Cornell Women's Ice Hockey: February 2012

[jtn27]

Apparently ECAC Women's  Tournament games will be on redcast like every other game, at least according to the Cornell release. So that will be fun to watch online if you can't go in person.

I don't get RedCast (since I'm still a student there's no need), but from what I've heard from all of you RedCast hardly sounds "fun."

[Jim Hyla]

ECAC Awards for women:

Rebecca Johnston was named ECAC Hockey's Player of the Year
Lauriane Rougeau was named the league's Best Defensive Defensemen
Chelsea Karpenko was named the league's Best Defensive Forward
Jillian Saulnier earned Rookie of the Year

CornellBigRed Announcement

ECAC Announcement

[Beeeej]

It's pretty pathetic that I've got to be the one to post this, but the women won the ECAC semifinals today at Lynah, 5-1 over Quinnipiac.  Harvard faces St. Lawrence at 7pm to determine our opponent in the finals.

[RichH]

It's pretty pathetic that I've got to be the one to post this, but the women won the ECAC semifinals today at Lynah, 5-1 over Quinnipiac.  Harvard faces St. Lawrence at 7pm to determine our opponent in the finals.

Johnston goes 2-3-5. The first period had a lot of penalties, and CU only really dominated on the PK early on.  QU's goalie Vigilanti (sp?) made some impressive saves, but was also lucky as she was caught out of the net often as we missed some good early chances.  Johnston's first goal was a tip off a big slapshot from Amanda Young. CU controlled much of the 2nd, but QU was able to tie it at 1.  That seemed to ignite the Red, as Johnston answered right back, and CU got went up 3-1 with under 40 seconds left in the 2nd.  The 3rd was all CU.  The "Triple-J" line (Johnston, Jenner, and Jillian Saulnier) is amazing.

A fact from the game write-up: Cornell is now .500 all-time, moving its lifetime record to 450-450-50.

What an opportunity to become a winning program in a Championship game.  Let's Go Red!

[Ben]

A fact from the game write-up: Cornell is also now .500 all-time, moving its lifetime record to 450-450-50.

I made a spreadsheet of every season's records since the program began (working on goal totals as well), and unless I messed something up, we're 453-450-50. There may be some games from the early days that they're not counting, but I'm not sure which ones those would be.

[RichH]

A fact from the game write-up: Cornell is also now .500 all-time, moving its lifetime record to 450-450-50.

I made a spreadsheet of every season's records since the program began (working on goal totals as well), and unless I messed something up, we're 453-450-50. There may be some games from the early days that they're not counting, but I'm not sure which ones those would be.

That's not terribly surprising, given the lackadaisical nature of early record-keeping. I remember there was a discrepancy between the "official" records from the University and Trotsky's TBRW records when the Men's program got their 1000th all-time win.

[Ben]

UMD beats #1 Wisconsin 3-1 in the first WCHA semifinal. #2 Minnesota vs. #5 North Dakota is the second semifinal, starting at 8:35 Eastern.

St. Lawrence just went 1-0 up against Harvard

[Al DeFlorio]

UMD beats #1 Wisconsin 3-1 in the first WCHA semifinal. #2 Minnesota vs. #5 North Dakota is the second semifinal, starting at 8:35 Eastern.

St. Lawrence just went 1-0 up against Harvard

H ties at 1.  Now starting third.

Wisco loss puts Cornell #1 in PWR.

[Trotsky]

UMD beats #1 Wisconsin 3-1 in the first WCHA semifinal. #2 Minnesota vs. #5 North Dakota is the second semifinal, starting at 8:35 Eastern.

St. Lawrence just went 1-0 up against Harvard

H ties at 1.  Now starting third.

Wisco loss puts Cornell #1 in PWR.

Dumb question: do the selections for the women follow PWR?

[Rita]

UMD beats #1 Wisconsin 3-1 in the first WCHA semifinal. #2 Minnesota vs. #5 North Dakota is the second semifinal, starting at 8:35 Eastern.

St. Lawrence just went 1-0 up against Harvard

H ties at 1.  Now starting third.

Wisco loss puts Cornell #1 in PWR.

Bonus Hockey at Lynah. At the end of regulation, still tied at 1 apiece. Harvard had a PP with 3 min left in the 3rd and couldn't capitalize.

[Al DeFlorio]

H-SLU in OT tied at one

[Rita]

St. Lawrence wins 2-1 on a bad angle shot.

[Al DeFlorio]

H loses in OT

[Ben]

Gophers 2-0 up on UND after one period. Elsewhere, Mercyhurst beat Syracuse 4-3 and Robert Morris won 3-2 over Niagara to set up the CHA final tomorrow.

BU plays BC and Providence takes on Northeastern in the HEA tournament semifinals tomorrow.

[imafrshmn]

Pretty crazy game between SLU and Harvard.  Harvard had the better of the play in general, and had several good scoring opportunities in overtime.  SLU benefitted from good goaltending, feisty (but not pretty) defense, sloppy play, and (in no small measure) luck.  The winning goal was a cunning, perfectly placed backhander, taking advantage of a slight moment of hesitation by H goalie Bellamy.  SLU is playing with nothing to lose tomorrow, but I don't think they'll be able to get past this Red team.  SLU's cloggy team defense was reminiscent of Quinnipiac's against Cornell today, which caused the Red frustration for a while but ultimately they were able to make the right adjustments.  I think any hope of SLU pulling off the upset tomorrow rides on the performance of their netminder.