Clarkson at Cornell postgame thread (2/21/06)

[Chris \'03]

Denver swept Wisconsin. I'm not sure if this is good or bad. Cornell probably can't catch Bucky without a collapse, so I'm just as happy keeping the 2 time defending champs out of NCAA contention... Of course it's nice to see that a tight checking team can beat undisputed #1 Wisconsin should Cornell see them in a regional somewhere. Elliot or no Elliot, it's a big sweep.

[Drew]

Not my style, Al.....You won, tip my hat to you.  We will be back at you in Potsdam.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote Drew]Not my style, Al.....You won, tip my hat to you.  We will back at you in Potsdam.[/quote]
I have no doubt.  I've been watching this game for nearly 50 years.

[Drew]

Hope I live that long :-D
Nice game, Cheers!
Drew

[Trotsky]

Gotta admit, any time we start throwing the "g" word around, I'm a doubter.  Cornell plays a very physical game.  Yes, it's clean, but it... um... arouses the passions... on both sides.  Several times a year, a game degenerates into chippiness or worse.  It sure sounds like this one would have been a lot worse, but it was reffed closely and fairly.  With a laissez-faire ref, who knows?

I just wouldn't lay it all at Clarkson's skates.

[Drew]

[quote Trotsky]Gotta admit, any time we start throwing the "g" word around, I'm a doubter.  Cornell plays a very physical game.  Yes, it's clean, but it... um... arouses the passions... on both sides.  Several times a year, a game degenerates into chippiness or worse.  It sure sounds like this one would have been a lot worse, but it was reffed closely and fairly.  With a laissez-faire ref, who knows?

I just wouldn't lay it all at Clarkson's skates.[/quote]

Agreed Trosky, as the saying goes," There are three sides to every story, your side, my side, and the truth".

see you guys in P'dam.
Drew

[Will]

To be fair, I saw both Cornell and Clarkson getting away with stuff they probably shouldn't have.  I'd like to say Clarkson gooned it up more, but I may be looking through Carnelian-tinted glasses here.

That being said, the officiating could have been a lot better.  It seemed like a lot of bullshit calls were being made, followed shortly thereafter by compensation calls for the other team, and all the while dirtier moves on both sides were being overlooked.  That's the way I saw it anyway.

Glad to see both O'Byrne and McCutcheon back in the game, though McCutcheon looked slower than I'm used to seeing this season (still recovering, I suppose).  Pokulok and Bitz both had a surprisingly great weekend.  The Abbotts were fantastic as well.

[canuck89]

I agree with that interpretation the most.  By the way, why was our band nonexistent for much of the night.  The Clarkson band had at least twice as many songs played as we did (Think second and third period during play stoppages).  Anyone from pep band can answer this...  To tell you the truth, I was disappointed.

[Jim Hyla]

Well I skimmed through the posts and didn't see anyone comment about the Clarkson player taking our stick and playing with it. Was it mentioned?

[Trotsky]

We may see a "Great Leap Forward" for Cornell in the polls.  The teams immediately above them:

05 UVM swept by BC
06 Michigan split with BGSU
07 CC swept by Minny

[Oat]

I would rather have a great leap forward in the pairwise ranking.  ::screwy::

[Oat]

Oh yea, I didn't really like the ref today. He made to many mistakes. Clarkson players were really really good at diving though, I have to give them that. They deserved some of those bad calls.

[ajec1]

[quote canuck89]I agree with that interpretation the most.  By the way, why was our band nonexistent for much of the night.  The Clarkson band had at least twice as many songs played as we did (Think second and third period during play stoppages).  Anyone from pep band can answer this...  To tell you the truth, I was disappointed.[/quote]

We did go longer than usual between cheers, and while this trading off is between conductors (ours happened to be conducting his first hockey game), seems to me that a both of the periods mentioned were jam-packed with penalty after penalty. We were also usurped a couple of times by announcements (which Clarkson was not aware of). I wish I could give you the answer that you want, but I was thoroughly engrossed in what was an extremely solid game (despite having a terrible ref who had no idea how to reign in the tempers/fists of both squads). Sorry if you were disappointed, it won't happen again.

[ajec1]

[quote Oat]I would rather have a great leap forward in the pairwise ranking.  ::screwy::[/quote]

That happened as well...

http://www.siouxsports.com/hockey/rankings/pwr.php

[Chris \'03]

[quote Oat]I would rather have a great leap forward in the pairwise ranking.  ::screwy::[/quote]

Well that will have to wait as Cornell's RPI is taking a hit next weekend win or lose with RPI #48 Brown and a hot #41 Yale coming to town. They'll be games 10 and 11 vs. RPI teams 40-58 this season. Compare that to 4 games vs. RPI teams 1-25! ::help::

On the bright side statistically, these are the last games with teams in the forties or below (though Union could be down there by the time Cornell closes out the regualr season vs. the dutchmen).