Colgate 2013-14

[Bennycheck]

Re: Colgate 2013-14

Time has come today !

Chambers Brothers, 1966.

http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/easyr...scometoday.htm

[ColSkate65]

'Gate leading, 3-1 in the third! Wow! Starr must be rockin tonight! Wish I were there....

[Kepler]

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I have no idea what the flaming garbage in the Cornell sweaters was tonight. Congrats to Gate -- you deserved to win about 12-1.

[TchrBill]

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YES!!!!!!!!
Congrats, Colgate!!!!!!!

[Gate93]

Hmmm - what's this in the back of my cabinet? A can of whoopaz? Maybe THAT'S what I should open this evening!

[Kepler]

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Hmmm - what's this in the back of my cabinet? A can of whoopaz? Maybe THAT'S what I should open this evening!

A can? That was more like a case.

[Rainman]

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Scoring first, and also scoring early in the game, will also be key to Saturday's game.

Boy, was I right or what? WOW!!!!!

Also, we hold tiebreakers over both Cornell and Clarkson. Very critical because this looks like it'll be one of those years where a team finishes with at least 26 ponts and misses the bye.

[red133883]

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If you watch a replay of the game look for the distance Illes' water bottle flew. I think it made if to the face off dot.

Pretty complete game, it's the game we needed to forget about the Yale brown wkend. And it was nice to get under their skin as there were a few Cornell players who were less than sportsman in the handshake line.

[Gate83]

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Hey Shabby... finally stopped lurking & registered for the thread. Awesome win tonight & look forward to seeing you next weekend! Nothing like a Cornell beat down to get the faithful excited!

[still an empty net]

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Exactly the rebound we needed, great game for Colgate!

[kwik]

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I will play the downer a little bit- for as thoroughly satisfying, both from an atmosphere, and a result standpoint that tonight was- I don't like that the next two Fridays are RPI and Princeton. They both scream "trap game" knowing what is waiting the following day in both cases.

That said, they take care of business, and a regular-season championship is entirely gettable, as is a first-round bye. THAT said, looking ahead to next year, knowing that the only guaranteed losses are McCann and Mihalik, is starting to look very, very interesting. This has turned out to be a pretty fun season thus far, and there's no reason why that fun can't continue.

By the way, though it wasn't announced in-arena, the box score does have some scoring changes, giving Spiro his hat trick.

[red133883]

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And there it is, with 3 weeks to go, we would be "in the tournament if it started today." Going to be an interesting stretch run

[Kepler]

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And it was nice to get under their skin as there were a few Cornell players who were less than sportsman in the handshake line.

To be fair, Johnston was less than sportmanlike when his dirty hit injured Mowry. Somebody mugged Gotovets later but thankfully he returned to the ice for one shift late in the game.

But there was plenty of crap going on from both teams tonight. Celebrate your win, but leave the homer b.s. at home -- nobody was wearing a white hat.

[red133883]

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To be fair, Johnston was less than sportmanlike when his dirty hit injured Mowry. Somebody mugged Gotovets later but thankfully he returned to the ice for one shift late in the game.

But there was plenty of crap going on from both teams tonight. Celebrate your win, but leave the homer b.s. at home -- nobody was wearing a white hat.

No doubt that both teams were feisty. I will have to look at both major's to see exactly what happened before I pass judgment on either (saw them at the rink but will have to see where contact was actually made).

I wasnt being a homer with my comment, it was an observation that in past years Cornell would skate around Starr like their S*** doesnt stink. The series has tightened up in recent years and Cornell seems to be taking issue with that.

The issue I had with the handshake line is that it is so easy to shake hands and move on but Cornell seemed to try to start something in the line and even after the line when Colgate was waiting to salute the fans.

[Kepler]

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I wasnt being a homer with my comment, it was an observation that in past years Cornell would skate around Starr like their S*** doesnt stink. The series has tightened up in recent years and Cornell seems to be taking issue with that.

Fair enough.

I don't agree with your assessment about Cornell taking Colgate lightly -- we've always been very leery of Colgate. IIRC when we went 16-1-1 down the stretch in 2003, they were the one. The sense of "skating like their **** don't stink" sounds very much like the accusation whenever A is archrivals with B who is archrivals with C. That's familiar because we have the same situation with Harvard, and I've heard Cornell fans say the same thing about the Crimson. It may seem to be true, but it's just a normal artifact of hating somebody who hates another. We don't circle the Colgate game but we don't ignore it either. (Although evidently we did tonight... and boy did we pay.)

Likewise the games have been tight for a while, now. Very physical, bordering on nasty, particularly when they are on successive nights. The younger fans of both teams seem to be inordinately idiotic to one another, but one advantage of being ancient is having seen that come and go in rivalries throughout the years -- nothing is probably ever going to be as malicious as the way Princeton and RPI fans used to go at each other; now that seems comical. Likewise we used to have issues with SLU when dinosaurs roamed the earth. And out west, of course, there have been rivalries where fans lose teeth. Thankfully we've never seen anything like that in this series, although visiting fans have been treated badly at both rinks unfortunately. But it will pass; it always does.

I really hope the Johnston hit was just an aberration and not a sign that there's brewing bad blood between the teams. After all, bad **** happens sometimes, even premeditated stuff by one player who thinks that's acceptable, and it's not significant -- the coach takes him aside and, er, re-educates him. One thing that's been a circuit breaker is that Schafer and Vaughn are friends -- they were assistant coaches together in 1989 and 1990. From what I've heard they like each other and they understand that each team benefits greatly when both teams are strong, since it makes the weekend pairing against us a nightmare.

'Gate destroyed us tonight and IMHO they outplayed us in both RS games. While neither team looks good enough to stand with Union or Quinnipiac, we're both candidates to get to Placid after which anything can happen. Hopefully that's where meeting #3 will take place (though I'd also accept Philadelphia).

Good luck for the rest of the RS.