NCAAs 1st rd. Cornell vs. MSU

[Snowball]

Every announcer has mentioned Skaneateles so much that I wonder if they are getting comped by the NY State Tourism Board.  Must be the new Hamptons because every year the Hamptons are over: too crowded.

[RichH]

Every announcer has mentioned Skaneateles so much that I wonder if they are getting comped by the NY State Tourism Board.  Must be the new Hamptons because every year the Hamptons are over: too crowded.

It's the new Manhattan Beach, California for hockey broadcasts.

I noticed yesterday that Shane has McGraw Tower on one side of his mask and the Manhattan Beach Pier on the other. I've spent a lot of time at both places.

[ER]

Every announcer has mentioned Skaneateles so much that I wonder if they are getting comped by the NY State Tourism Board.  Must be the new Hamptons because every year the Hamptons are over: too crowded.

It is pretty incredible

[David Harding]

Every announcer has mentioned Skaneateles so much that I wonder if they are getting comped by the NY State Tourism Board.  Must be the new Hamptons because every year the Hamptons are over: too crowded.

It is pretty incredible

I think the announcers just like saying the name.  I have friends who live there and it is a nice place.

[fastforward]

Every announcer has mentioned Skaneateles so much that I wonder if they are getting comped by the NY State Tourism Board.  Must be the new Hamptons because every year the Hamptons are over: too crowded.

Add in all the other NY guy's hometowns are mentioned! It really surprises me how many there are on this team

[Al DeFlorio]

MSU Athletics' very 'spartan' game recap says Mack Sullivan and Ryan Welch scored for Cornell.::doh::

https://msuspartans.com/news/2025/3/27/mens-ice-hockey-hockey-season-ends-with-last-second-loss-to-cornell-4-3

[fastforward]

MSU Athletics' very 'spartan' game recap says Mack Sullivan and Ryan Welch scored for Cornell.::doh::

https://msuspartans.com/news/2025/3/27/mens-ice-hockey-hockey-season-ends-with-last-second-loss-to-cornell-4-3

Oh brother
Wonder how they would pronounce Psenicka

[RichH]

MSU Athletics' very 'spartan' game recap says Mack Sullivan and Ryan Welch scored for Cornell.::doh::

https://msuspartans.com/news/2025/3/27/mens-ice-hockey-hockey-season-ends-with-last-second-loss-to-cornell-4-3

" Daniel Russell's 13th goal of the season – scored in the final minute of the period on the power play – was his 13th of the year. "

[Trotsky]

Is this a Elynah record for posts on a game thread?

Just wait until tomorrow!

At this rate tomorrow's is going to pass this one before the game starts.

[Tom Lento]

As I mentioned last night, I missed almost all of the third period. So, with some time to kill sitting in my car during alternate-side parking, I watched the third period. That was the best period I've seen Cornell play all year. Maybe since Barron left?

I'm surprised you say this. It was by far Cornell's best period of the game—periods one and two were really bad—but even in period three things could easily have gone south in a hurry. I will have to go back and rewatch, but I recall around four grade-A scoring chances from MSU in between the two Cornell goals. MSU played too defensively early in the period, allowing Cornell to gain traction, but Cornell didn't actually come especially close to scoring until the Walsh goal. On the other hand, MSU easily could have scored multiple goals that period. Some they missed eg. Howard back door), some Shane made a great save on, and I think at least one in the third hit the post?

First, we had a few great scoring chances before the walsh goal. We were swarming in that end. It was different from the many times this season when we've had long possessions that consisted of fecklessly passing the puck back and forth along the blue line. We were attacking. Second, the Howard goal was not as close as it looked; his positioning was great but the entry pass sucked.

The four grade-A chances that you are attributing to MSU were no different than our missed opportunities in the third period. Yes, things could have gone south but they didn't because we were dispossessing Spartans with hard hits and active sticks. The most important thing to remember, though, is that we didn't play the third period against St. Lawrence. We did what we did against Michigan State. Of course they had opportunities to break it open: they are, based on the body of work across the season, a much better team than we are! They are faster than we are, with a more creative vision. I don't see us making the pass for their second goal once if the season was 200 games.

And still, we had a period where we flat outplayed them. Maybe they were coached into a defensive crouch, but that isn't our problem. We took the punches for two periods and emerged down by a single goal because of Shane. In the third, we played great hockey.

I'll just say I don't think MSU went into a defensive posture by plan. Cornell put them there.

That dominant 2 minute shift early on in the third put MSU on their heels. Cornell was changing one guy at a time at will while the 5 guys in green and white had to keep slowly collapsing towards the center of their zone. Defending for that long kills the legs.

That wasn't the only shift where that happened, either, it was just the longest. Cornell was a bit more disciplined and a bit more lucky with clears and stoppages in the second when MSU was dominating, so they didn't have the same level of awful long dragging defensive shifts, and by the last half of the third Cornell had the jump and energy for sustained bursts.

MSU was winning every race and board battle in the second. They were losing nearly all of them by the middle of the third. They were still faster and still dangerous, and we saw that right after the game tying goal, but they couldn't keep it up.