Cornell 17 Hobart 4 Lax FINAL

[French Rage]

Sunday night at 9 on ESPNU and ESPNews.  CSTV has a show at the same time.

:-D

[billhoward]

After all these years of seeing 2-1 Cornell hockey games: eight of 13 games with 15 goals or more, and four games with 10 goal (or better) margins. We should savor this year.

Is Max Seibald not the scoring machine we thought? Or more likely, does he draw so much attention he opens up everyone else? Regardless, he made himself be open for the final eight seconds vs. Syracuse.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote billhoward]Is Max Seibald not the scoring machine we thought? Or more likely, does he draw so much attention he opens up everyone else? [/quote]
We'll find out next year when "everyone else" (i.e., Pittard, Mitchell, Bartlett, and Clayton) is gone.

[billhoward]

[quote Al DeFlorio][quote billhoward]Is Max Seibald not the scoring machine we thought? Or more likely, does he draw so much attention he opens up everyone else? [/quote]
We'll find out next year when "everyone else" (i.e., Pittard, Mitchell, Bartlett, and Clayton) is gone.[/quote]
Next yea, we could always play a low-scoring, defense-oriented game. Limit the shots per sixty. Play smart. Win scrums in the corners and crunch 'em against the boards. Wait, no boards, no corners.

Now we come to one of those devil's dilemma questions: Would you rather make the Final Four and then nothing the next year, or make the playoffs every year and be a one-and-done team? Right now, it feels pretty good to have Cornell with a chance to do well, maybe make the final four, maybe the title game, and I'd trade that for a bunch of 11-2 seasons ... just as I'd have given anything for the 2003 hockey team to have gotten past UNH.

[DeltaOne81]

[quote billhoward]
Would you rather make the Final Four and then nothing the next year...[/quote]

Tambroni has proven to be very very good, get very good recruits and continue to have good teams after losing key players - remember Boulukos? Greenhalgh? etc, etc. There's no doubt we're losing a lot, but we've lost a lot in the past and still done very well. With Tambroni at the helm and the players he's been bringing in, I think the chance of us doing 'nothing' next year is slim.

Sure, I wouldn't expect us to go undefeated (and neither did I expect it this year), but you're giving this staff far too little credit if you expect them to disappear from the radar because of some turnover.

[David Harding]

[quote Al DeFlorio][quote billhoward]Is Max Seibald not the scoring machine we thought? Or more likely, does he draw so much attention he opens up everyone else? [/quote]
We'll find out next year when "everyone else" (i.e., Pittard, Mitchell, Bartlett, and Clayton) is gone.[/quote]At least in lacrosse there is virtually zero chance of a player you expect to return tell you in August that he has decided to jump ship for a fat pro contract.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote David Harding]At least in lacrosse there is virtually zero chance of a player you expect to return tell you in August that he has decided to jump ship for a fat pro contract.[/quote]
Wrestling, too.**]

[peterg]

For those of you who were unable to be at the game, I thought you'd enjoy this nice finishing touch by the scoreboard operator following the game Friday night (sorry, could not figure out how to make it show up in the post, so it's just attached).  This was up for quite a while.  Photograph courtesy of and with permission from Heather Nichols.

BTW,the team collectively saluted the fans as they always do, but then trotted, en masse, across the field for a special salute to the band.  It was very nice.

[Killer]

Very cool.  Thanks for posting that.

[Hillel Hoffmann]

Yo Heather, Ivyman just put you on laxswami.com!