Game Thoughts

[calgARI '07]

Definitely an uncharacteristic game for Cornell.  Clearly, the difference in the game was special teams.  Powerplay was AWFUL.  Cook and Moulson both had bad games.  How many opportunities is Pegoraro gonna get?  He just can't find his game from last year.  Penalty Kill was AWFUL.  McKee looked a lot like he did earlier in the season in not challenging shooters.  Defensive zone coverage was pretty inconsistent.  Officiating was shockingly bad, but it was more in Cornell's favor for sure.  Team really missed Vesce on the powerplay and on faceoffs.  Just a poor hockey game from Cornell.  Clarkson played desperate and stuck to their gameplan throughout.  Cam Abbott.  Man o man, how many breakaways are you going to get before you score?  Nickerson had a great game.  Need a lot more tomorrow night from this team or the season will end.

[Greg Berge]

It isn't the end of the world.  Nice comeback (twice), they just couldn't get #5 before Clarkson.  I hope we can take an early lead tomorrow.

[Roy 82]

Definitely not a Cornell type of game.

I found myself thinking that maybe we might even see Marr. Not becuase McKee was so off but just because Cornell needed a kick in the butt.

I scheduled air travel for right during game time tomorrow. How damn presumptuous of me.

[calgARI '07]

I thought Marr should go in after the third goal.  McKee didn't see the first one, but likely would have wanted the second and third ones back, and the fourth one for that matter too.  He was not challenging shooters like usual, staying deep in his net.

[.m.o.o.n.l.i.g.h.t.d.a.n.c.i.n.g.]

Not sure if this has been brought up already.. but that evil little BITCH Nickerson played on the same team that McKee did before he came to Cornell... kind of an interesting fact.

[paulspen]

Anyone know why the first Cornell "goal" was disallowed?

[Will]

[Q]paulspen Wrote:

 Anyone know why the first Cornell "goal" was disallowed? [/Q]

Apparently, Hynes was in the crease when it happened.  What the ref chose to ignore was that Hynes was (once again) pushed into the crease by a Clarkson player.

[Pete Godenschwager]

Well, we definitely got in Nickerson's head last night.  During warmups he skated over to section B, and shot (actually just flipped, but shot sounds better) a puck at us.  Nice to see him sporting those two big shiners.  :-)   Should be interesting with Vart returning to the lineup tonight, especially if one team is down by a bunch near the end.  I have to say, I'm not big on superstition, but I can't help but think that chanting "Season's Over" during Friday's game was the direct cause of Cornell losing. :-(   Hopefully the hockey Gods have forgetten or forgiven. Let's Go Red!!!  

[Tom Pasniewski 98]

Whoever shouted 'Season's Over' should be drawn and quartered.  I think not having Vesce added but did not directly cause the outcome of the game.  I think the last-minute switch as it appears to have been may have caused a bit of confusion.  I won't be a homer and say that I don't think Murphy did a bad job.  If he did a bad job then every ref does a bad job (some of you think so).  How many people were saying that Murphy would lose control of the game and what does he do - he calls just as many penalities on Nickerson as on the rest of the Cornell team.  He didn't really try to even penalties up as was suggested on the game thread and by Adam.

Pulling McKee would have been wrong.  One two many men on the ice penalty is bad but two is wrong.  I was thinking McKee could stop McFeeters on the breakaway for the fourth goal but in hindsight, taking down McFeeters may have been the better option.  It looked like he could have been brought down

PP execution has got to be there.  If you get six more PP's than your opposition, you've got to win the game.  It took a 5 on 3 to finally get a PP goal.  The PP difference won't be as big tonight.  But hopefully Vesce will be back and factor in big and Cornell can score early and leave Clarkson frustrated.

[Pete Godenschwager]

[Q]Whoever shouted 'Season's Over' should be drawn and quartered[/Q]

Unfortunately it was most of sections A and B, including the dolt behind me bragging to his girlfriend that he could probably sucker some idiot into buying his tickets to Sunday's game becuase "we obviously won't be playing it".   ::twak::

[calgARI '07]

Season's Over was in reference to Matt Nickerson in anticipation of him getting a DQ.

[Tom Pasniewski 98]

That makes a lot more sense.  Still a bit premature but I was worried there for a bit.

[Cornell Fan]

[Q]calgARI '07 Wrote:
 Season's Over was in reference to Matt Nickerson in anticipation of him getting a DQ. [/Q]
Still, that's presumptuous that there wouldn't be a game 3 for him to come back to if he had been DQ'd for game 2.  Any chants like that are always a gamble... if it turns out the way you anticipated, it's incredibly frustrating and demoralizing for the opponent and their fans, but at the same time you're risking big embarrassment if they turn around and make a comeback. Kind of like the people who shook their keys at the 4 minute mark during the game 1 would-be shut out... only to have Clarkson score 18 seconds later. Best just to save that kind of taunting until the series is clearly wrapped up.

[Will]

[Q]Cornell Fan Wrote:

 calgARI '07 Wrote:
Kind of like the people who shook their keys at the 4 minute mark during the game 1 would-be shut out... only to have Clarkson score 18 seconds later. Best just to save that kind of taunting until the series is clearly wrapped up. [/Q]

That's why I don't shake my keys anymore at all.  Sometimes the jingling just seems like asking the hockey gods to strike our team down.  However, I don't prevent other people from shaking their keys, so long as they know the rule. ( http://www.elynah.com/faithful.html#gostart )

[Jim Hyla]

[Q]Cornell Fan wrote:

Still, that's presumptuous that there wouldn't be a game 3 for him to come back to if he had been DQ'd for game 2. [/Q]Except that he already had one DQ this year, so if he was DQ'd again he would be out 2 games, thus all of this series.