This Weekend at P & Q

[BearLover]

Now Cornell goal disallowed for no reason.  This will be the game we look back on when Cornell misses the NCAAs by 1 game.

Not hardly. It must be hard to always have a negative approach.

Face it, we played well this weekend. Not that it means we'll win at LP or get into NCAA's, but it was nice to watch.

I've already poked fun at my own negativity, you're too late.  Anyway, not a negative approach, just a realistic one.  I'm well aware Cornell played its best game of the season tonight (which was why I was screaming at the refs, not the team (though they did take a series of terrible penalties)).

[ugarte]

Now Cornell goal disallowed for no reason.  This will be the game we look back on when Cornell misses the NCAAs by 1 game.

...and ask, "Why didn't Cornell play like that every game?"

lol

[Trotsky]

This was a really nice win.  Cornell completes a stretch of 7 ECAC games out of 9 on the road with a record of 6-2-1.  They are 5-1-1 on the road in conference.  That's pretty freaking good.

Welcome home, lads.  Ya done good.

[Jim Hyla]

And at this moment, we're back to 12.

[Jim Hyla]

Now Cornell goal disallowed for no reason.  This will be the game we look back on when Cornell misses the NCAAs by 1 game.

Not hardly. It must be hard to always have a negative approach.

Face it, we played well this weekend. Not that it means we'll win at LP or get into NCAA's, but it was nice to watch.

I've already poked fun at my own negativity, you're too late.  Anyway, not a negative approach, just a realistic one.  I'm well aware Cornell played its best game of the season tonight (which was why I was screaming at the refs, not the team (though they did take a series of terrible penalties)).

It's hardly realistic when you had us lamenting before the game ended.

Yes, you had to do something about what you posted, but face it, your posts are generally complaints.

[BearLover]

Now Cornell goal disallowed for no reason.  This will be the game we look back on when Cornell misses the NCAAs by 1 game.

Not hardly. It must be hard to always have a negative approach.

Face it, we played well this weekend. Not that it means we'll win at LP or get into NCAA's, but it was nice to watch.

I've already poked fun at my own negativity, you're too late.  Anyway, not a negative approach, just a realistic one.  I'm well aware Cornell played its best game of the season tonight (which was why I was screaming at the refs, not the team (though they did take a series of terrible penalties)).

It's hardly realistic when you had us lamenting before the game ended.

Yes, you had to do something about what you posted, but face it, your posts are generally complaints.

Cornell has missed the NCAAs by one game two of the past three years.  In both of those years I can point to at least one game that is etched into my mind in which a bad call or an awful penalty cost us the win.  Those things happen in hockey, and luck goes both ways (I think Cornell has been more lucky than unlucky this year overall, for instance)--but the point I was making was that tonight was this year's that game.  

But then we won.  Obviously the initial post looks kind of silly now, and I agree that I am on the negative side these days more often than not, but that's what the last four seasons have done to me.  Look through my history and you'll see that I was far more optimistic pre-2013.  I think that was warranted then, and I think some amount of pessimism is warranted now.  I think I speak for the majority of recent graduates who have been frustrated with the program the past few seasons, and we aren't particularly well-represented on here compared to a lot of other folks I tend to think are a little bit too complacent.  

Anyway, I'm incredibly happy with how we played tonight, happy Schafer got his 400th, happy we got our revenge on Q.  Hopefully a few more weekends like this and I'll start going into games expecting good things to happen instead of bad.

[LGR14]

Pretty much every loss this year has been "that game" though. It's to everyone's own view whether the Merrimack game or the Colorado College game will be the one that is cried over at the end. Hopefully it doesn't come to that. We've actually been a decent possession team this year, and though our PDO is sky high, Gillam may be capable of securing the wins even as our shooting percentage comes back down to earth.

[dbilmes]

I hear the band now but where were they last night? >_>

It was an alumni band at Q tonight, as Cornell is still on winter break. I spoke with a few of them, and they told me Princeton was reluctant to allow an alumni pep band instead of a student pep band. The band members also said it was easier to get alumns to agree to drive to Q for a Saturday night game then to drive down to Princeton, especially since the Princeton game was on a Friday night, meaning band alums who were working would have had trouble getting to a 7 p.m. game.
In any case, it was great to have the band there and they sounded excellent, especially considering this particular group of musicians didn't have a chance to practice together.

[Trotsky]

Best winning percentage in D-1:

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1. .864 Penn State
2. .739 Union
3. .719 [color=#d61616]Cornell[/color]
   .719 Harvard
5. .717 Lowell
I got zero fucking complaints.

[andyw2100]

And at this moment, we're back to 12.

Up to 11 at 11:20 PM.

[Al DeFlorio]

Best winning percentage in D-1:

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1. .864 Penn State
2. .739 Union
3. .719 [color=#d61616]Cornell[/color]
   .719 Harvard
5. .717 Lowell
I got zero fucking complaints.

And with seven of nine league games played on the road.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Best winning percentage in D-1:

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1. .864 Penn State
2. .739 Union
3. .719 [color=#d61616]Cornell[/color]
   .719 Harvard
5. .717 Lowell
I got zero fucking complaints.

And with seven of nine league games played on the road.

According to CHN, our four home games this season is the fewest in the country.

Back to Lynah.  Let's get it done.

[abmarks]

But team sos is only 31st.

[RichH]

I hear the band now but where were they last night? >_>

It was an alumni band at Q tonight, as Cornell is still on winter break. I spoke with a few of them, and they told me Princeton was reluctant to allow an alumni pep band instead of a student pep band. The band members also said it was easier to get alumns to agree to drive to Q for a Saturday night game then to drive down to Princeton, especially since the Princeton game was on a Friday night, meaning band alums who were working would have had trouble getting to a 7 p.m. game.
In any case, it was great to have the band there and they sounded excellent, especially considering this particular group of musicians didn't have a chance to practice together.

Thanks for stopping by. Much of the alumni (and offspring) band were people who live in the NYC-CT-BOS corridor, with a few coming in from Ithaca, and for me it was an honor to be able to play again with such a talented group. We stuck around to play a few post-game songs outside the arena while the traffic cluster was working its way through the stupidity of having a one-road-in-one-road-out situation.

It's telling that originally Quinnipiac's band wasn't scheduled to be there, but when word got out that we would be there, they managed to get together a group and made a good showing. It's still a damn shame that these rinks insist on making sure recorded pop music finds it's place when you have two bands eager to perform, effectively killing atmosphere. I understand that the multitude of corporate BMW, Mercedes, & Bank advertisements were paid, but let the live music shine, ECAC staffs.

[RichH]

Now Cornell goal disallowed for no reason.  This will be the game we look back on when Cornell misses the NCAAs by 1 game.

...and ask, "Why didn't Cornell play like that every game?"

See, here's the thing, even as one of the eLF optimists: I wasn't blown away by the win. Translate that, it was a good win, but it wasn't pretty. I felt we locked it down by the skin of out teeth. The 2nd period was where CU really asserted their game-plan, and I was really surprised by the shot total after the 2nd. It's not often a team with the puck-possession pedigree of Quinnipiac gets held to 12 shots through 2. And the shot-attempts gap between the two after the 2nd was huge. The most frustrating thing for me was the number of offside calls Cornell committed. A ton.

That 6x4 was a terrifying clinic in how to set-up and release a barrage of one-timers, but big kudos to our positioning. On the other side, QU really did a great job in blocking all of our usual shooting lanes when we were on the PP in the 2nd. The winning goal was a result of finally getting some action in close.

All that said, what a great night in the fallout shelter. A good, entertaining hockey game with a great result. First RS win vs. QU since Feb. '14.

And I dream of headlines like this one on CHN: "Cornell Earns Big Win, (sub-head) Harvard Shut Down Again."