Game thread: Cornell 2 Yale 1 FINAL

[Section A]

So the results of the top 15 from this week:

Team        (First Place)    Record  Pts   
 1 Boston College       (36)    20-3-4  596     W, W, W (BU, Mass x2)    
 2 North Dakota          (4)    19-5-3  544     L, W (Colorado College)     
 3 Maine                        20-6-2  504     W, T (Northeastern)     
 4 Minnesota                    18-9-3  465     L, L (UMD)     
 5 Michigan                     19-8-1  414     W, W (Miami)     
 6 Minnesota-Duluth             18-8-3  400     W, W (Minnesota)     
 7 Wisconsin                    17-9-6  376     idle     
 8 Miami                        18-9-3  313     L, L (Michigan)     
 9 St. Cloud State              16-9-3  274     W, W (Bemidji State)
10 New Hampshire               16-10-3  190     T, T (Mass-Lowell)  
11 Brown                        14-5-4  185     T, L (Union, RPI)    
12 Denver                      16-10-4  170     W, W (Mankato)
13 Massachusetts                16-6-5  144     L, L (Boston College)
14 Ohio State                  17-13-0   71     W, W (Nebraska-Omaha)
15 Colgate                      15-8-5   55     L, W (Yale, Princeton)



(EDIT: Changed Colgate from W, W to L, W)



Post Edited (02-15-04 01:19)

[Jim Hyla]

Colgate lost to Yale.

[adamw]

FYI ... Dwyer didn't cough the puck up the middle. ... He coughed it up to Carefoot, who put it in the middle.  I think.  I could be wrong.  ... Then ... Carefoot says it wasn't intentional to bank it off the pads.  Was trying to get it to Knoepfli in front.

Finally ... Downs was our No. 2 star.  Hynes No. 3.  Carefoot No. 1.

[rhovorka]

[Q]Carefoot immediately banked it off the back of Gartner's pad from behind the goal line. I'm not sure if it was intentional (no replay) but I'd say it probably was. [/Q]
From Adam W's USCHO recap: http://www.uscho.com/recaps/20032004/m/02/14/yu-cor.php

[Q]"I knew Knoepfli would be going to the net hard, so I just tried to get out to him and get a break," Carefoot said.[/Q]
Sounds like an attempted pass that Gartner happened to get in the way of.  :-)

Coach Taylor said: "...the goal we allowed was a stinker. We gave it away. And I don't think Josh played it very well."
Basically saying that it was indeed all his fault! :-D

Besides Mike Schafer and Joe Marsh, there's no coach in the league that I respect more than Tim Taylor (I reserve judgement on Clarkson's George Roll until he gets a few years experience).  He runs a program as it ought to be run, and this Yale team has come a LONG way since the 6-2 game we saw in November.  However, it has been a very strange season overall for Yale.  They remain atop the league in team offense by a healthy margin, yet are dead last in team defense.  They've been outscored by 10 goals in-league, yet still had a chance to overtake the Red in the standings tonight.  I just feel that it's a pretty deceptive 20 points they've earned, and I can't really put my finger on why I feel that other than the GA numbers.  As nice as a turn-around Yale has made this season after a dreadful 1-4-0 start, I still fear Colgate and RPI as the best "surprise" teams this year.  But maybe that's obvious.

Solid effort by everyone this week, the team looks so much better than it did in January.  Good pressure on both sides of the ice, cleaner passing and playmaking.  Hynes, Downs, and Cam all had particularly great weekends, and Gleed is definitely back to the level he was at before his injury in December.  The Hynes-Moulson-Bitz line is starting to look like something special.

Also, kudos to a well reffed weekend.  It doesn't get said often here, but Dunn and Murphy were great this weekend.



Post Edited (02-15-04 04:00)

[Ack]

But he did "stand up straight" (stand up straight, stand up straight....) - he was definitely listening.

[Greg Berge]

Thoughts on this game.

1) This was the best I've seen Cornell play all year.  Yale played a great up tempo game but the Red stayed with them, outshooting them badly.  This is exactly the sort of clutch performance they need to go far in the post-season.

2) Yale's fun to watch.  Nice balance of indidvidual effort and skill and team ethic.

3) Jensen (#44) is very talented and scary.  Though he did get the one goal the Red managed to keep him in check.  Of course, keeping the other leading scorers completely off the board was the difference in the game.  A great job by the good guys.

4) Carefoot's goal wasn't pretty, but we've lost our share of games over the years on mishandled pucks or blind passes, and it was nice to put this one in the W column.

5) Even without the goal, Carefoot was very impressive in this game.  He and O'Byrne are improving dramatically and have become genuine contributors.  They both got a lot of ice time in important situations and they both came through.

Can't say enough about this game -- it put the team in position where a solid finish in the last two weekends will give them a very nice seed in the tourny.



Post Edited (02-16-04 14:07)