Cornell vs. Clarkson, game 1 postgame

[Rosey]

Go to it!

[Roy 82]

Headline:

Cornell wins 5-3 in Sudden Death Overtime

[billhoward]

Yet another game where Cornell lots of things right, puts up a huge number of shots, and doesn't have a walkaway victory to show for it. And yet another game that's solid on defense except for a little lapse here and another one there.

Good to see the three musketeers of defense back and skating. A two-OT game can't be good for the stamina of guys with limited practice time. Plus more ice time equals more change to reinjure yourself.

Leggio deserves credit for making 50 saves. We make ECAC goalie of the week out of a lot of goalies.

Good to see scoring deep in the ranks, not just the main line.
 
Time to play the how-many-goals-was-David-McKee-responsble-for contest? Or was he hung out to dry on two of them? three?

... see, it was just like Minnesota last year. Wear them down with your four lines and eventually you'll beat them in OT, if they don't get to you first.

[RichH]

Woo!  

Hats off to Clarkson for taking it to 2 OTs.  They stretched everything they had and survived the wave-offs.  It seemed like they were a little more gassed than Cornell in the OTs.  Not only did they play well, but this was the cleanest CU-CCT game I can remember in recent years.

No way the refs could've made that call correctly on Moulson's goal at the end of the first OT.  When you have 3 things to look at, (puck, green light, red light) it's a tough call.  Teet's reactions aren't 0.1 seconds fast and the green light was on before the red light despite the puck in the net.  That happens.  Great shot by Moulson, and I'm glad we got the frame-by-frame treatment on the CSTV webcast.  Great job!

[Tub(a)]

[quote RichH]this was the cleanest CU-CCT game I can remember in recent years.[/quote]

I noticed that too. It was nice to see. Hope it continues.

[Rich S]

[quote billhoward]Yet another game where Cornell lots of things right, puts up a huge number of shots, and doesn't have a walkaway victory to show for it. And yet another game that's solid on defense except for a little lapse here and another one there.

Good to see the three musketeers of defense back and skating. A two-OT game can't be good for the stamina of guys with limited practice time. Plus more ice time equals more change to reinjure yourself.

Leggio deserves credit for making 50 saves. We make ECAC goalie of the week out of a lot of goalies.

Good to see scoring deep in the ranks, not just the main line.
 
Time to play the how-many-goals-was-David-McKee-responsble-for contest? Or was he hung out to dry on two of them? three?

... see, it was just like Minnesota last year. Wear them down with your four lines and eventually you'll beat them in OT, if they don't get to you first.[/quote]

Bill, nice analysis but would it kill you to acknowledge that just maybe those goalies played well and earned the honor?

FYI, Leggio has played very well down the stretch.  Tonight was no fluke on his part.  Give the other guys some credit in a tight game.  Or can't you see that?

[Roy 82]

So how hard would it be to make the goal light lockout after the buzzer goes off? It wouldn'ty prove that a goal didn't go in in time but it would prove that it did (except for the unlikely event that the goal judge lit it up too early).

They can do it on Jeopardy, why not in hockey?. Maybe I can make a donation to endow the new goal light system.

Of course, downward pointing video or puck-past-the-goal-line sensors couldn't be that far off either.

I'll take Buzzer Shots for $200 Alex.

[calgARI '07]

That shit was absolutely unbelievable.  I'm sorry to swear but it just was fucking unbelievable.  I figure that the series should be over because Cornell won twice tonight.  Cornell dominated this game.  Lack of leadership showed in the third period.  Pokuluk assisted on two of their goals.  Clarkson had one scoring chance in the two overtimes and it came in the first minute of the first one.  Cornell absolutely dominated both overtimes and obviously deserved to win this game 1000 times over.  There was no question that that was a goal.  No question whatsoever, but ya know what, they stuck with it and won.  There were a couple shifts in that second ot where it seemed like Clarkson was taking the momentum but man that third line was absolutely amazing.  Scott better be on the top line for the rest of the year because with him on it, they actually looked like a top line.  Scott was unbelievable as was Mugford.  Gleed and Krantz were outstanding on the blueline.  Clarkson had seven scoring chances the whole game and scored on three of them.
3 Stars:
1. Scott
2. Gleed
3. Mugford

[RichH]

[quote Rich S]

FYI, Leggio has played very well down the stretch.  Tonight was no fluke on his part. [/quote]

Definitely agree.  Leggio didn't stand on his head, but he was very solid and just made the plays on each Cornell rush that he had to make.  As the game wore on, I was getting that "can we just solve him one more time?" feeling.  They did before fatigue became too much of an issue.  

McKee was very solid in the 2nd period.  I was back to being confident with his play.  Couldn't really see if the 3rd period goals were shaky on his part.

[Trotsky]

[quote Rich S][quote billhoward]Yet another game where Cornell lots of things right, puts up a huge number of shots, and doesn't have a walkaway victory to show for it. And yet another game that's solid on defense except for a little lapse here and another one there.

Good to see the three musketeers of defense back and skating. A two-OT game can't be good for the stamina of guys with limited practice time. Plus more ice time equals more change to reinjure yourself.

Leggio deserves credit for making 50 saves. We make ECAC goalie of the week out of a lot of goalies.

Good to see scoring deep in the ranks, not just the main line.
 
Time to play the how-many-goals-was-David-McKee-responsble-for contest? Or was he hung out to dry on two of them? three?

... see, it was just like Minnesota last year. Wear them down with your four lines and eventually you'll beat them in OT, if they don't get to you first.[/quote]

Bill, nice analysis but would it kill you to acknowledge that just maybe those goalies played well and earned the honor?

FYI, Leggio has played very well down the stretch.  Tonight was no fluke on his part.  Give the other guys some credit in a tight game.  Or can't you see that?[/quote]

What is wrong with you?  Bill's review was highly respectful of Clarkson.  Seriously, what is your psychological malfunction?

Great game by both teams tonight.  The better team won.  Hopefully we'll see a repeat tomorrow.

[jtwcornell91]

[quote Roy 82]Headline:

Cornell wins 5-3 in Sudden Death Overtime

[/quote]

6-3 you mean?

[Omie]

And O'Byrne was horrible leading to two Clarkson goals. Maybe he should heal a bit more.

[calgARI '07]

Leggio really impressed me with his composure.  The guy is like not even human.  Kind of reminds of Kiprusoff in that he is so mentally tough in there and absolutely  never loses his composure.  
Didn't think McKee could do much about any of the goals.

[Omie]

On the second clarkson goal Mckee had no chance.

[Rich S]

Highly respectful? Where?

He gave Leggio a backhanded compliment and that's all.  No other mention of Tech at all.

Don't play shrink Trots...you're not good at it.

I have a few things to do so you have 15 mins or so to dig up the "highly respectful" stuff.

Enjoy.  :-D