SLU 4 @ Cornell 2

[sah67]

Here are the penalties from the end-of-game fracas:

SLU:
Gunnar Hughes - 5 mins. fighting, 5 mins. spearing, Game DQ
Chris Martin - 5 mins. fighting, game DQ
Sean McGovern, Erik Sweetman, Tommy Thompson - 2 mins. roughing each

Cornell:
Matt Buckles - 5 mins. fighting, Game DQ
Holden Anderson - 5 mins. fighting, Game DQ
Jake Weidner, Jeff Kubiak, Cole Bardreau - 2 mins. roughing each

It looks like Hughes's spear was what started it all - I definitely saw Weidner down on the ice clutching his midsection as the brawl began. Classy stuff from their captain.

[upprdeck]

slu got away with the same thing end of the first period with the goalie doing it.

[A-19]

ok, so i've admittedly been overseas for a few years, but i caught the game in person tonight.  what's the deal with sections A and B less than half full through most of the first period?  is this typical now?  

i feel like this is what happens when you make it too easy to get tickets; back when we had to actually camp out (not just spend 6 hours in the heated field house) i feel like it weeded out a lot of the people who show up to the game halfway through and spend the remaining half playing with their phones.

also sad to see that the administration has effectively killed the penalty box "seeya asshole, you goon" cheer.

-mike '04

[MattS]

Well that was another embarrassing moment for Cornell. I can't help but wonder if/when the administration is going to have had enough.

Anyone else notice the difference between the play from last night and tonight? I'm not just talking about the outcome but the difference in confidence of the players and the cohesiveness of the play. Coincidence?

[upprdeck]

I thought the effort sat was fine.. honestly if we just put home a couple of the breakways the game is over early. we had almost half a dozen in the one flurry alone.

 the power play generated tons of chances .

the SLU goals were a couple faceoffs that the goalie never saw and bad pinch on the power play. cornell was much better on the power play on both ends but it didnt net much.

the cycle was pretty even both ways, but cornell had a few more quality chances.

[Scersk '97]

SLU:
Gunnar Hughes - 5 mins. fighting, 5 mins. spearing, Game DQ

Actually, Hughes received a double DQ, according to the box, so I think he's out for three games, if I remember correctly.

[dbilmes]

According to Brandon Thomas's tweets, it looks like we'll only have 5 defensemen available for the Yale game Friday night.

[Scersk '97]

According to Brandon Thomas's tweets, it looks like we'll only have 5 defensemen available for the Yale game Friday night.

Perhaps there's a forward with a lot of experience at D who could be persuaded to shift back on an emergency basis...

::whistle::

[cbuckser]

According to Brandon Thomas's tweets, it looks like we'll only have 5 defensemen available for the Yale game Friday night.

Perhaps there's a forward with a lot of experience at D who could be persuaded to shift back on an emergency basis...

::whistle::

There is no need to persuade anybody. Just put Gavin back there.

[Scersk '97]

Perhaps there's a forward with a lot of experience at D who could be persuaded to shift back on an emergency basis...

::whistle::

There is no need to persuade anybody. Just put Gavin back there.

I never understood the shift in the first place. I thought he looked pretty good at D his freshman year, and that, with a year working out under his belt, he was going to be part of a really solid D corps in the future.

[Scersk '97]

I thought the effort sat was fine.. honestly if we just put home a couple of the breakways the game is over early. we had almost half a dozen in the one flurry alone.

Exactly how I felt. The game should've been about 3–1 us after the first.

One positive takeaway from this weekend is the reappearance of Joel Lowry, who has started to look more like himself. Another is that we seem to have found a consistent faceoff guy in Weidner; Kubiak's doing pretty well too. The power play is starting to look a bit better; indeed, it often looks better when there is no chance of setting up the old useless shell, i.e., we look great in broken play. Buckles made a real goalscorer's move to stuff that power play goal home, and Weidner's pass across to Bardreau was the kind of thought and execution that we need to see a whole lot more of.

The problems lie squarely with Bardreau and McCarron. (And Lowry, if he relapses.) Bardreau needs to stop driving his shots into the middle of goalies' chests, and McCarron, with the notable exception of one breakaway last night, needs to remember that he can actually move with the puck instead of firing useless slappers over the net. If the seniors don't pick it up, this is going to be a long season—at best, a replay of 2001; if they do, and we, say, make it back to .500 by the time Ryan returns, I think we'll be just fine and poised for a classic streak in January and February.

[BMac]

Dress Topher. I bet he can still bring it.

[jek86]

I am puzzled why McCarron remains on the PP

[Trotsky]

When is Ryan scheduled to return?

[Scersk '97]

When is Ryan scheduled to return?

I swear I saw a quote somewhere from Schafer that said anywhere from four to eight to ten weeks. Ten
weeks from Halloween would be the away North Country weekend and only our 9th ECAC game of the season, thanks to the wacky scheduling this year.