Union 2 @ Cornell 1 (postgame thread 11/18/05)

[ben03]

from my experience watching our power play over the last 5-6 seasons i’ve seen there is one way to shut us down: high pressure on the point men. dartmouth has been doing this to us for years and it appears union has finally caught on as well. hell, if i were scouting us that’d be on top of my list of “keys to beating the big red.” whether it’s murray, baby, o'b, sasha, moulson, or whoever ... high-pressure on the point screws up our flow. we have a one-dimensional PP scheme and IMHO it’s easy to defend (obviously easier said than done). we need productivity/creativity from our wingmen and need to stop looking for the perfect shot from the point. this is exactly the problem we saw in 01-02. if we don’t adjust and get some variety, our PP will likely be stagnant all year. we had at least two long 5-3's last night and nothing to show for it. this is a problem. it is much a personnel problem as it is a system problem and most definitely a combination of the two. and as i mentioned above, this is not anything new to a schafer-coached power play. hopefully he'll find a solution to get them back on track.

in schafer we trust. :-)

LGR!!!

[2tkCornell]

[Q]
edhair34 Wrote:

Drew042 Wrote:

Just back from the game; here are a few notes:

*Seminoff probably played the best of any of the defenseman, he was solid and did not make nearly as many mistakes as he did the weekend against MSU. However, he is still being beat off the puck as noted by the penalty he took in the first.
*As I have said in previous posts, O'Byrne is simply not fit to be the top defenseman on this team. He made at least 6 mistakes with the puck that led to turnovers (including GWG, and then on a faceoff in the second went to shoot the puck around the back of the goal and came close to scoring Union's 3rd goal (This may have been hard for anyone to see save for those of us in O). The mistakes that he continues to make are mindboggling and unacceptable.
*The problem with this team is that there is no defined leader as there has been in past years. No one on this team has stepped up yet to assume that role, and until it happens it is going to be a very long year.
*That said, they did play a full 60 minutes (or close to it) and I think we are moving in the right direction. See everyone tomorrow night!!

LGR!!

It was Davenport that made the mistake that lead to the GWG [Q]

Although Davenport and O'Byrne were at fault, McKee should have stopped that goal.  He did not cover his posts well at all.  There was a large gap between his left skate and the goal post and the Union player just slid it through that hole.  If the union player had got the puck up over McKee and went in, then it would not have been McKee's fault.

He is just too tentative out there.  Although your team didn't score any goals, as a goaltender you have to give them a chance to win, which he didn't.  In his last two games, McKee has given up 7 goals on 29 shots.  A save percentage of .759 - simply unacceptable.

For those of you defending McKee and telling us to give him a chance.  We have given him 7 games and his numbers are awful.  

[RichH]

[Q]ben03 Wrote:

and get some variety, our PP will likely be stagnant all year. we had at least two long 5-3's last night and nothing to show for it. [/q]

Actually, we had one goal to show for it.

[Tom14850]

It's early in the season. Lots of time to improve. However, the thing that worries me the most is the defense/goaltending, which has always been the hallmark of Cornell. In the first 7 games this year we've allowed 21 goals. Last year we allowed 45 goals in 35 games. At the rate the team is going they'll allow 105 goals (!) if they get lucky enough to play 35 games. ::worry::

[Lauren '06]

[Q]Bryan '06 Wrote:[Q2] And what was up with the Tuba tonight? I think that summed up the game, though I did laugh a lot....[/Q]He's a freshman player...none of the other tubas were around tonight due to a marching band road trip to Penn.  He did an amazing job though...I'd never want to solo in front of the entire Lynah crowd![/q]I think he did a great job despite being a freshman and also a pretty quiet player, and I think he made the right decision in playing as slow as humanly possible.  When you're out there all on your own, there's no better way to mock the opposing bench than that.

Other good things to take away from the game: When I was leaving, I heard some student from Section A mutter "Well, at least Harvard still sucks."

[CowbellGuy]

Which, I might point out, was the first powerplay unit with Sasha playing in place of OB.

[Lauren '06]

[Q]Al DeFlorio Wrote:

 Interesting article on David in today's Journal:[/q]...and it's out.  There was actually an article about this in the Chronicle a week or so ago, and I was to an extent relieved nobody had brought it up, though I don't blame you for doing so.

[Jacob '06]

[Q]Section A Banshee Wrote:

 [Q2]Al DeFlorio Wrote:

 Interesting article on David in today's Journal:[/Q]
...and it's out.  There was actually an article about this in the Chronicle a week or so ago, and I was to an extent relieved nobody had brought it up, though I don't blame you for doing so.[/q]

Why would you not want it brought up? Its obvious from his quotes in the article that he doesn't mind it, and would actually rather it be so other people with learning disorders can see he is still succesful with it.

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]Section A Banshee Wrote:

 [Q2]Al DeFlorio Wrote:

 Interesting article on David in today's Journal:[/Q]
...and it's out.  There was actually an article about this in the Chronicle a week or so ago, and I was to an extent relieved nobody had brought it up, though I don't blame you for doing so.[/q]
I find it truly hard to believe that in the year 2005 someone would have such a backward attitude toward something like this.

[Will]

[Q]Al DeFlorio Wrote:

I find it truly hard to believe that in the year 2005 someone would have such a backward attitude toward something like this.[/q]

You'd be surprised at the pervasiveness of ignorance, even in this day and age.

[billhoward]

Another non-idiot suffering from ADD and/or dyslexia has been Charles Schwab. Schwab's problem seems to be with A-to-Z characters, because he's done fine with the 0-to-9 part of the character set and the dollar sign. Schwab calls it a "learning difference," which may be a euphemism or it may be an accurate descriptor, but if you want to get Schwab's non-inconsiderable funding for the condition, that's what you learn to call it.

It would help if "dyslexia" wasn't so darn hard to spell for everyone.

And there are a few nice self-deprecating jokes like about dyslexic agnostic insomniacs.

[Dafatone]

I just thought of something interesting.  If a visiting goalie had dyslexia/ADD, would we use that as taunting ammo?  I'm not quite sure...

And perhaps others will for McKee when we're on the road.  I think he'll be fine, though.

[KP '06]

[Q]Dafatone Wrote:

 I just thought of something interesting.  If a visiting goalie had dyslexia/ADD, would we use that as taunting ammo?  I'm not quite sure...[/q]

That crosses the line, no question in my mind.

[Dafatone]

A friend of mine tends to be very sympathetic, towards pretty much anyone.  Which is a nice quality, but it comes up oddly in hockey games.

When someone on RPI (#14, perhaps?) went down after a hard hit by Seminoff (penalty, I think at the end of the 2nd period) I yelled at him to stop faking it and get up.  He turned out okay, no injury, just shaken up maybe.  My friend was very upset I'd get on a guy who could be hurt.

Anyway, she was very upset about the Nod Your Head chant we had going on Palmer, the U-18 goalie, thinking he had some sort of involuntary tic.  I'm not quite sure what the truth there is, just something to think about, I guess.

In general, I'm for almost anything that'll throw off the other team, in most cases.

[Jerseygirl]

If you were to taunt someone for having ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia, what have you, they'll probably do what we learned to do a long time ago: think you're an asshole and be done with it. But they'd probably be too hyper-focused (which is what happens when the ADD pendulum swings the other way) to even notice. I speak from personal experience.