Union @ Cornell 02/25/17

[ugarte]

Cornell had a PP 5:30 into the 3rd.  Union took penalty that would have given Cornell nearly two minutes of a 5x3.  Buckles got called for embellishment, though, and so it remained 5x4 and Cornell didn't get anything going on the PP.  Second embellishment call on Cornell in two nights...

Embellishment is such a stupid call. Blow the whistle for flopping if you DON'T think it was a penalty; don't give the guy who committed the foul a Get Out Of Jail Free card.

[upprdeck]

its a penalty that no one understands.. i get calling it when trying to decide if a hit was a major/minor on slashes/boarding type calls.  but a trip is a trip, call it or dont.

there was one call late when union took a penalty and Weidner and union got tangling along the boards after the whistle blew..  Lynch skated over and while the scrum was escalating was telling Wiedner "white dont blow it".  Wiedner held his cool and the penalty was not evened up.  thats something you dont see every game.

i did wonder about the one scrum after the whistle where union had 9 guys on the ice  and 6 of them involved in the pushing olong the boards.. i didnt think that was allowed.

[Al DeFlorio]

Impressive regular season in one respect:  After an 0-1-1 start in ECAC games on the road, an 8-0-1 finish gives a final 8-1-2 road ECAC record.

[Chris '03]

Foo likely ending Smith's season is very bad news.  Nothing called on the play, and no makeup calls either.

It was not on camera, but Eisenhut's reaction was interesting.  He called it a "brutal" hit "up high," and seemed very surprised that Smith hurt his knee on the play.

I wonder whether there might have been knee-to-knee contact down low on the hit.

I thought I heard a comment that he may have got his skate caught in the bad ice on the hit. But that was after it was clear his knee was hurt.

[Al DeFlorio]

Foo likely ending Smith's season is very bad news.  Nothing called on the play, and no makeup calls either.

It was not on camera, but Eisenhut's reaction was interesting.  He called it a "brutal" hit "up high," and seemed very surprised that Smith hurt his knee on the play.

I wonder whether there might have been knee-to-knee contact down low on the hit.

I thought I heard a comment that he may have got his skate caught in the bad ice on the hit. But that was after it was clear his knee was hurt.

Unfortunately, the hit was just off-camera.  Jason called it "a high hit to the head" and Tony "a brutal hit" right after it happened.  The "caught in the bad ice" comment came much later after the injury location was apparent.

[profudge]

Hit was late and from where I sat was a vicious high hit and boarding in neutral zone  behind the play.  The trailing ref was watching the puck and play and didn't seem to have seen anything.   Unbelievable!  About the loudest booing in Lynah all season.

[upprdeck]

hard to believe that 4 refs didnt see anything at that point on the ice.

at one point during the game we thought that only 1 ref had a whistle as Lynch seemed to call every penalty on the ice.

[Johnny 5]

Yes, pretty Shattie officiating, overall.

::pain::

[Al DeFlorio]

Hit was late and from where I sat was a vicious high hit and boarding in neutral zone  behind the play.  The trailing ref was watching the puck and play and didn't seem to have seen anything.   Unbelievable!  About the loudest booing in Lynah all season.

The puck was long gone when Foo took a run at Smith.  Smith had sent it into the Union end from the neutral zone directly after a neutral zone faceoff.  The hit was unnecessary.  There may be no video showing it.

[upprdeck]

i would be surprised if the end camera didnt have something, assuming they follow the play at all outside the blue lines. all the feeds are recorded beyond what ildn shows live. doesnt cornell also have its own recording from a slightly different angle for their own film review?

[Trotsky]

Impressive regular season in one respect:  After an 0-1-1 start in ECAC games on the road, an 8-0-1 finish gives a final 8-1-2 road ECAC record.

Surely in more than one respect.  The 9-point improvement from the prior season is one of our largest ever.

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14 1988 16 30
12 1996 20 32
11 1985 18 29
11 2002 25 36
 9 2005 29 38
 9 2017 22 31

[Dafatone]

Hit was late and from where I sat was a vicious high hit and boarding in neutral zone  behind the play.  The trailing ref was watching the puck and play and didn't seem to have seen anything.   Unbelievable!  About the loudest booing in Lynah all season.

The puck was long gone when Foo took a run at Smith.  Smith had sent it into the Union end from the neutral zone directly after a neutral zone faceoff.  The hit was unnecessary.  There may be no video showing it.

Especially infuriating given that union scored on a power play following an interference call on mccarron for nudging a guy a little late.

But mostly infuriating because we lost a real good player to a dirty hit that wasn't called.

[BearLover]

We've lost three top-four D-men this year--absolutely devastating, but also makes you realize how good a defensive coach Schafer is that we've been so solid despite this.

[Give My Regards]

Impressive regular season in one respect:  After an 0-1-1 start in ECAC games on the road, an 8-0-1 finish gives a final 8-1-2 road ECAC record.

Surely in more than one respect.  The 9-point improvement from the prior season is one of our largest ever.

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14 1988 16 30
12 1996 20 32
11 1985 18 29
11 2002 25 36
 9 2005 29 38
 9 2017 22 31

I'm astonished no one has yet pointed out that the top two improvements on this list were both with first-year coaches (McCutcheon in 1988, Schafer in 1996).