Cornell-Wisconsin postgame thread (post-season thread?) NCAA quarterfinals 2006

[WillR]

Although this results sucks, it was one hell of a game and the team finished the season strong.  In some ways it seemed like a stronger playoff run than last year even if the result was the same.  

I am sad that this was the last season to watch as a student which can only mean i am doomed to spending even more time on eLynah in additione to taking time to travel to the odd game here and there.  Oh well, it was great while it lasted.

One more thing...kudos to the people sho dragged their asses out to wisconsin.  

I am looking forward to next year.  Is there a countdown going on yet?

-WillR

[Chris \'03]

Hey Bill, this games wasn't the NCAA Semifinal.

Great game. Clinic on defense by both teams. Sensational poke checks and shot blocking to assist some amazing saves from both sides. No shame in losing this game at all.

[redliner]

THNAKS!! :-)

[BCrespi]

Wow, incredible game.  When they scored I felt like I'd been punched in the stomach.  I really thought we were going in the right direction and would net one soon.  Oh well.  Tough way for me to go out as a senior, and I can't imagine how the actual senior players must feel.  To '06-'07.

Brian Crespi '06

[billhoward]

Aging alumni who remember 1973: Which hurt worse, this game where we played our hearts out as the underdog and it would have been a challenge, but a welcome challenge, to play in the title round in two weeks ... or the 1973 NCAA semis where Cornell was up 5-2 on Bucky and managed to allow the game to be tied in the final minute ... with a loss about ten minutes into OT?

I'm voting for the previous generation OT game.

[Jim Hyla]

[quote billhoward]Aging alumni who remember 1973: Which hurt worse, this game where we played our hearts out as the underdog and it would have been a challenge, but a welcome challenge, to play in the title round in two weeks ... or the 1973 NCAA semis where Cornell was up 5-2 on Bucky and managed to allow the game to be tied in the final minute ... with a loss about ten minutes into OT?

I'm voting for the previous generation OT game.[/quote]73 hands down. We should have won and been champs, this year I'd have been overjoyed to get there.

[Jim Hyla]

Think Lax

[billhoward]

[quote Jim Hyla]Think Lax[/quote]

Me too.

Anyone else have this Walter Mitty kind of dream that there'd be a hockey-lax double for Cornell this year?

[bigred06]

That penalty called on Mugford and the Wisonsin player really screwed us over, because it resulted in a 4 on 4 where the faster more skilled team is going to have the advantage. That obviously being Wisconsin. The refs were trying to make a statement not find a goal. In the end it was a great game and Mckee stood on his head.

[billhoward]

Plus we made it one round further than the Cantabs. And in defeat, we brought honor to the Ivy League and ECAC. The Harvard men peaked too soon.

[Jordan 04]

Amazing game. Little else to say.

Kudos to McKee, Elliot, and the entire squads for nearly 2 great hockey games.

It's just tough once again coming away as the team that gains so much respect from opponents and opposing fans for losing with such gusto. :`(

[djk26]

I've been wondering this for awhile...why is Harvard known as the "Cantabs"? (I like "Can'tadvs" better...  :-) )  But I'm wondering where "Cantabs" comes from?

[jy3]

great game, what defensive efforts by both squads. the team should not hang their heads after that loss. interesting how skille kinda flubbed the shot and it went upper 90. thanks for another exciting season, big red. good luck to winsconsin down the stretch

[madAgaskar07]

Cantab comes from Cantabrigian, which means 'from Cambridge.'

[DeltaOne81]

Amazing, amazing game. As was said already, this team has absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. They came out and played two awesome games when it counted most. Incredible effort, incredible game, against a team that has earned a ton of respect from me - almost as much as our team did this weekend.

I feel much the same as I did after '02, when we came out and played a great, close game against a team that we weren't supposed to be able to hang with. Except this was even so much more impressive than that. This was a team that had been up and down and up and down all season, never quite coming together. But they did it the best when it matters the most. Schafer's Cornell teams can play with the best in the nation, and they can beat the best in the nation. And one of these years they'll do it 4 times straight.

Next, stop whining. Stop making excuses. Seriously, just stop it. That makes it sound as if we have something to make excuses for. We don't, never did. They have absolutely nothing to regret and neither should we - so don't make excuses for nothing. Wisconsin is an awesome team - probably the only team I've ever see stay with a Schafer squad through multiple overtimes. We were skating circles around Minn before that bad play that lead to their goal. Tonight, both teams played incredible games, toughed it out, and deserved the utmost of respect. Earl's will to keep playing is an awesome feat, and every single person on that ice tonight - Cornell and Wisconsin - deserve nothing but respect.

If they could send, eh, let's say Maine, home, and put both teams in the Frozen Four, based on the way they played this weekend, they absolutely deserve it.

We get blamed a lot for whining, and most of the time I don't think its true, but now it is (at least for a few on here). I have as issue with schools hosting games at their home rinks on campus, but I have absolutely no issue with this. In 2003, if the regional had been in Albany, and the FF in Buffalo, would it have been unfair? Would it have been the "Cornell invitational?" No way, total bullshit. Wisconsin got lucky having a great year at the time that there was a regional and the Frozen Four in their state. So what, big whoop, good for them. What are they supposed to do, refuse to have regionals in states with good teams? Frozen Fours? ridiculous.

Additionally, if that team that was there this weekend had showed up for the RPI games, or the Union game at Lynah, or the Princeton away game, or the Yale home game we tied, or the Dartmouth or Harvard games we lost, or the ECAC final... we wouldn't have been in Wisconsin. They didn't have a season that deserved any special treatment. No one to blame but themselves. But that doesn't matter either, because after this weekend, all is forgotten and forgiven.

The location did not lose that game tonight. Hell, no one and nothing lost that game tonight. Wisconsin just won it. We were great, we played well over our heads against awesome competition. They were one shot better. And I don't hold it against them.

I have nothing but respect for our guys tonight, and for Wisco. And I'm going to be rooting for Wisconsin the rest of the way. I'd love to see a team that hasn't won a title in a long time take in their home state. That would be awesome. And those guys deserve it 100x over.

And as Jim said. Think lax. Think 06-07. In Schafer we trust.

Let's Go Red!!!!!!!!!


Edit: typo