Cornell at Yale Post Game Thread

[ben03]

at halftime it's Wisconsin -1 Denver - 0

[ben03]

1-1 Denver goal on a 5x3

[ben03]

3 18:27 Minny goal

UAA - 4
Minny - 5  late 3rd

[jtwcornell91]

[Q]DeltaOne81 Wrote:
I'll also mention, on a topic of our game, that we have now clinched home ice in the first round of the ECAC. 8 pts ahead of Dmouth & UVM, who are tied for 4th - but we won the series with UVM, meaning we can't finish worse than 4th.
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Right, so we've actually clinched a first-round bye and home ice for the quarterfinals.  (Technically you have to check whether multi-team tiebreakers can change things, but they can't.)

[ben03]

2-1 Denver  

[RichH]

5-5 with :07 left!  Going to OT...after Minny missed an easy Empty Net.  Reminds me of the Providence game.

Incredibly entertaining to hear the rollercoaster of emotions of Minnesota's radio crew.

[ben03]

3 19:53 UAA extra attacker goal

UAA - 5
Minny - 5

[DeltaOne81]

[Q]jtwcornell91 Wrote:

 [Q2]DeltaOne81 Wrote:
I'll also mention, on a topic of our game, that we have now clinched home ice in the first round of the ECAC. 8 pts ahead of Dmouth & UVM, who are tied for 4th - but we won the series with UVM, meaning we can't finish worse than 4th.
[/Q]
Right, so we've actually clinched a first-round bye and home ice for the quarterfinals.  (Technically you have to check whether multi-team tiebreakers can change things, but they can't.)[/q]
Right, that's what I meant

:-P

UAA ties Minn with 7 seconds left!!! After Minn missed an fairly easy ENG according to the USCHO posters!

Edit: But Michigan wins 4-3

[ben03]

if by easy you mean from the red line with a defender all over you  ;-)  ::nut::

[RichH]

[Q]ben03 Wrote:

 if by easy you mean from the red line with a defender all over you[/q]

Hey, I don't have video.  Just what the Minny radio guys tell me.  :-)

[ben03]

UAA - 5
Minnesota - 5   Final/OT

[ben03]

no worriesB-]

[jlewis]

sorry for the random question, but how good are the chances that we end up at either worchester or amherst in the ncaa's?

[DeltaOne81]

So with most of the OOC excitement over, I have to say, it was nice for our guys to take the night off and still come away with a 5-2 win. It was not a Cornell game at all - we had a ton of great passes, breakaways, etc, but didn't play much slow it down, grind it out, get your opportunities hockey. The game was loose, shaky, open.

Also this new "F. Murphy" might even be worse than the old one. Phantom penalties, O'Byrne hit from behind and hurt (not seriously luckily) and no call, etc. And not just for us, the first penalty against Yale in the third that lead to the 5x3 (i.e. the one that made it 5x4 originally), was completely and totally phantom. Sawada saw the puck drifting in front of the net, so he dove out to try to tap it before the goalie could cover it - he dove for the puck on purpose, no one on Yale touched him, and we got the call. I'll take it with all the earlier B.S., but that was just sad.

O'Byrne took another bad penalty that lead to a Yale 5x3. Not near the play, no one around, roughing the guy up. Luckily with Yale mising 6x4s from point blank range, it didn't matter much.

I don't know how Yale got a point from 'Gate last night - either that had an incredible off night tonight, an incredible on night last night, or 'Gate is going downhill.

Oh, P.S., I've never seen a crowd react so enthusiastically to an entirely meaningless goal. React, sure, but you woulda thought that goal had a shot at mattering. Guess you'll appreciate everything you can get against Cornell

[DeltaOne81]

To answer jlewis, since no one else is :-) ...

If they go by a strict bracket, probably 40% ish - it seems to work out against us that way recently. If they decide to care about attendence some, then maybe 55 to 60% chance of being east, and if they decide to care about it a lot, then its nearly a done deal ;-)