Cornell 5 @ Yale 2 (Final)

[schoaff]

Another nice quote from the Yale announcers. They were discussing Yale's season so far and said something like, "And this week Colgate and Cornell at home... of course when you play Cornell it isn't really a home game since their fans travel so well."

[nyc94]

[quote Chris 02] Harvard 5 SLUt 4 F[/quote]

USCHO is reporting this the other way around.

[Trotsky]

[quote nyc94][quote Chris 02] Harvard 5 SLUt 4 F[/quote]

USCHO is reporting this the other way around.[/quote]

It was the other way -- SLU hung on to beat Harvard 5-4.

[Rita]

[quote Jeff Hopkins '82][quote Trotsky]Yale announcer would like to do Topher after the game...[/quote]

He must like "petite" guys.

EEEUUUUWWW![/quote]

The Yale announcer volunteered his height.. 5 ft 7 in. No other vital stats given.

[Jim Hyla]

[quote Chris 02][quote ebilmes]Anyone remember when we went months without shorthanded goals?[/quote]

Pretty much the entire time I was a student.[/quote]Yeah, it seemed like years.

[nr53]

The announcers kept saying how big our team is but our average hight is still smaller than Yale's. Good seeing that we're considered fast though :-)

[Avash]

[quote Jim Hyla][quote Chris 02][quote ebilmes]Anyone remember when we went months without shorthanded goals?[/quote]

Pretty much the entire time I was a student.[/quote]Yeah, it seemed like years.[/quote]

Indeed, from 3/23/02 to 10/29/04, a span of 69 games without a shorthanded goal.

Shorthanded goals by season:

2001-02: 5
2002-03: 0
2003-04: 0
2004-05: 9
2005-06: 6

[dbilmes]

I just got back from the game. What an impressive effort! It was my first look at this year's team, and we skated as well as I've seen a Cornell team skate. The score would have been even more lopsided if not at 3 or 4 great saves the Yale goalie made during the third period, several coming when we had a 5-on-3 advantage for a full minute. What really impressed me was how we dominated the third period. We easily killed off a penalty at the start of the period, and for the rest of the period, the puck was in the Yale end most of the time. It was like we were the team desperately trying to come from behind. Romano is a dazzling player, but he got too fancy on at least two occasions in our own end, both times turning the puck over and giving Yale a solid scoring chance. He's fun to watch, though.
The play of the game was Sawada's shorthanded breakaway goal. Davenport didn't have to make a lot of saves, but came up big when he had to. Neither goal was his fault. The first was just a nice play on a 4-on-3 Yale power play. The second Yale goal was the fault of one of our forwards, who let Yale's Nelson skate into the slot unchecked, where he had no one on him when he got the puck.
It was really like a Cornell home game, since the Yale pep band was absent, and half of the fans were from Cornell.
The only bad part was Mugford getting a game misconduct, which means he'll have to sit out the Harvard game. I couldn't see what happened, since it was at the far end of the rink, but Mugford was fired up and quite angry as he was escorted off the ice.

[Robb]

[quote dbilmes]
The only bad part was Mugford getting a game misconduct, which means he'll have to sit out the Harvard game.[/quote]
Well, it's either one or the other.  If he got a misconduct, he doesn't have to sit out the next game.  If he has to sit out the next game, then what he got was a DQ, not a misconduct.  According to collegehockeystats.com, it was a misconduct, so he will play against Harvard.

Hey Age, can we add this one to the FAQ?  Perhaps it could replace the stuff about the HockeyCam...

[RazzBaronZ]

It was a misconduct according to the official Cornell Men's Hockey site.  Mugford's playing against Harvard.

[ninian '72]

[quote mjc]..."the big red in their communist uniforms"...[/quote]

The Red Army? I like it.

[billhoward]

In the first of Cornell's two 2006-07 home games vs. Yale, this one however being in New Haven, Cornell the team, Cornell the fans, and Cornell the pep band overwhelmed Yale.

Not that you'd trade style-of-play for a national championship, but this is a more entertaining brand of hockey than Big Red fans have seen in years. The forwards seem to like the idea of centering passes into the slot and seeing what happens. And there's still the Cornell hustle. I was hoping for a 6-2 final because those would be imipressive scores to roll up in the early season. The defense was okay but you still catch your breath a lot. The second Yale goal came when Cornell let the puck pop out of a scrum 15 feet from Davenport and a Yalie waltzed over to the puck and banged it in. One other nit: Davenport (goalie Davenport) seems to spend more time out of the crease slowing down pucks behind the cage and he doesn't get back all that quick. Did anyone else notice that?

Still, the defense held when it had to. Yale got a PP a couple minutes into the third and could have made it 5-3, thus setting off the announcer mantra that two is the most dangerous lead of all. (I kind of understand, but I'm a sucker for two-goal leads over one-goal leads.) Yale got off 0 or 1 shots that PP and more importantly Cornell must have had half a dozen clears. Essentially the Yale PP units got to run their Monday end-to-end conditioning sprints Saturday around 9 pm.

It could've been 6-2 or 7-2. On the 5-on-4 then 5-on-3 PP midway through the third, Cornell hit both posts and slid a pass behind the Yale sieve. Later, a centering pass to an open slotman (Romano?) skipped over his stuck.

There were a lot of penalties called but more on Yale than Cornell and that seemed to reflect the tenor of the game: Yale more the mean-spirited aggressor than Cornell. A Yale defender batted Topher Scott's helmet out of the air and to the ice while Topsher was still inside the helmet; the two came apart fortunately. It's as if the opponents are making up for a half-decade of huge Cornell teams that can't bang around. Yale also had a couple clean and very solid hits on Cornell skaters who who momentarily innattentive. Let's hope Mugford's game misconduct is that and not a game DQ which would have him out for Harvard. With not so many big guys, you do notice Bitz's size. Also Greening's. At one point in the third Barlow took the puck away from two Yale defenders and had another of those nice centerting passess that didn't lead to a score -- but, geez, it felt so good to see Cornell pressing that attack.

Brown was close Friday. Saturday was a good outcome. And this second week's two wins seem better than the first week's two wins. Ari said we'll finish fourth in the ECAC. Maybe so, but two of the picks to finish ahead, Colgate and Harvard, didn't fare so well.

[evilnaturedrobot]

[quote billhoward]

NOne other nit: Davenport (goalie Davenport) seems to spend more time out of the crease slowing down pucks behind the cage and he doesn't get back all that quick. Did anyone else notice that?
[/quote]

I too noticed this, Davenport's stickhandling skills don't enthrall be either.  All in all, I'd preffer it if troy spent alittle less time out of the crease.

[Liz '05]

[quote evilnaturedrobot][quote billhoward]

NOne other nit: Davenport (goalie Davenport) seems to spend more time out of the crease slowing down pucks behind the cage and he doesn't get back all that quick. Did anyone else notice that?
[/quote]

I too noticed this, Davenport's stickhandling skills don't enthrall be either.  All in all, I'd preffer it if troy spent alittle less time out of the crease.[/quote]

I'm pretty sure we were saying the same thing about Dave McKee a few years ago, and I'm also pretty sure that as Troy continues to do well and as we get used to his style, there will be far fewer heart-stopping moments.  Not that that helps us now...

[evilnaturedrobot]

another thought:  

did anyone else notice that Romano, again, tried to deke his way out of the defensive zone durring the third period tonight?

I can't believe the verbal reaming that he must have taken from Shafer after doing it the first time wasn't enough to discourage him from ever doing it again.

I love the kid's abilities, and I even apreciate the mindset that allows him to attempt such an action in the first place, but you'd think once would have been enough.