Cornell @ Umass 10/31

[Trotsky]

Jane's take on the game

I like it when you can tell articles are written by people who actually care about the team and know the sport.

Jane is a pleasure to read.  If there has ever been a genuinely great hockey writer I haven't read them.  (To be fair, there have only ever been like 3 great sports writers of any type, and one was Hemingway who more than ruined it in other ways.)  Jane is original and interesting and singularly for the genre she avoids all the smothering derp (lookin at you Bob Ryan) the craft inevitably leans on even if your name is Red Smith.  I'd hope she goes pro but TBH I hope she has a better life than that.

[andyw2100]

Jane's take on the game

I too think McNally does a great job. But I believe she get this totally wrong:

"The lethal Massachusetts power play — ranking top-10 in the country and operating at a 26.9 percent clip — made no mistakes. A point shot by the Minutemen was deflected just over the shoulder of senior goaltender Remington Keopple to give Massachusetts an early 1-0 lead just 1:43 into the game."

I haven't gone back to watch the replay, but my recollection is that Koepple blocked the initial shot, leaving a rebound that was roofed over his shoulder from almost no angle.

Edit: Looks like I also didn't have it quite right, but more right than McNally. From the recap on the Cornell site:

"UMass (6-2-0) had set the tone from the opening faceoff, drawing a penalty just 13 seconds into the game. The Minutemen capitalized immediately when Larry Keenan's shot from the point deflected off junior defenseman Hoyt Stanley's left skate, allowing Lukáš Klečka to roof a backhanded shot at the left post at 1:43."

[arugula]

Jane's take on the game

I too think McNally does a great job. But I believe she get this totally wrong:

"The lethal Massachusetts power play — ranking top-10 in the country and operating at a 26.9 percent clip — made no mistakes. A point shot by the Minutemen was deflected just over the shoulder of senior goaltender Remington Keopple to give Massachusetts an early 1-0 lead just 1:43 into the game."

I haven't gone back to watch the replay, but my recollection is that Koepple blocked the initial shot, leaving a rebound that was roofed over his shoulder from almost no angle.

Edit: Looks like I also didn't have it quite right, but more right than McNally. From the recap on the Cornell site:

"UMass (6-2-0) had set the tone from the opening faceoff, drawing a penalty just 13 seconds into the game. The Minutemen capitalized immediately when Larry Keenan's shot from the point deflected off junior defenseman Hoyt Stanley's left skate, allowing Lukáš Klečka to roof a backhanded shot at the left post at 1:43."

You are correct sir. If I recall, backhand roof. Deadly shot. Hard to blame RK.

[upprdeck]

huge stretch of the game they dominated in a large way.  have to not miss on the PP when they had good setups.  Once they got PP in the zone it moved the puck well.

SHowed some grit.  some speed, got into good shooting areas a ton.

Really solid first game other than the score, which is hockey most of the time

[VIEWfromK]

It could have been from having to kill a penalty to start the game but I thought they were running around a lot of the first period before settling things down. That's a pattern a lot like some of the better teams of the early 2000s.  Survive the first and then get to work.  They were hitting everything in site.  They were looking to shoot first in most cases.  I too wish there had been a replay of the Charlie Major steal and chance.  Again he had no room to make a play yet he made a play.  I'd like the three on one back.  By the time Ryan got the pass back there wasn't much room to shoot.  On the winning goal Cornell won the face-off and Kraft had it on his stick but didn't get enough on the backhand clearing attempt.  I wish he had skated to some open ice before trying to get rid of it instead of being hasty in that crowd.  Of course that's just hindsight.  That was a very well played game.  They are laying a nice foundation for a young team.

I don't see the games on TV like I do in the stands but I really only noticed Walsh during that second period power play where they worked it down to him a couple of times.  I know he was out there for faceoffs but did he have the puck on his stick much the rest of the game?

[andyw2100]

I too wish there had been a replay of the Charlie Major steal and chance.

The announcers said that the refs did review the play after the period ended, since it was the next stoppage, and that the no-goal call was correct.

[scoop85]

It could have been from having to kill a penalty to start the game but I thought they were running around a lot of the first period before settling things down. That's a pattern a lot like some of the better teams of the early 2000s.  Survive the first and then get to work.  They were hitting everything in site.  They were looking to shoot first in most cases.  I too wish there had been a replay of the Charlie Major steal and chance.  Again he had no room to make a play yet he made a play.  I'd like the three on one back.  By the time Ryan got the pass back there wasn't much room to shoot.  On the winning goal Cornell won the face-off and Kraft had it on his stick but didn't get enough on the backhand clearing attempt.  I wish he had skated to some open ice before trying to get rid of it instead of being hasty in that crowd.  Of course that's just hindsight.  That was a very well played game.  They are laying a nice foundation for a young team.

I don't see the games on TV like I do in the stands but I really only noticed Walsh during that second period power play where they worked it down to him a couple of times.  I know he was out there for faceoffs but did he have the puck on his stick much the rest of the game?

One aspect we didn't handle well was managing our odd man rushes, particularly the 3 on 1 you mentioned.

[marty]

It could have been from having to kill a penalty to start the game but I thought they were running around a lot of the first period before settling things down. That's a pattern a lot like some of the better teams of the early 2000s.  Survive the first and then get to work.  They were hitting everything in site.  They were looking to shoot first in most cases.  I too wish there had been a replay of the Charlie Major steal and chance.  Again he had no room to make a play yet he made a play.  I'd like the three on one back.  By the time Ryan got the pass back there wasn't much room to shoot.  On the winning goal Cornell won the face-off and Kraft had it on his stick but didn't get enough on the backhand clearing attempt.  I wish he had skated to some open ice before trying to get rid of it instead of being hasty in that crowd.  Of course that's just hindsight.  That was a very well played game.  They are laying a nice foundation for a young team.

I don't see the games on TV like I do in the stands but I really only noticed Walsh during that second period power play where they worked it down to him a couple of times.  I know he was out there for faceoffs but did he have the puck on his stick much the rest of the game?

One aspect we didn't handle well was managing our odd man rushes, particularly the 3 on 1 you mentioned.

Agreed but the overall domination for most of the game 5 x 5 in the first game of the season seemed more offensively aggressive than when we've shocked our out of conference opponents in past years. The D was solid but the offense seemed a bit more creative.

But then again this could be my ancient brain and an early season PollyAnna fog.

[abmarks]

What is the collective noun for puck bunnies?  A colony?  Centerfold?  Felony? There is a fine instance behind the UMass net.

I used to play in a men's hockey league with a guy who was a CC alum.  Seems his crowd at CC collectively referred to "puck muff".

Feels like that would work both as singular or plural.

[Trotsky]

It could have been from having to kill a penalty to start the game but I thought they were running around a lot of the first period before settling things down. That's a pattern a lot like some of the better teams of the early 2000s.  Survive the first and then get to work.  They were hitting everything in site.  They were looking to shoot first in most cases.  I too wish there had been a replay of the Charlie Major steal and chance.  Again he had no room to make a play yet he made a play.  I'd like the three on one back.  By the time Ryan got the pass back there wasn't much room to shoot.  On the winning goal Cornell won the face-off and Kraft had it on his stick but didn't get enough on the backhand clearing attempt.  I wish he had skated to some open ice before trying to get rid of it instead of being hasty in that crowd.  Of course that's just hindsight.  That was a very well played game.  They are laying a nice foundation for a young team.

I don't see the games on TV like I do in the stands but I really only noticed Walsh during that second period power play where they worked it down to him a couple of times.  I know he was out there for faceoffs but did he have the puck on his stick much the rest of the game?

One aspect we didn't handle well was managing our odd man rushes, particularly the 3 on 1 you mentioned.

Agreed but the overall domination for most of the game 5 x 5 in the first game of the season seemed more offensively aggressive than when we've shocked our out of conference opponents in past years. The D was solid but the offense seemed a bit more creative.

But then again this could be my ancient brain and an early season PollyAnna fog.

If so it's a folie à deux.

[Trotsky]

What is the collective noun for puck bunnies?  A colony?  Centerfold?  Felony? There is a fine instance behind the UMass net.

I used to play in a men's hockey league with a guy who was a CC alum.  Seems his crowd at CC collectively referred to "puck muff".

Feels like that would work both as singular or plural.

Careful.  ugarte is taking names and there will come a reckoning once he convenes his tribunal. 

[abmarks]

What is the collective noun for puck bunnies?  A colony?  Centerfold?  Felony? There is a fine instance behind the UMass net.

I used to play in a men's hockey league with a guy who was a CC alum.  Seems his crowd at CC collectively referred to "puck muff".

Feels like that would work both as singular or plural.

Careful.  ugarte is taking names and there will come a reckoning once he convenes his tribunal. 

I merely report the phrase and it's grammarly place.

[ugarte]

What is the collective noun for puck bunnies?  A colony?  Centerfold?  Felony? There is a fine instance behind the UMass net.

I used to play in a men's hockey league with a guy who was a CC alum.  Seems his crowd at CC collectively referred to "puck muff".

Feels like that would work both as singular or plural.

Careful.  ugarte is taking names and there will come a reckoning once he convenes his tribunal. 

you are a dinosaur. at least be funny once while giving your opinion of every woman who happens to cross your path. I thought i gave you a break about getting horny over a black and white photo that you looked at with a jeweler's loupe until you felt a shift.

you think you're cool as a feminist because you support progressive policy but god damn if you have to act normal around women just once you freak out.

[Trotsky]

What is the collective noun for puck bunnies?  A colony?  Centerfold?  Felony? There is a fine instance behind the UMass net.

I used to play in a men's hockey league with a guy who was a CC alum.  Seems his crowd at CC collectively referred to "puck muff".

Feels like that would work both as singular or plural.

Careful.  ugarte is taking names and there will come a reckoning once he convenes his tribunal. 

you are a dinosaur. at least be funny once while giving your opinion of every woman who happens to cross your path. I thought i gave you a break about getting horny over a black and white photo that you looked at with a jeweler's loupe until you felt a shift.

you think you're cool as a feminist because you support progressive policy but god damn if you have to act normal around women just once you freak out.

I'm sure it will all be in your brief.

Many of us have read more than one book and taken more than one sophomore class.  The twin idiocies of the thesis and antithesis of the last hundred years, split neatly into 50-year slices, are caving into the next synthesis, which neither of us will understand or accept.  That's good.  It's why we die.

You aren't the end of history.  You're a mildly clever, highly rewarded boy who, thinking he has The Golden Key, is now feverishly with furrowed brow of rebuke explaining it to somebody who was present when your script was written.  That is embarrassing for one of us, you are right about that.

Another knight riding to the rescue.  The original problem, set on its head.  Since you missed the memo, it wasn't about sniveling crouching anti-crudity, it was about equal expressive agency! 

And you, supposedly a comedian, don't even sniff the irony?  Not auspicious for the career.

Also.  3 was cute.  Very, very cute.  Seizure pills in the top cabinet behind the vial marked "Bergeron, Harrison."

Now be joyful, motherfucker, we won and just for you nobody said "tits" for a full five minutes.

[ugarte]

you think it's because you're crude but it's because you're crude without sniffing clever. I've laughed at more offensive things than you could possibly imagine. I've told more superficially  offensive jokes than you would attempt. there's no payoff to you constantly indulging your id because every single time *the whole joke* is the transgression.

your rationale for constantly yammering about ugly coeds and Asian engineers and wolf-whistling because you lack any internal social regulator is nonsense no matter how many better writers you quote without comprehension.