Cornell 6 Yale 3

[Trotsky]

So we beat Brown 4-2, Brown beat Colgate 4-2, and Colgate beat Yale 4-1.

Let's hope transitivity holds and Cornell > Brown > Colgate > Yale.  

Edit: It did!

[Iceberg]

This Yale team's defense is something to behold. Certainly not what it has been the past few seasons.

[BearLover]

This Yale team's defense is something to behold. Certainly not what it has been the past few seasons.

Our defense is something to behold as well.  All three Yale goals have been on CU failures to pick up a man near the goal.

[scoop85]

This Yale team's defense is something to behold. Certainly not what it has been the past few seasons.

I don't know about the defense, and maybe he's just having an off night, but Spano looks like a big step down from Lyon. He has been repeatedly beaten on his glove side. I would be surprised if he's not pulled for the 3rd period

[upprdeck]

hard to believe we could score this many goals and be  like 0-15 on the PP

[andyw2100]

hard to believe we could score this many goals and be  like 0-15 on the PP

Such hyperbole! (We were only 0-14 on the weekend.)

I'll take 0 for anything they want if they win every game they fail to score on a PP.

[Iceberg]

And just like that Cornell joins QU to be the only other team with a 4-point weekend. Very good.

[dbilmes]

Amazing blocked shot statistics, 28-1.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

And just like that Cornell joins QU to be the only other team with a 4-point weekend. Very good.

Of course, we get them next.  ::worry::

[marty]

And just like that Cornell joins QU to be the only other team with a 4-point weekend. Very good.

Clarkson?

[dag14]

This was an 8 point weekend as the women also swept.  And football beat Columbia.  And it was a sunny day in Ithaca.  Nothing to complain about!

[Iceberg]

And just like that Cornell joins QU to be the only other team with a 4-point weekend. Very good.

Clarkson?

I knew I forgot somebody. They actually seem to have some offense (3 goals in every game so far) this year. In fact, they're hosting the Yale/Brown pairing next weekend so that average will probably stay intact.

[Jim Hyla]

Amazing blocked shot statistics, 28-1.

I'm sure that's not correct and I'm home now. I noticed the stat during the game, on CHN, where else. :-) Yale had a number of blocked shots after I noticed it, so the stat is inaccurate. The whole process of stats tonight was suspect. They constantly had to add assists for us after the announcement was made. Even after they changed two of our goals, they then listed one of Mitch's goals as unassisted. That was quite remarkable considering it was a one-timer from the face-off circle and I don't think Yale set him up. That was changed late in, or after the game. I know that some of those mistakes could have been refs not giving correct assists and the team correcting later, but I don't believe last night's stats, except for the goals, of course. :-D

[Trotsky]

Amazing blocked shot statistics, 28-1.

Where did you find that?

[dbilmes]

Amazing blocked shot statistics, 28-1.

Where did you find that?

It's on the CHN app. I was tracking it throughout the game. It was 10-0 after one period, 16-1 after two.
While it may not have been 100 percent accurate, it was fairly accurate. Yale spent a lot of time on the power play, cycling the puck around, and our forwards were doing a great job of getting their bodies into the shooting lanes. They kept trying to set up their big scorer, Hayden, in front of the net. One of the few times the puck actually got through to him there led to their lone power-play goal.
One reason Yale didn't block many shots was that most of our shots, and virtually all of our goals, came on the rush (this was pointed out by the 10-year-old youth hockey player sitting in back of me!). We didn't spend a lot of time cycling the puck in the Yale zone, even on our power plays.