According to the Boston Globe, Maine's loss to Northeastern was
the first time they had lost consecutive games in their last ONE
HUNDRED TWENTY games.
 
Cornell 2 Yale 1
 
A Yale victory everywhere but the scoreboard.  Cornell was
out-hustled, out-shot (badly), out-checked, out-everythinged.
Yale must have had 10 can't miss chances, but Ed Skazyk came
up with impossible saves on half of them, and the Eli shooters just
plain blew the others.
 
Same old story for the Red special teams: the penalty kill looked
good, and the power-play looked horrid.  Geoff Lopatka played
IMHO the best game of his Cornell career, while the
Sancimino-Karam combo, after scoring the first goal, was
unimpressive thereafter.  Jason Weber scored the first of two
weekend goals (two-third of the team's offense) and was
otherwise invisible.  Kinda justified Brian having put him on the
late power-play against BU, though.
 
Let me add to the growing body of empirical evidence that Yale
has the worst PA in the league.  In an earlier issue of our
newsletter, we ranked Ingalls dead last in the ECAC for
building amenities.  (In fact, we ranked it as the worst place to see
a hockey game in the ECAC.)  Nothing I saw (or heard; or didn't
hear) on Friday changed my mind.
 
 
Cornell 1 Princeton 1, o.t.
 
Heard this game on the telephone, via Teamline.  The service
actually works, and the sound quality was first rate; there were
no interruptions of service.
 
This game sounded like it was 67% Cornell, but I haven't heard a
friendly broadcast in 7 years, so it may be a filtering problem.  I
leave it to those who were actually there to give their
impressions, but I walked away dissatisfied with just one point.
The fact that I needed to walk just 4 feet to reach my fridge
cushioned the blow somewhat.  Can't wait for that AT&T bill.
 
 
I know this is the kiss of death, but tomorrow's game against BC
is the first game against this team* which I think going in that
Cornell has a non-trivial chance of winning.  It will be VERY
interesting to see who Brian puts in net.  I still vote for Andy, but
Skazyk has been so consistently lucky that... well, when do you
stop calling it "luck"?
 
 
Greg
Boston
Let's Go Red!
 
(* That's since I became a fan, 12 seasons ago.)