Cornell @ RPI postgame

TimV · February 25, 2006, 01:15:00 AM

Can we pleeeease stop taking solace in outshooting our opponents? Low quality shots are not gonna do it for us. "BLah teams" that have put it to us this year: RPI 2x, Union, Princeton, Clarkson, and oh yeah - BROWN took us to OT.

We are just not that good folks. And all this stuff is just whistling past the graveyard. I am not at all confident of seeing us in Albany this year. And until we can generate some serious offense, we will continue to hear the overated cheer. ::yark:: ::yark::

Rosey · February 25, 2006, 01:24:09 AM

[quote TimV]We are just not that good folks. And all this stuff is just whistling past the graveyard. I am not at all confident of seeing us in Albany this year. And until we can generate some serious offense, we will continue to hear the overated cheer. ::yark:: ::yark::[/quote]
As much as it pains me, I am forced to agree with Tim. Given how inconsistent we are playing, I am not betting the company payroll on another Albany trip this year.

I think this may be one of those infamous "rebuilding" years, after last year's decent run. Hopefully we'll have some better offense next year and/or a new game plan, because this year's is just not cutting it.

Sorry to sound so down, but this is 2004 all over again. ::worry::

Kyle

Karlmoose · February 25, 2006, 01:34:25 AM

I nominate this last "offer" for the post of the century.

CM cWo 44 · February 25, 2006, 01:59:35 AM

These posts are really offensive. As a slut, Madilldo myself, I don't appreciate the humor in poking fun at my race. There will be a rally on Ho Plaza about SLUT-Deprication on campus on Sunday @ 2 PM. Please come. Thanks.

-Slutty VonSluttington

French Rage · February 25, 2006, 02:33:07 AM

Wow, with a fan following like that, maybe one day Union can actually win a playoff series.

Rich S · February 25, 2006, 02:52:14 AM

[quote billhoward]
- RPI got into the "overrated" cheer but deservedly so on this night. At least Cornell shot back, "You're not rated." Their "Harvard rejects" cheer as to be expected, because what can we cheer back, "You're too scared to apply"? [/quote]

Nah, you might be better off replying "Clarkson rejects". LOL.

Scersk '97 · February 25, 2006, 03:48:24 AM

Well, only one team--you, Bruno--has nothing to play for Saturday night. Obviously, we're cheering for SLU, Clarkson, and RPI. Both Clarkson and RPI are cheering for us:

1) RPI, obviously, would like to pull ahead of Union.
2) Clarkson loses the three-way tie with RPI and Union but wins the two-way with Union no matter how the top 4 ends up.

So, come on, somewhat-Yellowish Knights! Claim the sweet road win at Bright that, good year or bad, seems your birthright! And you, Larries, have you thrown away with scorn that early-season form? Will Dartmouth toss you from the rink, heads hanging low for the fourth year in a row? And you, Puckmen of RPI (or whatever it is we call that little guy), will Colgate make you curse the date when you were born, or will you sound that blasted horn?

I say things break our way tomorrow night.
Let's go Red.

Omie · February 25, 2006, 03:48:26 AM

OUCH!

"I'm really disappointed in our hockey team," said Cornell Head Coach Mike Schafer. "We're down three of our best defenseman, but early on, we didn't believe we could win without those three guys. I'm disappointed in that mentality, as opposed to coming out and taking control of the game and going after it the way we wanted to."

I think that sums it up.

Jim Hyla · February 25, 2006, 08:20:18 AM

[quote krose][quote TimV]We are just not that good folks. And all this stuff is just whistling past the graveyard. I am not at all confident of seeing us in Albany this year. And until we can generate some serious offense, we will continue to hear the overated cheer. ::yark:: ::yark::[/quote]
As much as it pains me, I am forced to agree with Tim. Given how inconsistent we are playing, I am not betting the company payroll on another Albany trip this year. :PKyle[/quote]Well, if we're not a good team there must be a lot of bad teams out there. So 3/4 of the ECAC or NCAA must be bad. Yes, I know we are holding us up to a higher standard, but finishing as low as fourth in the ECAC doesn't make us "just not that good", unless we need to be the best to be considered good. A rebuilding year, maybe, but I'd take a top four finish, and what I consider a good chance of winning the ECAC tourney, any rebuilding year. So, let's keep up our cheering and think that once our D gets healthy we'll be able to beat anybody, or lose to anybody. ::worry::

Rosey · February 25, 2006, 09:23:00 AM

[quote Rich S]Nah, you might be better off replying "Clarkson rejects". LOL.[/quote]
I actually wanted to start either "Clarkson rejects" or "SUNY rejects", but didn't get the chance. Too bad.

Kyle

Rosey · February 25, 2006, 09:32:30 AM

[quote Jim Hyla]if we're not a good team there must be a lot of bad teams out there. So 3/4 of the ECAC[/quote]
You know I am not the biggest ECACHL fan. I would easily put the bottom 2/3 of the ECACHL in the bottom half of the NCAA (with most of those teams piled in the 25th percentile), and the strongest team in the ECACHL (currently still us) somewhere in the 75th percentile, the PWR be damned. Even KRACH agrees with me: Cornell is now at #15, almost exactly the 75th percentile.

I suppose I would call that "good," but "good" isn't good enough. Any year in which Cornell isn't a serious contender for a national championship---which they are not this year, given the way they've been playing of late---is a rebuilding year, in my opinion.

Cornell does have the tradition of getting stronger come tourney time, but it's already the last weekend of the regular season: now's the time to put up!

Cheers,
Kyle

dbilmes · February 25, 2006, 09:36:41 AM

All losses are frustrating, some more than others. This was one was frustrating for many reasons, including the fact that we dominated play the last two periods, especially the third period, and had nothing to show for it, and had to hear that damn foghorn go off three times. And this was the same RPI team which gave up 4 goals in back-to-back games last weekend, including three in the third period to Quinnipiac, and we couldn't score even once!

Lange was solid, but we didn't force him to "stand on his head" as they like to say. I do remember Moulson having a clear shot on goal in the third period, only to break his stick. There was even a scary moment in the second period when McKee was without his stick for what seemed like an eternity until we could get the puck out of end.

Since both RPI goals were scored at the far end of the ice, it was hard from the Cornell section to get a good luck at them. But I saw them both on the TV news this morning. On the first goal, the Eizenman basically skated around and through three Cornell players and then slid the puck pasts McKee. The Albany newspaper called it "perhaps the most spectacular goal of the season for RPI." On the second goal, McKee had no chance. And McKee didn't get much action in the second period, but he did keep us in the game with several excellent saves.

Finally, I felt bad for the band being stuck as far away from the Cornell fans as possible while still being in the same rink. Even so, they definitely came across as louder and better than RPI's excuse for a pep band.

Let's hope we can at least salvage a point from the weekend at Union tonight. There's no doubt we miss Sasha, O'Bourne and Krantz. If we can get them all back healthy for the first round of the playoffs, it will make this recent stretch of poor play more palpable.

Rosey · February 25, 2006, 09:40:06 AM

[quote dbilmes]more palpable.[/quote]
I "feel" we've had enough losses, thank you.

Kyle

jy3 · February 25, 2006, 10:22:30 AM

[quote Rich S][quote billhoward]
- RPI got into the "overrated" cheer but deservedly so on this night. At least Cornell shot back, "You're not rated." Their "Harvard rejects" cheer as to be expected, because what can we cheer back, "You're too scared to apply"? [/quote]

Nah, you might be better off replying "Clarkson rejects". LOL.[/quote]
well, we did, after replying cornell rejects

jy3 · February 25, 2006, 10:30:14 AM

some things about the game I noticed...
1. sloppy play in the first. passes behind your target, not being able to do a simple dump in off the boards on the powerplay or pass off the boards, NOT passing crisply, NOT using the defensemen as a release when carrying the puck on break out, not getting good wood on most shots, especially in the first... the team just looked off. they were not cohesive.
2. RPI played solid defense. they allowed shots, but for the most parts not quality shots. we had quality shots, but most were from wide angles or out far.
3. lange played very well. positioning is 90% of goaltending and he had it last night. he made a few very nice saves as well
4. both no goal calls were the correct call considering when the whistle was blown.
5. officiating was horrible both ways. cornell got away with blatant hooks/trips, as did RPI. what happened with the whistle blowing when cornell had the puck on a delayed penalty and were in the offensive zone? that was so odd.
6. #2 for RPI played a solid defensive game...
7. considering cornell was missing three defensemen it was not a bad effort except that the first period was the worst period I have seen in a while. mainly for what is said in #1

here is looking to a win 2nite at onion with the cornell fans being most of the fans at senior night. then some rest for the team and healing.