2020-01-25: Cornell 1 Harvard 1 (ot)

[upprdeck]

first game all year we really didnt the cycle going all that much. but really we need to stop missing the net on so many of the chances, especially in a game where we are generating so many shots.

harvard came to play as you would expect after we jumped them game 1.

its about effort not talent for them

[Swampy]

On the tube we looked very sloppy and careless. Is there a source of statistics on unforced turnovers? I'd be surprised if we weren't at or close to a season high.

Harvard was fast and precise. It also played to break up our breakouts.

To counter, we needed all five skaters to be on the same page. Too often, they weren't or they tried to be cute on their way between the red and blue lines.

I thought we should counter their blue-line structure by dumping the puck into the zone in ways the players off the puck could immediately forecheck. While I favor coordinated attacking across the blue line, we needed to make them pay for their strategy of breaking that up.

[Dafatone]

This is an odd thing to highlight, but man, Harvard was good at lobbing the puck high enough to slow its momentum and clear it without icing.

[Scersk '97]

This is an odd thing to highlight, but man, Harvard was good at lobbing the puck high enough to slow its momentum and clear it without icing.

Whenever we play Harvard, I fear exactly what you've described leading to a breakaway goal. They've always ben oddly good at that.

[Swampy]

This is an odd thing to highlight, but man, Harvard was good at lobbing the puck high enough to slow its momentum and clear it without icing.

Whenever we play Harvard, I fear exactly what you've described leading to a breakaway goal. They've always ben oddly good at that.

Do you suppose they practice it?

[JasonN95]

A few folks have said Cornell was lucky to get out with a tie, and I guess that's true if thinking about the game as time was short and Cornell was down a goal, but over the course of the game despite the shot difference I though Cornell had just as many quality looks as Harvard, maybe more (perhaps my Big Red tinted glasses are partially to blame).

I agree that a bit more dump and chase might have worked. Cornell has players that can get to the corners fast and work for the puck; you dump while your attackers are getting up to speed and you can beat the flatter footed defenders at the blue line to the corners. (How strange it feels to say I wanted Cornell to dump the puck more.)

Something I noticed that NMich and Harvard did on their power plays was as they were coming to Cornell's blue line and Cornell had its players stacked there to make entry hard, the puck carrier would curl and pass back to a teammate who was coming at the blue line with a head of steam at a different entry point and it seemed to work to get the puck into the offensive zone. Maybe teams have been doing this and I hadn't noticed before.

[Trotsky]

This is an odd thing to highlight, but man, Harvard was good at lobbing the puck high enough to slow its momentum and clear it without icing.

Whenever we play Harvard, I fear exactly what you've described leading to a breakaway goal. They've always ben oddly good at that.

The Fuscos either brought this to Harvard or perfected in the early 80s.  Bright has a high roof (unencumbered with banners... hee hee) and you can really play Gravity's Rainbow there.  Not so much at Lynah.

I imagine at Thompson they could get an NFL punt's hangtime.

[Swampy]

This is an odd thing to highlight, but man, Harvard was good at lobbing the puck high enough to slow its momentum and clear it without icing.

Whenever we play Harvard, I fear exactly what you've described leading to a breakaway goal. They've always ben oddly good at that.

The Fuscos either brought this to Harvard or perfected in the early 80s.  Bright has a high roof (unencumbered with banners... hee hee) and you can really play Gravity's Rainbow there.  Not so much at Lynah.

I imagine at Thompson they could get an NFL punt's hangtime.

Interesting thoughts that: (1) the home arena's architecture might dictate a team's overall skill set and, therefore, style of play and (2) the way a team memorializes its past successes, as well as the quantity and quality of such successes, might have a similar effect.

[ice]

Q did some aggressive forechecking in November.  I bet they go for that again next Friday.

[Jim Hyla]

CBR: Regush's Late Power-Play Goal Helps #1 Men's Hockey Tie #16 Harvard, 1-1

Hvd: No. 16 Men's Ice Hockey Fights For 1-1 Tie at No. 1/1 Cornell

Sun: Regush's Late Goal Helps No. 1 Men's Hockey Force 1-1 Tie With No. 16 Harvard

Crimson: 16 Men's Hockey Ties No. 1 Cornell, 1-1, at Lynah Rink

[sah67]

I have seen few clearer fives.

I'm sure the refs were just giving Wong the benefit of the doubt, given his spotless record ::wow::

[Trotsky]

Wong is obviously a Kevan Melrose cementhead.  He's gonna be fun for the next four years. At some point somebody is going to have a talk with him.  Not Mullin, though; I won't make that trade.

Wonder if Damian Rocke had a son.  Hell, even a daughter.

[Jim Hyla]

Inside the Fish-Throwing Tradition at Lynah Rink But the Sun article has little about the tradiion.

[marty]

Inside the Fish-Throwing Tradition at Lynah Rink But the Sun article has little about the tradiion.

I don't understand how tieing a chicken to the goal morphed into throwing fish.  

The picture of the poor confused chicken exists - but this occurred sometime before 1972. The Sun mentions fish in the early 70's yet I don't remember any fish on the ice from 70-74.

Calling Bill Howard. You were in the class of '74. And how about comments from other folks with memories of the 70's?

[Trotsky]

There were chickens in the early 80s.  I believe The Unfortunate Incident was 1984, and that was it for the fowl.