Cornell 1 Clarkson 1

[Trotsky]

I'm going to keep starting game threads until something bad happens.

[cbuckser]

Clarkson's line sheet has been distributed.

Per Brandon Thomas, Cornell's lines are:

Lowry-Collins-McCarron
Mowrey-Miller-Ferlin
Dias-Bardreau-Jillson
de Swardt-Axell-Mihalek
D'Agostino-Ryan
Birch-Whitney
Gotovets-Ross

[RichH]

I'm going to keep starting game threads until something bad happens.

You forgot to capitalize "Something Bad."

Let's take it to Casey.

[pfibiger]

Clarkson's line sheet has been distributed.

Per Brandon Thomas, Cornell's lines are:

Lowry-Collins-McCarron
Mowrey-Miller-Ferlin
Dias-Bardreau-Jillson
de Swardt-Axell-Mihalek
D'Agostino-Ryan
Birch-Whitney
Gotovets-Ross

This team really misses Esposito, I hope he's ok for SLU.

[Trotsky]

This team really misses Esposito, I hope he's ok for SLU.

Schafer said in the pre-game he is out until the playoffs.

[jtn27]

This team really misses Esposito, I hope he's ok for SLU.

Schafer said in the pre-game he is out until the playoffs.

What happened? He played last weekend. Did he aggravate his injury by playing?

[Trotsky]

This team really misses Esposito, I hope he's ok for SLU.

Schafer said in the pre-game he is out until the playoffs.

What happened? He played last weekend. Did he aggravate his injury by playing?

Just tweaked it.  It sounds like it isn't any more injured, it just hurts too much to play.

[upprdeck]

if we can get a first round bye he could get almost 4 weeks off.. worth it if it will help

[Tom Lento]

if we can get a first round bye he could get almost 4 weeks off.. worth it if it will help

According to USCHO's live scores widget, Harvard and Brown played to a draw. If that's true, Cornell clinched a top 4 finish with the tie tonight.

[KeithK]

if we can get a first round bye he could get almost 4 weeks off.. worth it if it will help

According to USCHO's live scores widget, Harvard and Brown played to a draw. If that's true, Cornell clinched a top 4 finish with the tie tonight.

I don't think so. We still could finish tied with Clarkson and would lose the tiebreaker on total wins (11-10, giving the Knights the three more wins they'd need to catch us).

[bnr24]

if we can get a first round bye he could get almost 4 weeks off.. worth it if it will help

According to USCHO's live scores widget, Harvard and Brown played to a draw. If that's true, Cornell clinched a top 4 finish with the tie tonight.

I don't think so. We still could finish tied with Clarkson and would lose the tiebreaker on total wins (11-10, giving the Knights the three more wins they'd need to catch us).

In order to clinch, we just need a tie or win tomorrow night.  Clarkson and Quinnipiac are both at 20 points, so even if they win the last three games of the season, if we get to 27, we're out of their reach.  A win tonight would've done it (given that Clarkson was at 19 and Quinnipiac at 18), but a tie or win tomorrow night will do it as well.

[jtn27]

From the Cornell Big Red Men's Hockey Facebook page:

Final Score Cornell 1 - Clarkson 1 - A single season record for ties with 7 for Cornell! We will have to wait until tomorrow nights game with a win or a tie against St. Lawrence to clinch a first round playoff bye.

Whoever it is in the athletic department that runs this thing is way too excited about a tie. Also, this should clear up the confusion of what we need to do to get a first round bye.

Also, if I'm not mistaken, we'll lock up the number 1 seed if we win out regardless of what Union does because the tiebreaker is head to head record.

[jtwcornell91]

Also, if I'm not mistaken, we'll lock up the number 1 seed if we win out regardless of what Union does because the tiebreaker is head to head record.

Correct-amundo

[jkahn]

From the Cornell Big Red Men's Hockey Facebook page:

Final Score Cornell 1 - Clarkson 1 - A single season record for ties with 7 for Cornell! We will have to wait until tomorrow nights game with a win or a tie against St. Lawrence to clinch a first round playoff bye.

Whoever it is in the athletic department that runs this thing is way too excited about a tie. Also, this should clear up the confusion of what we need to do to get a first round bye.

Also, if I'm not mistaken, we'll lock up the number 1 seed if we win out regardless of what Union does because the tiebreaker is head to head record.

We've already clinched the bye.  Clarkson still has a game left with Harvard.  If Clarkson wins out, then Harvard can't catch us.

[Scersk '97]

if we can get a first round bye he could get almost 4 weeks off.. worth it if it will help

According to USCHO's live scores widget, Harvard and Brown played to a draw. If that's true, Cornell clinched a top 4 finish with the tie tonight.

I don't think so. We still could finish tied with Clarkson and would lose the tiebreaker on total wins (11-10, giving the Knights the three more wins they'd need to catch us).

In order to clinch, we just need a tie or win tomorrow night.  Clarkson and Quinnipiac are both at 20 points, so even if they win the last three games of the season, if we get to 27, we're out of their reach.  A win tonight would've done it (given that Clarkson was at 19 and Quinnipiac at 18), but a tie or win tomorrow night will do it as well.

Actually, I'm pretty sure we clinched tonight, given that a Clarkson tie means we don't tie with Harvard and vice versa.  And Quinnipiac sucks.