Cornell 2 Yale 2

[Brian]

[quote TCHL8842]I think OB got an concussion on that hit he took.  Hopefully, it is not that bad since he skated off the ice under his own influence.  
I think Cornell gave this game away.  The third period was absolutely shit hockey, they did not attack at all.  In result, they gave up the tieing goal, which even though the barlow situation should of been a penalty I think we deserved to let one up since we sat back to protect the lead.  This game, our team did not have the killer instinct and our PP sucked ass, this is the sole reason why we tied a crappy ass team as Yale.  We have done this before this season that is why I personally was worried about this game since Yale was on a hot streak and we tend to take so called easy games lighter then we should.  I hope for the best next weekend and hopefully the D can pick up the expected absent of OB.  Any ways we some how climbed up the PWR after this game so I can not be that much upset.[/quote]

You need to give some credit to Yale's powerplay defense they shut down passing lanes and attacked the point and we never could figure out how to get around the defense.  Yale is very gritty, reminds me alot of our 2001-2 team where we maximed our scoring opportunities and played good defense the rest of the game.  That's exactly what they threw back into our faces last night.  Our offense looked horrible because Yale was sitting back at the blue line and waiting for us to make mistakes and we need several times.  I really couldn't believe how many shots made it through on the Yale goaltender it didn't seem like that many made it through although we shoot a lot of lame slapshot in the second and third.

[DeltaOne81]

[quote TCHL8842] this is the sole reason why we tied a crappy ass team as Yale.[/quote]

Yale is not a crappy ass hockey team. They're 6-1-2 in their last 9 in ECAC play, losing only to Colgate in OT, and including a victory over Harvard. Granted, the rest of that competition before this weekend was nothing to write home about... but at we say every year, that doesn't mean its easy to put together an undefeated record, and they had (at 6-0-1), even against bad/moderate teams.

Yes, we should've beaten them, but lets not pretend they're Bentley here. They lost in OT to UNO and MSU-Mankato. Which aren't powerhouses, but are decent middle of the road western teams.