Cornell vs. St. Lawrence 1/31

"And winners win. That's all I can say about this."

Should be interesting with the suspensions.
Hopefully the guys will be fired up for their teammates and get the DUB

I'll be at the women's game but I'll be checking in on ELynah during the game. I'm hoping the brawl was a turning point for the Big Red. Get the dub.

Well I'll be watching the game on replay later tonight. It would be so cool if they can pour it on in the face of such personnel challenges.

As a fan if things go south I can always switch to watching the first 2 minutes of the Harvard game on a loop.

Go Big Red!!!

Snowball
Well I'll be watching the game on replay later tonight. It would be so cool if they can pour it on in the face of such personnel challenges.

As a fan if things go south I can always switch to watching the first 2 minutes of the Harvard game on a loop.

Go Big Red!!!

HAHAHAHA! Go Big Red!

[cornellsun.com]

8 Forwards 8 D and 1 extra skater plus goalie

Snowball
Well I'll be watching the game on replay later tonight. It would be so cool if they can pour it on in the face of such personnel challenges.

As a fan if things go south I can always switch to watching the first 2 minutes of the Harvard game on a loop.

Go Big Red!!!

Indeed you can!!

Or try this.

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8 Forwards 8 D and 1 extra skater plus goalie

For real?

DeSantis our. Schafer out. 9 d 8 f.

DeSantis out that is.

It’s gonna take a miracle

Line chart

Good news that Murray and mosko return. Could’ve been worse.

If you're a healthy scratch tonight you're never playing.

arugula
Good news that Murray and mosko return. Could’ve been worse.

Were they hurt?

Believe so. Mosko since summer.

Trotsky
If you're a healthy scratch tonight you're never playing.

Who's the healthy scratch(s) tonight? (feeling lazy)

TV up.

Shaf is a healthy scratch per the announcer
Lol

SLU homers well behaved so far. They were even talking up the wrestling team for a bit

Trotsky
If you're a healthy scratch tonight you're never playing.

Lmao jesus christ.

But that's nine players of ours out. Jesus. Did all of them get suspended???

stereax
But that's nine players of ours out. Jesus. Did all of them get suspended???

Sounds like the only player suspension we didn't know about before game time was DeSantis, which many expected based on video.

Others are injuries.

ESPN feed is wonky, as usual. Not just our game, but other men's games and women's games as well as women's basketball. What is wrong with these people? It shouldn't be so hard.

dag14
ESPN feed is wonky, as usual. Not just our game, but other men's games and women's games as well as women's basketball. What is wrong with these people? It shouldn't be so hard.

My ESPN feed has been perfect.

Mine was, until it wasn't.

andyw2100

stereax
But that's nine players of ours out. Jesus. Did all of them get suspended???

Sounds like the only player suspension we didn't know about before game time was DeSantis, which many expected based on video.

Others are injuries.

Psenicka and Donaldson are injured?

Yes

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Yes

Fuck.

watching basketball and with all the lineup updates i find myself relieved that there hasn't been any [edit: *scoring*, though by the time i noticed my error, SLU scored]

End of 1
1-0 Saints

Trotsky

dag14
ESPN feed is wonky, as usual. Not just our game, but other men's games and women's games as well as women's basketball. What is wrong with these people? It shouldn't be so hard.

My ESPN feed has been perfect.

I’m stuck in an infinite loop starting with 9:16 left in the 1st. It plays for 29 seconds and goes back to 9:16. I can’t fast forward, it goes back to 9:16. I restart the app and it goes back to 9:16. Everything I do just goes back to 9:16.

It’s not even Groundhog Day yet.

“The Saints are an alternATE road an home the next five weeks” is my “I Got You Babe.”

Espn has not been treating me well. Dartmouth continues to be my most hated team in the ECAC.

The ESPN+ service has been terrible these last few weeks. I had the “stuck at 9:11” experience. Then it jumped to 45 seconds left once I finally got back in.

Dafatone
Espn has not been treating me well. Dartmouth continues to be my most hated team in the ECAC.

More than harvard??

Nice to see Hank get the reward.

stereax

Dafatone
Espn has not been treating me well. Dartmouth continues to be my most hated team in the ECAC.

More than harvard??

Q is the only choice.

Not a night for penalties-no night is but being so short handed is worse

Bancroft has to shoot when he’s right in the slot with no defender on him.

And also, I forgot what an annoying home the SLU color guy is.

Question about the line chart: why on earth is there an "extra skater" when we don't even have the full allotment of players?

scoop85
Bancroft has to shoot when he’s right in the slot with no defender on him.

And also, I forgot what an annoying home the SLU color guy is.

ESPN heard you and killed the audio feed for your viewing pleasure.

scoop85
Bancroft has to shoot when he’s right in the slot with no defender on him.

He at least needs to take the space the defense gives him and move up to create better passing angles for scoring opportunities. Second SLU goal looked like seeing-eye pinballing garbage.

pjd8

scoop85
Bancroft has to shoot when he’s right in the slot with no defender on him.

And also, I forgot what an annoying home the SLU color guy is.

ESPN heard you and killed the audio feed for your viewing pleasure.

lol
I was just thinking the same

Trotsky

stereax

Dafatone
Espn has not been treating me well. Dartmouth continues to be my most hated team in the ECAC.

More than harvard??

Q is the only choice.

Oh, Q can go shove it for sure...

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pjd8

scoop85
Bancroft has to shoot when he’s right in the slot with no defender on him.

And also, I forgot what an annoying home the SLU color guy is.

ESPN heard you and killed the audio feed for your viewing pleasure.

lol
I was just thinking the same

Yeah, I sometimes have magical powers …

And now they’re back.

ugarte

scoop85
Bancroft has to shoot when he’s right in the slot with no defender on him.

He at least needs to take the space the defense gives him and move up to create better passing angles for scoring opportunities. Second SLU goal looked like seeing-eye pinballing garbage.

Woke Hockey. (sorry I couldn't help it)

Trotsky

stereax

Dafatone
Espn has not been treating me well. Dartmouth continues to be my most hated team in the ECAC.

More than harvard??

Q is the only choice.

Q is annoying and gross, but Dartmouth's history of goon shit goes unrivaled.

These constant line changes is making for very disjointed play

It would really help if Ian is great down the stretch.

Aaaaand we’re starting to look tired before the 2nd is over.

RichH
Aaaaand we’re starting to look tired before the 2nd is over.

Seems rather noticeable

scoop85

RichH
Aaaaand we’re starting to look tired before the 2nd is over.

Seems rather noticeable

Yes, definitely
Hopefully we will have more guys in the lineup for tomorrow

Pep Band getting kudos from announcers

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Pep Band getting kudos from announcers

That whole sequence was amusing. Color guy getting bent because the pbp was praising them, then they couldn’t talk because of “whatever this is…” (the recorded entrance music being too loud.)

“We’re trying to talk here!!”

OK this is our chance. Let's get the ppg.

Band sounds awesome

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scoop85

RichH
Aaaaand we’re starting to look tired before the 2nd is over.

Seems rather noticeable

Yes, definitely
Hopefully we will have more guys in the lineup for tomorrow

Having our forwards getting defenseman minutes. Fun...

Great first 15 seconds here. Keep winning draws, it will come!

Shots attempts this period are 23-2.

Trotsky
OK this is our chance. Let's get the ppg.

Too bad we’re still allergic to the area between the circles.

Can we dress Keopple and Katz as skaters?

stereax
Can we dress Keopple and Katz as skaters?

Nothing would surprise me

Last chance lads.

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stereax
Can we dress Keopple and Katz as skaters?

Nothing would surprise me

I mean, I'm sure they'd at least appreciate the ice time...

Even with a very depleted lineup, this game was mostly close. Things should be better tomorrow but dropping one to a weak SLU team is not ideal.

I wanted 3 points this weekend. They can still do it.

Not great.

I thought there was a rule preventing players from carrying two sticks. The St. Lawrence player was definitely carrying two sticks when he retrieved the goalie's stick from behind the net.

So much for being inspired.

Trotsky
I wanted 3 points this weekend. They can still do it.

Well, there's always tomorrow.

arugula
So much for being inspired.

They look tired with all the ice time they’re getting. I guess considering all factors it was a fairly close game.
Too bad the breakaway didn’t convert

Awful loss. I was at basketball so not watching too close but damn even the odds for a ECAC tournament bye are looking rough at this point.

andyw2100
I thought there was a rule preventing players from carrying two sticks. The St. Lawrence player was definitely carrying two sticks when he retrieved the goalie's stick from behind the net.

Found the rule:

10.6 Additional sticks - A player or goalkeeper shall not participate in play while in possession of more than one stick, except that a penalty shall not be assessed to a player who is struck accidentally by the puck while carrying a replacement stick to a teammate (see 10.3). PENALTY—Minor.

So perhaps the SLU player wasn't considered to be participating in the play, and thus no penalty?

I mean, this weekend was totally fucked ever since the brawl happened.

the power play at the end was awful even by the standards of this year.

BearLover
I mean, this weekend was totally fucked ever since the brawl happened.

Totally. Maybe if they had no injuries they could’ve absorbed the suspensions but as it is the brawl may well cost them both games. Hopefully the suspensions are all done, but the guys who played tonight are going to be totally gassed tomorrow.

I can’t accept that 21 year olds are gassed from one game. They used to joke about 40 year old Chris Chelios playing a full 60. He didn’t but he routinely played 30. For a young player who plays two games a week to have his minutes bumped from 18 to 22 or whatever. Not so bad. Not buying it. Don’t mean to seem harsh but tonight looked to me like they were not sharp. They haven’t been sharp all season.

I attribute it to ice time and the constant line changes, but that’s just my opinion

arugula
They used to joke about 40 year old Chris Chelios playing a full 60.

But that was beers in his hotel room after the game.

The injuries, the Dartmouth-game suspensions, the suspension of the head coach, all those explain the 2-1 loss to St. Lawrence. But does it excuse losing to one of the two bottom teams, St. Lawrence, 11 ECAC points, when we cruised past the other 11-point team, Princeton, twice.

Before the Dartmouth debacle last weekend, I thought Cornell could win out (RS) and wind up with the four-spot and maybe the three for the ECACs. Now, geez, we have to take part on the play-in round March 7 or 8.

Schafer truly going out with a whimper. Suspended for two games this weekend. At his son’s wedding next weekend. One more home weekend, then it looks like the one-off playoff and that’s it for Lynah. Really snuck up on us. I hope by some miracle they can get hot and at least get the added game by earning a bye.

arugula
Schafer truly going out with a whimper. Suspended for two games this weekend. At his son’s wedding next weekend. One more home weekend, then it looks like the one-off playoff and that’s it for Lynah. Really snuck up on us. I hope by some miracle they can get hot and at least get the added game by earning a bye.

People didn’t like it when, earlier this season, I said we were well on our way to the most disappointing year in Schafer’s 30 years. Barring a miracle, now there is no doubt.

Where did you read Schafer is suspended 2 games, BTW? Are the other suspended players also out 2 games?

BearLover

arugula
Schafer truly going out with a whimper. Suspended for two games this weekend. At his son’s wedding next weekend. One more home weekend, then it looks like the one-off playoff and that’s it for Lynah. Really snuck up on us. I hope by some miracle they can get hot and at least get the added game by earning a bye.

People didn’t like it when, earlier this season, I said we were well on our way to the most disappointing year in Schafer’s 30 years. Barring a miracle, now there is no doubt.

Where did you read Schafer is suspended 2 games, BTW? Are the other suspended players also out 2 games?

Not "official", but: [www.collegehockeynews.com]

To get a bye, this team basically can't afford to drop any further games against teams below them in the standings and will also need to take the majority of points in the games against Union and Clarkson. The best case scenario is a 4th place finish I think

Iceberg
To get a bye, this team basically can't afford to drop any further games against teams below them in the standings and will also need to take the majority of points in the games against Union and Clarkson. The best case scenario is a 4th place finish I think

With the schedule they have left they should be able to run the table, with the exceptions of Clarkson and Union away. Clarkson has a more difficult schedule.

But this year…

It’s February and we have one road win.

yesterday was just another example of what kills this team

a period where you outshoot a team 13-4 get multiple PPs and pull the goalie for extended time and still can't score.

Breakways, pipes, open nets, goalie makes good saves.

we are -20 in PP goals to some teams. almost a full goal a game on just the PP

Castagna to me has been a gigantic disappointment. Very few players look so good while getting nothing done. The Utahns should be concerned.

arugula
Castagna to me has been a gigantic disappointment. Very few players look so good while getting nothing done. The Utahns should be concerned.

I think the UHC has a whole bevy of other prospects they're looking at before thinking about Castagna...

That’s a shame. Usually a third rounder gets at least a look.

arugula
Very few players look so good while getting nothing done.

Tony Romano has entered the chat. At least Castagna can get through the neutral zone without getting knocked on his ass every time

arugula
That’s a shame. Usually a third rounder gets at least a look.

UHC has one of the deeper prospect pools in the league, too, though.

Makes sense. Lots of high picks.

In a normal year, I'd put a big honking asterisk next to this game and chalk the result up to the suspensions. That much disruption to the lines results in a lack of coordination, which seemed pretty apparent to me.

Plus, as it seems to go this year, another loss on a bad bounce. That second goal was about as flukey as they come.

Oh well. Let's get hot down the stretch and make some postseason noise.

Dafatone
In a normal year, I'd put a big honking asterisk next to this game and chalk the result up to the suspensions. That much disruption to the lines results in a lack of coordination, which seemed pretty apparent to me.

Plus, as it seems to go this year, another loss on a bad bounce. That second goal was about as flukey as they come.

Oh well. Let's get hot down the stretch and make some postseason noise.

Yep. Pretty sure that's the hope atp, that the boys get it together for the playoffs.

arugula
Castagna to me has been a gigantic disappointment. Very few players look so good while getting nothing done. The Utahns should be concerned.

I think this is the craziest thing I have ever read on this forum. And I post on this forum.

Obviously we each have opinions and all that. But this just leaves me mystified. We aren't even watching the same universe.

arugula
Very few players look so good while getting nothing done. The Utahns should be concerned.

Makeup is ready for you, sir. Steven A. Smith called in sick.

arugula
Castagna to me has been a gigantic disappointment. Very few players look so good while getting nothing done. The Utahns should be concerned.

I agree, but pretty much the entire team has regressed. It’s kind of hard to single out anybody.

I single out Castagna because of the promise he showed last year and the high draft bias. If you think that two goals plus one empty net shows he’s been good ok. Results business. He’s relied upon to score. For example, Walsh with similarly high expectations has met them. JC while good at the dots and reasonably responsible hasn’t. I see puck possession but not much else. Please educate me. If this is the craziest thing you’ve seen on this board I’m rather surprised and you’re buying next time in Ithaca.