Post-game thead, Fri 2/27

[Greg Berge]

With the win and all the upsets, here are the standings:

28 Colgate
27 Dartmouth
27 Cornell
26 Brown
25 RPI
20 Harvard
20 Yale
18 Clarkson
17 Union
17 St. Lawrence
15 Vermont
12 Princeton


Cornell can still finish anywhere between 1st and 5th.

[Dan \'81]

I'm still amazed by that Colgate loss to Clarkson at home on the SHG.  Wow.  Who would have figured!?

[calgARI \'07]

I wonder what the least amount of points the Clearly Cup champion has had.  I'm thinking this year could be up there (or down there I guess)

[Drew \'01]

Great game (minus the first period or so).  I must say I enjoyed waving the SLUTS sign in section o.  I do have a question though.  Does anyone know why the offsetting minors that occurred at the end of the second (Moulson and some unknown slut) were not timed.  They occured with .5 seconds left in the period, but they did not come out of the box until a stoppage of play some time around three minutes into the third.  Did I miss something or am I just confused ?  Other than that, I continue to be impressed by iggy who played as well as anyone tonight.  The freshman also continue to play better, especially carefoot.  Here's hoping for a win to finish off the regular season tomorrow night.

[Greg Berge]

Here are the most recent seasons: http://members.cox.net/tbrw/ecac/ecacPtsByPlace.html

Not included was the Elephant Walk season, in which SLU had 33 pts (in 20 GP).  So we are going to set the recent low.

Looking over the rest of ECAC history: http://members.cox.net/tbrwmisc/ecacStandings/ecacStandings_frame.html I find Cornell finishing #1 in 1973 with 29 pts (18 GP) .  That's the only season in which no ECAC team was over 30 pts.

So, this is officially the worst #1 we'll ever have had.

[Al DeFlorio]

Drew '01 wrote:

Does anyone know why the offsetting minors that occurred at the end of the second (Moulson and some unknown slut) were not timed.  They occured with .5 seconds left in the period, but they did not come out of the box until a stoppage of play some time around three minutes into the third.

With one team already a man down, offsetting penalties do not cause the teams to lose a man on the ice.  So they can't come out of the box until a stoppage of play.

[Ack]

Tomorrow we'll all have an eyes on our ice and the scoreboard for out of town scores...exciting is an understatement.

[Section A]

[Q]Tomorrow we'll all have an eyes on our ice and the scoreboard for out of town scores[/Q]

Indeed. And if Harvard ties or beats Dartmouth, we'll win a share of the Ivy Title as well.

[Will]

Great game tonight.

- We thoroughly dominated SLU(t) for most of the game, save for some time after the SLU(t) goal when they built up some momentum.
- Some players seemed to have more skating trouble than usual.  I don't think it was the ice; I suspect it may be a nagging consequence of the recent rash of injuries, though I could be wrong.
- Good defense and great goaltending really won the game for us.
- The offense was opportunistic, which was effective I suppose, but that's not going to keep winning us games in the long run.  More shots need to be taken, particularly in the power play.  At times, it seemed like they were spending a little too much time setting up their shots.  Usually, I'm not one to scream out "Shoot the puck!", but after a while, it was getting ridiculous.
- The lines were an interesting setup, but obviously it must have worked.  My only dispute was with having the AHA line as the fourth line, but I suppose this was due to the Abbotts recovering from injuries.
- CHS tells me that the first Cornell goal was scored by Vesce (Cook, Moulson), but at the time it was announced that it was Cook (Moulson, somebody else).  Was there a scoring change announcement that I missed?
- It was nice to see an empty netter.  Haven't had one of those in a little while, I believe.
- Let's hope we can do the same against Clarkson tomorrow night.  LET'S GO RED!!!

[calgARI \'07]

I thought the ice was noticably bad tonight compared to usual.  The players were having trouble settling the puck down on quite a few occasions and as you mentioned, a lot of players falling for no apparent reason.

[Ack]

Seemed so...on one of the clearing attempts, the puck was pushed across the ice towards the student section and bounced up in the air.

[Drew \'01]

Thanks...I did not know that.

[Hillel J. Hoffmann \'85]

Just got back from seeing my first live, in-person Cornell hockey game since my son was born. A few observations.

I'm stunned at Iggulden's improvement. I admit I've only seen two games in '03-'04 (the Harvard game on the telly and tonight's game at Lynah), but to my eye this could be the greatest single-season personal turnaround by a Cornell hockey player since ... I dunno. He was brilliant on the PK.

The ice absolutely sucked. Agree with all.

I don't think I've ever seen Vesce have such a bad night at the faceoff circle. (Although a bad night for him is a good night for most mortals.)

My first close look at McKee. Doing a much better job of directing rebounds into the corners. Weak on his skates. Stay in that damn net, boy.

[calgARI \'07]

Vesce has been struggling in the faceoff circle for quite some time and that is a primary reason as to why their powerplay has struggled so much.
I agree about Iggulden.  He is an ideal third line center.

[Section A Banshee]

I don't suppose anyone has any idea what possessed McKee to charge out almost to the blue line to make a save in the second period?  Maybe he thinks he's Rick DiPietro.