Game Thread: Cornell 4, OSU 3 (OT) FINAL

[HockeyGUy4]

Overall id like to say thanks to everyone who posted on here during this game and yesterdays game.
Thanks Guys
good job has to go out to Cam and Chris Abbott

[tyler]

how badly can they suck 3-1

[Greg Berge]

Be seeing you all on Jan 9-10; I'm making the flight up.

Combined with Notre Dame and Ohio State both taking out Maine, this should help us out a little in the polls (I know -- who cares) and in the PWR (probably too little too late but again, better than losing ;-)  )

Box for the game: http://members.cox.net/tbrw/boxScores/box20031228.html



Post Edited (12-28-03 18:39)

[tyler]

about the 3-1 JK but it will be soon cause knights can't help us

[A-19]

1 nodak beat unranked findlay, beat unranked wayne state
2 bc beat #8 michigan, beat unranked mich state
3 maine lost to #11 osu, lost to unranked notre dame
4 wisconsin beat unranked union, plays unranked ferris state tonight
5 denver beat unranked niagara, plays unranked nebraska tonight
6 unh beat #13 miami, lost to unranked minnesota
7 colo college idle after losing two games to unranked alaska
8 michigan lost to #2 bc, beat unranked mich tech
9 umass tied #12 brown, plays unranked vermont tonight
10 st cloud beat unranked harvard, plays unranked providence tonight
11 osu beat #3 maine, lost to #15 cornell
12 brown lost to unranked wayne state, "tied" unranked findlay
13 miami beat princeton, lost to #6 unh
14 dartmouth tied #9 umass, beat unranked mankato
15 cu beat unranked nd, beat #11 osu
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"16" harvard lost to #10 st cloud, playing unranked clarkson now
"17" minnesota beat unranked princeton, beat #6 unh
"18" notre dame lost to #15 cu, beat #3 maine



Post Edited (12-28-03 18:55)

[Greg Berge]

From that list I'd say we would jump over Brown and Dartmouth and maybe Miami. So, somewhere between 12 and 13.

[Chris 02]

The Brown consolation game again Findlay is officially a tie, but for the purposes of the tournament, they needed a 3rd place team so a shootout determined the team.

[Mike T. \'06]

...and for us dish-less students

again, many thanks

[Al DeFlorio]

Anyone catch whether the CSTV announcers ever mentioned for whom the championship trophy is named?  And why? ::help::

[ugarte]

The third period was just dominated by OSU.  Cornell was content to just casually clear the puck, but they did a very poor job of it.  They started the period by giving the puck away right in front of McKee three times, but McKee made a great save and OSU just flat missed the net twice.  12 minutes into the period, CU had only one shot.

All that mediocrity paid off when tOSU tied it up after winning the draw after a Cornell icing.  Shortly thereafter, Caponigri committed the boner of the tournament.  He mouthed off after getting called for icing with 5:02 (he thought he was close enough to the red line for government work) and was given a 10 minute misconduct.  He missed the rest of the 3d and all of OT.  Cornell generated one spectacular chance, but Betz saved the game (temporarily) by stoning one of the Abbotts with a little over 2 minutes left.  As the clock ran out Cornell did all it could to give away the game, but a level head by McKee and some good fortune sent the game to OT.

Absolutely the worst period I've seen this team play all year. But then ...

The OT started badly as O'Byrne just handed the puck to tOSU in the slot 10 seconds into the period, but McKee saved O'Byrne's bacon.  Finally the Red got the puck in deep on OSU, Cam tapped it to Chris who fed it to a charging Hornby; Hornby beat Betz to the short side.  A great finish by Hornby, and a great play by the line.
I told you that the AHA line would generate a chance. See, First Period Recap. ;-)

General impressions.  Great games from Iggy, Knoepfli and the AHA line.  

It is tough to give defensive grades because there was so much sloppy D.  O'Byrne may be big and strong, but his skating and stickwork is often oafish and he can get buffaloed by little guys.  He may be a future-Baby, but he isn't a present-Baby.  Moulson had a great goal, but I can't really describe the play because it developed so quickly and the replay by CSTV was awful (it was cut tight; all they showed was the shot).

McKee came up big when he had to, and only the third tOSU goal can really be pinned on him.

Caponigri can flat play.  I hate him almost as much as Kolarik. Revenge is sweet. Down go the Buckeyes.  

And the curse is off the Bell jersey.  LET'S GO RED!!!

P.S. Starman sounds exactly like JD.



Post Edited (12-28-03 19:07)

[jy3]

so i have to say that the cstv hd broadcast was sweet. what a nice surprise to discover friday that the games would be on. cornell had their moments today and pulled out a tough win but betz was amazing and made two unbelievable saves else cornell would have had more goals. great win to avenge the loss earlier in the season.

[schoaff]

jy3 wrote:

so i have to say that the cstv hd broadcast was sweet.

That was a nice surprise. I got home from the game Saturday night to discover TIVO had recorded it for me and I got to see myself cheering the 4th Cornell goal.

:-}

[Jordan 04]

[q]Anyone catch whether the CSTV announcers ever mentioned for whom the championship trophy is named? And why? [/q]

I don't believe they did.

[Chris 02]

I vaguely recall seeing the trophy in some quick shots at the end of the HDTV broadcast and it might have had Ned Harkness's name on it...

[Jordan 04]

Yes.  They certainly showed it on a number of occasions.  I don't ever recall any explanation behind the name though.