Post-game thead, Fri 2/27

[Will]

Section A Banshee wrote:

I don't suppose anyone has any idea what possessed McKee to charge out almost to the blue line to make a save in the second period?  Maybe he thinks he's Rick DiPietro.

I was thinking the same exact thing--for a second there, I thought I was watching a replay of the last Rangers-Islanders game.

On an unrelated note, I was sitting in G and couldn't hear the trivia questions for the $10,000 game between the first and second periods.  Can someone relay to me what the questions were (and possibly the answers if I don't know them already)? :-)

[Ack]

No one around us at the bottom of A or B could hear the trivia questions - "we can't hear you" ::clap clap clapclapclap::   It would be nice to know what they were though.

We did one-up RIP's giveaway though, with the extra slots in the wood for $15 and $25 gift certificates...all they had was the puck-size hole in the middle (but for a car).  It did look like money went to a good cause after all, although I couldn't tell what because of the sound problems.

[Josh '99]

Section A Banshee wrote:
I don't suppose anyone has any idea what possessed McKee to charge out almost to the blue line to make a save in the second period?  Maybe he thinks he's Rick DiPietro.

Here's hoping not; DiPietro's been taking hack lessons from Garth Snow.   ::yark::

[Molly]

I only heard two of the questions, although I am curious as to what the others were:

1.  what color are the helmets during Cornell's away games?  (red)

2.  who was the goalie for the 1970 team that went 29-0-0?  (Cropper)

[profudge]

I found John Murphy's  officiating hard to ignore....  pretty bad....  but the team played hard and hustled hard....   I was impressed with Gleed's hustle...  Downs played solidly as did Charlie Cook once he got his game sense back  (2 of his first four passes wound up on SLU sticks).  Cooks blast on the goal ticked off a player in front and then trickled past Mckenna.  ( Box scores now say it was Ryan  was hard to tell at the time.)

Cam Abbott had a GREAT game!  Both he and Mike K.  were great on th PK  and it seemed to this fan it was almost to our advantage to be down a MAN!  

a Note:  On his "charging" the keeper penalty he had 2/3 of a step and speed on the d'man and cut into front of net with the puck...  D'm forced him into goalie with the puck just ahead of him defender had him in a bear hug and a good grip on him  -  in 35 years of playing hockey and about 19 of reffing - I have never before seen the man with the puck called for charging ! :-( !    

Despite great provacation at times  (defender bouncing Bitz's head/helmet on the goalpost well after a whistle late in game)  we didn't take dumb retaliation penalties....   The team played as a team and for each other -   Keep it up Big RED!!!  :-)

[Jordan 04]

Josh Herman '99 wrote:

Section A Banshee wrote:
I don't suppose anyone has any idea what possessed McKee to charge out almost to the blue line to make a save in the second period?  Maybe he thinks he's Rick DiPietro.

Here's hoping not; DiPietro's been taking hack lessons from Garth Snow.   ::yark::

People who live 14 points out of the playoffs shouldn't throw stones :-P

[Greg Berge]

Haw haw.  :-D

[Josh '99]

Jordan wrote:
People who live 14 points out of the playoffs shouldn't throw stones :-P

Nor should people who were swept in a six-game season series by teams 14 points out of the playoffs.  ;-)

[jtwcornell91]

Other questions I remember:

Who holds the all-time point-scoring (goals plus assists) lead at Cornell?

Other than 0, what number below 31 does no Cornell player ever wear?

What was Mike Schafer's number as a player?

Name the Zamboni driver (first or last name).

[CowbellGuy]

My biggest pet peeve? Early keys? Nope. People who keep yelling "Shoot" on the PP? Close, but not quite. It's people who think goalies should be chained to the post. Everyone thinks "wandering goalies" are the ultimate horror.

If the goalie doesn't control dumps, that's like giving the other team a free possession in your zone every time down the ice. It's important enough that preventing goalies from doing that, along with smaller pads, are all the NHL is going to end up doing to increase scoring. This isn't the 60's. You don't give up 1 or less goals a game by not playing the puck as a goalie. Goaltending has developed more than any other position over the years, and puckhandling is probably the most important part. McKee is plenty strong at playing the puck and isn't going to get any better by staying in the damn net.

Even if Vesce hadn't covered his ass and misplaying it had cost a goal, 1 extra goal against is a hell of a lot better than the 10 or more he probably would have given up over the course of 30 games by leaving the puck for the other team deep in the zone.

As for the play at the blue line, if the puck's sitting near the blue line or the faceoff circle and the other team has a skater that has all your guys beat, if the goalie can get to the puck before the opposing skater, they should always try to make the play. Otherwise you're giving away a sure breakaway. Just try to avoid the Joe Exter-like collision.

This is goaltending 101. Someone make it all stop.

[atb9]

I dunno, Age.  People yelling shoot really bugs me.

One thing that people must not have noticed...the '07 kid, Seth, that took the shot during the intermission is not a freshman.  The rumor is, he realized that very few freshmen would participate and so he purchased 70% of the total freshman raffle tickets purchased (14 of 20).  I dunno about that last part but I can confirm he isn't a freshman.  Smart.  I wish I had thought of that!