Cornell 2 Dartmouth 1 (OT), 1/23/26

[Trotsky]

the puck left Majors stick about 2 ft behind the line. major was about 6 ft behind the line

Yeah, it was pretty clear to me in real time that he hadn't gained the line on the broadcast, and I'm a notorious homer on calls like that.

I am a notorious catastrophist (thanks, Mets), and I was surprised we were arguing so vehemently.

[RichH]

Speaking of icings.  That had to be the most Cornell has been forced into this season.  They really struggled to get the puck out of their zone, then through the neutral zone and then into the zone. 

I think I can safely say this now.

Casey had said at the luncheon that Dartmouth was very good between the blue lines and that he didn't want to play there. All the icings were a result of the game plan to not play to Dartmouth's strength.

I could tell there were several purposeful attempts to loft the puck softly over the neutral zone in the 3rd to avoid the icing call, but a couple of those were still too hard or the puck landed on edge and rolled.

[RichH]

Speaking of Major's stick, the all-white tape job looks ghostly cool from ice-level, but damn if it doesn't completely vanish on tv when it's in front of white ice. It looks like he's pretending to hold a stick - I can't even see the blade.

Also, some of the ice looked purple on the video. (Circle in front of E and part of the neutral zone). Lynah lighting weirdsies + digital camera effects?

[VIEWfromK]

Speaking of Major's stick, the all-white tape job looks ghostly cool from ice-level, but damn if it doesn't completely vanish on tv when it's in front of white ice. It looks like he's pretending to hold a stick - I can't even see the blade.

It's an actual white stick.  Same goes for Fegaras.  Major only tapes the handle and the toe of the blade.  About two inches maybe.  One of the more bizarre tape jobs that I recall seeing.

[sah67]

Speaking of Major's stick, the all-white tape job looks ghostly cool from ice-level, but damn if it doesn't completely vanish on tv when it's in front of white ice. It looks like he's pretending to hold a stick - I can't even see the blade.

It's an actual white stick.  Same goes for Fegaras.  Major only tapes the handle and the toe of the blade.  About two inches maybe.  One of the more bizarre tape jobs that I recall seeing.

For a couple of the games during winter break, Major played with a "normal" stick during the first period and then switched to the "ghost stick" for the 2nd and 3rd, but now he's back to using it full-time (maybe a superstition?)

[stereax]

Speaking of Major's stick, the all-white tape job looks ghostly cool from ice-level, but damn if it doesn't completely vanish on tv when it's in front of white ice. It looks like he's pretending to hold a stick - I can't even see the blade.

Also, some of the ice looked purple on the video. (Circle in front of E and part of the neutral zone). Lynah lighting weirdsies + digital camera effects?

It's not purple irl.

Also, yeah, the Major and Fegaras white sticks are crazy cool, imo. I can see what a pain it would be on the TV though 😅

[VIEWfromK]

Viellux ripping off three straight shots on goal was unreal

That was a brilliant effort by him. I am interested to see how close to his offensive ceiling he can get to within our system

[VIEWfromK]

I forgot about this the other day but being back last night reminded me of it.

On one of the many icings Friday, O'Brien was the one who sent the puck down and went for a change.  He was replaced by Veilleux who jumped on the ice and immediately hunched over and pretended to be out of breath.  The ref or linesman was right there so it didn't work.  I'm sure it happens all the time but in all of my hockey watching I don't recall seeing that trick attempted before.