Goalie Choice for Atlantic City

[Trotsky]

We would have lost to Yale no matter who was in goal. But with Garman in goal, I'm convinced it would have been a more competitive game.

If Cornell hadn't taken a penalty less than three minutes into the game and if our captain hadn't hit someone from behind later in the period (both penalties leading to Yale goals), it might have been "a more competitive game."  When you play a team with the skill and scoring capability that Yale has you don't hand them gratuitous opportunities like that and expect to win.  You play a smart game and force them to earn every scoring opportunity the hard way.

While this is certainly a truism, I think about the only way to skate with Yale last night was rocket sleds and amphetamines.

[Al DeFlorio]

We would have lost to Yale no matter who was in goal. But with Garman in goal, I'm convinced it would have been a more competitive game.

If Cornell hadn't taken a penalty less than three minutes into the game and if our captain hadn't hit someone from behind later in the period (both penalties leading to Yale goals), it might have been "a more competitive game."  When you play a team with the skill and scoring capability that Yale has you don't hand them gratuitous opportunities like that and expect to win.  You play a smart game and force them to earn every scoring opportunity the hard way.

While this is certainly a truism, I think about the only way to skate with Yale last night was rocket sleds and amphetamines.

I don't disagree, but the major disappointment for me in that game was that we didn't play smart enough to at least give ourselves the best possible chance to win, slim though it may have been.  When a team has clearly superior talent to yours, you can't be too disappointed that you lost to them.  You can be disappointed that your team didn't do all that it had the ability to control (e.g., staying out of the penalty box against a team with a superb man-up game) to give itself the best chance.