Game 3 v. Q

[ebilmes]

Kevin Bui is turning 26 next month.

[ebilmes]

that sucks! out shot 2-1, really 3-1 after the second period.

56-19 after the first period, including 14-1 in 2OT.

[gomestar]

Kevin Bui is turning 26 next month.

weird. I just turned 27 a few days ago and I walked across the stage in December 2007 with my bachelors from Cornell.

[Jordan 04]

The age thing is kinda weird. They have a ridiculous number of '87-'89s. Although I suppose that should have give us the advantage in OT, paying against a bunch of tired, old men.

[Rosey]

Well, sure, but the team checked in just as you checked out.

If Saturday night is your standard for "checked back in", we have different standards. Really, it's no different from the semifinal last year (6-1), the final the year before (6-0), the final two years before that (5-0), the final in 2006 (6-2), etc., except that it came a weekend early this year, and I was expecting it based on the team's inconsistency to date. If anything, they exceeded my expectations by winning Friday and taking Q to 2OT last night. Going out like this was a relative high note in a bad year.

I THINK WE'VE FOUND OUR JINX.

I hope the players and coaching staff aren't blaming jinxes or luck, but are instead trying to figure out why the train went off the rails in January, and how they're going to keep blowouts from happening. There's simply no excuse for losing 5-0, much less 10-0. Those are beer league scores.

[sah67]

From the New Haven Register beat writer's recap:

Cornell coach Mike Schafer had words for Quinnipiac coach Rand Pecknold after Saturday's 10-0 pasting, and he was livid tonight, too. Schafer had words for Pecknold, and continued to rant as Pecknold walked away while assistant Reid Cashman interceded and tried to calm Schafer down.

The anger on Saturday night is obvious, but I wonder what the issue was last night: just carry-over?

The USCHO recap also mentions that D'Agostino played with a broken hand (from blocking a shot Saturday night) last night and Iles was questionable to play the entire series after suffering an injury at Princeton. The effort Andy put in is even more amazing given that information.

[RatushnyFan]

Maybe he was mad that Bui is 26?  I'm not, I figure the kid just wants to play hockey.  I'd probably have done it too if I was good enough.  [If you can't help yourself, insert snarky comment here about a 26 year old scoring 2 goals all season]

Rand is a good guy, I didn't see it but I hope he at least congratulated him and his team before he left.  I'm a big Schafer fan but what exactly did Rand do other than win?

[Jim Hyla]

Maybe he was mad that Bui is 26?  I'm not, I figure the kid just wants to play hockey.  I'd probably have done it too if I was good enough.  [If you can't help yourself, insert snarky comment here about a 26 year old scoring 2 goals all season]

Rand is a good guy, I didn't see it but I hope he at least congratulated him and his team before he left.  I'm a big Schafer fan but what exactly did Rand do other than win?

One thing is they were very "upset" that the film was sent to ECAC about Axell's hit and injury.

[cbuckser]

Maybe he was mad that Bui is 26?  I'm not, I figure the kid just wants to play hockey.  I'd probably have done it too if I was good enough.  [If you can't help yourself, insert snarky comment here about a 26 year old scoring 2 goals all season]

Rand is a good guy, I didn't see it but I hope he at least congratulated him and his team before he left.  I'm a big Schafer fan but what exactly did Rand do other than win?

One thing is they were very "upset" that the film was sent to ECAC about Axell's hit and injury.

Sending out your top power-play unit while blowing the other team out is an effective way to piss off your opponent. Keep in mind that when Kellen Jones scored a power-play goal in the final minute of the second period, Cornell had not yet done anything unsportsmanlike during the game. (32 seconds later, Cornell crossed that line with the two-man late hit on Kevin Bui well after the horn sounded.)

[cbuckser]

Kevin Bui is turning 26 next month.

weird. I just turned 27 a few days ago and I walked across the stage in December 2007 with my bachelors from Cornell.

Next year Cornell will have two 21-year-old freshmen: Mitch Gillam and Jake Weidner. Woody Hudson, who withdrew his commitment, will be a 21-year-old freshman at St. Lawrence.

Kevin Bui came to Quinnipiac as a 21-year-old freshman in 2008, but he did not play during the 2009-10 season. That's how he got a fifth year of NCAA eligibility. (Of course, the Ivy League doesn't permit reshirting without a medical reason.)

[Towerroad]

Maybe he was mad that Bui is 26?  I'm not, I figure the kid just wants to play hockey.  I'd probably have done it too if I was good enough.  [If you can't help yourself, insert snarky comment here about a 26 year old scoring 2 goals all season]

Rand is a good guy, I didn't see it but I hope he at least congratulated him and his team before he left.  I'm a big Schafer fan but what exactly did Rand do other than win?

One thing is they were very "upset" that the film was sent to ECAC about Axell's hit and injury.

Sending out your top power-play unit while blowing the other team out is an effective way to piss off your opponent. Keep in mind that when Kellen Jones scored a power-play goal in the final minute of the second period, Cornell had not yet done anything unsportsmanlike during the game. (32 seconds later, Cornell crossed that line with the two-man late hit on Kevin Bui well after the horn sounded.)

The proper response when you object to your opponent scoring more than you do is to score some goals yourself. Gooning up the ice is the real classless act here.

[Johnny 5]

Regardless, I am very much looking forward to the next time we play the Quinnies at home.

::flipc::

[cbuckser]

Maybe he was mad that Bui is 26?  I'm not, I figure the kid just wants to play hockey.  I'd probably have done it too if I was good enough.  [If you can't help yourself, insert snarky comment here about a 26 year old scoring 2 goals all season]

Rand is a good guy, I didn't see it but I hope he at least congratulated him and his team before he left.  I'm a big Schafer fan but what exactly did Rand do other than win?

One thing is they were very "upset" that the film was sent to ECAC about Axell's hit and injury.

Sending out your top power-play unit while blowing the other team out is an effective way to piss off your opponent. Keep in mind that when Kellen Jones scored a power-play goal in the final minute of the second period, Cornell had not yet done anything unsportsmanlike during the game. (32 seconds later, Cornell crossed that line with the two-man late hit on Kevin Bui well after the horn sounded.)

The proper response when you object to your opponent scoring more than you do is to score some goals yourself. Gooning up the ice is the real classless act here.

Like stealing bases in the last inning of a 10-0 baseball game (which my son's Little League team did, to my and my wife's discomfort, last week), a cultural norm was breached. I agree that running up the score doesn't justify bodychecking a player two or three seconds after a period ends (though Kevin Bui sure got his revenge last night); however, Quinnipiac using the first-power play unit in an 8-0 game against a goaltender with 31 seconds of experience in four years (Rand Pecknold was well-aware of Omar's playing time at Cornell) is likely a major source of Mike Schafer's unhappiness with his counterpart.

[Jim Hyla]

Good or bad, we did something to Q. Minny unseats Q in USCHO poll.

The poll:

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USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll
March 18, 2013
Team      (First) Record Points Last Poll
1 Minnesota (22) 26- 7-5 967 2
2 Quinnipiac (27) 26- 6-5 958 1
3 Miami        24-10-5 893 3
4 Boston College 22-10-4 820 5
5 Mass-Lowell ( 1) 24-10-2 785 6
6 North Dakota 21-11-7 751 4
7 St. Cloud State 23-14-1 670 8
8 Minnesota State 24-12-3 626 10
9 Notre Dame 23-12-3 578 12
10 New Hampshire 19-11-7 519 7
11 Yale        18-10-3 515 13
12 Western Michigan 19-11-8 408 9
13 Denver        20-13-5 382 11
14 Wisconsin 19-12-7 375 14
15 Niagara        23- 8-5 339 15
16 Providence 17-13-7 269 17
17 Boston University 20-15-2 212 18
18 Union        19-12-5 192 19
19 Rensselaer 18-14-5 91 16
20 Michigan 17-18-3 52 NR
Others receiving votes: Nebraska-Omaha 37, Colorado College 18,
Brown 11, Merrimack 10, Alaska 9, Ohio State 9, Robert Morris 2,
Connecticut 1, St. Lawrence 1.

Read more: http://www.uscho.com/rankings/d-i-mens-poll/#ixzz2NuaIjgYy



[Chris '03]

Maybe he was mad that Bui is 26?  I'm not, I figure the kid just wants to play hockey.  I'd probably have done it too if I was good enough.  [If you can't help yourself, insert snarky comment here about a 26 year old scoring 2 goals all season]

Rand is a good guy, I didn't see it but I hope he at least congratulated him and his team before he left.  I'm a big Schafer fan but what exactly did Rand do other than win?

One thing is they were very "upset" that the film was sent to ECAC about Axell's hit and injury.

Sending out your top power-play unit while blowing the other team out is an effective way to piss off your opponent. Keep in mind that when Kellen Jones scored a power-play goal in the final minute of the second period, Cornell had not yet done anything unsportsmanlike during the game. (32 seconds later, Cornell crossed that line with the two-man late hit on Kevin Bui well after the horn sounded.)

The proper response when you object to your opponent scoring more than you do is to score some goals yourself. Gooning up the ice is the real classless act here.

The proper response when the other team throws in the towel is to call off the dogs.  You don't steal up big late (baseball), you empty the bench (basketball), you pull your starters and run the ball (football), you don't shoot even on the open net (lax). They kept pressing, apparently still smarting over Cornell sending in a tape of the nasty blindside hit on Axell that ended his career and should have been a major on Friday.

The first thing I said after that PPG was "stay classy, Quinnipiac. Way to shoot on the PP up 8 with under a minute left in the second." It doesn't excuse the skirmish at the end of the period but it certainly explains it.  I also have no idea how Goodman didn't get suspended for the stunt he pulled in the third.