Cornell 4 at Brown 1 (postgame)

billhoward · November 10, 2007, 09:07:46 PM

Three wins in a row. Announcers say Cornell is jelling now. I'd say luck had a lot to do with it. We still seem shakier on offense than an ECAC threat can afford to be.

Power Play (2x20 going in) woke up with 3 PPGs. It would be nice if we could manage 1 a game from here on.

We've got a real sensation in Riley Nash. Let's hope he doesn't want to play baseball at Vermont, too.

Not that this stuff matters, but a shutout and a 1-goal game would have given Ben Scrivens an inside shot at ECAC player of the week.

3 stars of game from the radio:
3. Scrivens
2. Greening
1. Riley Nash

Worrisome stat for the weekend

Week 3 shots on goal
              Them     Us      
At Yale       25       19
At Brown      31       21
Sorry total   56       40

Jeff Hopkins '82 · November 10, 2007, 09:08:42 PM

[quote billhoward] Let's hope he doesn't want to play baseball at Vermont, too.
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LOL!!!

upperdeck · November 10, 2007, 09:10:08 PM

how many even strength goals have we allowed in 5 games? between power plays, empty net and penalty shots thats most of what we have allowed.. of course we havent done much better either..

marty · November 10, 2007, 09:10:41 PM

[quote billhoward]

We've got a real sensation in Riley Nash. Let's hope he doesn't want to play baseball at Vermont, too. [/quote]

Let's just hope he wants more than one year at "My Old Cornell".

ryeguy · November 10, 2007, 09:15:48 PM

We looked a little scary at times but 4pts is 4pts. Bring on SUCKS!!

ithacat · November 10, 2007, 09:49:52 PM

[quote billhoward] Not that this stuff matters, but a shutout and a 1-goal game would have given Ben Scrivens an inside shot at ECAC player of the week.[/quote]

Sucks' Richter put up back-to-back shutouts this weekend. :-(

ebilmes · November 10, 2007, 09:51:52 PM

[quote billhoward] Let's hope he doesn't want to play baseball at Vermont, too.
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I'd hate to revive the months-long Milo debate, but this isn't a fair comment. I have no doubt that Milo would have rather stayed at Cornell and played both sports.

That said, I'm enjoying this four-point weekend. I'd love to carry this momentum to Sucks next Friday.

redhair34 · November 10, 2007, 10:19:58 PM

[quote billhoward]
Power Play (2x20 going in) woke up with 3 PPGs.
[/quote]

The last one was the most impressive individual effort I've ever seen by a Cornellian.

billhoward · November 10, 2007, 10:33:01 PM

[quote redhair34][quote billhoward]
Power Play (2x20 going in) woke up with 3 PPGs.
[/quote]

The last one was the most impressive individual effort I've ever seen by a Cornellian.[/quote]

Now that we're on a winning streak, it's easy to quibble about the nature of our success. For instance: If Riley Nash got by three Brown defenders to score to score when it's even strength, that's awesome and worthy of the highlights film. But on a power play, if a player has to muscle by three people in order to score, maybe the finesse part of the power play is still coming together.

Speaking of Nash and awesome play: When was Cornell's last ECAC rookie of the year? (What about outside goaltenders?)

Old Red · November 10, 2007, 10:37:09 PM

I haven't seen the goal, but the description it sounds not quite as nice as Peter Shire's against UNH(?) in 1972(?). Shire cut out of Cornell's end, deked out two defensemen, zipped down the right wing, swung right-to-left across the offensive zone, showing the puck on his backhand, pulling the goalie completely out of position, spun around at the edge of the left face off circle and fired a forehand dead center into the open net: hockey night in Canada goal.

Al DeFlorio · November 10, 2007, 11:47:47 PM

[quote redhair34][quote billhoward]
Power Play (2x20 going in) woke up with 3 PPGs.
[/quote]

The last one was the most impressive individual effort I've ever seen by a Cornellian.[/quote]
Wouldn't go that far (but, then, I've seen a lot of great individual efforts by Cornellians in 47 years of watching Big Red hockey) but it was something to see. My first reaction was that it reminded me of Joe Nieuwendyk. I'd gladly take another Joe N.

sah67 · November 11, 2007, 12:31:55 AM

http://www.uscho.com/box/?date=20071110&vis=cor&home=bn&gender=m
http://www.uscho.com/box/?date=20071110&vis=rpi&home=dc&gender=m

So can someone explain how Chip McDonald managed to ref both our game at the Dartmouth-RPI game at the same time? Are there really two Chip McDonalds in ECAC Hockey?

abmarks · November 11, 2007, 12:50:59 AM

[quote Al DeFlorio][quote redhair34][quote billhoward]
Power Play (2x20 going in) woke up with 3 PPGs.
[/quote]

The last one was the most impressive individual effort I've ever seen by a Cornellian.[/quote]
Wouldn't go that far (but, then, I've seen a lot of great individual efforts by Cornellians in 47 years of watching Big Red hockey) but it was something to see. My first reaction was that it reminded me of Joe Nieuwendyk. I'd gladly take another Joe N.[/quote]

That play reminded me of Joe N. too. The kid seems so calm with the puck it looks like he's seeing slow-mo compared to everyone else.

sah67 · November 11, 2007, 12:59:20 AM

[quote abmarks][quote Al DeFlorio][quote redhair34][quote billhoward]
Power Play (2x20 going in) woke up with 3 PPGs.
[/quote]

The last one was the most impressive individual effort I've ever seen by a Cornellian.[/quote]
Wouldn't go that far (but, then, I've seen a lot of great individual efforts by Cornellians in 47 years of watching Big Red hockey) but it was something to see. My first reaction was that it reminded me of Joe Nieuwendyk. I'd gladly take another Joe N.[/quote]

That play reminded me of Joe N. too. The kid seems so calm with the puck it looks like he's seeing slow-mo compared to everyone else.[/quote]

His brother seemed to skate the same way at times last season...very slow and steady, but graceful and impossible to knock off the puck at the same time.

calgARI '07 · November 11, 2007, 01:09:20 AM

Another pretty even game where Cornell had the edge in chances. The Brown goal was soft but Cornell rebounded nicely. Last year, they would completely fold after one of their goaltenders would let in a beachball. This team is harder working and far more focused than last year's.

The defensive zone is now a team effort instead of Romano trying to stickhandle out of the zone. The forwards are coming lower and supporting the pretty weak defense quite a bit. It is not pretty at all to watch this team in the defensive zone, but they are working extremely hard, and doing all the little textbook things you need to do for very good team defense.

Nash is the best forward I have ever seen at Cornell. The score he scored tonight was the greatest individual effort I have seen on a Cornell goal. His ability with the puck is already at an NHL level as is his hockey sense. He could improve on his speed and first couple steps. I'd like to see him be more physical as well which was his reputation in juniors.

Greening is in the top five forwards I have seen at Cornell.

There is a pretty significant drop off after those two but everyone was pulling this weekend.

Mike Devin has excellent composure for a freshman defenseman and I think even though he was highly regarding coming in, he was still underrated. He has All-America potential in his career. Very smart, patient, and has excellent offensive instincts.

Berk needs to seriously work on his foot speed though he didn't get caught much.

Rosen was outstanding tonight for the first half of the game, making a couple of dynamic post-to-post saves. I said at that point that Cornell is going to need to generate a lot more traffic so he loses track of the puck a little bit. Sure enough, on the next powerplay, there was a huge scrum in front of the net, shot from the blueline, and it squirts out to Scott.

I liked Joe Devin on the line with Scott and Gallagher because he is pretty good along the boards and a consistent physical presence. No clue why he was taken out for the too small, too tentative Roezler.

The Kennedy's had a good weekend.

Scott and Sawada are working hard but they need to elevate their games. Same goes for the other senior, Krantz.

As I said last night, nothing will come easy to this team. They will need to fight hard every night to win, period. The ECAC has reached a point where a lot of the teams look pretty similar to one another. Dartmouth and Harvard will be better but similar teams to Brown and Yale. This Cornell team seems to be built for winning tough road games so hopefully they can keep it up.