western michigan university @ cornell game 1

[Greg Berge]

> One big difference is that we got outshot in this game.

That's not a difference from last year's opener: http://members.cox.net/tbrw/boxScores/box20021101.html

[profudge]

OK  -  Saturday  thoughts on last night -  I agree with most of what has been said although I didn't think Mckee was so bad...  OK a shaky goal #1 on a partial screen  but the defense left him hung out on 2  where we failed to take the body and the WMU player walked in for nice close open shot.     And there was one which hit Ben W.'s stick and deflected fairly drasticly into upper left corner of net couple of inches inside the corner.   So I can't fault him too much -  { ok  Lenny  probably would have won the game for us, but hey the defensive team play was not great (downright poor in much of first 2/3rds of game)  -  I have confidence it will get better! }  

McCutchen - had several really nice offensive plays -  Bitz  looked Good! We didn't seem to quite have our game legs and WMU did...  They hustled and were agressive  and had  more then several forwards with real speed  -   EX.  Didn't see Ryan V.  skating away from the back checkers  - they were consistently catching up to him;   Nothing against Ryan he played a good game minus the early penalty -  

Need to say that Cook and Downs played particularly well and Downs was really showing hustle and smarts as a forward on the penalty kill.
Knoepfli and Moulsen also looked very good - and as always  Abbots and Hornby are always hustling and are FUN to watch!  

It was exciting hockey and I look forward to more tonight - GO BIG RED

[Ken71]

There's a "FREE ARCHIVE" version of the Friday game available at:
http://i2sports.com/premium.html

It's not entirely fair to compare a live streamed event to an archived one, but it shows the views that have been discussed in this thread and gives a decent idea of what the webcast is like.

Ken '71

[DeltaOne81]

Um, I don't get any video... just audio. Is that just the archive? Is it a Mac thing (I didn't get any error)?

[Keith K \'93]

I only caught one period of the WMU feed (the 2nd argh) and I was at work only half listening, so I can't give any personal observations.  But from the comments here, it seems like this game was pretty much what we expected.  Some good play and promising signs from some freshmen.  Shaky defense, esp. the new guys.  Goaltending still a work in progress.  Also, from Schafer's comments it sounds like we ended up playing more WMU's game, which is up-tempo, fast skating, high scoring.  Schafer will try to get the team to play more of a Cornell game: less cheating on offense, more attention to assignments, etc.  This will help the defense.

Disappointing to not win the opener.  But we didn't lose either.  There are good things to take away from the game and the bad stuff wasn't unexpected.  So all in all not a bad way to start the season.  Looking forward to five more months of Cornell hockey.

[Al DeFlorio]

Audio quality is much better on the archived version than it was in real-time last night.  The tying goal is at 2:11:58.  Kind of looks like a WMU player lifted the back of the goal right about the time the puck went in, but you really can't see the puck.

[Al DeFlorio]

Agree with Keith.  It was sort of like watching a game in the Lance Nethery era.  Couldn't blink for fear of missing a goal.

[Greg Berge]

Adam opined that he thought a WMU player was deliberately knocking the net off to stop the play.  When I watched the original feed I couldn't tell.

[atb9]

awesome!  Wow, so cool to watch the game over again.

[jtwcornell91]

Can someone who will be posting to the eLF for the whole game please start a topic for Game Two of the WMU series?  That way that person can change the subject of the post to reflect the current score.

Thanks.

[jeh25]

DeltaOne81 '03 wrote:

Um, I don't get any video... just audio. Is that just the archive? Is it a Mac thing (I didn't get any error)?

That is generally a sign of a missing video codec. Wierd thing is, I have the newest version of WMP for OSX and I had exactly the same problem.  Anyway, I IMd the direct URL to the archive ( http://i2sports.com/events/390/1031.asx ) to my Win2k box and it opened just fine in WMP 7.1.

So yes, in this case, it is a mac thing. Why MS would ship a crippled version of their own product is beyond me...

[jtwcornell91]

John E Hayes '98 '00 wrote:
Why MS would ship a crippled version of their own product is beyond me...

It's called "synergy".

[CowbellGuy]

John T. Whelan '91 wrote:
the team camera tried too hard to follow the puck up close and ended up trailing the action a bit; long shots would be better for following the game, and also better for game film, which is after all what it's there for[/q]

i2sports brought their own camcorders and seemed to recruit Cornell people to man them. Certainly not professionals, so don't expect miracles. Team's still using the same crappy old camera for themselves.

[q]If the second video camera is on the platform next to Section A, does that mean there's no longer handicapped seating there.  That would be kind of a bummer for the local group  that always sits there because they like to be near the band.[/q]

There were some chairs still there, but I never noticed anyone but the camera person up there, though I wasn't paying very close attention during the game.

Interestingly, i2sports has a van with their logo and "I2SPORTS" license plate, apparently trying to put forth a professional image, but can't be bothered to utilize a competent web designer.

[DisplacedCornellian]

and the shots at i2sports continue...lol

[CowbellGuy]

And yet, my shots at i2sports are far more interesting than the assblather you typically put forth.