Cornell 3 US U18 NDT 3 (final, ot)

[Doug '08]

Did anyone take note of the PP or PK lines?  Im guessing the PP1 line has to be Greening, R. Nash, Gallagher, B. Nash, and... ?

[RichH]

[quote sah67]Riley with the PPG!  Assist to Brendon.[/quote]

Wait.  So Riley didn't turn pro a week before the season as all the trolls critics predicted he would?  Huh.  :-}

A Nash connection is a nice way to kick off the season.

[RichH]

[quote Trotsky]OK, somebody under 30 please explain twitter to me. :-)[/quote]

Two days ago, I had to explain exactly that to a coworker.  The reason was this comic strip which appeared in the paper that day.

Full disclosure: I'm 34 (going on 23) and am still the youngest person in my office by about 12 years, so I'm the young whippersnapper that people come to for such hip jargon.

Attention kids: now that Greg's generation is asking questions and getting wise to the twitter, it's time to invent something else they don't know about.  It happened to blogs, the myspace, the facebook, and now the twitter.

[RichH]

[quote Trotsky]Mugford shorty!  3-2[/quote]

I don't understand the 2nd word you used.

[Rosey]

[quote RichH][quote sah67]Riley with the PPG!  Assist to Brendon.[/quote]

Wait.  So Riley didn't turn pro a week before the season as all the trolls critics predicted he would?  Huh.  :-}[/quote]
I am pleased—very pleased—to admit I was wrong.  I don't think reporting third-hand info makes me a troll; perhaps, however, it makes me a fool. ;-)

Kyle

[sah67]

[quote Doug '08]Did anyone take note of the PP or PK lines?  Im guessing the PP1 line has to be Greening, R. Nash, Gallagher, B. Nash, and... ?[/quote]

The PP unit on the ice when Riley scored included the four you mentioned plus Joe Devin interestingly enough.  I can't remember if Schafer used a 4-forward unit much last year.

Two of the PK units I happen to notice from the live stats were:

Mugford-M. Kennedy-M. Devin-Krueger
Scali-Barlow-Berk-Ross

I think both the pp and pk units were fairly fluid throughout the night though... I recall Jillson, Mugford, Collins, Krueger and M. Devin also getting some time on the pp, and Seminoff, B. Nash, and Punches also spending some time on the PK.

[ebilmes]

Man, it felt good to be back at Lynah. Here are a few quick thoughts. Sorry I can't speak too much about the lines.

Good:
-Cornell controlled play most of the game. I know this should be expected given the relatively small size of the U-18 team, but still, our guys were flying around the ice for 60 minutes. A really good effort. The one exception might still be B.Nash, who still kills me when he's on the ice.
-Goaltending. Scrivens looked decent during his 30 minutes of play. He only had 9 saves, but some of them were tough. Garman looked even better IMO. I felt very comfortable when he was in net, even with the 2 GA. When Schafer said he might remind people of Lenny or McKee, he wasn't reaching too much.
-Freshmen! Those kids came ready to play, Jillson especially. I think this might be our most productive freshman class in a few years.
-Faceoffs. As others have said, we dominated this.
-Powerplay.
-Riley Nash. This kid is the real deal. I know there were a lot of scouts there last night on account of the U-18 team, and they must have come away impressed. Too bad there was no video for his goal.
-Krueger. He seems to have improved a lot and played a lot more physical.
-Nicholls. How can you not love this kid?

Bad:
-Just like for the last eight years I've been following Cornell hockey, we seem to lack finishers. Roeszler's goal was something I'd like to see more often...just skates up to the open puck and lets it fly. Lots of garbage around the net last night that we didn't take advantage of.
-PK. The kill looked good for stretches, but at other points it looked amateurish. There's really no excuse for not being able to clear the puck when it's on your stick. It didn't help that U-18 ran a good powerplay. We can get away with some sloppy PK play against some of the EZAC (coughRPI) but not against better schools.
-Asshole 17-year-olds. When they scored their third goal, no fewer than 8 skaters were on the ice to celebrate. And upon leaving the ice, several (including Murray) were gesturing and waving at Section A. It was a hard-fought game, but seriously...

Overall, I think this team looks much more like the bigger teams of 03 and 05 than the smaller teams of 07 and 08. They seem to be farther along on the learning curve than other years' teams at this point in the season. LGR.

[profudge]

Jim Hyla,  

5 Min major to Brendan Nash happened about a half a second or so after whistle to end the period....   USA player relaxed and was going to the door to bench which was starting to open and Brendan drove him with shoulder + body to the back into the boards just next to opening door to bench  -  looked dumb and not thinking from stands just 7 rows above where it occurred.   - I think part of it was the USA player had relaxed and straightened up a bit - so hit really sent him flying  - plus opening bench door made it look (maybe was) dangerous!

[JDeafv]

[quote profudge]Jim Hyla,  

5 Min major to Brendan Nash happened about a half a second or so after whistle to end the period....[/quote]

What was also weird was at least 2 USA players jumped off the bench to get into a scrum with Nash (who turned away).  Schafer saw this and sent Nicholls off the Cornell bench across the ice.  After the period Schafer was arguing with the Refs not about the 5-min major, but why there was not a game-DQ for the players who came off the bench.

[JDeafv]

[quote ebilmes]
-Goaltending. Scrivens looked decent during his 30 minutes of play. He only had 9 saves, but some of them were tough. Garman looked even better IMO. I felt very comfortable when he was in net, even with the 2 GA. When Schafer said he might remind people of Lenny or McKee, he wasn't reaching too much.
[/quote]

I have agree that Garman looked like McKee, but he looked like the McKee who was reactionary and not anticipating the play well by getting into position and playing the angles well.  He needs to get used to the speed of the college game.

[oceanst41]

[quote JDeafv][quote ebilmes]
-Goaltending. Scrivens looked decent during his 30 minutes of play. He only had 9 saves, but some of them were tough. Garman looked even better IMO. I felt very comfortable when he was in net, even with the 2 GA. When Schafer said he might remind people of Lenny or McKee, he wasn't reaching too much.
[/quote]

I have agree that Garman looked like McKee, but he looked like the McKee who was reactionary and not anticipating the play well by getting into position and playing the angles well.  He needs to get used to the speed of the college game.[/quote]

Well if he can figure it out like McKee did, the team will be alright between the pipes for a couple of years. ::popcorn::

[profudge]

I agree after the hit  there was a bit of a minor scrum initiated by couple of USA players off of bench -  one even bumped/hit one of refs trying to get to Cornell player - I think was Brendan -  But ref chose to ignore it all except for the initial hit that started it all.  

I thought sure one of USA players would at least get a Misconduct - but  nothing ...  

This  all started much earlier when that  USA player came down and made a late hit on Riley putting both hands right into chin neck of Riley on the boards a good  half ssecond after puck  was gone.  

A challenging game for our guys for sure this early!  I am pleased with defense (MANY blocked shots)  and  PK looked OK for some of the time.  

USA team moved puck well on the PP.    Plus  they are a fast team,  a lot of speed.

[upperdeck]

anyone heard any news about instant replay ? someone mentioned CU is looking into it but the logistics are a bit tough for the building.

[Beeeej]

[quote upperdeck]anyone heard any news about instant replay ? someone mentioned CU is looking into it but the logistics are a bit tough for the building.[/quote]

The Physics Department is looking into methods of generating the necessary 1.21 gigawatts.

[ithacat]

[quote Beeeej][quote upperdeck]anyone heard any news about instant replay ? someone mentioned CU is looking into it but the logistics are a bit tough for the building.[/quote]

The Physics Department is looking into methods of generating the necessary 1.21 gigawatts.[/quote]

1.21 gigawatts...Great Topher!