NCAAs quarterfinal Cornell vs. BU

[Snowball]

The postgame press conference has been posted to the Cornell Athletics YouTube page. You can really see how hard Schafer and the players took the loss. Seems they agree with me that this is the most brutal Cornell hockey defeat in decades. It was so tough to watch, I actually had to turn it off.

Did you really need to bring this up again. I think by now everyone knows your opinion and you know some of us disagree.

Anyway I think you're stretching to get someone to agree with you.

I don't think the feelings of 18 to early 20 year olds can determine most brutal in decades, since they have at most (and that's stretching) 2 decades of life experience.

And probably not even 1 decade (likely 1-5 years) of Cornell experience.

I suggest that you let it go.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with having differing opinions.

What is annoying is constantly trying to get others to agree with you.

You have your opinion, I don't agree with you.

That doesn't make you wrong, nor me wrong.

I'm not you and you're not me.

That's life in the big city.

Jim's right of course. But the upside is, if we continue this argument, we might get this thread up to 1000 posts!

[Scersk '97]

Unusual strong disagree on 1997. That NoDak game was close! Were they better than us? Sure. But the only broke it open halfway into the third.

My memories are 25+ years in the bin, but I was there and I remember NoDak controlling play and dominating us from the puck drop.  We never felt in it.  Note they badly outshot us.

We were still close, and anything can happen, but had we somehow won it would have been a steal.

I certainly felt in it when we were only down one at the beginning of the third. My admittedly fuzzy memory recalls an ill-timed penalty that sapped a lot of our energy, or perhaps we had a power play we didn't capitalize on.

But, honestly, who knows? I can't find a "full" box score from that game for the life of me. I know I'm an old man yelling at clouds, but it feels as if the whole history of humanity between the beginning of the internet and the last few years has gone down a rabbit hole. It's becoming harder and harder to find anything useful on Internet 3.0, or whatever we're on at this point.

Everything ever more useless every day. Year One every day for the rest of time.

Try this: ChatGPT | Open AI

Try this!

[adamw]

I didnt really take notes. I could see it live and knew of it happening.

Even Shane was still off it looked.

By overtime it just looked like we were completely gassed and had nothing left in the tank. I was standing there (as I was on the run) watching on my phone like "is Psenicka usually this slow?" A distinct feeling of the magic, so to speak, running dry.

I thought BU looked gassed too, though.  I was shocked when I read about the illness.  I never would have guessed.

Does anyone have the Time On Ice for our players?  By the 3rd period it seemed to me like we were double shifting Bancroft-Walsh-Mack and there were a lot of players that I didn't seem to be seeing as much as usual (perhaps Penney, Kempf, O'Leary -even though he scored, others?)

TOI at the bottom of all of our boxscores.

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/box/final/20250329/bu_/cor/

3 BU players had more TOI than any one Cornell player.

[Scersk '97]

3 BU players had more TOI than any one Cornell player.

How badly TV distorts the game.

[Trotsky]

After the second intermission, it felt to me like Cole Hutson never left the ice.

[sah67]

In tonight's Montreal game, Lane scored a nearly identical goal to Cole's against us. Think the Hutson brothers drill this one a lot? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu03x0AY7kc

[ER]

Wow. What a thing of beauty. And the way he just effortlessly skated past those two defenders. Incredible.

[stereax]

In tonight's Montreal game, Lane scored a nearly identical goal to Cole's against us. Think the Hutson brothers drill this one a lot? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu03x0AY7kc

They're fucking nasty. God damn what a shot.

Relatedly, any way we can poach the tiny brother before he commits to BU? Just for fun.

[ugarte]

In tonight's Montreal game, Lane scored a nearly identical goal to Cole's against us. Think the Hutson brothers drill this one a lot? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu03x0AY7kc

They're fucking nasty. God damn what a shot.

Relatedly, any way we can poach the tiny brother before he commits to BU? Just for fun.

you mean, like, hunt him down?

[stereax]

In tonight's Montreal game, Lane scored a nearly identical goal to Cole's against us. Think the Hutson brothers drill this one a lot? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu03x0AY7kc

They're fucking nasty. God damn what a shot.

Relatedly, any way we can poach the tiny brother before he commits to BU? Just for fun.

you mean, like, hunt him down?

Yoink him before the Terriers remember he exists.

[stereax]

Cleaning up my hockey cards and there's a Lane Hutson. Hrm.

Also, damn, if we beat BU we'd be up against Penn State and then WMU. Just... dang.

[stereax]

THEY JUST HAD TO BRING UP THE FACEMASK PENALTY.

[BearLover]

I think we could have won the national championship this year if a bunch of guys didn't have the flu. Penn State was very winnable and WMU would have been hard, but no worse than 45% IMO. Sad, we were so close. Hopefully Casey has some strategies in mind to improve the program.

[VIEWfromK]

The Walsh face mask penalty was completely bogus

The rule couldn't be more cut and dry.  You can't grab a facemask.  It doesn't matter the scenario that leads up to it.  We learned earlier in the season that it won't be tolerated.  I don't think it's a play that should be an automatic major but it's what the rule book calls for.

[jtwcornell91]

The Walsh face mask penalty was completely bogus

The rule couldn't be more cut and dry.  You can't grab a facemask.  It doesn't matter the scenario that leads up to it.  We learned earlier in the season that it won't be tolerated.  I don't think it's a play that should be an automatic major but it's what the rule book calls for.

I think if they'd called it on the ice they would have given one of the two Terriers double-teaming him a minor, but since it was a replay challenge, they could only assess the major.