Allain started his third-string goalie, Hopkins, last night because he's a senior and it was his last regular season game. His goals against average and save percentage is much worse than either of the goalies ahead of him. Not that it would have necessarily made a difference, but it certainly didn't hurt our chances.

That may be why Allain started Hopkins, who's had a total of nine starts in his career and lost all of them.  But for whatever reason, this was the third straight time he started against Cornell.

[Iceberg]

Yale coach Allain started his third-string goalie, Hopkins, last night because he's a senior and it was his last regular season game. His goals against average and save percentage is much worse than either of the goalies ahead of him. Not that it would have necessarily made a difference, but it certainly didn't hurt our chances.

That may be why Allain started Hopkins, who's had a total of nine starts in his career and lost all of them.  But for whatever reason, this was the third straight time he started against Cornell.

Someone was telling me that he's also had injury issues much of his time at Yale. But yes, I think Yale was playing quite a few guys who ordinarily wouldn't be in the lineup because it was senior night.

[upprdeck]

the tV people said all 3 yale goalies had been hurt much of the yr and that led to mostly who ended up playing certain games.

[underskill]

They also had nothing to play for so they could start the senior without regards to merit

[Al DeFlorio]

They also had nothing to play for so they could start the senior without regards to merit

And without regard for whatever Harvard might have thought.

[billhoward]

This guy has now called Schafer a great goaltender twice

The play-by-play announcer noted multiple times the game was a sellout. Even mid-second period, one could see blocks of seating rows that had zero or 1-2 people in it. (Was it the at-Brown game the announcers noted a group of three kids had grabbed two straight pucks that went over the glass at center ice and what-a-coincidence ... and I was thinking, if they were the only three kids in that section, the odds bordered on 100%).

Yale's PBP announcer is now ~6 years out of the UMAss broadcast journalism / sports management (dual majors) program. I was wondering about her career arc of the near future. Maybe she hustles off-camera to dig up factoids, get game background, have player and coach background handy (Schafer not a goalie (that was the color guy)), have deeper info on opposing team players since ESPN+ announcers should not be homers, find interesting stories for her other media work. Makes me so grateful for the people Cornell has doing hockey, lacrosse, basketball.

[dbilmes]

This guy has now called Schafer a great goaltender twice

The Yale game was a sellout just like all of the Quinnipiac games I've been to over the past 10 years have been listed as sellouts despite wide swaths of empty seats. Including the hockey team and pep band, there were probably about 50 Yale students at the game. Maybe a lot of the season ticket holders decided not to show up. I'm sure most of the Yale sports fans who were going to a game Saturday night opted to go watch the first-place basketball team beat up on Cornell instead of watching the almost last-place hockey team get beat up by Cornell.

[Iceberg]

There were quite a few people standing, too. The rink was definitely full of people and full of energy as you would hope and expect for a Saturday game. Lots of Cornell people in attendance

[upprdeck]

Before the lynah rink updates many people would stand as well instead of sitting.. you can easily have 4-500 standing around an arena that holds 2-3K and make it look like tons of unsold seating

[dag14]

Before the Lynah upgrades, I had season tickets but never sat in our seats.  We would arrive at the star of warmups, not only to watch the players but to nail down great spots on the rail at center ice.  We had a group of 6-8 people, which made it easy to make a pit stop or hit the concession stand and not lose your spot.  Over the years I met a lot of people I likely never would have connected with but for standing room at Lynah.  That included pro scouts, some of whom were pretty chatty, as well as player parents.

[ugarte]

most espn+ broadcasts are the network distributing the home team broadcast, not espn hires. you're going to hear some homerism or at least better knowledge of the home team.

[gored]

I also thought the Ivy Champs article was wrong until I realized the point scoring system. Who knows why the standings don't reflect the points earned?

[Trotsky]

I also thought the Ivy Champs article was wrong until I realized the point scoring system. Who knows why the standings don't reflect the points earned?

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