Cornell 3 Northeastern 2 (Postgame thread)

[finchphil]

I remember Bob Norton from his days on Little House on the Prairie

Bob Norton

[Oat]

[quote marty]Check out Barlow on the bench. He is beat!  But somehow not beat on the ice:

GWG[/quote]

Marty, Thank you so much!! Does anyone have any more clips of the other goals?

[trainbow]

Some observations from the box score:

Cornell won only 40% of the faceoffs.

On ice for all three CU goals:
Gallagher and B. Nash [and also Alex Tuckerman]
Davenport was on ice for the two NU goals.

Barlow had 7 of Cornell's 32 shots on goal, 6 in the third period alone.
No other player on either team had more than 3 (Kary had 3 for CU).

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

[quote trainbow]Some observations from the box score:

Cornell won only 40% of the faceoffs.

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I'm surprised it was that high.  There was one point when we were down 2-0 where everyone around us was saying "Just win a damn faceoff."

[HockeyMan]

Can someone who was at the arena yesterday give a sense of the place--the sight lines, acoustics, etc. Was the crowd bigger for the evening game?  Will BSU likely have a lot of fans there tonight?  Will they outnumber the faithful?

[jkahn]

[quote HockeyMan]Can someone who was at the arena yesterday give a sense of the place--the sight lines, acoustics, etc. Was the crowd bigger for the evening game?  Will BSU likely have a lot of fans there tonight?  Will they outnumber the faithful?[/quote]
I think it's a great venue to watch a game.  Excellent sight lines all around.  The Cornell section was on the side opposite the benches, so they were probably using a smaller hand-held camera when they showed us.  There's an "upper deck" where you get a great view too.  That's where the pep band was, and I sat up there in 1997.
There was a much bigger crowd for the second game.  Mostly Notre Dame but there are also a lot of Bemidji fans in town.  We will be outnumbered.

[dbilmes]

Here is the ranting of a BU fan in today's Boston Globe, commenting on the Northeastern-Cornell game story:

"I am a BU fan, but NU DID NOT lay an egg. The tough thing is Cornell is NOT a team anybody halfway decent should ever relinquish a two goal lead to, the way that Cornell plays, yet they scored two legit goals, although I woulda been upset with my defenseman taking that penalty with a one goal lead with less than five to go. That being said, the tying goal is a solid PP goal. THE ONE THAT HURTS IS THE UNCHARACTERISTIC FIVE HOLE GOAL that Thiessen stops 99 out of 100 times. "

You can read the story here:
http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/mens_hockey/articles/2009/03/29/cornell_rallies_to_knock_out_nu/

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote dbilmes]Here is the ranting of a BU fan in today's Boston Globe, commenting on the Northeastern-Cornell game story:

"I am a BU fan, but NU DID NOT lay an egg. The tough thing is Cornell is NOT a team anybody halfway decent should ever relinquish a two goal lead to, the way that Cornell plays, yet they scored two legit goals, although I woulda been upset with my defenseman taking that penalty with a one goal lead with less than five to go. That being said, the tying goal is a solid PP goal. THE ONE THAT HURTS IS THE UNCHARACTERISTIC FIVE HOLE GOAL that Thiessen stops 99 out of 100 times. "

You can read the story here:
http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/mens_hockey/articles/2009/03/29/cornell_rallies_to_knock_out_nu/[/quote]
Maybe Tim or Jim can get him a Valium?

[DisplacedCornellian]

[quote trainbow]Some observations from the box score:

Cornell won only 40% of the faceoffs.

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Schafer's comments on that:

'When asked how they can improve their faceoff draws in Sunday's Midwest Regional final, Cornell head coach Mike Schafer didn't hesitate.

"It's really easy. We're not going to have to play against Joe Vitale. We heard he was good coming into the game. He was unbelievable. He must have been near 90 percent tonight and we have some good guys on faceoffs."'

http://www.uscho.com/news/college-hockey/id,17002/NotebookCornellNortheastern.html

[Greenberg '97]

[quote ansky629]
By the way - does anybody know if there's a reason he hates us?  Or is it just that he really doesn't like our style of play?[/quote]

I believe it's because our bars close at 1:00.

[trainbow]

[quote DisplacedCornellian][quote trainbow]Some observations from the box score:

Cornell won only 40% of the faceoffs.

[/quote]

Schafer's comments on that:

'When asked how they can improve their faceoff draws in Sunday's Midwest Regional final, Cornell head coach Mike Schafer didn't hesitate.

"It's really easy. We're not going to have to play against Joe Vitale. We heard he was good coming into the game. He was unbelievable. He must have been near 90 percent tonight and we have some good guys on faceoffs."'

http://www.uscho.com/news/college-hockey/id,17002/NotebookCornellNortheastern.html[/quote]

Vitale was 25 of 35, so roughly 70%.
Otherwise, NU was 19 of 35.  Only Rassey (1 of 5) was less than 50%.
For CU, the only guys better than 50% were Punches (3 of 4) and Barlow (2 of 3).

[upperdeck]

I think some people relate our goal scoring to our style.. It seems to me that since the RPI series we have been pushing forward much more on offense, the bigger issue we just dont finish plays. we need to start scoring some goals that dont require screens or deflections or get mucked in. NE didnt do much more either, one double deflection and a blown D coverage for a breakway are hardly a domination offensive performance.

[kfish]

I talked to someone affiliated with BSU (asst coach or trainer?)who thought they have about 150 fans here.  It'll be a small, but hopefully loud, showing of fans from both sides.

Regarding BSU's play; in short, they were fast and tenacious.  I don't think they ever relaxed, even when up 4-nil.

[marty]

Albany semi 3rd per. highlights

Greening's GWG over Princeton in Albany

Gallagher's 2nd period goal vs. NE

Greening tying goal vs. NE

[judy]

I think Josh mentioned hearing Bemidji fans. They have fans there but mostly they cheered at the goals and at the end. However, there was a group of about 10 really drunk guys right behind us who kept cheering. They're the ones who started chanting "WE WANT CORNELL!"

Not sure how they sold the tickets since our section was a mix of Cornell and Notre Dame fans.

Is anyone able to explain Notre Dame's cheers and various "dances" that go along with the cheers? Or maybe the hand gestures meant something. I don't understand