Cornell 6 Union 0 postgame (12/2/06)

[billhoward]

Awesome game after the weak 3-3 tie with RPI Friday. But Union seemed weak and overmatched.

Good morale booster including the shutout by the backup goalie (Scrivens). Whether Scrivens is really that good, it ought to make other treams nervouse about ouir goaltending depth again.

A couple PPGs after a futile start. About time.

[Trotsky]

Best 60 mins of the year.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Good way to go into the break.

[Al DeFlorio]

You have to wonder how Union beat UMass.

[Chris '03]

New Hampshire Sucks.

[Killer]

[quote Trotsky]Best 60 mins of the year.[/quote]

I thought they looked pretty solid against Yale.  Did they play better tonight?

[Trotsky]

[quote Killer][quote Trotsky]Best 60 mins of the year.[/quote]

I thought they looked pretty solid against Yale.  Did they play better tonight?[/quote]


Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah.  ::banana::

[Trotsky]

With the win, Schafer ties Dick Bertrand for most wins as a Cornell coach, if I'm right.  He's still one short, if the Daily Sun is right.  TDS might actually be right, because Schafer has been suspended for a game at least once.

[Killer]

[quote Trotsky][quote Killer][quote Trotsky]Best 60 mins of the year.[/quote]

I thought they looked pretty solid against Yale.  Did they play better tonight?[/quote]


Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah.  ::banana::[/quote]

Then bring on UHN!

[ebilmes]

Wow, what a solid game.

This was sort of the "best-case scenario" I was imagining at the beginning of the season. This is a team with great speed, puck movement, and offensive ability, combined with the solid D and goaltending of the Schafer era. Of course, you might ask why these elements have been absent from some other games this season, but it's more fun to focus on tonight.

Scrivens was solid. Like his time in net last night, he didn't face too many quality chances, but stopped everything we needed to (should have let in that one goal, but "thanks, ref"). It's clear he's pretty unpolished, falling down a bunch of times and coming way out of the net to try and catch a pop fly. I don't know if Troy didn't start because he's still injured, or because Schafer thinks Scrivens is the better option tonight. In any case, I like what I see from Scrivens.

Romano continued to be impressive tonight. Topher's goal was a nice play where the Union D just let him skate in front of the goal.

Union is a bad team. At times they just looked completely overmatched and lost most of the scrambles along the boards.

Three point weekend feels very nice, and hopefully this 6-0 blowout will have our guys thinking happy thoughts until the 29th.

[evilnaturedrobot]

Great win but I have to temper that by saying that Union looked very poor.  The red where pretty much able to do whatever they wanted with the puck all-night long...except when they had a man advantage, where they again looked awful.  It might even behoove Schafer to pull a man on the PP and go to 4 on 4, as that's when the red looked most dangerous this weekend (1 goal last night, 2 tonight.)  This teams strength is in its transition game, and they can't seem to operate well with 9 players skating in the confined space of the offensive zone.

On a separate note, and I never thought I'd say this again after the Robert Morris game, this was the worst Lynah crowd I've ever heard.  I've never  witnessed so much silence, even on the power play. With 10 minutes to go and Cornell on a powerplay I could easily hear Justin Milo yell: Down low Bitzy, Down low! Thats just pathetic. There was a solid knot of us in the lower part of a along the aisle that made a valiant effort, but it was to little avail.  I have to say that I felt a little embarrassed; I always feel that we have a reputation to uphold, and that was not done tonight.

[ebilmes]

My dad, ever the analyst, pointed out that after falling behind 3-0 last night, we scored 9 straight goals.

[Trotsky]

[quote ebilmes]My dad, ever the analyst, pointed out that after falling behind 3-0 last night, we scored 9 straight goals.[/quote]

We noted on the game thread that the last time Cornell scored 10 unanswered goals, they then immediately lost the 2 QF games against Clarkson in March '05.  Memento Mori.

[Chris '03]

[quote Trotsky][quote ebilmes]My dad, ever the analyst, pointed out that after falling behind 3-0 last night, we scored 9 straight goals.[/quote]

We noted on the game thread that the last time Cornell scored 10 unanswered goals, they then immediately lost the 2 QF games against Clarkson in March '05.  Memento Mori.[/quote]
I seem to recall a happier ending in '05... until Barry Tallickson that is...

[calgARI '07]

That team was horrible.  Cornell did play very well and did so for 60 minutes.  (Still think the Yale game was their best.)  That first powerplay unit is still horrendous.  Scrivens wasn't tested a whole lot but did make some good saves on the two man disadvantage in the second period.  Still zero continuity with the lines except for a couple of pairs.  Good way to go into the break but there is still a ton of work to do.  Still can't really figure out the identity of this team and I think they're still trying to figure it out themselves.  We'll get a very idea of this team in Florida.  

If someone had told me at the beginning of the season, they'd be 8-3-1 going into the break I would have been happy.