2020-02-01: Cornell 5 Princeton 3

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Getting 3 power play goals, very good. Allowing all 3 Princeton goals be power play is terrible, especially allowing one 8 seconds in.

First time ever in my memory the game was sold out of standing room tickets. Notwithstanding that at least 100 seats were still available late first and middle of the second period, when every ticketed person should have arrived. But you can go online and get SRO tickets in advance.

When I heard it was sold out, I assumed that meant only reserved seats only with SRO available.  Boy was I wrong.  Thanks to some good friends, I got in (don't ask how).  Otherwise, I'd have had to beg for a ticket or maybe drive home without getting in.

[ugarte]

special teams really need to be much better. the PK was terrible; we scored three ppg ourselves so I probably shouldn't be too upset but dammit it still mostly looked flat.

at 5x5 nobody seems able to finish ESPECIALLY, as everyone had said already, Bauld. three times he skated in alone and went 0fer.

Galajda needs... something. This was a bad weekend. Shake it off, kid.

SOG numbers tell the story of this team's even strength defense, so that's a decent takeaway I guess. but man I have to say one more time that PK was awful.

[arugula]

The PK was odd.  Two of the goals were great shots, the third was egregious puck watching.  The PP scored thrice, but still, they pass and pass and pass.  Shoot the g-d puck.  Also, faceoffs-oy.

Any update on Betts?

Seriously, is Song a player with any possibility of playing?

[ugarte]

Seriously, is Song a player with any possibility of playing?

no

[abmarks]

Seriously, is Song a player with any possibility of playing?

no

Do we ever cut anyone?

[Swampy]

What a game! This is old-time hockey of the kind I watched in the early 60's at Lynah: wire over the boards, tubes holding skate blades, and EVERY opponent gave us all we could handle, even Susquehanna. I'll bet today's Lynah crowds begin to more closely resemble the crowds in those good old days also.

Cornell fan near us spent much of the contest playing games on her iPhone. In the good old days that would have been a Motorola phone. Or Rubike's cube.

Or sliderule

[RichH]

Seriously, is Song a player with any possibility of playing?

no

Do we ever cut anyone?

Why would you in the middle of the season? Scholarships aren't an issue. Rostered players can still have value in practices and such. Players have left the team during off-seasons that may be player or program-based decisions. (So in that respect, yes?)

[Jim Hyla]

special teams really need to be much better. the PK was terrible; we scored three ppg ourselves so I probably shouldn't be too upset but dammit it still mostly looked flat.

at 5x5 nobody seems able to finish ESPECIALLY, as everyone had said already, Bauld. three times he skated in alone and went 0fer.

Galajda needs... something. This was a bad weekend. Shake it off, kid.

SOG numbers tell the story of this team's even strength defense, so that's a decent takeaway I guess. but man I have to say one more time that PK was awful.

Actually I don't think he had a bad weekend. Look at the goals he gave up and tell me which were his fault. Tough to blame him for PP goals, when the other 4 guys were playing so poorly.

Tonight if Andreev hadn't taken 2 very dumb, unnecessary penalties, it would have been 5-1 with giving up 1 PP goal. I don't think that he was pulled Friday because of bad play, rather because of what the whole team was doing. But I don't know what Coach thought.

[adamw]

Tonight if Andreev hadn't taken 2 very dumb, unnecessary penalties, it would have been 5-1 with giving up 1 PP goal. I don't think that he was pulled Friday because of bad play, rather because of what the whole team was doing. But I don't know what Coach thought.

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2020/02/02_Roundup-Cornell-Recovers.php

[Swampy]

From the same article, here's some of Coach's overall thoughts; the game he's talking about first is Princeton:

"I was happy with our effort, and I don't think we gave up a whole lot of scoring chances 5-on-5," Cornell coach Mike Schafer said. "Even on the penalty kill, (goaltender Matt Galajda has to) play better, he knows that. A couple opportunities that he typically makes saves, and he dropped a rebound there in the slot (on the last goal).

"But it's about getting back to work. We got embarrassed last night, didn't play with poise, we didn't play with effort, and so it's a good step in the right direction. It's always a blessing in disguise that we got it fed to us, and now we can be honest with ourselves."

[billhoward]

If you mill about the entrance and keep asking, somebody is going to have a spare ticket, most every game. I believe the arena could have held 100 people more, maybe 200, in free seats and standing room.

It's too bad the expansion of Lynah in 2006 did not allow for a bit more of an inside concourse so you could put people 2 deep - even 1 deep without being told to move on- would add capacity for the Harvard and this year Clarkson games. And allow for more socializing by those not 100% into watching the game, as opposed to being at the game. That's one really nice aspect to the Quinnipiac rink, the big concourse.

[billhoward]

As the story says,

Princeton outshot Cornell 7-1 in the game's first eight minutes. After that, it was 35-8 in favor of Cornell the rest of the way

Put another way, Princeton was 3x8 on shots that did get through to the goaltender.

I would say the Princetons got tired in the third period or Cornell wore them and they made mistakes that led to penalties and to the egregious turnover-for-goal.

[Iceberg]

Princeton took a lot of obstruction-type penalties in the game, which wasn't a coincidence since their defense had trouble 5-on-5. All that I saw were proper calls.


Also, that 4th goal was kind of weird. From where I was watching, the puck just instantly slowed down on a pass and didn't go as far as one would expect (probably the ice).

[ugarte]

Princeton took a lot of obstruction-type penalties in the game, which wasn't a coincidence since their defense had trouble 5-on-5. All that I saw were proper calls.

not wrong, just tight. same for both teams.

[upprdeck]

it shows in that CU rebuilt the concourse area and actually made it worse to get around the building and removed concessions..  just not thought and planning..

last week you could only use one mens bathroom before the game because of crowd control again athletics has no clue what they are doing.