2019-02-22: RPI 3 Cornell 2 (ot)

[Trotsky]

At the risk of sabotage, a sweep is nigh-on imperative.

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25 Cor    RPI,  Uni, @SLU, @[b]Clk[/b]
24 Qpc    SLU,  [b]Clk[/b], @Brn, @[b]Yal[/b]
23 Yal    @Drt, @[b]Hvd[/b], Prn,  [b]Qpc[/b]
22 Hvd    Brn,  [b]Yal[/b], @RPI, @Uni
22 Clk    @Prn, @[b]Qpc[/b], Cgt,  [b]Cor[/b]


The next two Saturdays are going to be wild.

[ursusminor]

RPI pregame interviews (Coach Smith, Jake Marrello, and Mike Gornall)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JNyk5n8bMs

[Trotsky]

Welp, one thing about the injuries.  It makes the lineup easy to predict.

We are for all practical purposes down to zero game time decisions.  With Haiskenan officially out for the year, and with Donaldson and Andreev apparently out until the playoffs if then, and with Song fairly obviously not ready for D-1 this year, we have 12 forwards and 7 defensemen, exactly the number of players we are allowed to skate.

In rough order of ability:

Vanderlaan
Barron
Starrett
Locke
Bauld
Mullin
Regush
Betts
Malott
Motley
Murphy
Bramwell

Kaldis
Smith
Nuttle
McCrea
Green
Leahy
Cairns (extra skater)

[redice]

Welp, one thing about the injuries.  It makes the lineup easy to predict.

We are for all practical purposes down to zero game time decisions.  With Haiskenan officially out for the year, and with Donaldson and Andreev apparently out until the playoffs if then, and with Song fairly obviously not ready for D-1 this year, we have 12 forwards and 7 defensemen, exactly the number of players we are allowed to skate.

In rough order of ability:

Vanderlaan
Barron
Starrett
Locke
Bauld
Mullin
Regush
Betts
Malott
Motley
Murphy
Bramwell

Kaldis
Smith
Nuttle
McCrea
Green
Leahy
Cairns (extra skater)

Not a bad lineup.  Let's hope there's no more attrition via injury..

[scoop85]

Welp, one thing about the injuries.  It makes the lineup easy to predict.

We are for all practical purposes down to zero game time decisions.  With Haiskenan officially out for the year, and with Donaldson and Andreev apparently out until the playoffs if then, and with Song fairly obviously not ready for D-1 this year, we have 12 forwards and 7 defensemen, exactly the number of players we are allowed to skate.

In rough order of ability:

Vanderlaan
Barron
Starrett
Locke
Bauld
Mullin
Regush
Betts
Malott
Motley
Murphy
Bramwell

Kaldis
Smith
Nuttle
McCrea
Green
Leahy
Cairns (extra skater)

Not a bad lineup.  Let's hope there's no more attrition via injury..

I'd switch Green and Smith, but otherwise pretty good

[kevdog8]

Donaldson is in tonight. We'll see if he is 100 percent or not. Same goes for Barron, who was apparently a game-time decision last Saturday.

[Trotsky]

Donaldson is in tonight.

Wow.  That is really unexpected.  I hope he's ready.

[Trotsky]

Per Mike, "Andreev should be back for the playoffs."

[Swampy]

With Haiskenan officially out for the year, and with Donaldson and Andreev apparently out until the playoffs if then, and with Song fairly obviously not ready for D-1 this year, we have 12 forwards and 7 defensemen, exactly the number of players we are allowed to skate.

At the alumni dinner, Mike mentioned that Song had broken a kneecap.

[scoop85]

Certainly worst loss of the season. Just inexcusable.

[ugarte]

Certainly worst loss of the season. Just inexcusable.

What an embarrassing turnover and final goal. yuck. this team hates passing to each other in the offensive zone.

[scoop85]

Certainly worst loss of the season. Just inexcusable.

What an embarrassing turnover and final goal. yuck. this team hates passing to each other in the offensive zone.

I don't know what's happened the last few games, but our entire offense has reverted to trying wraparounds and jam shots. We better turn things around and fast.

[Dafatone]

We certainly spent enough time in the offensive zone. But the puck movement wasn't good, and that was a bad, bad turnover at the end.

[scoop85]

We certainly spent enough time in the offensive zone. But the puck movement wasn't good, and that was a bad, bad turnover at the end.

That was Nuttle with the whiff. Oddly, Kaldis had a number of those tonight that he got away with. The guys just seem to be holding their sticks a bit tight right now.  That being said, two weeks ago Barron would've buried that OT shot.

[BearLover]

RPI is another incredibly bad team that plays a cheap defensive system to try to steal low-scoring games from better teams. I don't blame Cornell for only scoring twice so much as I blame them for giving up three goals to a team incapable of creating offense. Just horrific turnovers in the defensive end and bad goaltending. The turnovers are nothing new, but the goaltending is a recent phenomenon. The Colgate game revisited.

Cornell is now an underdog to make the NCAAs, despite what the garbage "pairwise predictor" says/said.