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Big Red Ramblings

I'm sure others will comment, but it was a combination of poor defense and goaltending in the last 6 minutes, bad officiating, important faceoffs, and Clarkson getting enough confidence to make the comeback.
 
It was a perfect storm: McDonald turned into a pumpkin, Cornell stopped playing, the officials blew some key icing calls, and Casey had Clarkson ready to take advantage.

Amazing comeback by Clarkson -- full credit to the team I root for when my team is not on the ice.

And, hey, for the last 5 minutes of regulation my team was essentially not on the ice.
 
Kepler said:
It was a perfect storm: McDonald turned into a pumpkin, Cornell stopped playing, the officials blew some key icing calls, and Casey had Clarkson ready to take advantage.

Amazing comeback by Clarkson -- full credit to the team I root for when my team is not on the ice.

And, hey, for the last 5 minutes of regulation my team was essentially not on the ice.
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Not much more to be said. "Tomorrow is another day. . ."
 
What a rough way to go into break for the guys. Hopefully a lesson learned as Coach said postgame. Not sure I would want to be ASU on 1/1 as the Red may come out spitting nails and flying all over the place. We shall see.
 
After recovering from my meltdown, I realize that it's not the end of the world. Officially, for some purposes, it ended as a tie. We knew that this is largely an inexperienced team and this game proved there is a lot to work on. Before the game, both the coach and the interviewed players indicated that flu had been going around the team and by the end of the weekend's games, there might have been no reserves of energy to call upon.

The upcoming last four out-of-league games away at Arizona State and North Dakota will tell us a lot about the team's resilience and ultimate prospects. #LetsGoRed.
 
40-Year Big Red Fan said:
With no public announcement, Cornell has started selling season tickets for the rest of the season.

Much of today's TMQ: Are the PairWise and RPI systems broken? Should college hockey go back to the NHL points system for overtime? focuses on Cornell in its discussion of weaker leagues difficulties in RPI and PairWise.
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Any word yet on whether Cornell's shutdown today due to Covid will impact their hockey team's visit to North Dakota the first weekend in January?
 
Who knows at this point? The team doesn't play any games until the first weekend of next month at ASU but then the next two weekends are also on the road at ND and then Yale and Brown. No games are actually on Cornell's campus until well into January.
 
Any word yet on whether Cornell's shutdown today due to Covid will impact their hockey team's visit to North Dakota the first weekend in January?
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3 weeks away? Should be fine as far as quarantine concerns. Guessing most players will probably NOT travel home, which sucks for them but best for greater good. Let's hope that this is a short lived spike and we can move on next semester.
 
Ouch: Tompkins County leads the nation in COVID rate per 100,000. Cornell sports seem to be making event by event decisions: Men's and Women's basketball games this week have been cancelled or postponed. Men's wrestling apparently going ahead with competition at Journeymen Collegiate Wrestling Duals at Niceville, Florida tomorrow.
 
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Any word yet on whether Cornell's shutdown today due to Covid will impact their hockey team's visit to North Dakota the first weekend in January?
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ASU's schedule still shows them playing against Cornell the first weekend of Jan. Did Cornell cancel out? Covid related?
 
Assuming the team has or will fly west very soon, it's safe to assume they are healthy and ready for two large weekends of college hockey. Who knows where the season goes from here...but I'm ready watch EPL soccer with 50k in the crowd and teams somehow not getting infected.
 
BigRedBeer said:
Assuming the team has or will fly west very soon, it's safe to assume they are healthy and ready for two large weekends of college hockey. Who knows where the season goes from here...but I'm ready watch EPL soccer with 50k in the crowd and teams somehow not getting infected.
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Except EPL teams are getting infected, with 16 postponements, 6 since Christmas.

Sean
 
The latest word is that indeed some players (and coaches?) did test positive for COVID, none had serious symptoms. So some have been going through quarantines and practices have been spotty. But the good news is that while some players will not be going to Arizona, the games with Arizona State are on for this weekend. Better news is that all players are expected to be available for North Dakota for the following weekend. So as of right now all scheduled games are on. #LetsGoRed
 
After a decent first period for the Big Red (with a goal by Ertel), they went terribly flat in the second. Arizona State perked up. And a defensive end giveaway by Rego and a bad decision by Joe Howe to leave his net led to two Arizona State goals. The Big Red perked up a little in the third, but a garbage goal in front of Howe made it 3-1. Howe was pulled and an extra man goal by Psenicka made it briefly 3-2. But two ENG made the final score 5-2.

Why such a terrible second? Lots of possible excuses: lack of training with the COVID hiatus made players lacking in stamina (Arizona State seemed to outskate the Red as the game went on); lack of any game experience for nearly a month, travel? Tonight's game will be a real test of the team's mettle.
 
Goaltending becoming a big problem. Howe was less than stellar last night and McDonald was pulled after three goals in the first period tonight. Ian Shane making his college debut.
 
Watched Saturday and agree with the review. Nice start, sleepy 2nd period...but the 3rd was very deceiving. We carried play, generated chances and hit posts. ENG's made the result sting more than reality. Getting a special teams goal (pulled goalie) is a positive. Didn't see last night, but they obviously battled back and showed some grit and didn't get down, when down 3-0. I'm going glass half full. Young team gets a wake up call after a long break. ASU is a pretty solid group with transfers, good goaltending, and a weird home barn advantage. That place was embarrassing! Question. Is this a field trip, team building week somewhere, or are they coming back to Ithaca? In a perfect world, I'd go somewhere and skate hard, work hard and team build...then head to UND. I still feel this team is going to grow into itself, and with a pretty weak ECAC slate....we can still make some noise. #LGR
 
I'm nicely surprised that we won both games. I was hoping for 1 win out of the series. Watching the game I didn't think ASU was particularly good nor Cornell was particularly bad. I can't point to anything in particular. I'm wondering if maybe the Cornell players were dealing with rustiness, Covid issues, time zone differences, etc...... any or all that & other little things that just added up to the sweep(?)
Anyway, I hope Cornell does great the rest of the season (with the exception of UND being I went to school there also.......)
 
"ASU is a pretty solid group with transfers, good goaltending, and a weird home barn advantage. That place was embarrassing! "

Hey, calling my baby ugly??? But next time you come down we'll be in the new digs. Did you drive by & see it?
 
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