Cornell @ Quinnipiac Fri 2/25/22

[andyw2100]

A Q player cleared the stick away into center ice to make it hard for the Cornell player to retrieve it.  About a minute later, a second Cornell player lost his stick and the same thing happened so that two Cornell players didn't have their sticks.  I have never seen that in a hockey game before.  The ref called the second stick clearer (Brendan Less) for a 2 minute interference penalty.

In a recent game at Lynah--perhaps the St. Lawrence game--Ian Shane had lost his stick in some action around the goal, and his stick was moved well out of the crease, presumably by an opposing player. Play continued, and several seconds later he wound up stopping a shot with his chest, but the rebound was put in. I wondered about whether the intentional moving of the dropped goalie stick away from the goalie could have been penalized, and tonight I learned that apparently it could have been. Of course I couldn't actually see how the stick got moved well out of the crease, so it could have been unintentionally kicked, or at least if an opposing player did kick it he may have had plausible deniability. I may have to go looking for the replay of that tomorrow.

Edit: I didn't have to search very hard. It's in the highlights: https://youtu.be/_i7dz75mfZ4

The St. Lawrence player does skate the stick away from Shane, but one could argue, I suppose, that he didn't do it on purpose.

[BearLover]

Q is not the Q of a few years ago.  It used to be that they buzzed around a lot and took 60+ wild shots per game.  This year's team has some heavy hitters.  They also have some cheaters.  During the second period, a Big Red player lost his stick while he was in the Cornell defensive zone.  A Q player cleared the stick away into center ice to make it hard for the Cornell player to retrieve it.  About a minute later, a second Cornell player lost his stick and the same thing happened so that two Cornell players didn't have their sticks.  I have never seen that in a hockey game before.  The ref called the second stick clearer (Brendan Less) for a 2 minute interference penalty.

42 is still a lot of shots...not many of them were wild, but a lot of them were from the point. Q was clearly the better team, but Cornell kept them to the outside and cut off the cross-ice pass. Shane did the rest. Cornell also broke out of their own zone more successfully than it has this year. I thought this was a solid performance despite the huge shot disparity. This team has really bought into the program's defensive philosophy. The offense hasn't been there lately. Hard to tell how much of that is talent and how much is the players not having much college hockey experience. The fast and skilled guys like Ertel and Mack are seeing much less open space than they saw in junior hockey and they need to find ways to adjust.

[BearLover]

Seeing the way Q has played since it came on as a top program in 2013, as well as the way the professional game has changed, it seems the key to a team's offense is how offensively skilled the defensemen are. You really want all D-men to be able to carry the puck up ice, create offense from the point, and join the rush. Big, plodding shut-down D-men are just too much of a liability on offense.

[Robb]

Q is not the Q of a few years ago.  It used to be that they buzzed around a lot and took 60+ wild shots per game.  This year's team has some heavy hitters.  They also have some cheaters.  During the second period, a Big Red player lost his stick while he was in the Cornell defensive zone.  A Q player cleared the stick away into center ice to make it hard for the Cornell player to retrieve it.  About a minute later, a second Cornell player lost his stick and the same thing happened so that two Cornell players didn't have their sticks.  I have never seen that in a hockey game before.  The ref called the second stick clearer (Brendan Less) for a 2 minute interference penalty.

Cornell also broke out of their own zone more successfully than it has this year.

Right after we scored, this thought went through my head: "Man, I hope we can break out well tonight.  With the No-Change rule, we can't just ice the puck for 2.5 periods the way we did in the 1996 ECAC final."

Fortunately, the kids wer all right.

[dbilmes]

Quinnipiac student paper did a good job getting an article up quickly about the game. Quote from Pecknold:
"I thought our guys played really well. Perets was great again. We played great. That was really one of our better games of the year. We just couldn't score."

[ACM]

Guess there was a massive bookkeeping exercise at the end of last night's game. Minors and miscoducts against everyone on the ice. What I once referred to as "a whole mess of penalties".

[andyw2100]

Guess there was a massive bookkeeping exercise at the end of last night's game. Minors and miscoducts against everyone on the ice. What I once referred to as "a whole mess of penalties".

Yes, but they missed Quinnipiac's extra skater. Five skaters on each team got 2 minutes for roughing and 10 minute minors. So 60 minutes per team. But nothing for Quinnipiac's extra attacker!

[marty]

Guess there was a massive bookkeeping exercise at the end of last night's game. Minors and miscoducts against everyone on the ice. What I once referred to as "a whole mess of penalties".

Yes, but they missed Quinnipiacc's extra skater. Five skaters on each team got 2 minutes for roughing and 10 minute minors. So 60 minutes per team. But nothing for Quinnipiac's extra attacker!

Maybe he couldn't find a dance partner.

[Robb]

Guess there was a massive bookkeeping exercise at the end of last night's game. Minors and miscoducts against everyone on the ice. What I once referred to as "a whole mess of penalties".

Was that the Damian Rocke game?

[Trotsky]

Guess there was a massive bookkeeping exercise at the end of last night's game. Minors and miscoducts against everyone on the ice. What I once referred to as "a whole mess of penalties".

Was that the Damian Rocke game?

Damian Rocke was a road game.

[Give My Regards]

Guess there was a massive bookkeeping exercise at the end of last night's game. Minors and miscoducts against everyone on the ice. What I once referred to as "a whole mess of penalties".

Was that the Damian Rocke game?

Leeor Shtrom.