Big Red Prep for UNH Rematch
The following article appeared in the October 29 issue of the Cornell Daily Sun.
The men’s hockey team will have a flashback to last season’s NCAA East Regional tournament as it opens up the 2010-11 season at home this weekend. Cornell made an earlier than expected exit from the tournament as it fell to the University of New Hampshire, 6-2, during the regional semifinal, which was eventually won by the Rochester Institute of Technology. The Red will first host UNH tonight for its season opener, before taking on RIT tomorrow. Both games will take place at Lynah Rink at 7 p.m.
Going into tonight’s game, No. 15 Cornell is excited for its first opponent to be a highly ranked one with a strong team. No. 10 UNH (1-1-2) comes to Ithaca for its fifth game of the season, and the Red is ready to rise to the challenge.
“UNH is obviously a good team, a good program, so when we scheduled them we knew right off the bat they’d be solid no matter what, they always are,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86. “We’ll find what we have, where our problem areas are, but we’ll also find out where our strengths are. I think it’s a test; if you don’t play strong programs and strong teams, you get a false sense of how good you are, what the pace is, how much time you have for plays or whatever it may be. The stronger the better, and we know we have two strong opponents this weekend.”
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