Cornell Hosts Quinnipiac After Bye Week
The following article appeared in the March 11 issue of the Cornell Daily Sun.
BY EVAN RICH
A week off may have been just what the men’s hockey team needed after backing into a first-round bye in the ECAC playoffs two weeks prior to tonight’s matchup with Quinnipiac. The Red (13-13-3, 11-9-2 ECAC Hockey) lost three of its last four contests down the stretch — punctuated by losses to Ivy rivals Brown and Yale on the last weekend of the regular season — but will still be hosting the Bobcats (15-13-8, 6-9-7) at Lynah Rink tonight at 7 p.m. to kick-off a best-of-three series.
“I compared our [loss against] Yale to our Dartmouth game that we had last year on our drive to the ECAC championship,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86. “[The Yale game] was a game of reckoning for us as a coaching staff to look at some things that we needed to look at and maybe make some adjustments. The way we played is just not going to lead to any kind of success … and hopefully it was a real wakeup call.”
If practice is any indication, the disappointing end to the regular season may have been the call to action that the head coach had hoped it would be.
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