Cornell-UNH Postgame Thread

[jkahn]

Just back at hotel from the game.  Great win for the Big Red.  Lots of hustle every shift.  Seminoff was immense on defense all game.  He'd get my first star, even with Sawada getting two goals.  But plenty of effort from everyone to pretty much neutralize NH's firepower and yet play offensively at the same time.  Great to see everyone rise to the occasion.
Strong Cornell contingent there as well, much larger than previous few years.  And thanks to Lauren and Rich for being our two-person Pep Band, which definitely adds to the atmosphere.  Looking forward to tomorrow night.

[oceanst41]

From the sounds of the webcast Cornell was outworking UNH, and their announcers agreed with that sentiment. Plus, they were strong in the 1st and 3rd, two periods where they have had letdowns early on this year. It just sounded like Cornell was rolling their lines and making plays happen on every shift.

Hard for me to tell much more than that without video, so I'm looking for to the reviews from those in attendence.

[Rich S]

Sounds like a good start for ECAC teams in NC holiday play as Princeton won and Clarkson topped Wisco 6-2 in the Badgers' tournament.  They face Lake State having split a pair with them in Potsdam early in the season.

In case anyone here cares.  :-)

[oceanst41]

SLU and Princeton also with wins what you could call upset wins.

[ebilmes]

Agree with Jeff; not much to complain about.

We had all those PP opportunities in the first that we didn't capitalize on, but I'm glad that didn't come back to haunt us.

The team came out flying and played very well pretty much all night.

I thought the Bitz shot that "hit the post" was a goal. Not sure what angle the ref had, but the players were celebrating and the goal light went on. If it had hit the post, it would have made a clear sound. Definitely thought it was in the back of the net and bounced out.

Putting six goals (five counted) up against Regan is impressive. Bring on Maine!

[kfish]

Just back from the Clarkson-Wisconsin game.  Clarkson looked really crisp and fired up all night, but it was Leggio who was incredibly hot all game.  Amazing saves!

VERY excited to see the Cornell score.  LGR!

[Rich S]

[quote oceanst41]SLU and Princeton also with wins what you could call upset wins.[/quote]

Agree with the SLU win over BU but PU winning at home over another under-.500 team isn't really an upset.

[calgARI '07]

Back from the game.  Unbelievable win for Cornell.  Certainly their best game of the season.  Some of the freshmen really played well.  Davenport's save in the second period was one of the best I've ever seen.  Certainly right there with Elliot's stop on Bitz last year.  Glover played very well for a guy who hasn't played in like 8 months.  Officiating was a complete joke and was as predictable as it was bad.  My 3 Stars were:

1. Greening
2. Sawada
3. Davenport

Big game tomorrow.  Maine didn't do anything for the first two periods today and just exploded in the third.

[Trotsky]

The following are from the 2002-03 through current seasons -- I haven't had time to put Cornell and Opponent rankings into my DB prior to that.

That was the highest ranked (all rankings USCHO poll) opponent Cornell has beaten during the 5 season sample.  Cornell has played a #2 two other times:  the triple-ot QF loss against Wisconsin, and a 3-2 loss to Maine in Estero in December 2002.

This is the sixth top-10 team Cornell has beaten over the last 5 seasons:

2003:

#8 BC (NCAA QF)

2005:

#8 Harvard (ECAC F)
#9 Ohio State (NCAA 1R)

2006:

#10 Michigan State (10/28)
#10 St. Lawrence (1/10)

2007:

#2 New Hampshire (Estero)

Over that period, Cornell is 6-6 against top-10 opponents.  This was the only case in which Cornell (#12) was not itself in the top 10 when playing a top-10 opponent.

Full tables (with some navigation problems, sorry) available off the bottom two links of this menu.  In each case you can reach the second page of the report by appending "Page2" to the URL filename (preserving the .html filetype, of course).

[theforgottencowbell]

Ari how could you leave me behind in Ithaca?!?!? it's so lonely here! ::asshole::

[Trotsky]

[quote Rich S]In case anyone here cares.  :-)[/quote]

Definitely rooting for the Knights.  "A rising tide lifts all ECAC boats."  Nice to see the conference get off to a fast start to the holidays -- the last few seasons of holiday tourneys have been tough (with PWR ramifications come March).

[Liz '05]

We were WAY better than I expected, which makes me very excited.  

1. The penalty kill was reliable, even killing off several 5x3s.  Some of the calls leading to those 5x3s were questionable...the roughing penalties all resulted (in my eyes) from a UNH player's decision to wrap his arm around a Cornell face...but we responded well to all of them.  It seems the time off has allowed Schafer to focus on special teams and drastically improve them.

2. Glover was back!  A solid blueline presence all night

3. Carefoot looked good, with two shortie attempts on top of his goal.  Sawada and Troy Davenport were also great.

4. Crowd presence was excellent, as mentioned above.  There was a largish standing section behind the many Cornell fans in our corner, and the two-trombone band attracted the attention of the arena staff, who turned down some of their piped in music for pep band pieces.

[Trotsky]

[quote Liz '05]the two-trombone band attracted the attention of the arena staff, who turned down some of their piped in music for pep band pieces.[/quote]

They were clearly audible on the UNH netcast. ::rock::

[The Rancor]

wow. my first live game of the year, and what a time to show up (I mean the team!) they played very well, obviously.
some thoughts:
1. Great to see Glover back.
2. Wow we looke smal in person. usualy its the other way around.
3. Wow we are fast this year!
4. Davenport's 3 saves in the 2nd right before the 2nd UNH goal were amazing. you just can't make 4 of thouse at close range. he's got some skills, and room to develop. good things for us on the way.
5. Special teams looked fantastic.
6. Ari, it was great to see your mom and brother. i'll look for you and Larry Saturday.\\
7. Maine dismantled Western Michigan. their sive was sivetackular.

[Beeeej]

[quote The Rancor]
7. Maine dismantled northern Michigan.[/quote]

That sounds almost like a punchline.

"Maine beat Western Michigan so badly today that Northern Michigan lost, too!!"