Cornell vs St Lawrence 02/22

[Beeeej]

Anyone have a semi complete list of which old players returned?

I'm going roughly off of memory, so I'm sure I'm missed a bunch (or hallucinated a couple), but this is what I recall:

85-86 team:
Joe Nieuwendyk
Pete Natyshak
Duanne Moeser

04-05 team:
Topher Scott
Mike Knoepfli
Dan Pegoraro
Byron Bitz
Chris Abbott
Mitch Carefoot
Ryan O'Byrne
Doug Krantz
Jon Gleed
Mark McCutcheon
David McKee
Ray Sawada mentioned in memoriam

09-10 team:
Blake Gallagher
Colin Greening
Riley Nash
Brendon Nash
Joe Devin
Mike Devin
Nick D'Agostino
Locke Jillson
Justin Krueger
Joe Scali
Patrick Kennedy
Greg Miller
Braden Birch
Ben Scrivens
Matt Hedge
Omar Kanji

19-20 team:
Brenden Locke
Yanni Kaldis
Tristan Mullin
Kyle Betts
Noah Bauld
Sebastian Dirven
Zach Tupker
Ben Tupker
Cody Haiskanen
Peter Muzyka
Matt Galajda
Ryan McInchak
Misha Song


Other players announced to be in attendance:
Teemu Tiitinen
Dan Svoboda
Andy Iles
Michael Kennedy

Confirm Chris Abbott, who walked dss28 and me back to the parking garage, and said how much he misses his family back in Sweden but also how excited he is to be working with the Carolina Hurricanes. Brother Cam is now with the Chicago Wolves and could not make it back for the weekend.

[Beeeej]

Also just wanted to say - when dss28 and I recorded a very brief video (under 30 seconds) with our toddler Isaac to submit for Schafer's farewell (because without him leading the team, she and I likely never would have met), we did not expect it to get any attention among what we thought would surely be dozens if not hundreds of submissions. The fact that they played it during the game, and Isaac's "Go red!" to close it out got a laugh from the Faithful, just absolutely gave us life and warmed our hearts to an extent that it still has not faded a couple of days later.

It also more than made up for the fact that at the very first game of his life the night before, Isaac threw up a little on the very understanding woman in front of us. ::doh::

I cannot wait for many, many future trips to Lynah with our son.

[BearLover]

It seems to me like the team has finally gotten to a place where they're consistently playing pretty well, but it's probably too late now. Too late for an at-large bid surely and likely also for a bye, and the injuries and lack of consistency in the lineup have made it so that the team still can't build cohesion. If the season were half over I'd think Cornell could finish well, but I think the hole they had to dig out of was too deep and it's very remote that Cornell strings together a bunch of wins in a row to win the ECAC, particularly if they don't get a bye. If no bye, I think the odds are well under 10%.

[marty]

Also just wanted to say - when dss28 and I recorded a very brief video (under 30 seconds) with our toddler Isaac to submit for Schafer's farewell (because without him leading the team, she and I likely never would have met), we did not expect it to get any attention among what we thought would surely be dozens if not hundreds of submissions. The fact that they played it during the game, and Isaac's "Go red!" to close it out got a laugh from the Faithful, just absolutely gave us life and warmed our hearts to an extent that it still has not faded a couple of days later.

It also more than made up for the fact that at his very first game of his life the night before, Isaac threw up a little on the very understanding woman in front of us. ::doh::

I cannot wait for many, many future trips to Lynah with our son.

He was in good company.  Many of us at the rink felt nauseous in the 3rd period.

Congrats on your wonderful son.

[VIEWfromK]

It seems to me like the team has finally gotten to a place where they're consistently playing pretty well, but it's probably too late now. Too late for an at-large bid surely and likely also for a bye, and the injuries and lack of consistency in the lineup have made it so that the team still can't build cohesion. If the season were half over I'd think Cornell could finish well, but I think the hole they had to dig out of was too deep and it's very remote that Cornell strings together a bunch of wins in a row to win the ECAC, particularly if they don't get a bye. If no bye, I think the odds are well under 10%.

The past two weekends we have seen the potential of two of our most important offensive players get rediscovered (Walsh+Bancroft).  If the rumors are true about a Castagna return maybe there's enough season left for him to get some wind in his sails.  Still gotta get Robertson back as a driving force.  Charlie Major has the makings of a player.  The rest of this season is hopefully about extending Schafer's career and ruining a team or twos hopes.

[VIEWfromK]

Also just wanted to say - when dss28 and I recorded a very brief video (under 30 seconds) with our toddler Isaac to submit for Schafer's farewell (because without him leading the team, she and I likely never would have met), we did not expect it to get any attention among what we thought would surely be dozens if not hundreds of submissions. The fact that they played it during the game, and Isaac's "Go red!" to close it out got a laugh from the Faithful, just absolutely gave us life and warmed our hearts to an extent that it still has not faded a couple of days later.

That was terrific!  How come you didn't go for the tropical backdrop though?  Maybe for Casey's retirement you could step up your game!

[Beeeej]

Also just wanted to say - when dss28 and I recorded a very brief video (under 30 seconds) with our toddler Isaac to submit for Schafer's farewell (because without him leading the team, she and I likely never would have met), we did not expect it to get any attention among what we thought would surely be dozens if not hundreds of submissions. The fact that they played it during the game, and Isaac's "Go red!" to close it out got a laugh from the Faithful, just absolutely gave us life and warmed our hearts to an extent that it still has not faded a couple of days later.

That was terrific!  How come you didn't go for the tropical backdrop though?  Maybe for Casey's retirement you could step up your game!

Isaac's pronunciation probably won't be quite as adorable when he's in his thirties.

[stereax]

It also more than made up for the fact that at the very first game of his life the night before, Isaac threw up a little on the very understanding woman in front of us. ::doh::

I cannot wait for many, many future trips to Lynah with our son.

Oh noooo!!! Hoping everything is okay, hahah. The pilgrimages to Lynah must continue

[Beeeej]

It also more than made up for the fact that at the very first game of his life the night before, Isaac threw up a little on the very understanding woman in front of us. ::doh::

I cannot wait for many, many future trips to Lynah with our son.

Oh noooo!!! Hoping everything is okay, hahah. The pilgrimages to Lynah must continue

Oh, totally, thank you. He was just a bit overwhelmed by it all, especially after a smidgen of carsickness on the long ride. And the woman's jacket was washable. :-)

[Tom Lento]

O'Leary!
ACM: "The Cornell goal -- "
Bancroft!
ACM:  "No, not that one."

We got what must be an exceedingly rare "The *first* Cornell goal was..." call from Arthur.

Unusual maybe till this year. Most importantly in the Harvard game
Kraft at 1:16
Walsh at 1:23

I thought there was an earlier one, but can't find it. Maybe declining memory with age or an exhibition game.

I remember one from back in like 99 or 2000 when Arthur decided to hint to the team that it was in fact acceptable to score more than one.

I might be making that up, but in those days more than one was a pretty good night for the offense.

[fastforward]

Really since Jan 1st only had a couple games of bad play and down 6-8 guys thats going to happen.

PP is what it is, it just a bad PP and we probably have 3-4 more wins.

How many teams have multiple non winning games giving up under 15 shots?

Yale
Colgate
Clarkson
SH (18)

We get outshot 30-17 vs Dart and lose 6-1. We turn those types of games into losses.

But clearly as the depth/health has gotten better, the effort and level has gone up.

scored 4-5-6-6 in the last 6 and  the two losses we outshot  them by 21 shots

allowed 2-4-1-3-3-0  allowed 2 PP and 2 EN 2 EA and 1 4x4

Just seeing the puck go in is helping.

I certainly hope Casey can change the dynamics of the god awful PP for next season