Cornell 3 Quinnipiac 2 (ot)

[BearLover]

At some point we will have five freshmen on the ice at the same time.  The last time I can remember that happening was around 1991 in Troy, and they scored on us in about 8 seconds.

I think the coaches said at one pt vs Mass?  we had 5 on and they had 4 5th yr guys on the ice.

LOL.  Wow.

I'm not sure how we'd have 3 freshman forwards out there at once -- must have been on a change.

I'll need to do some fancy querying to figure out when the last time we had a 3-point all freshman goal.

I thought there was some point in the Q game where we had 5 freshmen out there.

I just realized the fourth line, at least in name, was all freshmen: Devlin, Catalano, Kraft.  So any time they aligned with the Mosko-Fegaras pairings, we had 5 freshmen out there.  I didn't notice but it must have happened, and fairly often, unless Schafer was explicitly avoiding it.  Grady at least never mentioned it.

Kraft is a sophomore.

Until this past weekend, when Mosko was inserted into the lineup, I believe each defensive pairing consisted of one freshman and one upperclassman. So outside of a jumbled or delayed line change, it would have been weird for five freshmen to be on the ice at the same time.

[Trotsky]

Kraft is a sophomore.

Nope.

[BearLover]

Kraft is a sophomore.

Nope.

Oops. I confused him with DeSantis.

[ugarte]

Kraft is a sophomore.

Nope.

Oops. I confused him with DeSantis.

don't worry nobody dropped out

[arugula]

At some point we will have five freshmen on the ice at the same time.  The last time I can remember that happening was around 1991 in Troy, and they scored on us in about 8 seconds.

I think the coaches said at one pt vs Mass?  we had 5 on and they had 4 5th yr guys on the ice.

LOL.  Wow.

I'm not sure how we'd have 3 freshman forwards out there at once -- must have been on a change.

I'll need to do some fancy querying to figure out when the last time we had a 3-point all freshman goal.

I thought there was some point in the Q game where we had 5 freshmen out there.

I just realized the fourth line, at least in name, was all freshmen: Devlin, Catalano, Kraft.  So any time they aligned with the Mosko-Fegaras pairings, we had 5 freshmen out there.  I didn't notice but it must have happened, and fairly often, unless Schafer was explicitly avoiding it.  Grady at least never mentioned it.

Grady wouldn't have mentioned it. That would require paying attention.  Jason perhaps. Not Grady.

[BearLover]

On Quinnipiac's SH goal, can someone explain why Rego played the guy with the puck rather than the open man (Z. Tupker)? Just a mistake? Tupker's goal was way too easy.

[marty]

On Quinnipiac's SH goal, can someone explain why Rego played the guy with the puck rather than the open man (Z. Tupker)? Just a mistake? Tupker's goal was way too easy.

Can you explain why you would ask a question of us that you should ask of Rego?::popcorn::

[upprdeck]

I thought once we forced the puck down to such a low angle you let the goalie take him and play the pass.

[Trotsky]

Grady wouldn't have mentioned it. That would require paying attention.  Jason perhaps. Not Grady.

Grady is an excellent announcer.  Your comment was bad and you should feel bad.

[Trotsky]

I thought once we forced the puck down to such a low angle you let the goalie take him and play the pass.

Yes.

[Dafatone]

I think Rego got caught trying to do too much. He tried to block the passing lane and close in on the skater with the puck, which is great if it works, but that's a big if.

[Trotsky]

The best defense is still just percentages and sometimes the baddies score.

[BearLover]

On Quinnipiac's SH goal, can someone explain why Rego played the guy with the puck rather than the open man (Z. Tupker)? Just a mistake? Tupker's goal was way too easy.

Can you explain why you would ask a question of us that you should ask of Rego?::popcorn::

Because, as others in this thread have noted, defending 2-on-1s is fairly basic hockey strategy that even many of us laypeople are familiar with. As others said, the usual rule is to play the pass and let the goalie play the shot. Rego played the shooter, though, leaving Tupker wide open for an easy goal. As Dafatone noted, he didn't do much to play the shooter either. I was wondering if somebody had an explanation, or if Rego just goofed.

[Trotsky]

Maybe they were just doing a solid for an old teammate?

[BearLover]

Grady wouldn't have mentioned it. That would require paying attention.  Jason perhaps. Not Grady.

Grady is an excellent announcer.  Your comment was bad and you should feel bad.

Unfortunately, Grady spends too many words on random tangents and not enough on the game itself. He needs to track the action better.