Colgate 2021-22

[TheGreenCoat]

Simple statistics can at times be somewhat misleading, but consider the following...Cornell 82 shot attempts, Colgate 28...Close In shot attempts: Cornell 62, Colgate 26...Benson was great and, with a little puck luck (let's be honest) we stayed in the game...but this thing could've been easily 4-1 or 5-1 and yours truly is not criticizing the players (they played hard) but our approach, as was pointed out by the Cornell broadcasters in the first period...SOG during last two periods were something like 37-10...over the years Colgate has had a very poor record against so-called superior opponents...yes, we did well against an in jury-plagued team in February, but against Harvard, Q-Pac and Clarkson we were 0-6-0, 6 goals scored, 25 goals allowed...really, the only season where we did well against highly-ranked teams was in 2013-14 (even the 2014-15 team that lost to Harvard in the ECAC finals had trouble beating high Pairwise teams)...in the end it kept us from receiving an NCAA bid...after the beautiful goal by Verboon we probably had 1-2 legit scoring chances...Cornell has been a victim of much bad luck over the past two seasons (the 2020 cancellation where the Big Red were either #1 or #2 in the nation) and last year (where the Ivies were up to their usual "woke" behavior)...assuming we lose, I am rooting for Coach Shafer and his team to win a national championship...(glad I'm not an RPI fan today...my God)

[sshablak]

I don't complain about the officiating very often but last night's officiating was a travesty. The "major" in the third and ejection cost us the game. I hope I can see it again maybe on Youtube today and see if it was worse than what I saw.
Saw one replay last night and it looked like the player was crosschecked in the lower back near the boards in center ice. I don't think he even went down on the ice. Ridiculous, then a Cornell player comes in and hits the Colgate player, a small scrum ensues and the Cornell player got nothing. A minor was called, Schafer complains, refs go off the ice for video review and come back and change it to a major. Said to myself, game over !

We simply cannot give them six powerplays and expect to win. If it wasn't for Bensen's phenominal play it could have been way worse.

[red133883]

There was also a play where the Cornell player tackled our guy away from the puck and laid on him….interference.

I think the problem is that we are the smaller team and when we make a big hit and take down the bigger player it looks much worse and odd than when the bigger player hits us and it is “expected” we go down. Now this doesn’t matter in the rule book but does for perception

[red133883]

There was also a play where the Cornell player tackled our guy away from the puck and laid on him….interference.

I think the problem is that we are the smaller team and when we make a big hit and take down the bigger player it looks much worse and odd than when the bigger player hits us and it is “expected” we go down. Now this doesn’t matter in the rule book but does for perception

[iowabasedtraveler]

Well, it appears that we have our work cut out for us to win our sport’s national championship. We just need to run the table… two wins in Ithaca, two wins in Lake Placid, two wins at our NCAA Regional, and the final two wins in Boston.
Wherever you go, Go ‘Gate!!

[Marmot]

Another heartbreaking NCAA loss for the women. Sad to see them unable to advance. That said, Coach Fargo has the program where it should be the benchmark for every other one at the school.

Let’s shock the Big Red tonight.

[TchrBill]

Scores list Colgate leading Cornell, 1-0 @ 3:56, 1st. It’s 8:37pm and Colgate leads Cornell 4-1, end of 2. THIS. SITE. SUCKS.

[Rainman]

We live to see another day!

Side note - WHY was the women’s team matched up with Yale in the NCAA Tournament? I mean, the 2 teams just played each other in the women’s ECAC Championship game! I think it gave us a disadvantage!

[still an empty net]

What a great win tonight. I know a lot of us are not happy with the current state of the program but we now have 3 wins over Cornell this year. One last win tomorrow is the last thing I am asking for this year. Making it to Lake Placid is a big accomplishment no team should take for granted… even if we lose 5-0 to Qpac. Go Raiders and let’s see the same plan tomorrow night.

[CLKHockey]

What a great win tonight. I know a lot of us are not happy with the current state of the program but we now have 3 wins over Cornell this year. One last win tomorrow is the last thing I am asking for this year. Making it to Lake Placid is a big accomplishment no team should take for granted… even if we lose 5-0 to Qpac. Go Raiders and let’s see the same plan tomorrow night.

if the Engineers can pull another one off as well, you wouldn’t have to worry about Q right off..

[sshablak]

Great win, we live to fight another day at 4:00 pm today. It's too bad the officiating plays such a factor, penalty calls friday night favored the Big Red, that major cost us the game, still irked. Last night Cornell gave us seven powerplays and we got two powerplay goals and stopped all four Red powerplays, officiating the difference.
We are a faster team, they are a bigger team, who gets the calls today ? I think the series should be over.
Their two majors were hits to the head and Gate's lucky noone got hurt. Then Young gets taken out in the third, left the game bent over doubled up as he made it to the locker room, have to think he's doubtful for tonight. Refs went off the ice to look at the film, came back, no call, not sure if it was a penalty or not ?
Hope the boys are still healthy and not too beat up for today. I once asked Mike Milbury after a Bruins vs Canadians playoff series, don't you want to run Guy Lafleur thru the boards ? His reply, "You can't hit what you can't catch" Hopefully that's us tonight ! Still irked about the officiating, just awful !

[sshablak]

if the Engineers can pull another one off as well, you wouldn’t have to worry about Q right off..

Wouldn't that be wonderful ?

[TchrBill]

We live to see another day!

Side note - WHY was the women’s team matched up with Yale in the NCAA Tournament? I mean, the 2 teams just played each other in the women’s ECAC Championship game! I think it gave us a disadvantage!

You must be familiar with the PWR, Rainman? No. 5 Yale @ No. 4 Colgate. I had a bad feeling from the moment I woke up. Couldn’t make it due to the bomb cyclone - how ominous. Crowd was not what it could/should be; I get the hype with basketball, but student-athletes should almost be required to attend an NCAA playoff game at home! Yale had revenge on its mind. They’d shut us out twice. Yale scored first. Their goalie is phenomenal. Home ice felt meaningless. We didn’t even have 4 teams participate in our tournament like everyone else. Hard to be disappointed with a 30-win season, but another NCAA tournament OT loss (that makes three). Shutting down our top line for the third time…Yale is worthy of the FF.
Great talent returns, but putting up 13 goals against RIT and inflating stats is misleading. We struggled against Top-10 teams more than once. Hope the groundwork has been set for future top recruits to play at Colgate. Putting Murphy in goal changed the outcome of our season. Hate to think where we’d be without Kalty…It certainly is fun cheering for a winning program!

[TchrBill]

Cornell is always intimidating with its size and physical play. So impressed we held our own and took advantage of special teams. Their goalie is not the best IMO and they even benched him halfway through, if I recall. My expectations this season were low (sorry) and so were the outcomes vs. Cornell (sorry), so the wins against them were more impressive. As someone said, the Big Red are struggling this season (much like SU hoops) so why not beat them while they’re down?! But nothing, absolutely nothing, is better than beating Cornell at Lynah! It really should be worth 2 wins in my expert, biased opinion.
Go ‘Gate! Get to LP and give us a %*#! banner.

[sshablak]

Attaboy Bill !