Cornell 7 Alaska-Fairbanks 1, 1/9/26

[Trotsky]

This and Potsdam mark our fastest repeat of 7+ goals (14 days) since November 2000.

Canton

Fuck.

[VIEWfromK]

That was a pretty boneheaded challenge in a 5-1 game with your timeout already used up.

From the middle of M (further away than the Alaska bench) I told my daughter immediately it looked like it went in off the skate, but wasn't kicked.

They then showed the replay on the scoreboard (something Schafer had said in the past that he didn't want them to do, for this reason) and it was very clear the puck was not kicked.

I am confident that if the Alaska head coach had actually seen the replay on the scoreboard he would not have challenged, and we would have had one less Alaska penalty to work with.

Casey needs to get the powers that be to stop showing replays of Cornell goals.

I was wondering if the Alaska budget doesn't allow for a travel video coach?  I would have thought someone in the press box watching replays would have called that one off for a challenge. 

[stereax]

That was a pretty boneheaded challenge in a 5-1 game with your timeout already used up.

From the middle of M (further away than the Alaska bench) I told my daughter immediately it looked like it went in off the skate, but wasn't kicked.

They then showed the replay on the scoreboard (something Schafer had said in the past that he didn't want them to do, for this reason) and it was very clear the puck was not kicked.

I am confident that if the Alaska head coach had actually seen the replay on the scoreboard he would not have challenged, and we would have had one less Alaska penalty to work with.

Casey needs to get the powers that be to stop showing replays of Cornell goals.

I was wondering if the Alaska budget doesn't allow for a travel video coach?  I would have thought someone in the press box watching replays would have called that one off for a challenge. 

I mean, if you're down 5-1, I would expect you to only use a challenge on something you were absolutely sure happened...

[RichH]

This and Potsdam mark our fastest repeat of 7+ goals (14 days) since November 2000.

Canton

Fuck.

I mean, I heard the Appleton expansion was nice, but I doubt they expanded THAT much.

[BearLover]

I appreciate Casey's candor in interviews. His answers go into greater strategic depth than typical coach-speak. I found interesting his quote in the Sun's write-up of tonight's game that he didn't think the team played very well yesterday despite the 7-1 win, referencing that Cornell's xGA (expected goals against) was the highest of any game this season. Interestingly CHN's xGA stat says Cornell's xGA was a full goal higher in the Harvard game earlier this season (3.8 vs. last night's 2.. Clearly, the coaching staff is sourcing its xGA differently. (chimpfood previously mentioned that CHN's stat only looks at where on the ice the shot came from, not the type of shot it was.) Anyway, I'm glad the staff is incorporating analytics and that Casey takes them seriously. With four full-time coaches and a Director of Hockey Ops, we have the man-power to gather and utilize this information.