Cornell at Yale (2/25/23)

[JasonN95]

the play was so close, but maybe the ref did rule it that way. onlu thing that makes sense.

Doesn't the faceoff for offsides go to where the puck was last touched by the offense before committing the offsides? Usually that's at the blue line but here that was in Cornell's end so the faceoff was set there.

[Iceberg]

Weak backhand shot with no screen set sneaks through, Hopkins blows.

I was at the other end of the ice and could even clearly see that was a weak goal. Heavily swung the complexion of the game.


I happened to be sitting in front of some Yale students and talked to them for a bit. They were rather disappointed in the skeleton crew of a band that showed up in addition to wondering why so many Cornell people were in the rink. Apparently, some of the school's COVID measures within the past few years (i.e. separated practices) hurt the team and its connection with a local community a bit. The irony that is that in the 1st intermission, the Yale AD was doing a photo-op on the ice with a surprisingly small number of returning members of the championship team Yale had 10 years ago.


Tldr: Yale's concern for hockey is pretty low in general right now

[scoop85]

Weak backhand shot with no screen set sneaks through, Hopkins blows.

I was at the other end of the ice and could even clearly see that was a weak goal. Heavily swung the complexion of the game

When I watched the replay of the goal I thought the shot may have deflected off the Yale defender, which if my eyes aren't lying would make it less of a bad goal then at first blush.

[George64]

Our walking wounded made the trip to celebrate our Ivy championship.

[dbilmes]

I may have missed this on a previous thread, but does anyone know when Seger was hurt and if he's going to be able to play again this season? I noticed he was scratched for both games this weekend. He's one of our top scorers and faceoff men, so it would be nice to have him back for the playoffs. It's a tribute to the depth of this year's roster that we've been able to score a decent amount of goals despite the absence of players like Steinberg and Seger.

[Trotsky]

I may have missed this on a previous thread, but does anyone know when Seger was hurt and if he's going to be able to play again this season? I noticed he was scratched for both games this weekend. He's one of our top scorers and faceoff men, so it would be nice to have him back for the playoffs. It's a tribute to the depth of this year's roster that we've been able to score a decent amount of goals despite the absence of players like Steinberg and Seger.

According to Mike in the pregame at Brown, he was dinged up at the end of the SLU loss and he will return for the playoffs.  Also: Stienburg is "close" and "should" be ready for the playoffs.

[arugula]

Excellent news.

[arugula]

Weak backhand shot with no screen set sneaks through, Hopkins blows.

I was at the other end of the ice and could even clearly see that was a weak goal. Heavily swung the complexion of the game

When I watched the replay of the goal I thought the shot may have deflected off the Yale defender, which if my eyes aren't lying would make it less of a bad goal then at first blush.

I will take personal credit for the goal.  Personal bugaboo for years is the unwillingness of many to use the backhand. I was sitting five rows up maybe 25 feet from the shot and just before he took the shot I yelled "take the backhand".  So all me ....

[arugula]

Weak backhand shot with no screen set sneaks through, Hopkins blows.

I was at the other end of the ice and could even clearly see that was a weak goal. Heavily swung the complexion of the game.


I happened to be sitting in front of some Yale students and talked to them for a bit. They were rather disappointed in the skeleton crew of a band that showed up in addition to wondering why so many Cornell people were in the rink. Apparently, some of the school's COVID measures within the past few years (i.e. separated practices) hurt the team and its connection with a local community a bit. The irony that is that in the 1st intermission, the Yale AD was doing a photo-op on the ice with a surprisingly small number of returning members of the championship team Yale had 10 years ago.


Tldr: Yale's concern for hockey is pretty low in general right now

And yet the womens team is sensational.

[upprdeck]

Stienburg news is surprising.

[arugula]

Great moment of schadenfreude last night.  When I arrived at the Whale, two Sucks womens players were outside crying with their parents.  They had just been eliminated by Yale in the ecac playoffs.   I was briefly sad to see a youngster cry but then thought again and heard Nelson Muntz. Very mature.

[dbilmes]

Great moment of schadenfreude last night.  When I arrived at the Whale, two Sucks womens players were outside crying with their parents.  They had just been eliminated by Yale in the ecac playoffs.   I was briefly sad to see a youngster cry but then thought again and heard Nelson Muntz. Very mature.

They shouldn't have been surprised to have lost to Yale, since the teams finished the regular season with Yale winning, 10-1, and Yale then outscored Harvard, 8-2, in the ECAC quarterfinals. So Yale outscored Harvard, 18-3, over the final three games of the season. Maybe Harvard would have done better if their controversial coach hadn't resulted in so many talented players transferring out of the program over the past few years.

[arugula]

Sad!

[dbilmes]

Yale coach Allain started his third-string goalie, Hopkins, last night because he's a senior and it was his last regular season game. His goals against average and save percentage is much worse than either of the goalies ahead of him. Not that it would have necessarily made a difference, but it certainly didn't hurt our chances.

[DL]

Frame-by-frame, it looks like each one is covering his man, but the Yalie being blocked has his stick holding our guy back, effectively keeping him from covering that sliver of daylight... Not that it remotely looked like he was diving to cover it but still.

So they got a lucky break. Lucky too was not getting called for tripping or slew-footing on O'Leary just as he had a point blank shot in the slot