Cornell-SLU post-game thread

[adamw]

Better for the ECAC if Colgate, Cornell, Harvard win out - but I guess 1 Colgate loss is OK.

[DeltaOne81]

and UNH gets two quick tallies - 8-3 UNH over UML...

5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

game over

everything's breaking our way tonight

[DeltaOne81]

[Q]adamw Wrote:

 Better for the ECAC if Colgate, Cornell, Harvard win out - but I guess 1 Colgate loss is OK.[/q]
How about 2 more, Adam? ;-)

Yeah, it'd be nice to see them win too, but you gotta want to win the conference at some point.

[adamw]

I find regular season titles to be somewhat irrelevant.

[A-19]

Harvard 5 Yale 3 final

[KeithK]

Irrelevant or not, it's not possible for Cornell and Colgate to both win out.  So we'll take the two Gate losses to us and then a third in the playoffs.  They can win every other game. :-D

[DeltaOne81]

[Q]adamw Wrote:

 I find regular season titles to be somewhat irrelevant.[/q]
Well I'm not saying we should do anything silly like... hang a banner or anything :-)

But we're Cornell fans first and ECAC fans second, and the whole point is to be competitive. Perhaps from your removed perspective, you've decided to pull more for the ECAC in general (not saying more than Cornell, just more than I do :-) ), and that's perfectly fine. But I certainly don't blame people on here for pulling for the Big Red first and foremost

Edit: UMD 3, MIN 2 - 2nd intermission

[Greg Berge]

Speaking if things which some find irrelevant and others (like me) do not, Harvard has pulled ahead in the Ivy race at 5-1-1 to Cornell's 6-2-0, but Harvard has a pair against the Green remaining.

[calgARI '07]

Moulson is unbelievable.  I have never been a huge Moulson fan until the last couple weeks and this weekend in particular where he scored two absolutely clutch goals.  He is one of the top five offensive players in college hockey.

[adamw]

Not saying I'm blaming anyone ... just reminding people that this loss, combined with 2 to Cornell later on and/or another in the ECACs ... probably will drop Colgate from at-large consideration.  Tonight's loss alone dropped them to 12t in PWR.

[calgARI '07]

The reason for wanting first place doesn't have much to do with the glory but more to do with how the ECACHL is this year.  I think there are 7 good or better teams, then 5 below average or worse teams.  Cornell, Colgate, Harvard, Dartmouth, Vermont, St. Lawrence, Brown and possibly even Union.  I do not want to see SLU or Brown or Union in that best-of-three weekend as the second seed will likely see.  I would much rather play a Clarkson or Princeton.

[Greg Berge]

Maybe because I became a fan prior to PWR (prior even to the Hockey East defection), I will always root for Cornell to put a maximum of distance between itself and all challengers for better seeds in the ECAC tourny.  Win in Albany; the rest is whipped cream.

[calgARI '07]

Unbelievable how different Clarkson and SLU were from each other.  Clarkson was dirty and classless whereas SLU was the opposite, led by Joe Marsh, who I have a ton of respect for.

[DeltaOne81]

[Q]adamw Wrote:

 Not saying I'm blaming anyone ... just reminding people that this loss, combined with 2 to Cornell later on and/or another in the ECACs ... probably will drop Colgate from at-large consideration.  Tonight's loss alone dropped them to 12t in PWR.[/q]
Its a good point. Heck, if they drop 2 to Cornell, I'll be too happy to care that it knocks them out of the at large . Of course, there's also the very real possibility that Colgate will get a point or more next weekend, leaving them in definite consideration - also considering that the people above them are guaranteed to lose a few as well.

Start of the 3rd in M-I-N-N-E-S-O-T-A

[Greg Berge]

Re: last night's post-game discussion, Cornell has now clinched finishing above 12th. ;-)