Cornell 5 RIT 3

[DL]

[quote jy3]well, more goals that most would have liked to have given up but a win is a win.
lets go red!
off to the tropics [/quote]

I'd be happy with more goals against us, so long as our offense follows suit. Having our reputation as a netminder institution is fine and good, but if we can just gain a reputation for firepower...

[BMac]

I would just like to point out that the safety sieve's name is....Jocelyn. Jocelyn Guimond.

Of course, as soon as I saw that on the roster (thanks, guy who sits in front of me in A) I had to tell the entire section...

JOOOOOOCELYN! JOOOOOCELYN! JOOOOOOCELYN!

(I'm glad I didn't get in trouble)

LGR!

[LaJollaRed]

I wouldn't count that second goal against Davenport's performance. The RIT forward put up a brilliant screen.

Other than that, defense was very, very good with many selfless body-sacrificing blocks.

[ebilmes]

I don't really have a lot to say about tonight's game. I was surprised Guimond didn't start, especially given his success against us last year, and he showed that form in the 3rd period.

The first few minutes of the game were awful. RIT outskated us and outhustled us, and we were having a lot of trouble getting out of our own zone. There was no way we deserved to go up 2-0, but we settled down pretty quickly after that.

Davenport was good; I wouldn't blame him for any of the goals. You would've liked to see us kill the 5x3 at the end.

Had some trouble clearing the puck on the kill, but it's still early in the season and it's hard to nitpick. Yale had a big win tonight, so that might be a tough game next weekend.

Fans were good for the most part (the exception being the Kill Red Kill chant during a 5x5). Let's see if we can win a couple more before Sucks comes to town.

[ursusminor]

[quote Trotsky]1 04:03 Cor pp Carefoot 2 (Bitz 2)
1 10:49 Cor pp Nash 1 (unassisted)
1 11:31 RIT Hoftstetter 4 (Pinizzotto, Matic)
1 13:03 Cor Scott 1 (Barlow 2)

2 05:09 Cor Krantz 1 (Scott 1, Romano 1)
2 11:02 RIT Patry (Kharin)
2 13:26 Cor pp McCutcheon 1 (Scott 2, Seminoff 1)

3 19:45 RPI pp Pinizzotto (Patry, Hofstetter)[/quote]

Oh, if RPI had really scored a goal at 19:45. :-)

[jtwcornell91]

[quote billhoward]The RIT announcers are pretty good. Funny. Entertaining.

One downside is signing up for Real Player (required by RIT) - these people are ex-Microsoft and have some tricks even MS hasn't thought up. See all the checkboxes of stuff they'll send you and they're all unchecked? The ones you see are unchecked but if you scroll down you'll see the hidden items are all checked.

If Real Player isn't your default player, you get a pop-up, "Do you want to correct this problem?"[/quote]

I wasn't awake for the game last night, but I was able to get at least one of the RealAudio streams to play on xine/kaffeine under Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (Sarge).  I agree that RealOne is insidious, but are there no other media players under Windows that can handle it?  You should get a better OS. :-}

[las224]

[quote mhand06]If someone is at the game can they say "GO EVAN!" and take pictures for me and then email them to me please? I'm out of town this weekend and i'd like some pictures.[/quote]

Because I was at the game, I didn't see this till today so I didn't take pics, but I did cheer for Evan

[las224]

[quote ebilmes]I don't really have a lot to say about tonight's game. I was surprised Guimond didn't start, especially given his success against us last year, and he showed that form in the 3rd period.

The first few minutes of the game were awful. RIT outskated us and outhustled us, and we were having a lot of trouble getting out of our own zone. There was no way we deserved to go up 2-0, but we settled down pretty quickly after that.

Davenport was good; I wouldn't blame him for any of the goals. You would've liked to see us kill the 5x3 at the end.

Had some trouble clearing the puck on the kill, but it's still early in the season and it's hard to nitpick. Yale had a big win tonight, so that might be a tough game next weekend.

Fans were good for the most part (the exception being the Kill Red Kill chant during a 5x5). Let's see if we can win a couple more before Sucks comes to town.[/quote]

I agree with this post completely. The first few minutes worried me b/c RIT was pretty aggressive and physical, but our guys matched that after a few minutes and I was pretty happy the rest of the game.

The one comment I would add is that generally I felt like our seniors weren't doing too well, particularly in terms of energy and aggressiveness. The freshmen and Topher were all over the ice and seemed to be wherever the puck was. I noticed this most autely at one point in the third period when I watched Cutch just kind of stand there looking confused for a good 20 seconds instead of getting in there and going for the puck. The RIT players were good about harrassing us whenever we had the puck, and it seemed like most of our players picked up on that and started reciprocating, but a few of the seniors seemed more stuck in defensive mode. Probably just goes back to how the game has been played in the past, while the frosh have fewer preconceived notions about how to play and can more easily adapt to whatever teams come along. Hopefully the rest of the team can learn to do this as well, because it's particularly important now that we need to be stronger offensively and less reliant on our Ds.

[CowbellGuy]

[quote scoop85]Romano shows great speed and creates a great opportunity.  Don't remember when I've seen that from a Cornell forward.[/quote]

Ermm... Vinnie Auger?

[oceanst41]

[quote las224]The one comment I would add is that generally I felt like our seniors weren't doing too well, particularly in terms of energy and aggressiveness...The RIT players were good about harrassing us whenever we had the puck, and it seemed like most of our players picked up on that and started reciprocating, but a few of the seniors seemed more stuck in defensive mode. Probably just goes back to how the game has been played in the past, while the frosh have fewer preconceived notions about how to play and can more easily adapt to whatever teams come along. Hopefully the rest of the team can learn to do this as well, because it's particularly important now that we need to be stronger offensively and less reliant on our Ds.[/quote]

I too have noticed that the seniors have been in a very defensive mode through the first two games. I feel like this may be by design, though. Some of our seniors are our best defensive forwards (McCutcheon, Carefoot especially). While it would be nice if everyone could go all out offensively every night, we have very little experience on the blue line. If all of our experienced forwards were getting caught behind the play trying to score goals, that's going to put a lot of pressure on the defense and Davenport/Scrivens. Whether or not it results in more goals isn't known, but it will probably add to more penalties taken. Already being thin at the point, having defensmen in the box for necesary penalties will wear the other guys out even quicker. If some guys have to be a little more conservative for a while as the young/inexperienced defensmen adjust to full time college hockey I don't think that's a bad thing. With tough games coming up in conference these guys are going to have to learn quick. I just think these seniors are leading by example and by necesity on how to play both ways.