Brown at Cornell postgame thread

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote Al DeFlorio][quote DeltaOne815] OT GWG - I can't tell for sure, but after watching it several times, I'd swear that Sawada took that shot. Abbott came in backhanded, twisted towards Sawada, and never really seemed to take a shot... but Sawada's stick sure took a shooting motion, and the puck landed in the back of the net. Again, I could be wrong, and that would take away McKee's assist ... but I could swear that was Ray's goal.[/quote]
Watching it several times, I can see Chris make a forehand motion toward the net with his stick.  Sawada seems to make a similar motion simultaneously.  Chris's move almost looks like a "skip" in the video, so it's very hard to see.[/quote]
Hmmm.  Watching it again, I think it's a backhand flip by Abbott.  But it's clear to me he's making a shooting motion.

[Trotsky]

The timestamp on the game-winner in the CSTV archive is 2:18:00.

Perfect pass by Mugford.  No idea from the image whether Chris or Sawada really shot it, but I assume they went to the ref after the game and made the change themselves, so I'm taking their word for it.

[jtwcornell91]

[quote billhoward]Right now I'd settle for better cameras in standard def. Notice when the Web feed uses broadcast quality cameras, how much better the image quality is.[/quote]

I'd be happy with better camerawork myself.

[billhoward]

If Moulson's scoring on 5x5 has dried up, and one even-strength, non-EN goal two-thirds of the way in represents the Sahara, then he could also be measured by assists and plus/minus. If he's a real defensive force as a forward, then his plus-minus should be awesome. (Did I miss seeing them at Cornell's handoff site http://www.collegehockeystats.net/teamstats/corm ?)
 

Maybe it doesn't show up on stats, but on the road when the opponent gets last line change, if they put their first line out against Moulson's line and we neutralize them, our second-third-fourth lines should do better than their second-third-maybe they skate-fourth-line.

The downside to our scoring system is that when it's even strength or when the second power play is on the ice, we're not a top ten team. Cornell's downfall will be in that first-round (second?) NCAA playoff game when we're down 3-2 with six minutes to play and the ref has parked his whistle for the duration.

Got to remind ourselves we're nitpicking. There are fifty other teams in D1 hockey right now who're dying to have this as the biggest problem.

[Jacob '06]

So on the first brown goal, why the heck were our two defensemen leading the rush up the ice on the penalty kill? Pokulok was on the goal line when brown started the rush up the ice, hence the odd man rush that resulted in the goal.

[Mike K]

[quote calgARI '07][quote Mike K]My thoughts on the game.

First i hope the ecac looks at this game, because this ref was awful. I was worried somebody was going to get hurt. When you hook somebody around the neck, and it isnt called, that is un believable.

I thought Bitz played his best game this year. Same with mugford/Obyrne.

Mckee wasn't on but made the big save when he needed to. (the one in OT fantastic.)

Played bad but all good teams find a way to win, and that is what we did tonight.

3 stars:

3. Bitz
2. Shasha
3. Chris Abbott[/quote]

Bitz and Moulson didn't do anything after the first goal.  Cornell played badly for about 15 minutes but recovered nicely.[/quote]


Bitz did alot, i agree with trotsky. Bitz was playing physical and there were 2 or three times where we were in trouble in our own zone, bitz got the puck and started the other way and gave cornell 3 great scoring chances. Also, I don't know how many face offs he took, but it seemed like he won every single one he took. They were big wins when we needed it. He played a great game.

[redhair34]

A few thoughts...
Although he saved the game for us at the end, I thought McKee looked pretty shaky last night especially in the 1st and 2nd periods.  I think he would have wanted that first goal back or at least the rebound he let up.  I didn't have a very good view of the next two goals, but I don't think he looked comfortable.  That wrist shot that Hurley fired from the point that McKee lost track of for a minute gave me a horrible flashback to the 4th goal that MSU scored on us right of the face off.  He did turn it around in  the 3rd and overtime.  His post to post save on Prough was spectacular.  It wasn't his best effort or his worse.

Pokulok and O'Byrne were head and shoulders above the rest of the defencemen on the ice (literally and figuratively).  I agree with Ari about Seminoff--he was fabulous. He had a great open ice hit early in the 1st period and continued his  physical play (which included 2 timely hip checks) and sound positional defense for the duration of the game.  Krantz also looked pretty good and didn't have (maybe I missed one?) an offensive zone turnover.  I was pretty unimpressed with the Glover-Gleed pairing after such a great weekend against the North Country.  They seemed to get caught flat-footed more than a few times.  It was definitely not their best game.

I think the best thing that happened for Cornell in the second period (saving the two goals) was when Pegoraro was sent to the box for roughing.  As he was skating to the box Hurley was jawing with and taunting Pegoraro (I wasn't close enough to  make out what he was saying).  When his penalty expired, Dan came flying out of the box full speed and as Hurley was clearing the puck along the end boards Pegoraro checked him into the boards and knocked him right on his ass (a la Hornby).  He played great the remainder of the period and continued with his surprising physical play.  His assist to Carefoot in the slot was gorgeous and I think the turning point in the game.

We didn't play that great (read: consistent) but it was a fun game to watch.  Hansen and his no-calls as well as those odd bounces woke a sleeping giant in the 2nd period.  The crowd really came alive and was as loud (for stretches) as its been at Lynah since the 2nd Clarkson playoff game last year.  I could only clap in overtime as my voice was pretty well shot.  I watched parts of the webcast this morning and it is a shame that they didn't turn the crowd mic up.  Lynah was really rocking.

[oceanst41]

I had a pretty good look at the second period goal, and honestly there wasn't much McKee could do besides maybe keeping his balance of the third goal.

The second goal came on a 2 on 1 in which our only man back had no stick - so maybe a 2 on .5 - and McKee made an outstanding toe save on the initial shot. But without a stick to clear the puck and with McKee already down and out the rebound was a tap in.

The third goal was a little stranger. It looked to me like Kennedy was the one who made contact with McKee, whether or not he was pused into him I don't remember. But then Prough came out from behind the net with Dave already down and had pretty much the whole net to shoot at. Since, as someone mentioned above, Cornell stopped playing for a second.

IIRC all the goals were scored with McKee on his backside, which is a really tough position for a goalie to make any kind of save from. He made the saves when it counted though, I watched the overtime again online and he had to go post to post to keep Prough from scoring in OT. The camera angles they had I wasn't a fan of, but the pass came from the E/F corner to the far post and McKee was there in perfect position for the save.

[canuck89]

I agree.  I remember commenting to my friend after the first period how the game was boring, even though it was 1-1.  I wasn't referring to the game so much as the atmosphere.  Whatever the first period wasn't, the second and third made up for it.  The crowd really got loud and I loved it!  Let's hope we can get just as excited tonight.  LGR!

[Casual Observer]

section A returns to full strength...

[andyw2100]

Is there some way to see the video after the game for free? I didn't think there was, but since a couple of people who were at the game wrote about watching the video, it made me think maybe there was, since I wouldn't imagine you guys would be paying for a subscription if you're here in Ithaca, going to the games. What am I missing?

Thanks.
                   Andy W.

[oceanst41]

Not that I know of, I happened to buy a month's subscription so I could watch the RIT game so I have a few days left to watch the archives too.

[BCrespi]

The first Brown goal last night was, I thought, a total defensive letdown by Krantz.  If I remember correctly they came in on basically a 2 on 2 rush and Krantz just kindof "ole'd" his man who had the puck.  I was very disappoitned by that but was happy to see the team rebound.  Let's keep up that late play tonight.  LGR