Cornell Looks to Rebound Against Quinnipiac, Princeton
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The following article appeared in the February 6 issue of the Cornell Daily Sun.
By Allie Perez
With a pair of top ECAC Hockey foes coming to Ithaca this weekend,
Lynah Rink will host either a dramatic turnaround for the home
team, or another troubling episode in a once-spotless season. The
men’s hockey team has to overcome a string of bad fortune
against Quinnipiac, which played Cornell to a tie back in November,
when it takes the ice at Lynah tonight — with
nationally-ranked defending ECAC champion Princeton coming tomorrow
night.
“Every game is meaningful right now, with eight games to
go,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86. “Both
Quinnipiac and Princeton are right there in the top-5 [in ECAC
Hockey]. Every game is critical and our guys know that, but
what’s even more critical is how we’re playing.
We’ve got to take care of business. It doesn’t matter
who we play if we don’t change some of the habits we’ve
had recently.”
Having slipped to No. 5 in the nation, the Red (14-3-4, 9-2-3 ECAC
Hockey) has struggled as of late, going 1-2-1 over the past two
weekends, including only the fourth scoreless tie in Cornell
history, at Clarkson last Saturday –– one day after an
8-1 loss for the record books at St. Lawrence.
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