Union - 1 vs Cornell - 1 Final (ot)

[ugarte]

OK, I'm getting tired of this.  IN the net guys; put the puck IN the net.

McKee, on the other hand, continues to put up great numbers



Post Edited (01-17-04 12:40)

[Greg Berge]

But you put the puck "on net" to get it "in the net."  That's the patois.

[profudge]

Jim and Greg -  

Sitting in N  the waved off goal was because we had bodies in the crease; (Hynes) -  crowd's reaction because of the bit late on the wave off it looked like the wave off was 'cause net was off -  but puck had crossed line just prior to net getting knocked off.    A very close and I think correct call.    

We were slow getting our legs moving in first two periods.  Paul V.  did hit hard,   but took two penalties that slowed down any momentum we had.   Team was not clicking on passes and several times under trap pressure big red iced puck or just flipped it up boards without looking and in at least three cases I can think of gave it to UC...   We were lucky they also failed to find the handle a couple of times.      Union team played hard and disciplined and cut off our passing lanes well on the trap and we didn't seem to adjust well.  

We did control the puck and cycled well  many times  once in the offensive zone - we just didn't get the puck in the net.   The Abbott/Abbott/Hornby line as usual semmed to have the most energy.    Our power play  had a couple of close opportunities in first period but we still don't seem to move the puck quickly and w/ authority.   Evan S. has a quick release and tends to keep his power play point shots low enough to give good re-direct opportunites.

Also noticed that  their capt. #19 and strong sophmore center #24 were winning alot of faceoffs...   And Ryan was waved out multiple times in first half of game....    

Here's hoping we come out flying tonight as RPI will be I'm sure after the loss to Colgate.    Go BIG Red!!

[Will]

Lou Heavenrich wrote:

Sitting in N  the waved off goal was because we had bodies in the crease; (Hynes) -  crowd's reaction because of the bit late on the wave off it looked like the wave off was 'cause net was off -  but puck had crossed line just prior to net getting knocked off.    A very close and I think correct call.    

Thanks for the info! :-)

Paul V.  did hit hard,   but took two penalties that slowed down any momentum we had.

For the record, Varteressian only took one penalty in this game, for charging.  The other two Cornell penalties were Glover for interference and Cam Abbott for contact to the head-elbowing.  (That last one I didn't see, and in retrospect, I wonder how the heck it could have happened.)  All of these penalties occurred in the second period.

[Pete]

Here's Schafer's opinion of the waved off goal from the Ithaca Journal http://www.ithacajournal.com/news/stories/20040117/localsports/243945.htmll:

"It was no question a goal," Schafer said. "We watched the video after the game. And Mitch Carefoot was covered by a defenseman, drives him into the goal crease. I have no idea what the official was looking at."



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[Al DeFlorio]

One of the guys who got revenge on Volonnino wrote:

For the record, Varteressian only took one penalty in this game, for charging.

Adam and his sidekick (whose name I can never remember) felt it was an OK hit.  Always hard to tell what really happened on the internet video broadcast.

[O.S.B.]

Just like to say that Union had a really good trap going

[Greg Berge]

In one of the great ironic moments, McLeod is playing his debut college game tonight. :-P

[Al DeFlorio]

Greg Berge '85 wrote:

In one of the great ironic moments, McLeod is playing his debut college game tonight. :-P

Against Union? ::help::

[da Gerbs 04]

"Even the band was not up to speed. There were many breaks where they just did nothing. Somehow they have to get it together and get the rest of the crowd going. At the end it was so bad that I actually started yelling "Townies up"."

There were several reasons for there being empty breaks:

1.  There were at least two breaks where there should have been annoucements (hence the band is not supposed to play), but somehow those announcements got delayed.  Also, there seemed to be fewer announcements in general last night.

2.  There was no opposing band, and hence our band is required to play twice as much.  The conductor tries to balance the amount of music without repeating the same cheers over and over.

3.  Conductors are switched every semeseter and this was the first home game for the new conductors (i.e. me).  I, along with the other conductor, am just getting used to the differences between playing with other bands and playing with no opposing bands.  

I assure you that I, like most of the fans, love it when the band plays, so I'll try and make sure the band plays more in the future.

[Will]

da Gerbs 04, for what it's worth, I think you guys did a good job. :-)