Cornell vs Dartmouth 1/25/25

[scoop85]

So Harvard, who looked dead Friday, goes up to Hamilton and hammers Colgate 4-1, a night after Colgate beat Dartmouth.

As bad as last night went and as awful as we looked, we still have plenty to play for. We'll see if the team has the fortitude to figure it out next weekend, albeit with a depleted lineup Friday.

[stereax]

A clip of the fracas filmed by someone in the front row of B that was posted on reddit seems to show DeSantis throwing multiple rabbit punches to the head of a Dartmouth player who had already been wrestled to the ice.

Wouldn't be surprised to see him end up with an additional suspension once the league takes a look.

Here's the video I think Sah is talking about. I got this sent to me this morning, which tells you what you need to know...

[stereax]

So Harvard, who looked dead Friday, goes up to Hamilton and hammers Colgate 4-1, a night after Colgate beat Dartmouth.

As bad as last night went and as awful as we looked, we still have plenty to play for. We'll see if the team has the fortitude to figure it out next weekend, albeit with a depleted lineup Friday.

Game was bad. Agreed. Think the brawl is gonna help morale and remind Cornell they don't play for empty seats like most of the ECAC. Figure it out next weekend, pick up 5 or 6 points, and we're right back in it.

[Snowball]

Fully admit to being a newbie with hockey.  But still.

Anyone want to explain why fighting is ok in hockey but not football, basketball, baseball, soccer?

[Iceberg]

I imagine DeSantis will be suspended the longest out of anybody from what I saw on the video

[ugarte]

Only dropped one spot in pwr.

Irrelevant. We are locked out of an at-large bid.

If we run the table until the conference final, we'd probably get an at-large bid.

if my grandma had wheels...

[George64]

The entire team was garbage, I don't think it's fair to pin it on Shane, especially after a rock solid game vs Harvard.

Agreed, he made some outstanding saves or it could have been worse.  Last year, Shane was the ECAC Ken Dryden Goaltender of the Year, unanimous Ivy League Player of the Year with a 1.69 goals-against average and a .923 save percentage, named semifinalist for 2024 Mike Richter Award, and nominated for the Hobey Baker.  He couldn't have regressed this much, it had to be a team effort.

I'm genuinely puzzled, why has the team so underperformed this season?  Did we expect too much, losing only Seger?

[arugula]

I imagine DeSantis will be suspended the longest out of anybody from what I saw on the video

For sure

[The Rancor]

That may have been the ugliest game I've ever seen us play.  We got no offense going at all.  We couldn't figure out how to get the puck into their zone.  We couldn't win a face off.  And every pass we made ended up on their sticks.  Just fucking horrible.

I left right after the 6th goal.  In 40+ years of watching Cornell Hockey, I've never left before the final horn, but I just couldn't take any more.

Such a disappointment after Friday's game.

A very bad performance all around, although I would say Shane at least gave them a shot.
This Cornell team has some of the WORST passing I've seen. Absolutely no hustle to the puck, just stretching out with a stick instead of skating. No one skating through the body, just poke checking. A dumpster fire of a game. I hope their legs recover before next Friday, because they are going to be doing ladder sprints for a while.

[stereax]

I imagine DeSantis will be suspended the longest out of anybody from what I saw on the video

For sure

If they go off that video. From unofficial reports it sounded like Penney, O'Leary, Stanley were going to catch suspensions.

[stereax]

Fully admit to being a newbie with hockey.  But still.

Anyone want to explain why fighting is ok in hockey but not football, basketball, baseball, soccer?

History, really. Fighting has always been part of hockey, less so with other sports. That being said, fighting is always penalized, and at the NCAA level it's officially not allowed and you get ejected from the game for true fights (as opposed to scrums) and suspended. That also being said, this was after the game ended, so I suspect there is more discretion in how many games to give and who to suspend.

[sah67]

I imagine DeSantis will be suspended the longest out of anybody from what I saw on the video

For sure

If they go off that video. From unofficial reports it sounded like Penney, O'Leary, Stanley were going to catch suspensions.

Well those three got Game DQs so that's an automatic 1-game suspension, but the league can add to that. DeSantis only got a 2 and a 10 from the refs, as I imagine they didn't catch what's visible on the video.

[Iceberg]

I imagine DeSantis will be suspended the longest out of anybody from what I saw on the video

For sure

If they go off that video. From unofficial reports it sounded like Penney, O'Leary, Stanley were going to catch suspensions.

Yeah, definitely those three from what the refs saw and even from the fan video. You bring up an interesting point though on whether the league can rely on fan videos to make disciplinary judgments. They may not be able to, but who knows. The broadcast feed certainly didn't catch DeSantis in his antics. That said, there was a linesman covering the Dartmouth player (#23 Pierce) so I imagine the refs were told about it after the fact.

[Dafatone]

Only dropped one spot in pwr.

Irrelevant. We are locked out of an at-large bid.

If we run the table until the conference final, we'd probably get an at-large bid.

if my grandma had wheels...

We've got 10 games left in the regular season. I bet 7-2-1 puts us in "if you squint there's a chance" territory.

[stereax]

I imagine DeSantis will be suspended the longest out of anybody from what I saw on the video

For sure

If they go off that video. From unofficial reports it sounded like Penney, O'Leary, Stanley were going to catch suspensions.

Yeah, definitely those three from what the refs saw and even from the fan video. You bring up an interesting point though on whether the league can rely on fan videos to make disciplinary judgments. They may not be able to, but who knows. The broadcast feed certainly didn't catch DeSantis in his antics. That said, there was a linesman covering the Dartmouth player (#23 Pierce) so I imagine the refs were told about it after the fact.

That's true - but again, off the unofficial it didn't sound like DeSantis was on the hook, and I assume the linesmen and refs talked within that 30 minutes or so between the time the scrum happened and the time the coaches and I finally headed out.

It'll definiy be interesting to see if fan video can be used as "evidence" though. From my admittedly AWFUL pictures, Catalano looked like he was wailing on a guy too, but I can't tell for shit. I'm sure the NCAA has more angles than we do on the fight though. Wonder when they'll levy the suspensions.