Big Red Preparing for Big Road Weekend
The following article appeared in the February 3 issue of the Cornell Daily Sun.
The Red is preparing for a big weekend on the road, starting Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Troy, N.Y. and continuing on Saturday at 7 p.m. in Schenectady, N.Y. First, Cornell takes on Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in a game that will be televised by NBC sports network. This is the fourth time this season that Cornell hockey will be on national television.
“Every two points are valuable,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86. “People just look at the Union game but RPI could be huge for us. They’ve won three of their last four [games], they’ve beaten some good teams, they’re playing well. We need to go in and really focus on the things we’ve talked about all year long and getting as many points as we can each game — and that starts with RPI and then carries over into Union.”
The Red is anxious to get back on the ice to try to overcome its trouble this past weekend, when it lost two games to Colgate and fell in the standings, according to senior defenseman Sean Whitney. For the first time since Nov. 11, Cornell is not first place in the ECAC league. The team also fell to 14 in both of the major national polls.
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