Cornell vs Mercyhurst

[French Rage #2]

CU goal, 12:17, Cam Abbott from Wallace and Hornby

[ugarte]

one minute remaining. 3-2 Cornell.

[fcvzxcvzxc]

:48 left, empty net

[ugarte]

Mercyhurst scores 6x5 with 5 seconds left.

[French Rage #2]

ties with 6 seconds left...

[captain al]

so I hear they switched up the defense pairings: cook w/ glover, downs with gleed was it?. ...... how did this seem to work out?

[ugarte]

Game over. 3-3.

[ugarte]

Gleed was an offensive force.  Looked great.   We should have won this game.

[Josh '99]

captain al wrote:
so I hear they switched up the defense pairings: cook w/ glover, downs with gleed was it?. ...... how did this seem to work out?

If that's what they did, it certainly seemed to work for Gleed.  He was all over the place tonight.

[HOTELCALIFORNIA]

HOTELCALIFORNIA's thoughts on game:::

*Shooting was better... the first period was awesome!! McKee was looking great (except for that one flub, which was no goal, thank god!!), and we were really takeing lots of shots.. which is verrrryyy good to see after our little shooting drought (well, it was pretty bad...). We played really hard the first period and I was almost certain that this was gonna be our game... but things changed...

*The reffs were absolutly terrible!!!!!! People in my section were so fired up. Many things were not called (like a penalty that should have been called on Cornell late in the third, in the Mercyhurst zone). And that goal in overtime... CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHY THAT WAS NOT A GOAL?!?!?!?!?!?!! :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-(  It looked like one of our players was partially in the net, but when I looked closely, we weren't at all. This call really pissed me off...

*I'll give McKee a tiny bit of credit.. but then again, he really did not do well in this game. First of all, how in the world could ANYONE let in a puck with FIVE SECONDS LEFT??!!! What could have possibly so tough that you spaz and ruin the whole game?!! I mean.... FIVE SECONDS!!! I still can't get over that. And second of all... McKee let in 3 goals.. that was, what, every four goals?? Maybe it wasn't that bad.. but I'm still trying to figure out these statistics. And... MARR WAS DRESSED!!!!!!! And then why Schaefer didn't play Marr in overtime is still beyond me... not like it'd matter any.... but still.

*Mercyhurst's goalie was terrible. Many times he just got plain lucky. He was very slooooooow and seemed to favor the "roll over and slide" technique.

*Mercyhurst's solid green jerseys were so obnoxious that compared with all the screaming I did, I needed to down a couple of Advil as soon as I got home.

*And I'll ask one more time... what has happend to Cornell?? We went from a star team last year (that messed up their last game) to... straight ties and losses?? I'm wondering if maybe there's a leadership problem out there?? Thoughts on this??



ALLLLLLLLLLrighty,,, I'm done:-)

[canucksfan]

[Q]...how in the world could ANYONE let in a puck with FIVE SECONDS LEFT??!!! What could have possibly so tough that you spaz and ruin the whole game?!! [/Q]

HOTELCALIFORNIA, are you a moron? (Don't answer that, anyone who uses this forum already knows the answer.)

McKee made two fine saves before the third effort was poked in. You can't expect a goalie to pull off a triple save sequence too often. I also should remind you that it was 6 on 5.

[canucksfan]

And however badly you think the Mercyhurst goalie played, its an insult to our players, not him, to imply that we only went 3 for 50 on a bad goalie. Anyone who gets as "lucky" as him 47 times out of 50 should be in Vegas, not Mercyhurst.

[canucksfan]

And finally (in my point-by-point breakdown of your idiotic rant), you seem to have missed the fundamental difference between this year's and last year's team. No, there is no leadership problem. The Big Red lost a phenomenal senior class last year. Bâby, Murray, Paolini, McRae, McRae, Bell, Palahicky...they were all linchpins of the team, not to mention a Hobey Baker-caliber goalie named David LeNeveu who signed with Phoenix. This is a young team with a lot of new defensemen, so there were bound to be issues early in the season. Don't trash Vesce, Wallace or Schafer's leadership abilities because you don't like what you see. I, too, want them to win, but if all you care about is results, go find a new team and stop provoking the sane members of the Faithful with your stupid chatter.


And your sophomoric use of punctuation.

[Pete]

[Q]And I'll ask one more time... what has happend to Cornell?? We went from a star team last year (that messed up their last game) to... straight ties and losses??[/Q]

I think a couple of close losses and some ties are what everybody expected coming into this season.  We have a lot of young players, they're going to make some mistakes.  If you thought that Cornell was going to pick up again right where it left off last season, you had to of been kidding yourself.  Anytime a program graduates as many great seniors as Cornell did, there's going to be some growing pains.   It doesn't mean we're "doomed" or that Cornell is never going to be a hockey powerhouse.
It simply means that we won't be the Champions of November Hockey this year.  And you know what? Who cares?  
   This is a team that is working its ass off, getting better and learning.  Yeah, it's great to win every game, but November games don't mean crap.  (Just ask Minnesota)

[Greg Berge]

Franck did not have good stats entering the game, but he made several great saves tonight, including one that Adam called "the save of the last two years" (i.e., including Lenny), and watching on i2 I agree it was amazing.

But here's the thing -- this is the kind of game Cornell absolutely has to win if they ever do it in league play.  Hard to believe they outplayed Yale any more than they outplayed Mercyhurst tonight, and they rolled up a 6-2 win in that game.  They could easily have won 5-2 or so tonight, but as with the last previous four games the finishes just were not there.  They need to fix that, and they have 6 days and counting.

BTW, what's with Schafer's hand?  It was in a very large bandage.



Post Edited (11-29-03 23:34)