Cornell at Rensselaer

[BigRedHockeyFan]

Cornell has a better record than both Yale and Dartmouth for the New Year.  

8-2-2 Cornell
8-3-1 Dartmouth
9-4-0 Yale

A big advantage that Cornell has heading into the end of the season is depth at goalie, with two good players.  Rondeau (Yale) and Mello (Dartmouth) both play >80% of the time and that becomes an issue as the season wears on.  I think Cornell could beat either team, Dartmouth at home being much more likely than Yale away.   Note that Cornell beat RPI this weekend when Allen York was not available (he recently had a concussion).

[Al DeFlorio]

Cornell has a better record than both Yale and Dartmouth for the New Year.  

8-2-2 Cornell
8-3-1 Dartmouth
9-4-0 Yale

And Union at 11-2, with losses to Bemidji and Dartmouth, making it 11-1 in ECAC.

[marty]

Cornell has a better record than both Yale and Dartmouth for the New Year.  

8-2-2 Cornell
8-3-1 Dartmouth
9-4-0 Yale

And Union at 11-2, with losses to Bemidji and Dartmouth, making it 11-1 in ECAC.

8-2-2 would be much more impressive if Union hadn't handed the team such decisive losses.

[marty]

Record's Weaver makes comments on both sides of penalty questions at RPI (pro Cornell comment concerning boarding major on Miller at the end of the third).  Also assails Paul Stewart for likening reporter to Appert.

Troy Record's Cranky Old Man

[jts15]

Found some video of the game shot from the stands.  Hoping to see some from the tv broadcast come up soon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSC43nx2Ry4

[ursusminor]

Some may find this blog piece interesting http://www.withoutapeer.com/2011/02/exclusive-truth-to-power.html. It is certainly relevant. No comment from me since I would probably be banned from here if I did truthfully.

[Al DeFlorio]

Record's Weaver makes comments on both sides of penalty questions at RPI (pro Cornell comment concerning boarding major on Miller at the end of the third).  Also assails Paul Stewart for likening reporter to Appert.

Troy Record's Cranky Old Man

I'm not sure I'd say calling the "major" aspect of Miller's penalty "controversial" necessarily makes it a pro-Cornell comment.  In any case, Weaver's a whiner just like Appert.

[Al DeFlorio]

Some may find this blog piece interesting http://www.withoutapeer.com/2011/02/exclusive-truth-to-power.html. It is certainly relevant. No comment from me since I would probably be banned from here if I did truthfully.

Must be a whining epidemic in the Cap Cities.  Wah wah wah.

[Jordan 04]

Some may find this blog piece interesting http://www.withoutapeer.com/2011/02/exclusive-truth-to-power.html. It is certainly relevant. No comment from me since I would probably be banned from here if I did truthfully.

I didn't get past "once crashing into goalie Bryce Merriam at full speed," which I presume refers to the incident where the RPI defender shoved Collins into Merriam at the conclusion of a breakaway.

[ajh258]

First, I think the officiating was horrible for both teams. RPI fans would inevitably flee to the calls/incidents that benefit them, but they do not discuss the numerous interference/hitting from behind infractions that were committed by the Engineers and not penalized. If RPI won Saturday, we would not be having this discussion right now. I know Cornell fans will not harass ECAC officials after any game, no matter how bad the calls are, and then write an angry diatribe that is clearly biased and unproductive.

Second, RPI is simply not that good. There were plenty of RPI power plays throughout the game and they failed to convert on many of them. Although the penalty calls were sporadic and inconsistent, I do not think the refs were lenient to either team. If we meet RPI during playoffs again at Lynah or HFH, I think we have a good shot of beating them again in a three game series - and RPI fans know that.

[JasonN95]

Ursusminor, thanks for the link. After reading it, I can't say that I'm that impressed with Mr. Klump, however. He's too personal in his opinion/attacks to win over my sympathy and seems to go out of his way to cast the Cornell program in a poor light in an article that isn't (ostensibly) about Cornell. For example: "So, on Saturday, Cornell started gooning it up right from the drop, routinely mugging and instigating RPI players after whistles, once crashing into goalie Bryce Merriam at full speed." Can't say I saw that and if the full speed crash he's talking about is the one in OT, please, the CU player was shoved in the back which changed his trajectory. So if he's just going to throw that statement out there without specifics/examples, I don't see what the point is. It's a feeble basis to then say the officiating was poor.  I do agree that the Cornell player wasn't strong on his feet for the second interference call (the one in OT) against RPI's Brutlag, but it may still have merited an interference call even if the player had stayed on his feet (there isn't a great shot of it from the broadcast, so it's hard to say if the Cornell player knew Brutlag was there and whether Brutlag lined up the Cornell player). The first interference on Brutlag I thought was completely merited; it looked like he put himself on a path to intercept the CU player and jolted him hard enough to send him to the ground. And all the talking of diving by CU is just not moving me as I thought the most egregious dive was by RPI's Kennedy on the major penalty. I watched that over and over at regular speed and slow mo and Miller barely makes any contact with Kennedy or transfer any force to Kennedy. And Kennedy clearly (to me) lifts and folds his legs under himself to fall forward into the boards --there's no other way to explain what happens with his legs, they retract like landing gear. The crazy thing is he ends up hitting the boards dangerously because of it. To me, that was a borderline minor penalty made into a major b/c of the dive.

[Al DeFlorio]

Some may find this blog piece interesting http://www.withoutapeer.com/2011/02/exclusive-truth-to-power.html. It is certainly relevant. No comment from me since I would probably be banned from here if I did truthfully.

I didn't get past "once crashing into goalie Bryce Merriam at full speed," which I presume refers to the incident where the RPI defender shoved Collins into Merriam at the conclusion of a breakaway.

It's clear from the slo-mo replay at the Youtube link given above that the RPI kid shoved Collins into Merriam.  Klump's an ::asshole::

[marty]

Some may find this blog piece interesting http://www.withoutapeer.com/2011/02/exclusive-truth-to-power.html. It is certainly relevant. No comment from me since I would probably be banned from here if I did truthfully.

Hard to understand how such a prick could be without a peer.::moon::

[billhoward]

Some may find this blog piece interesting http://www.withoutapeer.com/2011/02/exclusive-truth-to-power.html. It is certainly relevant. No comment from me since I would probably be banned from here if I did truthfully.

If there's a blogging Pulitzer for Typing, this guy has an inside track.

[ursusminor]

Some may find this blog piece interesting http://www.withoutapeer.com/2011/02/exclusive-truth-to-power.html. It is certainly relevant. No comment from me since I would probably be banned from here if I did truthfully.

If there's a blogging Pulitzer for Typing, this guy has an inside track.

Tom Reale or Jason Klump? Most of that was Tom posting what Jason originally wrote.

BTW, for those who don't know it, "without a peer" is a phrase from the RPI Alma Mater.