Cornell 3 Quinnipiac 2 (ot)

BearLover · January 20, 2024, 10:38:18 PM

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Quote from: arugulaQ drops from 5 to 8. We go from 16 to ....... 16. Discuss.
Yeah, our spot in the Pairwise is brutal. As I mentioned yesterday in another thread, there was a big gap between Cornell and the top 15 heading into the weekend, and the top 15 is almost all national powers who have managed to keep winning over the past few weeks. The gap is now smaller, but it's still enough that Cornell is in a very precarious position.

Cornell is playing pretty well, let's hope they can keep it going and stack up wins. I remain worried about Harvard next week.

An RPI of .54 is usually the cutoff to get in. We're just over .55. I'm not sure if it's usual for the top 16 to be higher earlier in the year. But I'm choosing to believe that this is a good sign. 10-4-3 with some big wins is very good.

I guess we need to hope the teams in the top 15 play each other and knock each other out. Aside from Quinnipiac, they're literally all Hockey East, NCHC, or Big 10 teams.

Trotsky · January 20, 2024, 11:00:18 PM

St. Thomas is leading the CCHA? Huh.

VIEWfromK · January 20, 2024, 11:12:07 PM

I hope to hear the dull thud of that Bancroft goal over and over in my dreams tonight The guys were so pumped to win that one. It was great to see the synchronized bouncing in the celebration and also the way they raced up the tunnel after the salute. That was such a weird game. Under ten shots on goal into the third. A short handed goal against. A penalty shot goal. So many stops and starts with very little sustained play. The Big Red finally wore them down around the midway point of the third. Penney and Devlin both had some crushing hits. There hadn't been much physicality early on so it was nice to get that part of their game going in time to turn the tide. That opened up the ice for them to find their offensive game. I'm going to believe all this upcoming week that tonight was the emotional turning point of this season.

sah67 · January 20, 2024, 11:36:48 PM

Quote from: VIEWfromKBig Red finally wore them down around the midway point of the third. Penney and Devlin both had some crushing hits. There hadn't been much physicality early on so it was nice to get that part of their game going in time to turn the tide. That opened up the ice for them to find their offensive game.

I was wondering if Schafer emphasized the hitting during the second intermission, because it was very noticeable given how little physicality there was in the first two periods. The big hits definitely seemed to help turn the tide, especially after going into survival mode for most of the second period.

Jeff Hopkins '82 · January 20, 2024, 11:55:20 PM

Quote from: VIEWfromKI hope to hear the dull thud of that Bancroft goal over and over in my dreams tonight The guys were so pumped to win that one. It was great to see the synchronized bouncing in the celebration and also the way they raced up the tunnel after the salute. That was such a weird game. Under ten shots on goal into the third. A short handed goal against. A penalty shot goal. So many stops and starts with very little sustained play. The Big Red finally wore them down around the midway point of the third. Penney and Devlin both had some crushing hits. There hadn't been much physicality early on so it was nice to get that part of their game going in time to turn the tide. That opened up the ice for them to find their offensive game. I'm going to believe all this upcoming week that tonight was the emotional turning point of this season.

My impression was that there we had a couple SOG in the first period that somehow didn't get counted. And at least one Q shot in the third that went wide that Shane gloved anyway that was counted.

ugarte · January 21, 2024, 12:23:02 AM

Quote from: BearLoverOur PP continues to be the weak link. It improved a bit as the game went on, but still way too little of getting pucks to the net.

the pp that got cut short by the Fegaras interference penalty was a blitzkrieg. more of that, please.

marty · January 21, 2024, 07:19:33 AM

Great extended post game press conference with comments from Dalton Bancroft.

Big Dingus · January 21, 2024, 08:40:20 AM

lol at the haters on the student section. Feels like at this point you guys enjoy when it's empty

Mainly BearLover of course

upprdeck · January 21, 2024, 09:23:48 AM

Quote from: TrotskySt. Thomas is leading the CCHA? Huh.

2 leagues who wont likely get a top 16 team so need to find a way to get into the top 14.

even winning last night in Reg would have moved us to 15.

Root for BU/BC/Maine to play well down the stretch and Mass/Prov/UNH to stumble a bit more.

Umass has 5 games vs those top 3
UNH has 6
Prov has 5

lose all of them and then stumble a bit to lower teams would be nice.

Iceberg · January 21, 2024, 09:49:33 AM

Quote from: ugartethe pp that got cut short by the Fegaras interference penalty was a blitzkrieg. more of that, please.

That was one of the scummiest attempts to draw a penalty I've seen. The Q player clearly backed into him and them embellished so well that he could've gotten an Oscar nomination. Thankfully it didn't result in anything

Chris '03 · January 21, 2024, 10:10:49 AM

Quote from: Big Dinguslol at the haters on the student section. Feels like at this point you guys enjoy when it's empty

Mainly BearLover of course

It is what it is. I think the point is that people are going to push back when you come on here and declare how full it is but the broadcast shows huge empty sections.

We'd all love to see a full student section night in and night out. But that's not the present reality.

upprdeck · January 21, 2024, 10:23:22 AM

weather probably kept few people home last night, but student effort has been poorish for several years now..

Dafatone · January 21, 2024, 10:25:34 AM

Quote from: upprdeckweather probably kept few people home last night, but student effort has been poorish for several years now..

There have been some games this year where the student crowd sounded louder on the feed than I've heard them since 2019-20 or so, for what that's worth.

JasonN95 · January 21, 2024, 10:32:02 AM

Aren't students returning this weekend? If yes, I'd wait for the next home weekend to evaluate the student section.

CU2007 · January 21, 2024, 10:53:15 AM

Quote from: Chris '03
Quote from: Big Dinguslol at the haters on the student section. Feels like at this point you guys enjoy when it's empty

Mainly BearLover of course

It is what it is. I think the point is that people are going to push back when you come on here and declare how full it is but the broadcast shows huge empty sections.

We'd all love to see a full student section night in and night out. But that's not the present reality.

Some of this might be shenanigans but some can be attributed to perspective / site lines . I have been at games (not Cornell) and looked across the rink at a section and said "wow that section is half empty, I am going to cheat into that section for a better view than the seat I paid for." But then when I actually get there in the thick of it, it seems there are WAY fewer seats than I saw, and it's awkward, and I panic, and go back to my original crummy seat with my tail between my legs. Maybe it's just me?