Cornell vs St Lawrence 02/22

[stereax]

I have. Entirely too many rally towels. I'll make a post when I get home.

[Trotsky]

Shots for the weekend: 56-24

[underskill]

Kudos to ESPN for showing the postgame ceremonies.

Yes indeed!  I just wish that someone had been able to patch the microphone jack into the audio stream.  That would have been perfect.

https://x.com/ESPNIthaca/status/1893483650022260912

[Trotsky]

OTOH they directly fed the Schafer video into the feed.  That was great.

[arugula]

Anyone have a semi complete list of which old players returned?

[arugula]

So it looks like if we sweep, Colgate beats Union and Dartmouth drops a point against Yale or Brown, we get fourth.  Possible.

[chimpfood]

Man: after such a barnburner of a freshman year, Robertson looks so allergic to doing anything with the puck this year.

I think being in a pair with Rego has really stunted his offensive potential. Rego has been much more of an offensive presence this year which means Robertson has to stay behind the play a lot more to prevent rushes for the bad guys. The recent line charts show 4/12 and 5/21 as the pairs which I think is much better. Each of Robertson and Rego should be paired with a true defensive defenseman so that they can do what they are able to on offense.

[chimpfood]

Anyone have a semi complete list of which old players returned?

I don't remember many of the older guys besides nieuwendyk but I recall Nash, Iles, galajda, both tupkers, McInchak, Song, Muzyka and Locke from the more recent years, though there were many others, probably around 100 alumni in total. It was awesome to see the massive circle of them during the Alma Mater. I didn't realize how much of a Cornell hockey sicko I was until I recognized Peter muzyka in the hallway.

[The Rancor]

Anyone have a semi complete list of which old players returned?

I was wondering this too. Great game, Team. You really delivered for the Faithful, for Coach, and for The Team.

[chimpfood]

Some other general thoughts on the day: I'm really proud of the player that Sullivan Mack has become. He has really impressive speed and finishing and I'm glad that he has finally had a season free from injury, really likable guy. The other two seniors that I am really gonna miss are Oleary and Suda. It's easy to overlook oleary because he is already the fan favorite but it's important to remember why he is. He works his ass off every game and even though it seems detrimental at times (he spends half the game falling over after all) it is the type of effort that makes everyone else on the team want to work harder. Not to mention that he has found his scoring touch a bit this year (but it still seems like he is 0 for 30 on breakaways in his career). Suda has always just been a quiet presence on the team and a defensive rock. But when he gets up with the play on offense it really seems like he belongs and he can skate quite well. I can't really put my finger on it but I've always just liked the guy, him being a fellow upstate New Yorker probably helps.

The Schafer ceremony was really nice. Seeing the huge number of alumni that came was great and Schafer seemed really touched by that. Schafer is all I know behind the bench and what he has done for this program is crazy. I really am going to miss him bad, it just calms my heart to see him behind the bench in a tight game but he deserves his retirement and I hope he lives it up in the warm weather.

Looking ahead, I'm not gonna raise my hopes and I'm still assuming we're not gonna get a bye. We are currently set to play Saint Lawrence in our single home playoff game with the other teams that we are most likely to play being Yale and Princeton. Out of these teams I would most want to play Saint Lawrence, then Yale, then Princeton. Even though we handled Princeton in both games they have some good wins on the season (swept OSU) and it seems like smith can steal a game at any time, even though he has lost the starting role for them for now. We would be set to play colgate in the quarter finals but I honestly like our odds in a three game series as long as we avoid quinnipiac. Then if we can get to placid it's real playoff hockey and seeding means nothing, after all Saint Lawrence made the final last year. Tonight's performance has me believing that we can do this.

[marty]

Kudos to ESPN for showing the postgame ceremonies.

Yes indeed!  I just wish that someone had been able to patch the microphone jack into the audio stream.  That would have been perfect.

https://x.com/ESPNIthaca/status/1893483650022260912

From section L - uploaded and posted from my phone

Part 1

Part 2

[VIEWfromK]

That was a blast.  The students were great all night.  The band played almost non stop.  The result on the ice was appropriate for the occasion.  The post game celebration was very well done.  I don't know when it will set in that he's no longer going to be behind the bench but hopefully they can figure out a way to extend Schafer's career deep into March.  Congratulations Coach!

[jeff '84]

Kudos to ESPN for showing the postgame ceremonies.

Yes indeed!  I just wish that someone had been able to patch the microphone jack into the audio stream.  That would have been perfect.

https://x.com/ESPNIthaca/status/1893483650022260912

From section L - uploaded and posted from my phone

Part 1

Part 2

THANK YOU!

[sah67]

Anyone have a semi complete list of which old players returned?

I'm going roughly off of memory, so I'm sure I'm missed a bunch (or hallucinated a couple), but this is what I recall:

85-86 team:
Joe Nieuwendyk
Pete Natyshak
Duanne Moeser

04-05 team:
Topher Scott
Mike Knoepfli
Dan Pegoraro
Byron Bitz
Chris Abbott
Mitch Carefoot
Ryan O'Byrne
Doug Krantz
Jon Gleed
Mark McCutcheon
David McKee
Ray Sawada mentioned in memoriam

09-10 team:
Blake Gallagher
Colin Greening
Riley Nash
Brendon Nash
Joe Devin
Mike Devin
Nick D'Agostino
Locke Jillson
Justin Krueger
Joe Scali
Patrick Kennedy
Greg Miller
Braden Birch
Ben Scrivens
Matt Hedge
Omar Kanji

19-20 team:
Brenden Locke
Yanni Kaldis
Tristan Mullin
Kyle Betts
Noah Bauld
Sebastian Dirven
Zach Tupker
Ben Tupker
Cody Haiskanen
Peter Muzyka
Matt Galajda
Ryan McInchak
Misha Song


Other players announced to be in attendance:
Teemu Tiitinen
Dan Svoboda
Andy Iles
Michael Kennedy

[sah67]

The team has apparently now set a program record for: "Longest streak of holding a single D1 opponent (SLU) to 2 goals or fewer: 19 games."