Cornell @ Quinnipiac 1/31/2020

[Swampy]

Since Princeton is unranked (#53 in Pairwise & RPI, #50 in Krach), but Q is #18 (#19 Pairwise & RPI, #27 Krach), this game deserves its own topic.

So I'll continue something I started over on the Princeton game topic. I bought a ticket for tomorrow's game, but it is SRO. In fact, there were only 32 tickets left when I bought it. So it looks as if the game is sold out, even if the arena won't necessarily be 100% full.

Hopefully, Cornell fans will nonetheless outnumber Q's.

Go Red!

[dbilmes]

I have been to almost every regular season and postseason game Cornell has played at Q, and our fans have never come close to outnumbering their fans, even with the hundreds of empty seats in a "sold-out" arena. There are always more Cornell fans when we play at Yale, which is only about 15 minutes away.

[Trotsky]

If Q's road contingent is any measure they have great fan support.  They have sent excellent crowds to Lake Placid and also to NC$$ sites.

[Trotsky]

OK, obviously my last post jinxed us so I am buying it.  Let's see if we can turn this around in the third.

[Trotsky]

Evidently that wasn't it.

[osorojo]

I hope that at least our fans outnumbered theirs!

[upprdeck]

i would like to know how that over turned that goal..  ref is looking right at it doenst blow the whistle.  no replay even shows where the puck is so i dont know what they would say happened.. you cant control the puck with your toe.

[scoop85]

Not that I expected a beat down, but we're clearly not as sharp the past few weeks. While we started decently with a few great chances, after QU scored the 1st goal we seemed to lose all the mojo.  We've been screwing up odd man rushes consistently, such as in the 2nd period when we had a 3-on-1 and didn't get off a shot.

Tomorrow we need to see the team re-establish its identity.

[dbilmes]

Terrible game. We gave up too many odd-man rushes. Galajda not sharp. If we had capitalized on one of our scoring chances during the flurry we had right before Q's 3-goal outburst, things might have gone differently. Once they went to review our goal, you knew it was going to be overturned. It was that kind of night. Hopefully, this will be our clunker for the regular season and we'll get back on track at Princeton. And no, the Cornell fans did not outnumber the Q fans. We never do in Hamden.

[billhoward]

i would like to know how that over turned that goal..  ref is looking right at it doenst blow the whistle.  no replay even shows where the puck is so i dont know what they would say happened.. you cant control the puck with your toe.

Q goalie Petruzzelli had it under his pad and it was there for 1-2 seconds before Barron pushed goalie's leg and puck into the net. It was not a good goal. Good reversal by the refs. If the same play had happened but at Cornell's end, Mike Schafer would be under medical care right now after going ballistic.

It was not Cornell's night. Maybe this will convince Cornell to work even harder. This is a team that could win it all, but the frozen four could disappear in a heartbeat in the first or second round of the NCAA regionals if we play halfway as bad as tonight, or the opponent played as well as Q.

None of this stopped the Q students from leaving early in the third. Party time.

[Trotsky]

Mike's going to get some teachable moments from this.  The beat down was bad but the reaction was even worse.  Galajda's having an off night so what do we do?  Give him 3 or 4 odd man rushes to deal with on lazy clears or bad turnovers.  We get eaten up by Q in the first so how do we respond?  3 SOG in the first 15 minutes of the second period.

We came out great, played a fine first 3 minutes, and then crawled up our own ass.  What I'm trying to say here is: bad.

Beat PU and come home.  We have lots to work on.

[Dafatone]

No sense losing by one.

[BearLover]

This is why you play a full season and not judge a team by its first 11 games. It's also why you don't put faith in a website like playoffstatus.com that assigns teams odds based on their records across tiny sample sizes without pricing in uncertainty.

I don't know how good this year's team is. I don't think it's right to say this is some Jekyll and Hyde situation where the team is either "on" or it isn't. They stunk last night. I am going to average this result in with the others and not dismiss last night as an aberration.

This was an even game in terms of talent. We were lucky to beat Q at Lynah this year, which involved them not scoring on three consecutive odd-man rushes and us winning by one goal. Cornell could lose to Northeastern 4-0 in the first round of the NCAA tournament. They could lose to Clarkson, Harvard, or Q 4-0 in the ECAC semis. They could also go all the way. But I don't think it's helpful to think in those terms. This is a team we are still learning about, and that is still learning about itself.

[CU2007]

It's also why you don't put faith in a website like playoffstatus.com that assigns teams odds based on their records across tiny sample sizes without pricing in.

Here we go. An annual tradition like no other.

[ice]

This is why you play a full season and not judge a team by its first 11 games. It's also why you don't put faith in a website like playoffstatus.com that assigns teams odds based on their records across tiny sample sizes without pricing in uncertainty.

I don't know how good this year's team is. I don't think it's right to say this is some Jekyll and Hyde situation where the team is either "on" or it isn't. They stunk last night. I am going to average this result in with the others and not dismiss last night as an aberration.

This was an even game in terms of talent. We were lucky to beat Q at Lynah this year, which involved them not scoring on three consecutive odd-man rushes and us winning by one goal. Cornell could lose to Northeastern 4-0 in the first round of the NCAA tournament. They could lose to Clarkson, Harvard, or Q 4-0 in the ECAC semis. They could also go all the way. But I don't think it's helpful to think in those terms. This is a team we are still learning about, and that is still learning about itself.

Q has 9 losses this year.  I hope Cornell plays them in March.