Cornell at Dartmouth 11/15

[Dafatone]

I need everyone who has ever complained about Lynah not being 100% full to look at this rink and apologize.

In the 80s this would have been a dream crowd for Thompson.  You could hear individual conversations.

Jesus... that bad?

Oh yeah. Meehan and Thompson were always 10:1 Cornell fans.

Meehan is... Brown? I see.

Meehan is my go to for unbelievably empty.

[BearLover]

Holy fuck, I have never seen a Cornell team beat itself this badly before. Dartmouth did NOT look good. Cornell is just clueless on special teams and made so many unforced turnovers. I blame this one on the coaching staff. The special teams looked totally unprepared. Why are we still running out the same unit on the PP when we are like 0-for-20 this year?

Need to get players back from injury. Much harder to win when you have 4+ forwards in the lineup who are not a threat to score. Awful rookie mistakes by the freshmen and also by some seniors. Can't even bench them because there's no one else to turn to.

Totally embarrassing loss against a mediocre team.

[RichH]

Always have trouble at Thompson. Tonight CU didn't look lost or uninspired and still took the L. Oh well.  At least we lost to a Dartmouth team that has some talent up and down instead of the old Gaudet Goon squad.

What month/year will we get a PPG?  Not even remotely close to being threatening a man up. Gotta shore up special teams before I can call this team special.

[chimpfood]

I'm really pissed off between this and the soccer OT loss. Gotta get the win tomorrow.

[BearLover]

This team has a long way to go. Injuries are one thing but bad, unforced passes are another

So often a problem in the early season. But O'Leary, of all people, should know better.

O'Leary should ride the bench tomorrow. Too bad there are literally zero extra healthy forwards and we had to play a D at forward tonight, so we get to watch him spin wildly and turn the puck over for another 60 minutes. Badly need Fegaras back too, some of the bottom few D are extremely turnover prone and show little offensive ability.

[BearLover]

Always have trouble at Thompson. Tonight CU didn't look lost or uninspired and still took the L. Oh well.  At least we lost to a Dartmouth team that has some talent up and down instead of the old Gaudet Goon squad.

What month/year will we get a PPG?  Gotta shore up special teams before I can call this team special.

Dartmouth had a few D who could move the puck and little else. Pretty weak to get badly outplayed on home ice against an injury riddled team. I wasn't impressed by them, at all. Would much rather play them than Quinnipiac or Harvard. Speaking of which.

[Trotsky]

Yeah, that's a talented Dartmouth team.  We shot ourselves in the head, no question, but there will be some lessons learned coming out of this that won't be forgotten.

On to Harvard.  I strongly suspect the team will come out on fire tomorrow night.

[BearLover]

Yeah, that's a talented Dartmouth team.  We shot ourselves in the head, no question, but there will be some lessons learned coming out of this that won't be forgotten.

On to Harvard.  I strongly suspect the team will come out on fire tomorrow night.

Did we watch the same Dartmouth team? They got totally pushed around after the first five minutes. They showed little speed, getting beaten by Cornell to almost every loose puck.

BTW, did Cornell put a shot on goal on the 5-minute major? The best opportunity by far during the five minutes was Dartmouth shorthanded chance when Cornell nearly scored on itself.

[Iceberg]

There was definitely a shot on goal near the end of the 2nd period, but there was very little of anything on that major PP in general

[BearLover]

Did anyone both to check on Shane to see if he was okay after the hit? He was shaky after that.

This team hasn't looked right all season. Injuries, or is something more fundamentally wrong?

[chimpfood]

Did anyone both to check on Shane to see if he was okay after the hit? He was shaky after that.

This team hasn't looked right all season. Injuries, or is something more fundamentally wrong?

What really bothered me is that nobody actually stood up for Shane after that hit. Guys lazily skated up and pushed the Dartmouth guy around a little bit because they felt like they had to but it was clear that they just wanted the power play and didn't really care. You've got to come out there and really rough the guy up after he does that to your goalie and we just didn't. Not saying it cost us the game or anything but it was annoying.

[BearLover]

Did anyone both to check on Shane to see if he was okay after the hit? He was shaky after that.

This team hasn't looked right all season. Injuries, or is something more fundamentally wrong?

What really bothered me is that nobody actually stood up for Shane after that hit. Guys lazily skated up and pushed the Dartmouth guy around a little bit because they felt like they had to but it was clear that they just wanted the power play and didn't really care. You've got to come out there and really rough the guy up after he does that to your goalie and we just didn't. Not saying it cost us the game or anything but it was annoying.

I actually thought Cornell's response was one of the few smart choices they made tonight. They were down in the game and couldn't risk taking a retaliatory penalty. Three Cornell players jumped the guy, I don't think you can really ask for more.

Terrible night, though. One of the most frustrating games I can remember.

[Trotsky]

Yeah, that's a talented Dartmouth team.  We shot ourselves in the head, no question, but there will be some lessons learned coming out of this that won't be forgotten.

On to Harvard.  I strongly suspect the team will come out on fire tomorrow night.

Did we watch the same Dartmouth team? They got totally pushed around after the first five minutes. They showed little speed, getting beaten by Cornell to almost every loose puck.

I know what I watched.  Dartmouth had speed and backchecking skill.  System-wise they were pretty disorganized. They ran a good kill and a good pp.  They were able to exploit our mistakes.

I can't speak for what you watched except to say every time we've fallen behind in a gamethread you've whipped out the seppuku kit and I've gone from being annoyed to being impatient for you to complete the play.

[RichH]

The Fuscos make me understand how the Hatfields felt.

I didn't want this to go without recognition, so here's a slow clap.

A reminder for Saturday:
https://gocrimson.com/sports/mens-ice-hockey/roster/ben-macdonald/29140

[RichH]

Nm, misunderstood something