RPI 0 vs Cornell 0

[Greg Berge]

2:17 to go, Schafer calls timeout.  Cornell will play without the goalie.

[ugarte]

Pulling McKee with 2:17 left.  Better win the faceoff.

[ugarte]

Another quick whistle takes a pp goal away from Cornell.

[ugarte]

Horrible, horrible performance.  Lackluster and sloppy.

[ursusminor]

Just curious. When was the last time that someone shut out Cornell at home?

[Greg Berge]

To quote "A Fish Called Wanda," disappointed!

Not sure what else can be added to the combined weight of 125 frustrating minutes.  The wet blanket of Brown and Union's traps disappeared, but the Red continued to play as if covered by it.

It's going to be an unpleasant week at practice.

[Al DeFlorio]

Pretty much a lost weekend, sad to say.  This did not look like the same team we saw at Harvard.  One wonders what's going on.  We've got to find scoring from somewhere other than Moulson, who has nine of our forwards' 31 even-strength goals.

Can't take away from how both Union and Rensselaer played us.  Kudos to them.

[Greg Berge]

2/28/98: Union 1 Cornell 0, at Lynah.

[ursusminor]

Greg Berge '85 wrote:

2/28/98: Union 1 Cornell 0, at Lynah.

I remember that. Thanks.

[Mika Hand]

we lost!:`(
We need to win! ::help::  ::screwy:: :-P

[min]

this is also the third home weekend in which cornell ties on friday and then loses on saturday (exception: the brown/harvard weekend).

[Al DeFlorio]

Can we ask to play Harvard again?

[Will]

What's more startling is that of our six ties, five came on Fridays and the sixth was against Mercyhurst, who we played alone on Thanksgiving weekend.

[Will]

My thoughts on the game:

- bigredapple summed it up right--"lackluster and sloppy" pretty much described Cornell start to finish.  I don't know what happened tonight.  I have some guesses, though (see below).
- RPI didn't do much better for the first period, but for the second and third periods, we got to see the team that swept St. Cloud.  They played a physical game that really wore Cornell down, and it showed by the end of the game.
- McLeod got his first NCAA gametime, but I wasn't terribly impressed by him.  I can see why he's been benched until now.
- The defense tried hard, but when it was 5 on 3, there was only so much they could do.  Unfortunately, McKee got hung out to dry at that point.  Nevertheless, I thought McKee was mostly solid for the duration of the game.
- I have to wonder, with both Wallace and Pegoraro out, if this breakdown this weekend can be attributed to the shuffling of the lines.
- For as poorly as I thought Cornell did overall, some of the blame should go to Dupree.  For a ref, he did a horrible job.  The last penalty against Hornby for hitting after the whistle after the game was already over just seemed to be done out of spite.  The assistants weren't much better, though; there seemed to be a lot of undue offsides calls made against Cornell towards the end of the game.
- To quote a guy who parked in the pay lot next to Bartels, some "fuckin' asshole" wrote "RPI" in the snow on several cars' windows.  Now I feel the need to go to the game in Troy and be as loud and obnoxious as possible.

[David Harding \'72]

Was the crowd any bigger or louder than Friday night?  The band?