POST GAME CORNELL 3-2 COLORADO COLLEGE

[LaJollaRed]

This game felt quite emblematic of the entire season, for both teams. It was as though I was watching two different games, from one line shift to another.

I was furious at Sasha for some stupid turn overs in the first, but his stomach slide saved a possible goal and finally lived up to his draft number.

McKee wasn't fabulous, but made some important saves down the wire.

Moulson and Topher were on game, and Gleed's goal was very, very nice...Finally a BACKHAND SHOT. (I swear, I haven't seen one all season)

Tomorrow vs. Wis-caaaan-siyn. Let's Go Red.

[Chris \'03]

I can't remember the last time I've seen Cornell defensemen jump into the play as much as tonight. I think Seminoff was the only guy who didn't jump up at least once.

[LaJollaRed]

Absoultely...

Sawada was very good tonight as well...Skating faster than I've seen him go in a while.

Moulson's comment about Schafer in between periods was also nice. It reminded me of something somoeone said about him years ago. (He says the right things)

The announcers asked what Coach said to them in between periods and Moulson said:

"I'm not sure I can repeat every word of it"

AAAAGH! WHAT A GREAT GAME! LET'S GO RED!!!!!

[Per Djoos]

Great game.

Great adjustments made after the first period. McKee settled down and we stayed out of the box, which was huge.

I hope they remember the recipe for tomorrow and we'll be headed to Milwaukee.

LGR !

[jaybert]

got back from uncle joes....good times, alot of fans cheering on the big red.  see you guys there tomorrow

[Mike K]

What a win. This is by far the proudest i've ever been of any team I've either been apart of, or watched. To get down 2-0 to a great colarado college team it would have been very easy to pack it in and call it a season. But, to show the heart to come back and win and shut down the best O in the nation is an amazing achievment. Are chances against Wisconsin aren't great but you never know. We have to play a full 60 minutes of hockey. We can't take stupid penatlies. HAVE to stay out of the box.


LGR!!!! This is where we have all waited to get back to since last year, ONE WIN AWAY FROM THE FROZEN FOUR!!!!!!!

[Trotsky]

[quote Mike K]This is where we have all waited to get back to since last year, ONE WIN AWAY FROM THE FROZEN FOUR!!!!!!![/quote]

That is the bottom line.

Cornell has now been at least an Elite 8 team in 02, 03, 05, and 06.  That's pretty sweet, whatever happens tomorrow.

[TCHL8842]

This was a nice win.  CU and CC have contrasting styles and usually the defensive team wins.  I knew the CC PP would give our PKers trouble.  Sertich and Sterling are to good of players to allow the kind of room they get on the PP.  This showed up with Sertich? getting 2 assists and Sterling had one too.  This game, we minimized our dumb penalties, after the 1st, and we took the game to CC.  CC seemed tired at the end of the game.  If we use our size advantage we should tire out most of the teams left in the tourney by the 3rd period.

     Now onto Wisconsin.  From what I heard Wisconsin plays a similar style of play to us.  Wisconsin plays the trap, and waits for errand passes and capitilizes on the other teams mistakes.  Wisconsin will be a hard team to comeback on, so I think scoring first is critical for our success tomorrow.  I knew Wisconsin gets better recruits, but I don't know how long they have been playing this defensive system.  If it is the first year, we should be able to break down the trap by long passes.  Besides this I don't know much about the Badgers, except Elliot is supoosedly an exceptional goalie.

Well only 1 of the 4 teams (MN, NH, MSU, Harvard) I wanted Cornell to play is left.  Tomorrow should be an exciting game to watch, I predict the first team to 2 wins this one.

[schoaff]

First time I've ever felt glad Wisconsin lost Kessel to Minnesota ;-)

[Tom14850]

I think Cornell did themselves and the ECAC very proud (Sucks Sucks) with the come from behind win. They played Cornell hockey the last two periods perfectly.

The one thing that impressed me was some of the speed shown by the Cornell players. I myself knew that Cornell had some good speed, but I was interested to see the comparison with CC, a team that is nationally recognized as having very good team speed. There were a couple of near breakaways where a Cornell forward actually outskated the CC defense. Part of this is "Hey! We do have good speed!" and part of it was Cornell wanted it more in the second half. Either way, it was exciting to watch.

I'll admit, I wasn't optimistic after spotting the 2 goal lead - Especially not considering the way Cornell failed to come from behind against Harvard.

Tomorrow will be more difficult. The scoring chances will be harder to come by, which puts Cornell in a very difficult position. Defense better come out playing very well, without taking any penalties.

[Jim Hyla]

[quote Tom14850]I think Cornell did themselves and the ECAC very proud (Sucks Sucks) with the come from behind win. They played Cornell hockey the last two periods perfectly.[/quote]But what will Bob Norton have to say.

[Al DeFlorio]

Very satisfying win.  Once Cornell started playing its game with some semblance of confidence, they really controlled things quite nicely.  I'm glad it was played on a standard-sized ice surface this year.

[MattShaf]

A great victory tonight. The 2nd period power play goal was clearly the turning point of the game. After a horrible first period, Cornell finally mounted some sustained offense in the second but couldn't finish until the nice give and go that led to the first goal. Cornell clearly controlled the third and were finally able to take advantage of the CC giveaways in their own zone. It was great to see the ref put the whistle in his pocket in the third and let the teams play.
Tomorrow night should be an awesome fight.

[gatitita '05]

do they usually play on olympic ice? it looked like we did a lot better working off the boards...

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote gatitita '05]do they usually play on olympic ice? it looked like we did a lot better working off the boards...[/quote]
Yes, and yes.