Frozen Four Results

[Scersk '97]

I love this school and the team but I cant watch anymore and I Don't  ..

For someone who can't or doesn't watch anymore, you sure do post a lot.

At least try to back up your idiocy.  Try something like this:

The 2003 team had the 16th best offense in the nation, and the nation's best scoring differential.  Of course they were focused on keeping the puck out of the net—any Schafer coached team will be—but they were pretty good at putting the puck in the net too.

[ugarte]

Man, Hartzell looked like shit tonight. Congrats to Yale. Great run through the NCAAs after totally crapping the bed in AC and almost costing themselves a spot in the tournament.

[Scersk '97]

Man, Hartzell looked like shit tonight. Congrats to Yale. Great run through the NCAAs after totally crapping the bed in AC and almost costing themselves a spot in the tournament.

Yeah, that second goal was super soft.

[ugarte]

Man, Hartzell looked like shit tonight.

Yeah, that second goal was super soft.

And the third! Miller could have dove through the five hole with the puck in his hand. Even the first, quirky as it was, was in part because (IMO) Hartzell had gone a little slack thinking the period was over.

[Scersk '97]

And the third! Miller could have dove through the five hole with the puck in his hand. Even the first, quirky as it was, was in part because (IMO) Hartzell had gone a little slack thinking the period was over.

In Barry's "O" too.  Indeed, if you're Q, how can you do that after seeing how Yale beat NoDak?

And, come to think of it, they've been doing that—turning it on at the beginnings and ends of periods—for years.  I'm willing to call it an Allain "thing."

[Redscore]

I love this school and the team but I cant watch anymore and I Don't  ..

For someone who can't or doesn't watch anymore, you sure do post a lot.

At least try to back up your idiocy.  Try something like this:

The 2003 team had the 16th best offense in the nation, and the nation's best scoring differential.  Of course they were focused on keeping the puck out of the net—any Schafer coached team will be—but they were pretty good at putting the puck in the net too.

I respect your opinion, please don;t use the word idiocy,  that is insulting but is also your opinion.  One year out of twenty boring years?  Blind squirrel finding a nut???

[Larry72]

What many of you don't seem to realize is the game has evolved. Not only has Cornell gotten better and faster than the 2003 team, so has the rest of college hockey. Times do change and so does the game. The ECAC knows how to play defense and it really showed tonight.  That was really fun to watch.  Rare to see it at this level and at this time of year from most of the other leagues.

Tonight, Hartzell gave up goal two and three to Yale in eerily similar fashions to goals that CU scored in game one and game three of that series.  Yale kept coming till they found those same weaknesses.  And Malcolm was really solid all night.  Not bad for a Yalie!

I know there are those who will be bitching about essentially nothing well into next season.  Well, get over it! Some of us who've been watching and cheering for Cornell since before you were born are kind of tired of seeing the best forum in college hockey be denigrated by a small group of whiners. So, in a word, we've had enough,  If you want to flame, taunt, and hurl personal insults -- that's what the USCHO "Fan" Forum is for -- go there!  If you stay here and can be civil and be productive even if you disagree, then fine!  

The bottom line is that some bright high school or junior players who watched ESPN tonight will find that they don't want to go to H,Y, or P...they will want to come to Cornell.  And that will make all the difference!  It will happen.

LGR -- I can't wait till next season begins.

[Scersk '97]

I respect your opinion, please don;t use the word idiocy,  that is insulting but is also your opinion.  One year out of twenty boring years?  Blind squirrel finding a nut???

Fine, how do you feel about "lunacy?"  Or maybe "jealousy?"  Because it really seems like you're over-the-moon for a "style" that I've never, in all my years of watching, seen us play.

I just don't understand the hoopla over Yale's style; indeed, I find their style fun to watch too, but I also know that it's high-risk/reward.  Without a bang-up goalie, as they were for some time this year and they will be next year, they're going to look very normal.  Think porous WCHA team.

To me, style is immaterial: hockey isn't an art competition.  Yale got it done this year; we didn't.  We'll get 'em next year—when we remember how to play our style like we used to, or when our coaches tweak (not replace) our style with an eye toward perfection.

[Trotsky]

Only 6 months till next year...

[ScrewBU]

Yes  time to change  more because we are are a boring team in a game that has left us and our coach behind.  watch these ecac teams that have made our conference proud, and compare it to the year we made the frozen four. borrrrring.  not today,  go yale and it kills me to say it but we could have been there.

There was nothing boring about the 2003 team, and by saying so you reveal just how misguided you are.

I've been watching Cornell hockey for for over 30 years.  The 2003 squad was plenty entertaining, altough with less flair than Yale generally exhibits. But that team was every bit as good as this Yale team, but things just didn't go our way in Buffalo.

The difference that you (old) people don't understand is that Yale didn't wait until things went their way, they went out and won the fucking thing.  3OT game vs. Wisconsin, that was ours, but we waited for things to go our way.  FF game vs. UNH, we did get a goal but there was a terrible call and we waited for things to go our way but they never did.  That is not and should not be how things work.  Fortunately for me and unfortunately for you the proof is on my side, Yale is the champion while Cornell still waits for things to go their way. Fire Schafer.

[kaelistus]

Am I the only person who really loves our style of Hockey? The vision I have of the 2003 team was not our good goal scoring, it was watching a player shoot the puck and then seeing three Cornell skaters slide into it's path as if we had four goalies. It was fantastic, and I've never seen another school be so dynamic at defense.

I'll take that over high scoring breakaway heavy games any day. 5 on 5 hockey with all the strategy that entails is where it's at. What's so interesting about a breakaway?


On another note: WOOO!! YALE!!!

[Trotsky]

It's past midnight.  The moment's over.  Fuck Yale, let's go Red.

[BearLover]

Terrible, terrible season.  Everything that could have possibly gone wrong, did.  No one on the team seemed to have progressed.  One game from a home playoff series.  80 seconds from AC.  Almost every other ECAC team seemed to have gotten better.  God forsaken Yale won the national championship.  

Will Cornell be back next year?  Probably, but it will be in spite of this absolute disaster of a season.  Let's just say if I'm a highly-touted hockey recruit looking for an education, I'm choosing the champs over the regressing Red.  Especially if I'm a forward.  If I'm a forward, no chance in hell.

[Trotsky]

Melrose mentioned that Q loses 11 seniors from this year's team, including 4 D'men and Hartzell.

Even with the Jones bros and Peca back, that is going to be a completely different team.

[Ben]

I expect all the ECAC supporters on this board will be heading here to pick up the appropriate swag.