Cornell at Harvard 11/16

Up and at 'em, boys. Harvard ate a loss to Colgate last night so both teams will be annoyed. Should be a fun one. Our annual Lynah East game too. Let's extend our winning streak against Harvard to 4, eh?

It sure doesn’t feel right that our winning streak against them is at four, seems like they’ve had our number in recent years.

chimpfood
It sure doesn’t feel right that our winning streak against them is at four, seems like they’ve had our number in recent years.

Three - a win in Jan 2024 at Lynah East and then two in the ECAC quarterfinals, as per Wikipedia. Winning today extends to four.

Sure hope they turn the tide today
Tried going back to watch the replay on ESPN+ but it’s not on there for some reason
Looking at the game stats for SOG, Penny had 6
Kraft had 5.
Penney was able to convert at least
Kraft is due
The rest need to fire more pucks at the net
That’s my take on it

Penney looked the best out of the forwards yesterday and came close to having a hat trick a few times

I watch the stands at Bright Center to see how many empty seats there are at the yet-again sold-out game. That is an other victory for Cornell in addition to the final score.

Speaking of poor attendance at New England rinks: Friday's Cornell at Dartmouth game shows an attendance of 2801. Thompson Arnea capacity is 3,500 seated, 4,500 with standing room because there is an incredibly deep concourse at the top, something that a lot of newer rinks (Quinnipiac, Colgate, RIT) do to help you cram in more fans for a handful of the biggest games. Friday's turnout looked less than 80% and begs the question of how many arenas count season ticket holders as attendees whether they come or not.

I think everywhere counts sales, not turnstile.

Players ranked by TOI:

Forward

1. Walsh
2. Bancroft
3. Castagna
4. Penney
5. Mack
6. Major
7. Kraft
8. O'Leary
9. DeSantis

Defense

1. Rego
2. Robertson
3. Kempf
4. Stanley

Bright looks empty.

Camera work is making me nauseous

OK lads. Let's go.

arugula
Camera work is making me nauseous

yeah I feel the same

Rego!!!

Trotsky
Rego!!!

Wait, already???

Very sloppy.

Harvard announcers have been good so far.

stereax

Trotsky
Rego!!!

Wait, already???

Sorry, no, he picked the pocket of a Harvard guy on an odd man rush. I should be more clear.

Lost the audio?

Audio back.

Clarkson cooled down Union today, 4-1.

Trotsky

stereax

Trotsky
Rego!!!

Wait, already???

Sorry, no, he picked the pocket of a Harvard guy on an odd man rush. I should be more clear.

Ohhhh hahaha. I was like, I'm still trying to decide whether to put on the Cornell or Devils game tonight and a Regoal would have made my decision for me :')

Cornell seemed to think they were playing Dartmouth again. Harvard is much faster. Looking like it’s going to be a long night.

Trash talk in Greek, LOL.

Personally I think we are starting to look in control.

So, if you are not listening to the Harvard broadcast, I will relay a story. Fegaras and a Harvard player are both of Greek extraction. Fegaras blew his mind last year by trash talking him in Greek during their first meeting. This past summer, they were teammates for Team Greece, and became good friends.

I'm at the game and there's a long stoppage without any explanation but I saw Wolfenburg go down the tunnel

Game is on NESN for those of you in New England

Wolfenburg hurt, I would be surprised if we get a major for this. I haven’t been too impressed with our challenges this year.

That was pretty long after the play. I don't think it was intent to injure though.

Reviewed hit to Wolfenburg to see if it was to the head. Answer was no.

Iceberg
I'm at the game and there's a long stoppage without any explanation but I saw Wolfenburg go down the tunnel

The challenge was a high hit. It was late but not high.

cth95
Game is on NESN for those of you in New England

And Virginia, strangely.

That hit was incredibly late. (Refs missed it completely.) Down another player now.

That's the stuff. Keep setting those cycling plays up.

TMFP. Too many fucking passes.

BearLover
That hit was incredibly late. (Refs missed it completely.) Down another player now.

Ah beans... just what we needed...

We would be really lucky to get out of this period tied, feels like we’ve given up 5 breakaways or two on ones and now they’re on a PP.

Faithful sound good.

Our penalty kill percentage isn’t even good and that’s not counting the three goals that we’ve given up about two seconds after powerplays ended.

Bad hit by Bancroft.

That should be 5 + GM. I hope they won't rule it that way.

You saw the camera that panned rink to stands to concourse to refreshment stand.

The sound level started way low. I thought I’d hit the mute button. The color guy seems like the mike is behind home. They deserve to be moved down by USNews.

Trotsky
Clarkson cooled down Union today, 4-1.

I guess it’s not so hard to win at Clarkson after all.

The penalties are going to doom us

OK. (1) Survive the 5. (2) Tie this up. (3) Go on to win.

And nyc.

Nesn that is.

This team is really trying hard to crush my enthusiasm for the season after the Nodak series.

Down a defenseman, down our best forward, down 1-0, need to kill a 5-minute major. Going off the rails.

BearLover
Down a defenseman, down our best forward, down 1-0, need to kill a 5-minute major. Going off the rails.

Love trust and pixie dust? Um. Or something.

chimpfood
This team is really trying hard to crush my enthusiasm for the season after the Nodak series.

This team is going nowhere, at least until at least half of the injured players are back.

Likelihood of winning tonight is below 10%.

"This way to the egress."

chimpfood
This team is really trying hard to crush my enthusiasm for the season after the Nodak series.

It's a long season and you gotta trust it.

Sporting gods want equalization after Cornell football success

REGO!!!!!

Trotsky
Rego!!!

You are clairvoyant

Beautiful kill and goal.

Trotsky
OK. (1) Survive the 5. (2) Tie this up. (3) Go on to win.

(1) check
(2) check

Now we can say it!!

Roy 82

Trotsky
Rego!!!

You are clairvoyant

REGOAL REAL??????

Wolfenberg out for rest of the game

Cameras pan the center ice area after Cornell scores. Noticed the guy behind the bench in the black Harley T-shirt. One of our people? Does Harvard interim president ride?

That first challenge looks a lot worse now, could’ve had goalie interference or offside on that but no I’d much rather blow it on an emotional challenge in the first period.

Without seeing a replay, i say the puck came out of the zone before the gosl was scored. Killer if we lose by 1.

Second assist added on the Cornell goal to... Ian Shane.

Harvard pp unit 1 played the entire advantage, too bad we couldn't push a man up they were pooped.

Cornell pp upcoming.

I know we’re injury riddled but that doesn’t explain the lack of energy. You’d think the guys getting more time would at least be hopped up and energetic

I see energy.

Special teams have been appalling, did Syer used to run them or something?

Nine shots and getting pinned defensively is what I’m seeing.

That was a good shift all around. It's not that we aren't skating hard. There is just a lot of looseness from both teams. For instance there are as few races to pucks or fights in the corner. The game is like a dogfight at a distance, it's not hand to hand.

Sorry 11 shots.

chimpfood
Special teams have been appalling, did Syer used to run them or something?

FFS we killed a 5, give it a rest.

I swear the redditification of this forum sucks.

arugula
I know we’re injury riddled but that doesn’t explain the lack of energy. You’d think the guys getting more time would at least be hopped up and energetic

Actually it does explain the lack of energy. Players have been way over-shifted two nights in a row now

Trotsky

chimpfood
Special teams have been appalling, did Syer used to run them or something?

FFS we killed a 5, give it a rest.

I swear the redditification of this forum sucks.

0-for-22 on the PP. Total embarrassment

Trotsky

chimpfood
Special teams have been appalling, did Syer used to run them or something?

FFS we killed a 5, give it a rest.

I swear the redditification of this forum sucks.

It was a genuine question, I know Syer took charge of the defense but did he do special teams too?

chimpfood

Trotsky

chimpfood
Special teams have been appalling, did Syer used to run them or something?

FFS we killed a 5, give it a rest.

I swear the redditification of this forum sucks.

It was a genuine question, I know Syer took charge of the defense but did he do special teams too?

He ran the PK I think.

Cornell hasn’t gotten this dominated by Harvard for quite a few years. Looks like a total speed and talent mismatch.

BearLover
Cornell hasn’t gotten this dominated by Harvard for quite a few years. Looks like a total speed and talent mismatch.

And yet it's still only 2-1

BearLover

arugula
I know we’re injury riddled but that doesn’t explain the lack of energy. You’d think the guys getting more time would at least be hopped up and energetic

Actually it does explain the lack of energy. Players have been way over-shifted two nights in a row now

Could be. Otoh they’re young. They shouldn’t be exhausted.

Great shift. Keep pressuring!

Another good look set up by Robertson.

I’m feeling luck on this powerplay.

Cornell pp coming up.

THERE WE GO

OK, great. Now keep on coming!!!

Let’s go win this thing in regulation, don’t like the idea of going to OT against a skilled Harvard team.

The turnovers are getting a little ridiculous.

Another PP let's do this boys and thank you walshy for finally potting a PP goal

The announcers mentioned that Rego had something to say between periods. Seems to have awoken them.

arugula
The announcers mentioned that Rego had something to say between periods. Seems to have awoken them.

Rego motivational speech?? [insert eyes emoji here] over/under on f-bombs?

Into overtime we go, as was seemingly inevitable. Let's win this fucker.

Trotsky
Into overtime we go, as was seemingly inevitable. Let's win this fucker.

Point obtained, obtain more!!!

Whew.

stereax

Trotsky
Into overtime we go, as was seemingly inevitable. Let's win this fucker.

Point obtained, obtain more!!!

Yes. This right here.

Trotsky

stereax

Trotsky
Into overtime we go, as was seemingly inevitable. Let's win this fucker.

Point obtained, obtain more!!!

Yes. This right here.

Does shootout obtain us even more points?

I usually only care about the pairwise but we need a shootout win here if we’re not gonna fall behind in the ECAC standings.

Woo.

YASS QUEEN!