Cornell at Clarkson Post-game

[sah67]

Clarkson's announce team gives Davenport the #1 star of the game...why thank you.

[sah67]

New top of the ECAC standings after tonight:

1: Quinnipiac
2: SLU
3: Princeton
4: Cornell, Clarkson, Dartmouth

[Avash]

4th OT game for Cornell & Clarkson in their last 6 meetings, and Cornell is 7-1-1 against Clarkson since the 2004 ECAC playoffs.

Cornell's 0-3-1 record in its last four is its worst record over a four game span since December 1999.

[Trotsky]

[quote sah67]New top of the ECAC standings after tonight:

1: Quinnipiac
2: SLU
3: Princeton
4: Cornell, Clarkson, Dartmouth[/quote]

Going by percentage:

.778 SLU
.679 Quinnipiac
.667 Clarkson
.600 Cornell
"Whatsa behind me is not important."

[min]

cornell lost the last two games of the 00-01 season (at lake placid), and started with two losses during the 01-02 season.
nevertheless, your point is well taken.
it's hard to beat anybody when the team only scores 3 goals in 3 games (or 6 in 4).
who is in charge of the offense these days?

[reilly83]

who is in charge of the offense these days?

::drunk::

[Chris '03]

[quote min]cornell lost the last two games of the 00-01 season (at lake placid), and started with two losses during the 01-02 season.
nevertheless, your point is well taken.
it's hard to beat anybody when the team only scores 3 goals in 3 games (or 6 in 4).
who is in charge of the offense these days?[/quote]

Off the top of my head, I think you mean lost their last two in '99-'00 and their first two in '00-'01. We definately beat Harvard in our penultimate game of '01.

[Drew]

Wow....no shit slinging!  No pre-game or post game shit slinging. Could it be we are more tolerable and respectful of each other's programs?  Or are we both more worried that the flamefest would blow out the elynah server? :-D
Here is my take, you guys had the early jump and a lot more intensity.  I felt we had more grade A scoring chances. I think both goalies played well, the nod to Davenport, for he made one or two more big time saves.
I felt your PK neutralized our PP and kudos for that. Both teams did not play an "A" game but the game was more of a "Cornell Style" than "tech style" which leads me to believe you dictated the play. (Hard to get a flavor for the game on the internet). Well, you know how it is when you play down to the competition ;-).  See you at Lynah!
Knight All,
Drew

[ebilmes]

Might wonder if Scrivens' performance last night took a little pressure off Davenport, letting him relax and play well tonight.

[Trotsky]

[quote Drew]you guys had the early jump and a lot more intensity.  I felt we had more grade A scoring chances. I think both goalies played well, the nod to Davenport, for he made one or two more big time saves.
I felt your PK neutralized our PP and kudos for that.[/quote]

Agreed on all of this.  The game was not played according to "Cornell style" or "Clarkson style."  There was very little style at all.  I was surprised at how poorly Cornell played tactically, and I was surprised and relieved Clarkson did not take advantage.  I think if they play this game in this way 10 times, Clarkson wins 9 of them.  We got lucky to get the point.

So ends a poor weekend for Cornell.  The two bright spots are that Davenport showed himself to be the clear #1 goalie for the rest of the season, and the Cornell penalty kill was excellent.  You could see the talent and drill of the Knights' powerplay.  Cornell played their best hockey a man down.

The North Country teams are the most complete pair we have played this season, IMHO clearly ahead of Harvard and Dartmouth.  On the one hand, it's great to see two quality programs back at the top of the league.  On the other hand, it's a bitch. ;-)

See you at Lynah.

[JDeafv]

Drew or any other clarkson folks - Has there been any attempt to curtail the offensive and abusive language and behavior at Cheel?  It seems to actually be worse than the last time I was there.

The f*&k you, and finger all night from the students got old very quick.  I enjoyed the intensity and passion displayed by some students, and they even had a few creative cheers and jeers, but not the repetitive expletives.  

Given the crack-down at Lynah, it seems nobody cares in Potsdam.

[Liz '05]

[quote min]who is in charge of the offense these days?[/quote]

Apparently Mitch Carefoot, the only Cornellian to score this weekend.  I don't think he'll ever have a Vesce-esque seven points in one game, though, so we better figure out who else can score.

[daredevilcu]

The band does its best to cut down the more offensive cheers early, but single people screaming obscenities randomly is quite hard for us to take care of.  Scott Smalling has instructed the arena staff to throw people out if they catch them in the act, I believe.  A reason the "crackdown" really hasn't happened is because our arena staff are almost all Clarkson students working for work-study jobs.  Students don't want to throw out other students and get labeled as "that jerk usher" etc... on a campus this small, it would be likely to translate to life outside hockey games.  I doubt they want that.  Not saying they should be giving people as much leeway as they do, just offering a suggestion as to why they might.

[marty]

[quote daredevilcu]The band does its best to cut down the more offensive cheers early,...[/quote]

As opposed to the RIP band which leads the "You Suck" cheer during opponent introductions at "The Morgue".  While getting my haircut on Saturday  my barber and friend (a former high school player) mentioned that he was turned off by the repeated 'sucks' cheers at RIP last year.  He was with his then fiance - now wife - and apparently his profanity meter had been recalibrated by his impending change in marital status.

RIP might crack down but its not likely in the near future.  They had more important fish to fry this year, with the retirement of Puckman and their new coach seemingly more worried about hockey than profanity.

[Jim Hyla]

[quote daredevilcu]The band does its best to cut down the more offensive cheers early, but single people screaming obscenities randomly is quite hard for us to take care of.  Scott Smalling has instructed the arena staff to throw people out if they catch them in the act, I believe.  A reason the "crackdown" really hasn't happened is because our arena staff are almost all Clarkson students working for work-study jobs.  Students don't want to throw out other students and get labeled as "that jerk usher" etc... on a campus this small, it would be likely to translate to life outside hockey games.  I doubt they want that.  Not saying they should be giving people as much leeway as they do, just offering a suggestion as to why they might.[/quote]Come on, there was a group action with many cheers. How about the "S H I T, that spells ivy". If the institution really wanted to change it they could. As at Cornell it would take a major effort and your coach would need to support it. Hopefully they wouldn't take it to the extreme that I believe Cornell has.

I enjoy going to Clarkson for games, after all I did get accepted there and my brother and his wife graduated from there, the games are usually high spirited and fun. However lately the crowd has started to act more like Colgate than the Clarkson of old (don't you like how us old people can use terms like that?).

Maybe the problem is that we have dominated them in the recent past, and we can hope that since they are obviously back in the hunt, they will respond to the game more and be creative and less offensive.

Related, they and SLU need to stop playing their drums during play. I believe it's against the rules and it's annoying. You shouldn't need that to keep the beat on a cheer. But I do have to say that it's certainly nice to go to an arena that really has a good pep band. The difference between Cheel and Appleton is volumes, even when Clarkson was having down years. Keep up the GOOD WORK, but ..., well I've already said the but part.

Finally, to emphasize the positive, Clarkson has been one of a few places that had some fans who knew the player on my jersey, Lodboa. I had two people come up to me last night. One who was selling 50-50 tickets and played on Clarkson's 70 team. That was nice.