And for this Cornell men’s hockey team, that mantra has held strong all throughout its improbably successful 2017-18 campaign. Even on Saturday, when the team was shocked at home, 2-1, by a four-win Rensselaer team, Cornell appeared determined to net an equalizer down to the final buzzer. “You play with fire [when] you get down in a game,” head coach Mike Schafer ’86 said after his team’s loss to the Engineers. And we just didn’t do that [against RPI].”With the loss, Cornell likely bequeaths its newly-awarded consensus national No. When asked what his thought process was heading into such an important game after such a disappointing loss, Schafer had no trouble mixing words.

Source: Daily Sun February 05, 2018 02:03 UTC