Yale vs. Cornell 11/8

[chimpfood]

Also thought Shane wasn't good tonight. Giving up a lot of juicy rebounds and just shaky overall. Give me keopple tomorrow.

[fastforward]

Pretty sure all five players touched the puck in those 8 seconds

I think you're right-it was such a flurry of activity

[VIEWfromK]

Cornell needs to get healthy. Seems they have too many players in the lineup who aren't threats to score.

Donaldson had the best scoring chance that didn't result in a goal.  If he's able to cash in on the open net Cornell wins that game in regulation.  Couldn't tell from my seat if the puck was on edge or if he just missed it.  He was also one of a few guys who looked to take the body even though his best hit ended in a penalty.

They had no flow in that game.  I do believe that most ECAC defenses are tailored to slow games down as opposed to the run and gun of NCHC opponents.  Other than on the Bancroft goal there were just a couple of other odd man rushes.  There were tons of bodies in front of the net.  Plenty of chaos.  Not a lot of clean looks but when they did get one Stark flashed a very solid glove.

Shootouts are bad enough but please get rid of the ice scrape!  There's no reason to bring the game to a screeching halt like that.

[Iceberg]

Also thought Shane wasn't good tonight. Giving up a lot of juicy rebounds and just shaky overall. Give me keopple tomorrow.

Huh? Shane was fine. The two goals were due to defenders doing a poor job covering the front of the net. Yale's whole offense was basically sending the puck across the crease and hoping someone would tap it in

[Beeeej]

I don't know how good Duluth is this year but NoDak went into their building and scored 7 tonight.

That plus the common-opponents-with-Yale factor appears to have driven us up to #4 in the PWR after last night despite tying an 0-2 team. Gotta love the early math.

[George64]

And the carping begins!

[upprdeck]

We were sloppy at times around the net. There was very little flow to the game the way Yale packed it in,

We had at least 5 chances out front, a couple replays on close ones and a couple that beat the goalie and hit posts or just went wide.

Yale only had the few times it just threw pucks at the net and scored on the 2 PPs because of it.

[fastforward]

Also thought Shane wasn't good tonight. Giving up a lot of juicy rebounds and just shaky overall. Give me keopple tomorrow.

Huh? Shane was fine. The two goals were due to defenders doing a poor job covering the front of the net. Yale's whole offense was basically sending the puck across the crease and hoping someone would tap it in

I attribute the 2 Yale goals a result of penalties-stay out of the box

[Dafatone]

I missed the game because I was at a fancy work dinner, came home, put it on, and immediately fell asleep and picked it back up this morning in the third, so I missed the second period where we apparently didn't look great.

It's fine. We're fine. We're not going to run the table on the entire season. A home tie against a team we think we should beat, while we're banged up, isn't the end of the world. And for all we know, Yale might even be good this year. Getting swept by DU isn't proof of much.

Also, I remain the weirdo who hates 3v3 OT. It's a different sport. I'd watch a 3v3 hockey league, but I hate it for sudden death. More than the shootout.

[VIEWfromK]

I remain the weirdo who hates 3v3 OT. It's a different sport. I'd watch a 3v3 hockey league, but I hate it for sudden death. More than the shootout.

It's one thing to have the greatest players in the world play three on three but in a development league like the NCAA I would rather have extra guys get a couple of additional shifts in OT than have your top players practicing bad habits.

Did you see toward the end of OT that Cornell had two defenseman on the ice?  Kempf and Roberson were out there for an offensive zone faceoff and remained out for quite a while.  Don't see that two D set up very often.

[chimpfood]

Also thought Shane wasn't good tonight. Giving up a lot of juicy rebounds and just shaky overall. Give me keopple tomorrow.

Huh? Shane was fine. The two goals were due to defenders doing a poor job covering the front of the net. Yale's whole offense was basically sending the puck across the crease and hoping someone would tap it in

I attribute the 2 Yale goals a result of penalties-stay out of the box

Yeah but that doesn't mean it can't be the goalie's fault too. Shane faced only 10 shots, let in two goals, gave up at least a couple scary rebounds, and let a couple pucks pass right through the crease. Just thought he could have been better.

[BearLover]

I remain the weirdo who hates 3v3 OT. It's a different sport. I'd watch a 3v3 hockey league, but I hate it for sudden death. More than the shootout.

It's one thing to have the greatest players in the world play three on three but in a development league like the NCAA I would rather have extra guys get a couple of additional shifts in OT than have your top players practicing bad habits.

Did you see toward the end of OT that Cornell had two defenseman on the ice?  Kempf and Roberson were out there for an offensive zone faceoff and remained out for quite a while.  Don't see that two D set up very often.

I agree. 3x3 OT is very exciting in the NHL and pretty boring in college (unless there's NHL talent involved like on BC).

[fastforward]

Also thought Shane wasn't good tonight. Giving up a lot of juicy rebounds and just shaky overall. Give me keopple tomorrow.

Huh? Shane was fine. The two goals were due to defenders doing a poor job covering the front of the net. Yale's whole offense was basically sending the puck across the crease and hoping someone would tap it in

I attribute the 2 Yale goals a result of penalties-stay out of the box

Yeah but that doesn't mean it can't be the goalie's fault too. Shane faced only 10 shots, let in two goals, gave up at least a couple scary rebounds, and let a couple pucks pass right through the crease. Just thought he could have been better.

Totally agree with you but you are more disadvantaged with a penalty-JMO

[Scersk '97]

I agree. 3x3 OT is very exciting in the NHL and pretty boring in college (unless there's NHL talent involved like on BC).

I really, really hate 3x3. If we must, 4x4 would be fine. We could even count the result as a full overtime win, for my money.

[RichH]

I agree. 3x3 OT is very exciting in the NHL and pretty boring in college (unless there's NHL talent involved like on BC).

I really, really hate 3x3. If we must, 4x4 would be fine. We could even count the result as a full overtime win, for my money.

To me, it's stealing part of the game from us fans. The shootout is an add-on curiosity, whatever. With this OT, they took away a real overtime and replaced it with a side game of shinny. Bah.