It's been a long time since I was this pessimistic about Cornell's chances of winning a hockey game. Cornell has struggled in most Saturday night games this year, particularly against decent teams. Yale is dangerous offensively (top offense in the NCAA) and got a lot of great looks at the net when the two teams played in New Haven. Scrivens was playing pretty well at that time; recently, he's been a little shaky. Cornell is 0-4-1 against Yale since 2007, including some blowouts. Even at home, I don't see the Big Red winning.
Cornell needs to focus on defense. Yale is a fast team and our slower d-men will often find themselves a little behind the play; despite this, we need to limit Yale to 3-5 powerplay chances. Hope for a strong performance from Scrivens, and maybe the monster line of R. Nash-Greening-Kennedy will generate some offense.
In New Haven, Yale outshot Cornell 22-8 in the first period, but it was tied, 2-2, after one. Although Yale didn't pull ahead until the end of the game, they outplayed Cornell for most of the night and certainly deserved the win.
I know goaltending has been a liability for Yale this season, but Cornell has had a lot of trouble getting pucks on net. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't see good things happening tonight.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
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Dangerously prescient. All things considered, Ben had an outstanding game, when you think about the staggering number of shots he DID stop.
ReplyDeleteOf course it's not how it goes in the books, but this felt like a tie game that could well have been an 8-1 blow-out.