11/1 vs North Dakota

[Scersk '97]

I'm surprised Mosko and Donaldson didn't crack the lineup, unless they're hurt.

I don't know where I saw it, but I'm pretty sure they're hurt.

[abmarks]

People in Greek life are mostly pregaming/partying on Friday and Saturday nights. In my experience a high proportion of students who purchase season tickets are freshmen. Many of these students joins frats/sororities and don't buy season tickets in future seasons. If you're a girl who wants to get ready to go out or a guy whose frat is throwing a party that night, you can't really attend a game that night.

To be clear, none of the above describes my own experience at Cornell (or the experience of most on the forum, probably). But I do think that's part of what's going on. Unlike at a football or basketball school where social life during football/basketball season revolves around the school's biggest sport, at Cornell social life conflicts with the school's biggest sport (hockey).

There was a time when a number of frats had quite large seating blocks. (Certainly in the late 80s).  Not that I could remember the names of those houses.

[abmarks]

Man. A sweep and we dropped to 7th in the pairwise.

Can't we schedule some actual quality opposition that doesn't drag down our sos?  Wtf?  

[RichH]

Man. A sweep and we dropped to 7th in the pairwise.

Can't we schedule some actual quality opposition that doesn't drag down our sos?  Wtf?  

I mean...We haven't beaten anyone with a winning record yet.

[Dafatone]

Man. A sweep and we dropped to 7th in the pairwise.

Can't we schedule some actual quality opposition that doesn't drag down our sos?  Wtf?  

The worst part is now we have to root for NoDak all year.

[Iceberg]

Man. A sweep and we dropped to 7th in the pairwise.

Can't we schedule some actual quality opposition that doesn't drag down our sos?  Wtf?  

I mean...We haven't beaten anyone with a winning record yet.

And the problem is that there may not be an opponent with a winning record for a while depending on what shakes out in the conference next weekend.

[Scersk '97]

Man. A sweep and we dropped to 7th in the pairwise.

Can't we schedule some actual quality opposition that doesn't drag down our sos?  Wtf?  

I mean...We haven't beaten anyone with a winning record yet.

And the problem is that there may not be an opponent with a winning record for a while depending on what shakes out in the conference next weekend.

I think NoDak will find it's way back over .500 pretty quickly, and, once they get healthy, they will eventually make these wins look pretty good.

I'm going to guess there were quite a few "See you guys in March or April"s in the handshake line last night.

[ugarte]

I was a little worried that after what I saw Friday that Hedquist would make a big difference on Saturday.  He proved to be just as leaky as Semptimphelter.  Cornell didn't dominate in any facet yet still swept.  I'll take the two wins knowing that there is plenty of room for improvement.

I don't know if we were watching the same game. We were better on the boards and we passed better in the offensive zone. Plus, you even noticed what may have been equally important: Shane was much better than Semptimphelquist. And while we're at it...

I'd rather see people spar with BearLover over draft picks (how many does nodak have again?)

If you were building an NHL team, you'd probably rather have the clay on the NoDak roster. If you wanted to bet on the results of a hockey game right now, put the money on red. This is the hand we've been dealt rooting for a team in the Ivy League. We aren't going to get as many of the draft picks because we can't admit a lot of the elite players and the players we can admit need a very deep commitment to hockey, architecture, hospitality or labor policy because otherwise we've got a branding issue within the conference. Under our constraints we do pretty goddamn well.

Couldn't really tell much from watching Major. Obviously he is highly thought of to be on the 1st PP unit as a freshman. But the PP looked awful all weekend so I didn't see much from him (or anyone else on that unit).  

I thought Major was all over the place, even if he didn't show up in the boxscore.* He has a little of early (even current) Castagna, in that he's used to being able to skate circles around people and he needs to better adjust to the level to take full advantage of his skills. He can do what he's trying to do but not as often as he thinks he can. When he figures out the right balance of "do it myself" and pull back and let the team work around him, he's going to be special. Again, like Castagna.

* I know that he was technically in the boxscore on the Rego goal but ... come on with that secondary assist. A wraparound off of Suda's shot to the glass and he passed to Suda? No complaints but come on.

[Trotsky]

1. Cornell dominated most of both games, except the 8-minute brain fart in the second period Saturday, which they promptly erased.

2. I had several good conversations with North Dakota fans and they appear to be good-natured and cognitively functional if you ignore their probable politics.

3. Age and Catherine's daughter Faye is the cutest kid I've ever seen, and I typically react to other people's children the way Jackson Kunz reacts to GETTING FUCKING SWEPT YOU GOON!

[Trotsky]

Man. A sweep and we dropped to 7th in the pairwise.

Can't we schedule some actual quality opposition that doesn't drag down our sos?  Wtf?  

The worst part is now we have to root for NoDak all year.

I have no problem with that as long as they stick to the green sweaters.  Go Sioux!

[Dafatone]

Man. A sweep and we dropped to 7th in the pairwise.

Can't we schedule some actual quality opposition that doesn't drag down our sos?  Wtf?  

The worst part is now we have to root for NoDak all year.

I have no problem with that as long as they stick to the green sweaters.  Go Sioux!

Ahem. Hawks.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Man. A sweep and we dropped to 7th in the pairwise.

Can't we schedule some actual quality opposition that doesn't drag down our sos?  Wtf?  

The worst part is now we have to root for NoDak all year.

I have no problem with that as long as they stick to the green sweaters.  Go Sioux!

Ahem. Hawks.

Nope. Sioux. If there's one team where I can accept a Native American nickname it's UND.

[ugarte]

Man. A sweep and we dropped to 7th in the pairwise.

Can't we schedule some actual quality opposition that doesn't drag down our sos?  Wtf?  

The worst part is now we have to root for NoDak all year.

I have no problem with that as long as they stick to the green sweaters.  Go Sioux!

Ahem. Hawks.

Nope. Sioux. If there's one team where I can accept a Native American nickname it's UND.

you and ralphie! choose your bedfellows however you want.

[stereax]

Check the replay two minutes into the first period. You can see Psenicka go into the boards.

At the above-referenced 18-minute mark, you can see Psenicka fall awkwardly into the boards, right-shoulder-first. He actually returns for a second shift with about 15:30 to go, but clutches his right shoulder multiple times while on the ice and after that O'Brien started seeing shifts.

New member here and new STM (1L law!) who sits right behind the tunnel - yep. Psenicka (26) went down the tunnel early in the first holding that right shoulder, dropped his glove and stick and they stayed there for the rest of the period. Looked to be in pretty considerable pain. Don't know what happened exactly, though I would not be surprised if it's a broken collarbone. Also notable - Castagna (38) blocked a shot I want to say mid second period that seemed to hit his knee above the padding, was floating in and out of going down the tunnel for a bit but stuck it out. Suda (27) took a shot to the hand around that time I want to say, and was icing it on the bench too. Walsh (14) I think smashed his face somehow with like 3 minutes left and was doing that floating in and out of the tunnel thing too; the lady who I assume is the medical expert was inspecting him for a bit and I think pulled some teeth, but not completely sure.

Um. I like watching the happenings on the bench haha.

All that being said, hi, these are my first hockey games actually I've been to in person! Devils fan but never really got the chance to go to games until coming up for law school. Got men's and women's season tickets so I'm gonna be studying tort law in the seats between periods, haha, and would love to meet people who know more about the Big Red (My only college hockey friend is a BU fan who insists we're rivals, which, I think we've played them like 20 times in our existence, we have bigger fish to fry I thought - pun intended - but.) And yeah, I've been educated enough on what teams are good and what teams aren't to know these were pretty big games. Super proud of the team for pulling out four big points.

Also, if that Kunz (29) from NoDak wanted to sit and watch Cornell dog on his team that bad, he could have just bought tickets to the game instead of taking so many penalties... Surprised with how chippy the game got and how little the refs did, especially when they'd do offsetting penalties like when one or two of our guys got jumped by half of NoDak... which also reminds me of that Emery (6, NoDak) and Catalano (15) interaction at the end of the second where Emery did the, like, you're next gesture at Catalano and Catalano was close to skating over and ripping his head off... HAH. Also also (I feel I'm rambling, I just have nobody else to talk about this to) what was up with that Septimphelter guy? Wasn't he supposed to be good?

[BMac]

Welcome!

BU is indeed a rival- they were in the ECAC (our division) for a very long time before they left for the newly-created Hockey East in the 80s.

We restarted the rivalry with a game at MSG in 2007. It was supposed to be a short-lived thing but it was so successful that we now play them every other year at MSG on the first Saturday after Thanksgiving, on odd years. On even years we play somebody else; this year it's Quinnipiac, which is annoying since a) they're in our conference so we play them twice anyways and b) I loathe them.  Worth a trip if you're near NYC for Thanksgiving.