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

[Section A]

Which goalie was named to the all-tournament team?

[Al DeFlorio]

Avash '05 wrote:

Which goalie was named to the all-tournament team?

The backup Notre Dame goalie, Morgan Cey, who shut out Maine today.

[Will]

Really love how my OCSN Wireless cell text message phrased today's victory: "CORNELL 4, EVERBLADES CLASSIC 3". :-D

[marty]

Do you mean that the surprise was that TIVO found and recorded the game because you had previously set it to record all Cornell hockey or that the surprise was to see yourself in HD?  I am TIVO-less and don't understand all the options that can be set for recording.



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[schoaff]

Marty'74 wrote:

Do you mean that the surprise was that TIVO found and recorded the game because you had previously set it to record all Cornell hockey or that the surprise was to see yourself in HD?  I am TIVO-less and don't understand all the options that can be set for recording.

Post Edited (12-28-03 22:04)

I have my TIVO set to record any sporting event with Cornell in the title or description. Not a common occurence, but you never know.

The surprise was that it was on my cable system at all. Cox in Gainesville doesn't carry CSTV, but it has a couple HD channels which aren't assigned full time to any station. They just pick up random HD programs and shove them on those channels. I've already written to thank them for picking up the Everblades tourney and asked them to show the Harvard game which CSTV said they were covering as well.

[jy3]

the trophy had ned harkness on it but i am not sure why

[Al DeFlorio]

jy3 wrote:

the trophy had ned harkness on it but i am not sure why

Yes, it was clear on the broadcast that the trophy was named for Ned.  

But I'm a little surprised the announcers, who fussed so much over Everblades' President/GM Craig Brush's being a former Cornell player, etc., never mentioned that the tournament's trophy was named for Brush's coach, who happened to have coached three NCAA championship teams.  Either they're not very observant or they have no sense of college hockey history.

[Greg Berge]

IIRC, it is the Harkness Cup, so named because the tournament founder, Craig Brush, played for Harkness on the 1970 National Champion.

[Greg Berge]

Beat me by 2 seconds, Al.  :-( ;-)

[Al DeFlorio]

bigredapple wrote:

I have to see the replay on the Moulson goal to see how he got set up.  It was a great shot though, from a short angle to the goalie's right.

Moulson's goal came as a result of a truly classic Cornell line shift.  

Vesce started the shift by winning a faceoff to Betz's left with 3:51 left in the second period.  From that point Vesce, Bitz, and Moulson, with help from a pinch by O'Byrne, cycled the puck without losing possession for 51 seconds--the puck going from one sideboard to the other five times--until Moulson finally got possession of it alone behind the net, came out to Betz's right, centered it, then regained possession, waited for Betz to go down, and lifted it over him at the 3:00 mark.

Mike must have loved it.

[Greg Berge]

That was the second holiday tourny championship in the 11 in Mike Schafer's tenure: http://members.cox.net/tbrwmisc/games/cornellHolidayTournies.html



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[Richard \'70]

The Cornell fans were certainly there.  From the News-Press (the local paper) on Saturday's game:

"About 500 Big Red graduates and fans sat behind the visitor's goal and made a considerable ruckus.  'Let's go Red, Let's go Red," the group chanted as the team's lead ballooned."  

The 500 seems an exaggeration (as does the 7,000 Saturday attendance) and, of course, we would have made just as much noise if Cornell was behind.  The PEP BAND WAS BADLY MISSED (hope they get there next year), but we certainly did our best.  They had recordings of each team's fight song, but curiously rather than "Give My Regards to Davy," it was the "New Song."  There were a good number of Maine fans but they were totally silent except when Maine scored.

It was hardly a dominant performance by Cornell, but basically all those near misses against Bowling Green, Ohio State and Marymount earlier in the season went in Estero. So maybe there is justice.  Cornell just doesn't win the battles along the boards as consistently as they did last season --it's been a while since I saw a team cycle the puck against Cornell the way Ohio State did.  Still, two tough wins against good teams.

[Jordan 04]

[q]The PEP BAND WAS BADLY MISSED (hope they get there next year)[/q]

You paying? ;-)

[canucksfan]

[Q] Richard '70 wrote:

Cornell just doesn't win the battles along the boards as consistently as they did last season --it's been a while since I saw a team cycle the puck against Cornell the way Ohio State did. [/Q]
Granted, the team isn't as strong along the boards this year without Baby, Palahicky, et al, but CCHA teams play a more Cornell-like (cycling) style than most other teams Cornell plays against. I think that this style has become prevalent in the CCHA because teams play each other two nights in a row. The thinking is that if you can bruise the other team along the boards the first night, you'll have an easier time the second night.

[Greg Berge]

Marymount?  

Who are the strongest guys along the boards this year?  Bitz?  Hornby?  O'Byrne?



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