Cornell @ Vermont, Feb 16

[Jim Hyla]

Thanks.

[KeithK]

We still haven't eliminated Dartmouth, Clarkson or Harvard and have clinched no worse than 3rd since Dartmouth and Clarkson play to close out the season.  One point guarantees 2nd while a win Friday wins the RS title. So come on Red! Destroy SLU on Friday and bring home the (first piece of) hardware!

[ugarte]

So, I can't find current scores, but someone correct me if wrong:

Cornell beat Vermont;
Dartmouth beat 'Gate;
Brown beat Clarkson;
SLU tied Harvard;

I don't have scores for the Union/RPI games against Princeton/Yale what happened there. (Just to be nice, we should pretend that it matters.)

[KeithK]

Cornell 5, Vermont 2
Harvard 3, St. Lawrence 3 (Three thrid period goals by the Crimson to tie.)
Dartmouth 4, Colgate 3 (Green score with 16 ticks left)
Brown 2, Clarkson 0
RPI 5, Yale 2
Princeton 4, Union 2 (I think)

[ugarte]

:-(  Harvard and Dartmouth suck.

[Dart~Ben]

If we suck, then what does that make you after going 0-2 against us? ;-)

Congrats on blowing out UVM at the Gut, something I wish Dartmouth could claim on its resume - unfortunatly that was right when Boucher was playing his worst games of the year, letting in 3 really easy goals to lead Dartmouth to a 3-2 loss.

[Al DeFlorio]

I think that makes us seven points ahead of you, Ben.:-P

Nice to see you visit here.  Got a hunch there'll be a rematch in LP.

[ugarte]

That's WHY you suck!  ::twitch::

[Ben Doyle 03]

ditto

[Melissa \'01]

ok. anyone else who went to the games this week-end, please correct me if i am wrong (and i often am), but have you ever seen a team look so deflated/ depressed after winning? maybe (likely) they were just worn out after a long hockey week-end but the fact that the team looked so sullen coming off the ice unsettled (and disappointed) me. anyone know of any reason in particular for this? Losing to Dartmouth (especially in OT) sucked but another loss was more or less due before the end of the season. it doesn't change the fact that overall the team has played well this season. hope that they can put it behind them and concentrate on the upcoming visit by the north country duo.

[tml5]

I think they were upset with losing the Dartmouth game.  Based on the huge lead in the first it sounds like the team didn't let it get them down.  Losing can do two things:  provide motivation or break a team's spirit.  I doubt that Cornell, ranked in the top 10, would be broken by a single loss, so I suspect the team as a whole was dejected over the loss and will be super-motivated down the stretch.  

[Christine Quinn \'94]

From the Burlington Free Press:
"I think we lost our focus when we got 4-0 or 5-0 or whatever it was," said Schafer.  "We don't get up 5-0 very often."

Don't confuse depression with boredom.  :-)

[Keith K]

Also, I can't imagine the team would get really excited about beating up on the doormat of the league.  Vermont was a team we absolutely should have beaten, no excuses allowed.  So splitting the weekend with a loss in Dartmouth doesn't feel like that much of an accomplishment.  (Though in the part of my brain that believes in a finite number of losses that need to be allocated among your games, I wish we had beaten Dartmouth and lost to Vermont...)

[Jordan 04]

Well, I think they just realized that they had taken care of business last night, as they should have against Vermont, but there was probably some still some disappointment over not winning "the" game.

There were still some smiles among the group, but after the Saturday game maybe they react to the weekend as a whole, rather than the game of the night.  And the weekend, as a whole, was a little disappointing obviously.

A win over #12 just isn't going to be enough to you get you juiced after losing to the #2 team that is constantly knawing at you.

[Melissa \'01]

yeah. the UVM win was more expected than a challenge. i guess i was just of a different mentality - 1 win closer to that elusive RS title (knock on wood) - and thuis excited. either way LGR and go Canada!