Cornell 3 at 3 Union 2/9/07 postgame

[Jacob '06]

[quote Dafatone]So what's to stop a goalie from "accidentally" knocking the goal off its posts when he's in trouble?  If he's too obvious, it would be a delay of game, right?[/quote]

And potentially a penalty shot, I believe. I don't think that ever really happens.

[oceanst41]

Just finished listening to the game and it sounded like a pretty typical Cornell game for 2006/2007. Special teams were really the difference again. Not only did momentum really swing on a shorthanded goal, but Cornell could not score on the PP again. They were handed a gift PP to finish the game and barely mustered a shot. I believe Jason spit out 50th on the PP and 54th on the PK before the game. ::yark::

They are going to need to win the special teams battle in order to win games down the stretch. Last night was 1-1 and they end up tying.

This team also appears to be pretty fragile, in that one moment in the game can derail the team. A missed penalty shot, or a disallowed goal can turn Cornell into a shell of a hockey team.

At least they aren't as fragile as the Bruins were against Carolina (4 goals in the final 5 minutes of the 2nd, and a hat trick for Whitney in 1:40)

[ebilmes]

[quote oceanst41]Just finished listening to the game and it sounded like a pretty typical Cornell game for 2006/2007. Special teams were really the difference again. Not only did momentum really swing on a shorthanded goal, but Cornell could not score on the PP again. They were handed a gift PP to finish the game and barely mustered a shot. I believe Jason spit out 50th on the PP and 54th on the PK before the game. ::yark::

They are going to need to win the special teams battle in order to win games down the stretch. Last night was 1-1 and they end up tying.[/quote]

Main problem on the PP is puck movement. Nobody is making passes that put their teammates in a position to score. We do the same shit around the outside every time, and as defenders realize we have no down low options, they start to challenge and force turnovers, like the one last night that seemed to deflect off Milo's skate. The only shots we get are from way outside, and these usually deflect off the PKers right in front of the shooter.

Don't think anyone's mentioned this, but our breakout play is horrific. We wait so long to bring it out that the defense has plenty of time to get set up, and we turn the puck over around the red line, at best. Maybe 1 in 5 times, we actually manage to dump the puck in the opposite zone. May as well just ice it.

[Dafatone]

Our PK looked very good last night, before we accuse the special teams of too much.

[oceanst41]

I was more pointing out special teams as a whole, not one unit or the other.

I assume this goes for most teams, but if you are losing the special teams goal differential you lose the game. With Cornell's inability to score on the PP it makes every goal given up on the PK that much more important.

I checked back and Cornell has only lost one game (Brown) and tied another (@Clarkson) in which they won the special teams goal differential and won only 3 games in which they lost it (all were in a row to start the ECAC regular season @Brown, @Yale, Harvard), tying another (RPI).

Either way they have to go out an find a way to beat RPI tonight.

Edit: Assuming other teams stayed about the same after last night our PP stays about 50 and the 0-6 rockets our PK up to about 50th as we reach the 80% success rate

[KP '06]

[quote ebilmes]Oh, and our band was penalized by Onion for daring to play Davy after lineups were announced. Their punishment? The band could not play between periods. Instead, they hummed My Old Cornell and other songs.[/quote]

For which we got in trouble a second time.

And don't get me started on the DJ pumping music through the rink while we had an injured player down. Union doesn't deserve D-I sports.

[ftyuv]

[quote Jacob '06][quote Dafatone]So what's to stop a goalie from "accidentally" knocking the goal off its posts when he's in trouble?  If he's too obvious, it would be a delay of game, right?[/quote]

And potentially a penalty shot, I believe. I don't think that ever really happens.[/quote]

Happened this year (well, season) at a SLUt/BU game:  http://www.ecachockeyleague.com/recaps/mbu_stl1.d29