Cornell 5, Niagara 4 (Post-game Thread)

[oceanst41]

I liked what I saw for the most part last night, especially offensively.

After not scoring even strength for 3 games it was nice to see something other than a man up goal. They were using the points more and this open Niagara up a little bit to allow players to drive to the net. So instead of being hit with the point shots out players were able to clean up the rebounds and bury them. We have some guys who can bomb it from the point, there is no reason that we shouldn't utilize that more.

Now if we could stay out of the penatly box then the defense didn't look so bad either. They game would've been 5-2 instead. McKee had no shot on either PP goal. I think part of the issue is Cornell lays off once they get a lead. It seems like they call the dogs off and get sloppy at times, other than the ENG's last night was Cornell's first two goal lead of the year I believe.

Let's hope they can keep it rolling tonight, Let's Go Red!!

[Trotsky]

[Q]duffs4 Wrote:

(1) McCutcheon ... after his first goal everytime he touched the puck it wasn't immediately taken off his stick, instead he had the patience and confidence to make a move.[/q]

Absolutely.  He had one shift in particular, a couple minutes after the shorty, on which he brought the puck down, briefly had it stripped but picked off the pass from the corner, circled, had a decent shot which was blocked, then retreated and picked off *another* pass, this time out at the point, and moved the play back into the N end again.  It was about 12 seconds of him owning the right half of the Niagara defensive zone from the red line to the goal line extended.  Gorgeous.

[ugarte]

[Q]schoaff Wrote:

 [Q2]2tkCornell Wrote:

 McKee's updated stats:

9GP, 5-3-1, 25 GA, 510 MIN, 2.94 GAA, 158 SV, O SO, .863 SV%

ouch![/Q]
I think this drives home the point of just how spoiled we are after the last few years that a GAA under 3 merits an "ouch!"[/q]I think it is the .863 SV% that has people saying "ouch."