Brown at Cornell postgame thread

[billhoward]

Cornell was the better team on the ice and in shots on goal in the home match against Brown ... but sheesh, it was too close for comfort.

David McKee may not have the GAA of last year's Hobey Baker run, but he bailed us out late in the third and in OT.

Ho-hum. Another PPG for Matt Moulson. That's 12 on the year, plus 2 ENGs, plus 1 even strength goal. Makes him dangerous on man-up, but not exactly a 5x5 force in ECACHL hockey. He is real good on defense, though.

Not a bad night because of the final score, but it shouldn't have been this close. I was hoping for 3-0 and would have settled for 3-1 or 4-2 including an ENG.

[calgARI '07]

Brown really impressed me tonight.  Definitely are not the worst team in the conference.  All of this without far and away their best player too (Inhacak).  Anyways, Cornell's leadership was exposed again tonight after they completely broke down for a good period or so after Brown tied it.  They really really struggle after they get scored on.  It's been a very bad trend all season.  The third brown goal happened because McKee fell for some reason (no Brown players were even close to him when he did) and all the Cornell players just stopped playing.  Now for the good.
Pokuluk and O'Byrne were unquestionably the best two players on the ice.  The former continues to run the team's offense while the latter anchors the defense.  Mugford was outstanding all night so it was good to see him rewarded with a goal.  Chris Abbott also had a really good game.  Seminoff played his best game at Cornell.  McKee wasn't tested much but he made possibly the save of the season in overtime when he went post-to-post for an enormous save.  Getting very worried about tomorrow night.  Yale dominated Cornell in New Haven and they seem to be an even better team now.

[Dafatone]

The officiating was by far the worst I've seen all year.  I can't even begin to describe how horrible.  Noncalls both ways, stupid calls...  It got to the point where I seriously thought someone was going to get hurt.

[Avash]

Chris Abbott credited with the OT goal. Assists go to Mugford and McKee (his first career point).

[Dpperk29]

Cornell played well, but they shut down after that first goal.

the worst call of the night was the call on Pegs. I agree that it was a penalty, but after letting two obvious penalties go in the corners, making that call was just BS.

I thought sawada, Mugford, OB, Pokulok, and others (to lazy...) played awesome too.

[ugarte]

[quote billhoward]I was hoping for 3-0 and would have settled for 3-1 or 4-2 including an ENG.[/quote]Maybe I'm crazy but I'll settle for a 4-3 win in OT.

[Omie]

Maybe the come from behind win might have impressed Thiessen enough to choose us over UND?

[Mike K]

My thoughts on the game.

First i hope the ecac looks at this game, because this ref was awful. I was worried somebody was going to get hurt. When you hook somebody around the neck, and it isnt called, that is un believable.

I thought Bitz played his best game this year. Same with mugford/Obyrne.

Mckee wasn't on but made the big save when he needed to. (the one in OT fantastic.)

Played bad but all good teams find a way to win, and that is what we did tonight.

3 stars:

3. Bitz
2. Shasha
3. Chris Abbott

[Trotsky]

Changed scoring on the game winner:

Chris Abbott 5 (Mugford 6, McKee 1)

[calgARI '07]

[quote Mike K]My thoughts on the game.

First i hope the ecac looks at this game, because this ref was awful. I was worried somebody was going to get hurt. When you hook somebody around the neck, and it isnt called, that is un believable.

I thought Bitz played his best game this year. Same with mugford/Obyrne.

Mckee wasn't on but made the big save when he needed to. (the one in OT fantastic.)

Played bad but all good teams find a way to win, and that is what we did tonight.

3 stars:

3. Bitz
2. Shasha
3. Chris Abbott[/quote]

Bitz and Moulson didn't do anything after the first goal.  Cornell played badly for about 15 minutes but recovered nicely.

[Jim Hyla]

[quote Trotsky]Changed scoring on the game winner:

Chris Abbott 5 (Mugford 6, McKee 1)[/quote]Just the way it was called on the radio.:-)

[Trotsky]

[quote calgARI '07]Bitz and Moulson didn't do anything after the first goal.  Cornell played badly for about 15 minutes but recovered nicely.[/quote]
Always hard to tell on CSTV, but I saw numerous cases in the second half of the second period when Bitz was very physical and effective.  They didn't lead to scoring chances, but they kept Brown disorganized and back on their heels at a time when the Red was reeling from 3 straight goals against.

[Rita]

archived video is up... the rush leading to chris's gwg is at the 2:18 mark. the camera angle, and ray sawada make is hard to see the move and who got the goal (sawada/abbott). Not sure how they originally gave the goal to mugford? did the ref have a dyslexic moment (12/21?)

[Dafatone]

Bitz looked very good today.  This is a lot coming from me, as I've thought he's been just about awful this year.  Has a lot of assists, but his puckhandling has been quite bad.  Much better today, he was clearing in front of the net, and moving the puck well.

[The Rancor]

archived where?