2019-01-26: Colgate 3 Cornell 2 (ot)

[marty]

It just goes to show how much a good student section gets into the heads to certain players. That game will probably go down as the highlight of Colgate's season.

Their biggest win vs Cornell since the Gilbert Gottfried announced game at Starr in 2003.

[redice]

That game will probably go down as the highlight of Colgate's season.

I believe that will go down as the only win over Cornell for the seniors on the team (providing they don't meet again in the playoffs).

[semsox]

I'm curious to see how Schafer handles the goalies going forward. I thought the 2nd Colgate goal was really pretty soft, even though he was screened a bit. Assuming he's healthy enough, I'd like to let Galadja carry us from here on out.

[Trotsky]

Mike has typically preferred one lead dog.  McGrath had played very well and so he couldn't bench him in good conscience, but that changed this weekend.  I think we'll see Matt take the wheel now.

[Trotsky]

Misha was dressed.  Did he get a shift?

Edit: according to USCHO he has 2 GP.

[Trotsky]

It just goes to show how much a good student section gets into the heads to certain players.

It does.  Also: Snodgrass is a freshman so I hope Section A makes a note to be particularly attentive to him in the years ahead.

[ugarte]

I'm curious to see how Schafer handles the goalies going forward. I thought the 2nd Colgate goal was really pretty soft, even though he was screened a bit. Assuming he's healthy enough, I'd like to let Galadja carry us from here on out.

he said he pulled McGrath because he didn't fight through the screen

[snert1288]

Snodgrass is also lucky that not many Cornell students are studying Urology (at least not yet..) because Snodgrass is a very popular technique for repairing hypospadias. I can only imagine the taunts...

[The Rancor]

Snodgrass is also lucky that not many Cornell students are studying Urology (at least not yet..) because Snodgrass is a very popular technique for repairing hypospadias. I can only imagine the taunts...

"boooooring!"

[kevdog8]

It does.  Also: Snodgrass is a freshman so I hope Section A makes a note to be particularly attentive to him in the years ahead.

Snodgrass is a junior, for the record.

[ugarte]

It just goes to show how much a good student section gets into the heads to certain players.

Or some people like being the heel. It didn't get into his head, he scored two goals. "We got to him" is a different creature than "he remembered who heckled him and made sure to rub it in."

[Trotsky]

It does.  Also: Snodgrass is a freshman so I hope Section A makes a note to be particularly attentive to him in the years ahead.

Snodgrass is a junior, for the record.

Thx.  Somehow the Gate roster I pulled up was 2017.  My bad.

[Tom Lento]

Colgate is hands-down the worst team we've played this season. Topher can talk all he wants about their defensive positioning or how strong the ECAC is but this was an absolutely terrible loss.

Cornell played well following the 2nd Colgate goal and their goalie stole it. But the first 80 minutes and 15 seconds this weekend were embarrassing.

Yeah, by the rankings Colgate is by far the worst team Cornell has seen so far. RPI and SLU are likely worse than Colgate, but weirdly enough Cornell hasn't played them yet.

I only got to see the third period + OT of the game at Lynah, but it looked like Cornell could do whatever they wanted out there short of actually putting the puck in the net. They were so dominant on possession that it almost looked like the game was moving at 3/4 speed. The only real exceptions were the cases where Cornell made a mistake and had to scramble to recover. Despite their dominance it seemed like Cornell was making a lot of unforced errors out there, and it sounds like that was even worse earlier on.

[kevdog8]

Thx.  Somehow the Gate roster I pulled up was 2017.  My bad.

No worries; I was quite fond of yelling "Snodgrass!" at him at games in Ithaca and Hamilton so I knew he'd been there for a few seasons

[Trotsky]

I only got to see the third period + OT of the game at Lynah, but it looked like Cornell could do whatever they wanted out there short of actually putting the puck in the net. They were so dominant on possession that it almost looked like the game was moving at 3/4 speed. The only real exceptions were the cases where Cornell made a mistake and had to scramble to recover. Despite their dominance it seemed like Cornell was making a lot of unforced errors out there, and it sounds like that was even worse earlier on.

This was one of those split weekends -- we seem to have one every season -- in which we actually played better in the game we lost.

I'm not that worried about it.  In the game notes he sends out Schafer said he thought the team looked pretty terrible in practice all week leading in and that the problems continued throughout Friday.  He didn't enumerate specific issues though I think we're smart enough to figure out what he meant.  

Suffice that we're good enough to beat anybody as a team, but not so good that we can't lose to anybody as individuals.  This was particularly evident in how Gate's first line destroyed us.  We have been fantastic neutralizing the other team's first line going back years.  The last guys who burned us that badly were Yale's otherwordly lines with O'Neill, Miller, Agostino, Little, etc...