Cornell at Union, 1/17

jy3 · January 18, 2003, 03:27:25 PM

couple things:
thought cornell played very well last night. onion played well in the third but the game was long over...
where was marr? didnt see him on the bench and he wasnt in goal

cant wait for 2nite
::twitch::

Greg Berge · January 18, 2003, 04:05:47 PM

Marr and Hynes were home with, wait for it... food poisoning. Chabot had the backup jersey. No report whether Pizza Hut was involved.

jy3 · January 18, 2003, 04:23:35 PM

lol

i think that clarkson and st lawrence sent the team pizza to continue their warm welcome for the red to the north country

Anne 85 · January 19, 2003, 12:01:28 PM

BTW, Bell already has 3 career goals (including 2 in a game at SLU). So, it's likely that he was playing forward at the end of the Union game to rest some of the other guys.

Also, Chris Abbott didn't dress for the RPI game (and T. Bell took his spot in warm-ups), so I'm guessing that our backup forward for the trip (Hynes?) couldn't go, but our backup defenseman (Gleed) could. However, I didn't see Bell play as a forward (except maybe on the kill) during the RPI game.

Alan · January 19, 2003, 03:44:50 PM

Yes, I admit, I came up with it on the spot, and it was late.

I'm surprised I don't see more NoDak haters calling them the Sue, but maybe it's not as funny as I thought it was.

Greg Berge · January 19, 2003, 04:42:38 PM

Minny fans have called NoDak "a team named Sue" (c.f., Shel Silverstein poem) for ages. :-D

Adam announced Bell as playing forward even strength on several shifts down the stretch. Mike Milbury used to play his defensemen at forward to punish them for thinking too offensive mindedly.

OTOH, Brian tried to play Ryan Hughes at defense.
::help::

jtwcornell91 · January 19, 2003, 06:09:38 PM

The last D-man I remember being called upon to fill in at forward on a regular basis was Chad Wilson. We did have a period in the late 90s where we were pretty thin on the blueline and a couple of forwards got moved back, although their identities escape me at the moment.

Al DeFlorio · January 19, 2003, 06:15:23 PM

Didn't Alex Gregory play up front a bit before leaving the team to focus on school?

Anne 85 · January 19, 2003, 07:20:05 PM

Al, I think you're right about Gregory.

Also, did Knopp play defense on occasion? Or did I just think he could handle it if called upon?

For some reason, I think Larry Pierce might have taken a turn or two on offense, but I could be mistaken. And maybe Jason Dailey?

As for Ryan Hughes, did he actually try to play defense or was it just playing the point on the powerplay? In my mind, that's special teams, not defense.

Jim Hyla · January 19, 2003, 10:00:04 PM

Larry definately did O.

Josh '99 · January 20, 2003, 08:21:26 AM

Hey, I just had a happy thought. Remember when we used to never beat Union? :-D

Give My Regards · January 20, 2003, 09:28:59 AM

Brian played Jason Vogel on defense for about half a season (92-93, ouch), not Ryan. Which actually wasn't all that bad a move, considering how few defensemen we had who were worthy of the name back then.

Josh, please explain what the CENSORED is happy about that thought? I remember those days well and would rather not ::yark::

mscheffer · January 20, 2003, 10:38:44 AM

Dailey definitely played forward a couple games. He seemed to like even when he was supposed to be playing D. He loved those end to end runs. Problem was when he turned it over and no one was covering back....

Josh '99 · January 20, 2003, 11:29:15 AM

Bill Fenwick wrote:

QuoteJosh, please explain what the CENSORED is happy about that thought? I remember those days well and would rather not ::yark::

It's happy because we seem to have gotten that monkey off our back. (Not to make any assumptions about future games, of course, just observing that we've done well against them in the recent past.)