Cornell 2 Brown 5 postgame thread

Trotsky · January 20, 2007, 09:11:26 PM

Brown's first win at Lynah against Schafer.

Jordan 04 · January 20, 2007, 09:15:53 PM

Despite being in the press box, Schafer is the official coach for the game? Not Brekke?

Trotsky · January 20, 2007, 09:21:29 PM

[quote Jordan 04]Despite being in the press box, Schafer is the official coach for the game? Not Brekke?[/quote]

Correct. The coach is the coach. His assistants do not get credit for the decisions.

Dpperk29 · January 20, 2007, 09:34:39 PM

is anyone else wondering if cornell's new years resolution was to not win?

calgARI '07 · January 20, 2007, 09:47:30 PM

[quote Trotsky][quote Jordan 04]Despite being in the press box, Schafer is the official coach for the game? Not Brekke?[/quote]

Correct. The coach is the coach. His assistants do not get credit for the decisions.[/quote]

In the NHL if the coach is out, then the lead Asst gets credit for the win.

cth95 · January 20, 2007, 09:51:03 PM

I thought teams were supposed to get better as the season goes along. Particularly if they are YOUNG and therefore getting used to eachother and a new level of hockey. How is it that we seem to be getting worse with time.

Edit: I make more sense and less mistakes when I am not half asleep. Fixed the mistaken word.

calgARI '07 · January 20, 2007, 09:56:14 PM

PK was very good tonight. Despite the powerplay goal, it is still terrible. The last few games have been miserably boring. Cornell gave up more odd man rushes in the third period than they have all season. Thought they just got outworked in the third period. Davenport may have let up that bad one last night, but he's still been the far better goalie than Scrivens. Scott is totally invisible and is playing the worst hockey of his career. It is not fun going to games right now. They are playing horribly but also just playing boring hockey. I don't know when this miserable stretch is going to end.

They just aren't getting enough pucks to the net and playing along the perimeter the entire game.

I am 100% sure that the reason they have sucked so much lately is NOT the level of talent on this team. They played extremely well early in the season and did so much more on the ice, playing with so much more energy. This group has shown they are capable of it. The coaches need to make adjustments and abandon some of the shit they have been sticking with all season. Some of the passengers which is like 15 players need to play harder, play smarter, and play better.

RazzBaronZ · January 20, 2007, 10:13:40 PM

Very disappointing game...

We outplayed them through most of the game, but I couldn't believe the break-aways they ended up getting. Once again, we should have had many more goals than we did, and I'm not sure why. The PP and PK looked OK most of the time.

Their goalie looked scared of the puck when we shot it hard, so I thought this was going to be a huge blowout for us. We had some great chances, but it seems to be a pattern that they're just not going for us.

Nice to see Glover back in person, though.

Jeff Hopkins '82 · January 20, 2007, 10:44:15 PM

The sense I got was they're afraid to take the man off the puck. Everything is stick checking. And on the first Brown goal, four guys waved at the puck and nobody took the man.

On offense I saw a lot of dump and no chase. They'd throw the puck in deep then sit at the blueline to be ready for when Brown broke it out. What happened to the concept of forechecking?

Everything I said was good in last night's game sucked tonight. And the things that sucked last night, didn't get much better.

Except for the fans. They were much more vocal tonight. Although it's still sad that the only cheer they can sustain for more than 20 seconds is "bend over." Tho the corner where I sat definitely has White Man's Disease - no rhythm. I don't know if they can't hear the band or are just ignoring it.

Avash · January 21, 2007, 12:42:00 AM

Cornell drops out of the Pairwise Rankings with tonight's loss - http://www.collegehockeynews.com/ratings/ncaapwcr.php

Jim Hyla · January 21, 2007, 01:54:32 AM

[quote Dpperk29]is anyone else wondering if cornell's new years resolution was to not win?[/quote]No, it's Bertrand's curse.::help::

ebilmes · January 21, 2007, 03:46:59 AM

[quote Jeff Hopkins '82]
Except for the fans. They were much more vocal tonight.[/quote]

Really? Still seemed pretty bad to me. Even at crucial points like penalty kills, PPs, and nice flurries, any LGRs or KRKs died down after 10 seconds. Disappointing.

I unfortunately had to leave after 2 periods, but it seemed like the stretch I saw was a pretty typical Cornell game, with the Big Red dominating play yet being unable to take the lead. Another lousy weekend...

jtwcornell91 · January 21, 2007, 06:29:51 AM

[quote cth95]I thought teams were supposed to get better as the season goes along. Particularly if they are long and therefore getting used to eachother[/quote]

::uhoh::

ithacat · January 21, 2007, 09:28:34 AM

The good: Continue to excel at faceoffs...PK seems to be improving...ECAC auto-bid.

The bad: The crowd is making the decision to not build a new wow-inspiring recruiting magnet type facility look worse each game...Hockey doesn't allow a team the option of declining a PP...What happened to Goalie U?

The ugly: 6 chances to give their coach the most career victories and 6 stickers...Heart-breaking loss to Yale (feels like it) leads to devastating loss to Brown...It's time to call the C-police, something's missing.

Townie · January 21, 2007, 10:19:17 AM

[quote Jeff Hopkins '82]The sense I got was they're afraid to take the man off the puck. Everything is stick checking. And on the first Brown goal, four guys waved at the puck and nobody took the man.

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Right on!

Aside from short, sporadic stretches, I don't see us using the body very effectively.