Yale @ Cornell 02/11/17

[Johnny 5]

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"LGR!!"  ::cheer::

[upprdeck]

great results for not playing last night..

in we sweep and union doesnt do more than tie we jump to first

[andyw2100]

great results for not playing last night..

in we sweep and union doesnt do more than tie we jump to first

What about Harvard and St. Lawrence? If Harvard wins tonight, even if we sweep we'd be two points behind them with a game in hand. But even if we win the game in hand, we'd be tied with Harvard in points, and they take the tie-break.

If St. Lawrence wins tonight and we sweep, we'd be a point behind them, with a game in hand.

As I see it, the only way we take first this weekend is if we sweep and:

--Harvard loses tonight and St. Lawrence ties or loses tonight and Union ties or loses tonight.

If all of the above happen we'd still be tied with one or more teams in points, but we'd have a game in hand over Harvard and St. Lawrence, and no game in hand, but the current tie-breaker against Union.

Edit: I just looked at the schedule, and realized that Harvard and St. Lawrence are not playing tonight. So almost everything I wrote above is wrong. What is correct is that the best we can do is catch Harvard in points. We'd be tied at 26 points, but since they beat us twice, they'd have the tiebreak.

[RichH]

great results for not playing last night..

in we sweep and union doesnt do more than tie we jump to first

What about Harvard and St. Lawrence? If Harvard wins tonight, even if we sweep we'd be two points behind them with a game in hand. But even if we win the game in hand, we'd be tied with Harvard in points, and they take the tie-break.

If St. Lawrence wins tonight and we sweep, we'd be a point behind them, with a game in hand.

As I see it, the only way we take first this weekend is if we sweep and:

--Harvard loses tonight and St. Lawrence ties or loses tonight and Union ties or loses tonight

If all of the above happen we'd still be tied with one or more teams in points, but we'd have a game in hand over Harvard and St. Lawrence, and no game in hand, but the current tie-breaker against Union.

Edit: I just looked at the schedule, and realized that Harvard and St. Lawrence are not playing tonight. So almost everything I wrote above is wrong. What is correct is that the best we can do is catch Harvard in points. We'd be tied at 26 points, but since they beat us twice, they'd have the tiebreak.

Sadly, Harvard can't lose tonight.

Harvard, SLU, QU, and RPI don't play tonight.

RPI-Harvard played their game in Dec. so the league can't be blamed for Harvard's Beanpot futility, despite the fact that bending the schedule to their whim hasn't had any impact over the past decade.

SLU-QU played their game in Northern Ireland over Thanksgiving as part of the "Friendship Four"

Edit: didn't see your edit.

[billhoward]

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TEAM           PTS   ECAC GAMES PLAYED AFTER FRIDAY 2/10
Harvard        26    18
Union          25    17
St Lawrence    25    18
Cornell        22    16
Quinnipiac     21    18
Clarkson       18    17

Cornell has 6 games to play and 12 possible points to win. Everyone else in the top 6 (next is Yale at 15 pts) has 5 or 4 games left. Be nice to finish better than 4th.

[ugarte]

Watched the CU goals on @Cornell_ILDN and holy shit do I hate the camera work. They always switch from the wide-angle to behind-the-net while the player is in the act of shooting so by the time your eyes have adjusted to the switch the puck is in the back of the net.

On the other hand, we're winning.

On the Tevye hand, Yale has 1;44 of PP to start the third down only one.

[marty]

Watched the CU goals on @Cornell_ILDN and holy shit do I hate the camera work. They always switch from the wide-angle to behind-the-net while the player is in the act of shooting so by the time your eyes have adjusted to the switch the puck is in the back of the net.

On the other hand, we're winning.

On the Tevye hand, Yale has 1;44 of PP to start the third down only one.

Also they show no replays of the goals.

[ugarte]

Watched the CU goals on @Cornell_ILDN and holy shit do I hate the camera work. They always switch from the wide-angle to behind-the-net while the player is in the act of shooting so by the time your eyes have adjusted to the switch the puck is in the back of the net.

On the other hand, we're winning.

On the Tevye hand, Yale has 1;44 of PP to start the third down only one.

Also they show no replays of the goals.

They have multiple cameras! Put the highlight up as seriatim continuous feeds from each camera!

Also, there's someone listening to the audio close enough to the booth that you can hear a faint echo of the audio on a 1-2 second delay.

[ugarte]

Hoo boy. After taking a 2-0 lead I feel relieved to have escaped with a tie even though it sounded like the Yale goalie made a bunch of great saves.

[BearLover]

2nd and 3rd period looked like '07-'13 Cornell vs. '07-'13 Yale.

[Iceberg]

This game could've been similar to the one in New Haven had Cornell gotten a third goal in the 1st period. The current edition of Yale is a team that lives and dies by its forwards and forechecking.

[ugarte]

This game could've been similar to the one in New Haven had Cornell gotten a third goal in the 1st period. The current edition of Yale is a team that lives and dies by its forwards and forechecking.

Missed penalty shot and it sounded like a pair of breakaways early in the third that we didn't cash in. Still, from the sound of it, could have been worse.

[Trotsky]

We could have led 4-0 after 1, but we could have been outscored 0-5 in the second and third.

It's not sexy but I'll take it.

The positive, other than not losing, is we actually picked up a point on Clarkson who shat the bed against Princeton.

I don't particularly want to play Yale in the QF.

[billhoward]

Very nice opening period for Cornell. Yale presented Cornell with an insolvable forecheck in the second half of the game, got two goals in the final two periods, and we missed a penalty shot although based on past history we were not due to score another one until circa 2047.

The missed point - 1 instead of 2 - may hurt us. Just not as bad as taking only 1 of 4 points vs. Dartmouth.

[billhoward]

This game could've been similar to the one in New Haven had Cornell gotten a third goal in the 1st period. The current edition of Yale is a team that lives and dies by its forwards and forechecking.

They survived and we died by Yale's forechecking.