Yale - Cornell post-game

[cp20]

really !!

[Beeeej]

[quote Oat]Bad bad bad bad bad game. In the third period, it seemed like there was a penalty on Yale that should have been called but wasn't. This was right before they scored their second goal to tie up the game. I didn't really see what happened, but our players were flipping out at the ref after they scored. Did anyone see anything?[/quote]

I was pretty sure Yale was a few feet offsides right before they scored the tying goal.  That could be why they were flipping out.  (I haven't watched the archive - anybody who has want to comment?)

Beeeej

[calgARI '07]

[quote Ken '70]
The player we need a lot more from is McKee.  Despite the stop on the penalty, he's average, at best.  A team like Cornell is not going anywhere with average goal tending.[/quote]

I was pretty hard on McKee earlier in the season, but I'm not gonna point a finger at him for this weekend.  Can he play better?  Definitely, but he isn't playing nearly as badly as he was in November.  I think he made some big saves this weekend and the only goals he's getting beaten on are scrambles around the net and enormous defensive breakdowns.  The second Yale goal last night looked a lot like the third Brown goal where they just stopped playing down low.

[mjh89]

The most noticable aspect of the game, from my point of view, was how physically dominant Yale was. They outhit Cornell all over the ice. McCutcheon's goal was one of the nicest I have seen in a long time. I agree with others' sentiment that Cornell was the better team. They had more shots, more opportunities, and carried the play. If Cornell played Yale 10 times, I'd expect at least 7 wins.

[canuck89]

Yeah, one of our players was crosschecked into the boards behind the net which left him on the ice.  This freed up one of their men to put in the puck.  At the very least, i thought the penalty should've been called considering Hansen was looking right at it.

[canuck89]

I do think we should give Yale some credit for their penalty kill.  Actually, it was one of the best I've seen against use all year.  We couldn't get many shots off that weren't through traffic.

By the way, does anybody know why we tried leaving one man at the point instead of two on the powerplay?  We tried this once or twice but it seemed Schafer abandoned this pretty quickly.

[calgARI '07]

[quote mjh89]The most noticable aspect of the game, from my point of view, was how physically dominant Yale was. They outhit Cornell all over the ice. McCutcheon's goal was one of the nicest I have seen in a long time. I agree with others' sentiment that Cornell was the better team. They had more shots, more opportunities, and carried the play. If Cornell played Yale 10 times, I'd expect at least 7 wins.[/quote]

You should have seen the game at Yale - they thoroughly thoroughly dominated Cornell physically in that game, moreso than any other team I've ever seen during the Schafer era.

[Drew]

Does Yale seem like a very big team to you?  They looked huged compared to us, and were very physical.

[RichH]

[quote Drew]Does Yale seem like a very big team to you?  They looked huged compared to us, and were very physical.[/quote]

I believe that the era around 2002-03 changed the way much of the league thought about recruiting.

[Dafatone]

A lot of Yale's physical dominance came from their getting away with crosschecks and hits from behind.

That being said, a lot of it came from them just hitting us hard.

[Rita]

Do the "woofing gods" read minds? I was listening to the game at work while doing a somewhat repetitive task and by the third period my mind started to wander. I was thinking "Gosh, it is only a one goal came, but it feels ok. Cornell seems to have most of the momentum and are controlling the play. I wish they would get another goal, but I think they will hang on to this lead."

Then Yale scored. :-/  

In the future, I will try to keep my mind on a shorter leash. ;-)

[billhoward]

And somewhere in a mobile home park outside Memphis there's a person who still regrets the day she thought aloud, "So the King put on a few pounds ... he's still the King forever ... he's immortal."

That's not the woofing gods who did you in. It was the Big Red defense that took a momentary time-out. That happens. It's a long season. 'course, it's a longer off-season, too.

[KeithK]

Yes, the woofing gods read minds.  They are omniscient.  That said, thinking that things are ok is not woofing.  Woofing is thinking that and then telling your Yalie co-worker that Yale sucks and Cornell is going to mop the ice with them.  (To which the Yale co-worker would likely say, what are you talling about?)