Cornell 3 St. Lawrence 2 (OT) postgame thread (not scores updates)

billhoward · February 25, 2005, 09:42:45 PM

Is this just luck was with Cornell tonight ... or the real mark of a championship caliber team to tie the game in the third, get a late goal in the third to win (oops, waved off), and then put one more in, in overtime.

From the webcast audio, it sounded as if McKee saved Cornell more than a few times.

Now if you went up for the game ... what do you do for the next 21 hours? How much after hours snowmobile-riding can one take?

(edit) And thank you, Dartmouth, for cutting Harvard down from its perch atop the Ivies after Brown failed so miserably Tuesday.

Jordan 04 · February 25, 2005, 09:44:11 PM

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

Now if you went up for the game ... what do you do for the next 21 hours? .[/q]

Pizza Hut?

DeltaOne81 · February 25, 2005, 09:45:03 PM

You go to Ottawa or sleep for a long time :-) That and drinking at the Best Western (?)

I dunno about other people, but I am very pleased at this game. We've been walking all over weaker teams, who didn't even seem to put up much of a fight at times. While it was good to see us win, often easily, sometimes it seemed like we sleepwalked through it.

Perhaps its against common sense, but i feel better about this team after tonight, showing we do indeed have the ability to dig down when we have to. Although I woulda prefered they did it in the late 2nd and not late 3rd ;-)

Rosey · February 25, 2005, 09:48:04 PM

Yahoo's got the score backwards. Dumbasses.

Kyle

billhoward · February 25, 2005, 09:53:46 PM

One of the guys who runs Yahoo's a Hobart grad. What do you expect?

Trotsky · February 25, 2005, 09:54:47 PM

Or you go to Quebec for... um... well if you've ever seen their TV you know what I mean.

Gutsy win against a very tough team. This was not luck -- it is not lucky to have the game winner waved off.

calgARI '07 · February 25, 2005, 09:55:15 PM

There are positives and negatives. Positive that they won despite not playing that well. Positive that they won ANOTHER close game. Positive that they won a playoff-style game. Negative that they didn't play very well. Negative that they arguably haven't been at their best since the Colgate weekend.
Cornell has definitely had far more dramatic wins in the regular season than in any regular season I can remember.

jy3 · February 25, 2005, 09:59:20 PM

[Q]calgARI '07 Wrote:

There are positives and negatives. Positive that they won despite not playing that well. Positive that they won ANOTHER close game. Positive that they won a playoff-style game. Negative that they didn't play very well. Negative that they arguably haven't been at their best since the Colgate weekend.
Cornell has definitely had far more dramatic wins in the regular season than in any regular season I can remember. [/q]

yeah and the one game i have seen this season was the onion OT shorty. i was pleased

great win 2nite, sometimes a team learns more from playing not so well -> turning it up and coming back to win even after a waved off goal. good experience. 'gate is trying their hardest not to make the NCAAs

dc made a push 2nite by beating hahvahd. gonna be interesting
LGR!

KenP · February 25, 2005, 10:01:03 PM

Personally this game emphasizes my concerns with the team. After beating a bunch of cupcakes the last two weeks, they had all they could handle when they faced a team that actually has an offense. Our boys are playing well, and are demonstrating a ton of heart to stick in there like they did tonight, but I don't know if that alone will be enough to propel them through the ECAC's or NCAA's. Examples? BC this year, UNH in '03 and '02.

I know I sound down on the team, but the fact I'm even discussing their chances of winning it all makes me happy. Besides...we won 2 ceramic dalmations tonight!!!

calgARI '07 · February 25, 2005, 10:01:25 PM

I know some people were talking about a loss maybe being a good thing heading into the playoffs. Tonight will qualify as that "loss" in that the team didn't play well - definitely not well enough to beat any good teams - they all know it and it theoretically won't happen again. Therefore, they get the positives of losing while still getting the win and not getting hurt in the PWR.

DeltaOne81 · February 25, 2005, 10:04:45 PM

[Q]calgARI '07 Wrote:

I know some people were talking about a loss maybe being a good thing heading into the playoffs. Tonight will qualify as that "loss" in that the team didn't play well - definitely not well enough to beat any good teams - they all know it and it theoretically won't happen again. Therefore, they get the positives of losing while still getting the win and not getting hurt in the PWR. [/q]
Agree. Hopefully this can fire them up as a quasi-loss - the same way the Union OT winner did to start this whole run.

billhoward · February 25, 2005, 10:24:09 PM

So maybe Cornell has been down, or not up-up-up for a month. If these things come in cycles, about two or three weeks from now would be a good time to be on up cycle. Realistically, the first round (for us, second for ECAC tourney) opponent shouldn't (not won't, just "shouldn't") require superhuman effort to roll over. And what are the odds of Cornell pulling a three-game el foldo two years running at Lynah? We need to peak in three weeks in Albany and get higher each week thereafter.

Other nice thing about Cornell 2005: Compared to that wondrous 2003 team, it seems as if this team has a few more goal scorers, so if you're down by one with 10 minutes to go, you don't have this horrible sinking feeling that it just ain't gonna happy no matter how hard Baby and company try. Or that had one miracle comeback for postseason and we spent that chit against Harvard so it wasn't available in the waning minutes againt UNH in the NCAA semis.

This is the first time McKee let in two even strength goals in how long? Quick calc says his GAA avg goes from 1.29 to 1.32. No. 2 is Dov at 1.55 going in and he'd played 24 not McKee's 28 games, so the two obviously savable shots he fanned on will hurt Dov's avg a bit more. Actually, no, because he's already closer to 2 GAA already. My quick math says he falls to about 1.57. Still better than he deserves.

ninian '72 · February 25, 2005, 10:25:02 PM

Good teams find ways to win ugly when they have to. A close one that challenges them will serve them well for what awaits them down the road. Some of their highly ranked colleagues in the CCHA and WCHA might lose games like this.

A-19 · February 25, 2005, 10:27:01 PM

standings look like we'll meet the winner of the clarkson-? game in the second ECAC round @ lynah. tomorrow's game is important and indicative of the coming week of play for us

billhoward · February 25, 2005, 10:34:05 PM

Didn't mean to be doctrinaire by putting the "(not scores updates)" subject-line-ending but if you come to the forum in the morning to see what everyone thought of the game, it really sucks to have to wade through all these messages, "DU leading Alaska-Fairbanks 1-0" "AF goes ahead 2-1 which should really change the RPI". Good to see there's a thread for other scores adjacent to this msg.