Game Thread: Cornell 4, Notre Dame 0 (FINAL)

[atb9]

It's the first time Cornell has advanced to the Championship of "their own tournament"...Cornells first power play really changed the momentum of the first period after ND came out quickly.  ND dominated most of the 2nd period, 14-7 on shots in favor of ND during the period, but Cornell was able to hold off ND and increase the lead to 2.  Cornell was the "quick strike" team tonight.  Knoepfli's "bolt of lightning" was a very impressive goal and McKee made a sick save when he dove head first to block an open side of the net.  After the 4 goal lead, Schafer gave some of the guys that are lower on the depth chart more playing time instead of pressing for Knoepfli's hat trick.

Three stars of the game...coming up

[atb9]

night!  Thanks for hanging out and chatting!

[atb9]

Tony's Three stars

3. Pegeraro
2. Knoepfli
1. McKee, shutout and quality saves in the second and third periods

[Section A]

Thanks everyone for the game updates :-)

Until tomorrow....

[atb9]

yup, I'm out too! Great win even if the score doesn't necessarily convey the flow of the game!

[atb9]

Pregame is at 4:00pm and the puck drops at 4:30

[HOTELCALIFORNIA]

wow for some reason i thought the game was on at 7 and i MISSED it.. oh well, thanks for the updates and WE WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[HOTELCALIFORNIA]

Who are we playing tomorrow? I confused myself

[CowbellGuy]

Adam Brown wrote:
It's the first time Cornell has advanced to the Championship of "their own tournament"

Nope. They beat OSU and lost to Maine in the championship game in the first year of the tourney.

[Rich H \'96]

HC: We play the winner of the 7:30 OSU-Maine game.  We should know our opponent in a couple of hours.

[cbuckser]

[Q]Adam Brown wrote:
After the 4 goal lead, Schafer gave some of the guys that are lower on the depth chart more playing time instead of pressing for Knoepfli's hat trick.[/Q]
It was great to see Knoepfli, Carefoot, and McCutcheon play forward for a shift during the last power play.  I thought it was a nice combination of giving fourth-line freshman power-play time and giving Mike Knoepfli an opportunity to score his third goal.  Also, Evan Salmela played with Ben Wallace on that shift.

Knoepfli had a great chance for a hat trick earlier in the period, but Scott Brown stopped his shot from the slot.

Other than the first 16 or so minutes of the second period, Cornell played great hockey.  Let's hope the third-period comeback against Brown proves to be the turning point of the season.



Post Edited (12-28-03 01:13)

[French Rage]

OSU up 2-0 in 2nd, Maine playing very poorly.

[ugarte]

I can't believe it. I thought we were the late game. :-( I have nobody to blame but myself, I guess.

Are we DEFINITELY the early game tomorrow?

Big win. We needed to slap around an OOC team. Congrats to the guys.

[dss28]

According to uscho, the game is at 430.

[Al DeFlorio]

dss28 wrote:

According to uscho, the game is at 430.

The consolation game is at 1pm EST followed by the championship game--supposedly at 4:30.