Cornell - Quinnipiac postgame

[mjc]

If anyone Tivoed or DVRed the game is there any way we can get highlights posted somewhere?  I know its been done in the past.

[dbilmes]

Except for a few stretches in the 3rd period, Cornell was clearly outplayed. Just had no offensive presence for much of the game. Q had more energy and always seemed to be where they needed to be. We're lucky not to have given up a goal in the 1st. McKee was fairly solid; I don't think the goal was stoppable - it was basically batted out of the air.

[Dpperk29]

isn't it a sign of a good team when they get outplayed but still manage to get the W?

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

 Replay of the first goal appeared to show a beautiful deflection or redirection by Moulson.

At least because of the NESN feed, Web-feed viewers finally got to see replays. A lot of time, you figure whoever has his stick up soonest and highest must have scored. [/q]
Watching the replay of the save on Cam Abbott's shorthanded attempt late in the third, it appears his shot was stopped by Fisher, but Cam then centered it back out in front and McCutcheon then lifted it over Fisher.  It looks to me like a Quinnipiac defenseman, wearing #2, batted the puck away with his stick just as it was going in, with the puck about 18" above the ice.  Pretty amazing "save" if that's what really happened.

[andyw2100]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

 Replay of the first goal appeared to show a beautiful deflection or redirection by Moulson.  [/q]


Granted my view from Section C, almost on the aisle with D, was not great, but from where I sat it looked like Scott made a beautiful pass from behind the goal line to Moulson right at the goal mouth, and Moulson just tapped it home.

Is that really not what happened?
                            Andy W.

[calgARI '07]

Terrible first period, down there with the second period against MSU and the second period against Dartmouth.  That Quinnipiac team REALLY impressed me.  Very little talent after Cashman but they really beat Cornell in every facet of the game in the first forty minutes.  Another excellent outing for O'Byrne and Salmela on the backline with another miserable outing for Krantz and Pokuluk.  Team played hard in the third period.  I really like how this one ended up and it reminded me a lot of the game at Union last year which in my opinion was the turning point of the season.  I think McKee played his best game of the season tonight, although he was not tested much.

[Doug '08]

It seems that we only REALLY come to play in the third period this year (and last year too, for that matter).  In every single game this year (well except Dartmouth) I think our guys clearly elevate their play in the third- the difference in intensity is very noticable.  I just wish they could play like that for a FULL 60 minutes!

[schoaff]

[Q]DeltaOne81 Wrote:

 [Q2]ugarte Wrote:
The best I can figure is that it skipped up off of McKee's pad and into the net. A little soft, but not really soft.[/Q]
According to the tv guys, it was batted out of the air. Not sure if that's true, but it would explain it.
[/q]

Yeah, they had a good replay of it. It looked like the puck was going to go wide on the left side but the Q player picked it out of the air and slammed it in the top corner. Looked more like a Lacrosse goal than anything I've seen in hockey.

[Rosey]

[Q]Yeah, they had a good replay of it. It looked like the puck was going to go wide on the left side but the Q player picked it out of the air and slammed it in the top corner. Looked more like a Lacrosse goal than anything I've seen in hockey.[/q]

More than the Mike Legg goal? http://www.dangerouslogic.com/mike_legg_goal.qt

Kyle

[Pace]

Great to finally get a sweep at home. That said, I don't think we played that well either night.

Thoughts:

 - I am happy with McKee. It's not the McKee of last year, but it's a vast improvement over his play thus far. He seems to be getting his confidence back and is making big saves.

- I really like Seminoff. He seems to have figured out how to play D without getting a tonne of penalties. Both yesterday and tonight he did a great job of getting in the way of shots and made some sweet passes.

- Also really like Salmela, he looked solid.

- Hats off to McCutcheon. He's really on a roll after that ENG earlier in the season. He's working his butt of this season so it's nice to see it finally pay off.

- What's with Sasha? I'm sorta used to O'Byrne fumbling the puck at the point, but Sasha? He just generally seems to be asleep. I hope he's not just half-assing it because he already got drafted.

[andyw2100]

How was that Mike Legg goal not a high-stick?
                           Andy W.

[DeltaOne81]

[Q]andyw2100 Wrote:

 How was that Mike Legg goal not a high-stick?
                           Andy W.[/q]

High stick = above the cross bar

Of course, it's now illegal, but it wasn't then.

[Jacob '06]

[Q]DeltaOne81 Wrote:

 [Q2]andyw2100 Wrote:

 How was that Mike Legg goal not a high-stick?
                           Andy W.[/Q]
High stick = above the cross bar

Of course, it's now illegal, but it wasn't then.[/q]

What is the rule that makes it illegal? Did they add something like you can't carry the puck on your stick off the ground?

[Dafatone]

I don't think we looked that bad at any period this game.

Quinnipiac was much faster than us.  Much faster.  But by the third period, we wore them down with our physical play, they got tired, and we had the upper hand.  Which is what should happen.

We looked very slow, but I'm starting to think we're simply not a very fast team.

Pokuluk looked especially sluggish.  I didn't think Salmela looked particularly amazing, either.  And Davenport continues to turn the puck over more than I'd like, and get beaten on breakaways.  I'd rather have Glover.

Moulson looked very good.  He scored a goal, but looked solid other than scoring, which he hasn't many games this year.  McCutcheon had a great game, which is starting to become a trend.  Carefoot and Pegoraro weren't as impressive as they've been lately, but Carefoot's coming off an injury, and Pegoraro's goal last night was amazing enough to ensure a good weekend.  McKee also had a very solid game, and looked as if he had some confidence back.

Overall, we played a tough game, and we won.  Good job.

[Cactus12]

I sit in A and had a pretty good view... it was batted out of the air, but i think it bounced off mckees pads first and it wasn't redirected cleanly... just happened to bounce off his stick in the right direction