Tonight's game v. Penn State

[hypotenuse]

There seems to be very little interest in this game. The person at the Cornell Club in NYC asked me if I needed additional ticks. For every other one of these games, she would go around and beg for extras.

Does anyone know about this penn state team?  

I do know the school is sports crazy, having been there for football games.

[djk26]

I don't know what kind of draw Penn State will be.  I would think pretty decent...it's a huge school and I bet there are many NYC area alums.  They probably have to build a good hockey track record first; they are off to a solid start this year.

I think Notre Dame would be a great opponent for the Frozen Apple, based on their alumni draw--what do others think?

I am really looking forward to being at tonight's game!  Hoping to see my first ever Big Red win at MSG, after seeing a loss and a tie in 2008 and 2010...have not been back since.  LGR!

[RichH]

A friend who was an undergrad at Cornell and got his PhD from Penn State told me that he hasn't noticed any promotion of this game from his PSU alumni communications. He's only seen invites for gatherings to watch football games.

A recent USCHO article had this bit:

While previous MSG opponents Boston University and Michigan drew well, this week's foe — Penn State — hasn't generated perhaps as much demand as the former pair, but Schafer said, "the Cornell alumni have been picking up the slack."

"It's just an awesome feeling to play in front of that many Cornell alumni," he said. "To have a crowd of 14,000 alumni coming to the game is a phenomenal feeling."

As far as Penn State as a team, they've been playing well, but against mostly weak opponents. They split against a good UML team and got another split vs. Michigan last week.  They haven't played a home game in a month. Below is an article on their goaltenders, and I think I saw that their #1 Skoff was announced as the starter for tonight. McAdam just got lit up last week vs. Michigan, allowing 5 goals in the 3rd in an 8-1 loss.

http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2014/11/18_penn_state_goaltending_settles.php

[upprdeck]

the uscho people give cornell no shot in this game for what thats worth.

[Tcl123]

the uscho people give cornell no shot in this game for what thats worth.

They picked us to win in the ecac blog.

[upprdeck]

I see the cornellbigred site says the game video is on ivydigitalnetwork but going there i only see an audio feed..

[Larry72]

It's available just now.

[Trotsky]

Video and Jason in time for the coach's interview.  See y'all in the Chat.

[upprdeck]

i see it now

[Trotsky]

Impressive performance tonight.  We just kept getting stronger and playing better, and Gillam was there when we needed him.

[upprdeck]

Thought PSU was the beter team most of the first period though cornell had 2-3 scoring chances as did PSU even with the limited shots.  thought the 2nd period was pretty even with Cornell slightly better, the 3rd I thought for most of it Cornell was much the better but suddenly with 7-8 to go Cornell started playing like much of the first and PSU put on a ton of pressure that Cornell was lucky to survive at times,

this was big for PWR and makes the next 4 games even bigger since we didnt hold on vs NEB and salvage a Tie the game the 2nd game. Holding on until Ryan comes back and hoping he makes a difference the second half of the season.

[HeafDog]

Looked like a bad call when the refs whistled the play dead in the third when they ruled that Mitch had covered up (assuming I'm not mistaken and that was in fact the call). That saved us, because the rebound came out to a dangerous spot, and PSU had every right to be pissy.

[andyw2100]

That was the first Ivy League Digital Network game I watched this year. I don't know who was responsible for producing that "broadcast", but whomever it was should be forced to watch what they put together a few times before they're allowed to produce another game. I mean just because you have a slew of low-angle, ice-level cameras available doesn't mean you need to use them 2/3 of the time, at the expense of letting the audience see what's really going on. Given the choice of watching another broadcast like that one, or watching one being shot with just a single camera at center ice that pans and zooms appropriately, I'd take the broadcast with the single camera in a heartbeat.

[JasonN95]

Looked like a bad call when the refs whistled the play dead in the third when they ruled that Mitch had covered up (assuming I'm not mistaken and that was in fact the call). That saved us, because the rebound came out to a dangerous spot, and PSU had every right to be pissy.

Eh, after that five minute interference call that, to me, looked like both players skated to the same spot and CU was penalized simply because the PSU player was hurt, a favorable quick whistle seems only right.

So was that the first five minute interference penalty in the history of recorded time? I've never seen that.

[ugarte]

The second goal was a thing of beauty. McCarron trucked a guy as he crossed the blue line, recovered to pick up the puck, got a clean pass to Lowry, and Lowry was just patient enough to get himself the side of a barn to shoot at.

Unfortunately it was one of only maybe three moments all game that clean (another turned into Knisley's ENG). Mostly Cornell seemed like they don't know how to either pass or receive passes. Wide open guys would get the puck sent behind their back or into nowhere. On the rare occasion that a pass was on target, the receiver would have the puck skitter by. Cornell looked like they were always one step ahead of themselves, looking forward to what they were going to do with the puck while showing very little interest or ability to actually get it. I was amazed at how often Penn State simply beat Cornell to the puck or how Cornell was just caught flat-footed when it seemed like they should be ready to pounce. It was very disappointing.

But the third period was pretty great. I think the 4x4 to start the period set the tone - Cornell seemed to like the open ice and it got them in rhythm. Penn State seemed a little gassed and the GWG started to feel inevitable. There was one terrible Penn State flurry that had me screaming, though, because we won a faceoff, had a breakout pass set up and instead played it right onto the stick of a Penn State guy at the top of the circle, starting what felt like a century of pressure before we cleared the zone.

AND YET a 3-1 win is pretty nice. The deflection for the first goal was nifty. Gillam played a hell of a game. And McCarron deserved the #1 star but got nothing because all he did was assist on every goal instead of being the guy who got a gift from McCarron.

LGR