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Re: CU-BU 2023 - 2 days ago
Swampy, great write-up. I don’t really disagree with any of it. Cornell certainly earned their goals and I don’t mean to call them flukey in any way. (My point on the PP goal was that it wasn’t the result of any PP sets or plays, but rather a couple of nice individual efforts and perhaps a breakdown by BU, i.e. it doesn’t indicate to me that Cornell has solved its PP woes.) The second Cornell goaby BearLover - Hockey
Re: CU-BU 2023 - 3 days ago
Trotsky BearLover I’m very happy Cornell won last night and I had a great time at the game. But the performance did not inspire confidence for the rest of the year. Looking at the chances Cornell gave up, BU easily could have had four or five goals. Even though Cornell did finally score on the PP, it came when a puck popped out to Walsh from the half-wall, rather than set up by a passing play. Thby BearLover - Hockey
Re: CU-BU 2023 - 3 days ago
I’m very happy Cornell won last night and I had a great time at the game. But the performance did not inspire confidence for the rest of the year. Looking at the chances Cornell gave up, BU easily could have had four or five goals. Even though Cornell did finally score on the PP, it came when a puck popped out to Walsh from the half-wall, rather than set up by a passing play. The PP did look someby BearLover - Hockey
Re: CU-BU 2023 - 3 days ago
Swampy BearLover marty So does Hockey East have additional time outs during the regular season broadcasts or were these effing Fan Cam Can Cans designed to encourage folks to buy $15 beers? I wasn't listening to WHCU. Did they run commercials during the extra down time? I was wondering why there were so many timeouts. It didn’t make sense given the game wasn’t televised. It allowed BU to dby BearLover - Hockey
Re: CU-BU 2023 - 3 days ago
marty dag14 I really, really hate the "fancam" So does Hockey East have additional time outs during the regular season broadcasts or were these effing Fan Cam Can Cans designed to encourage folks to buy $15 beers? I wasn't listening to WHCU. Did they run commercials during the extra down time? I was wondering why there were so many timeouts. It didn’t make sense given the game waby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 5 days ago
Iceberg I'll be shocked if the ECAC isn't a two-bid league this year Could easily be a one-bid league this year…by BearLover - Hockey
Re: New Cornell football coach search - 8 days ago
It will be hard to do worse than Archer, but I am sympathetic to the argument that Cornell football simply does not have the resources to be competitive. I am also sympathetic to the argument that Archer’s replacement, unless he is a Cornell alum or otherwise has strong ties to Ithaca, will immediately jump to a better program if he finds success at Cornell. So I can’t say I am hopeful about theby BearLover - Other Sports
Re: Cornell @ Princeton 11/18/23 - 10 days ago
arugula sah67 scoop85 Tonight Psenicka had several golden opportunities that he just couldn’t bury. Mind boggling. I feel like the majority of Psenicka's goals in previous seasons were tips and deflections from the slot or right in front of the net, and yet he never seems to be positioned in those spots on the PP this year. I'm also not sold on Rego getting as much PP time as he does, let alby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ Princeton 11/18/23 - 10 days ago
sah67 scoop85 Tonight Psenicka had several golden opportunities that he just couldn’t bury. Mind boggling. I feel like the majority of Psenicka's goals in previous seasons were tips and deflections from the slot or right in front of the net, and yet he never seems to be positioned in those spots on the PP this year. I'm also not sold on Rego getting as much PP time as he does, let alone quarby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ Princeton 11/18/23 - 11 days ago
chimpfood I mean we were in a worse spot around now last year but Jesus that was frustrating. We have a lot of high caliber non conference games coming up but if we keep playing like we are against the bottom of the ECAC wins out of conference won’t even matter. We had a much better team last year. There were eight freshmen and one senior in the lineup tonight.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Cornell football 2023 - 11 days ago
Local Motion As I have said before Cornell's football season is like the Martha Pollack administration. Ever since she has become president at Cornell the only news coming from the Eaat Hill is bad news. Just ask CNN. Cornell needs a new leader who brings positive energy back to our campus. Whether it's threats of violence on campus, student depression, or a football team who can't even bby BearLover - Other Sports
Re: Cornell @ Princeton 11/18/23 - 11 days ago
Four horrible results in a row. One was against a far better team than ours which gets to take advantage of graduate transfers. This team is beating Quinnipiac maybe two times out of ten. In the other three, we dominated possession in each and the PP cost us the game. 5x3 against both Dartmouth and Harvard, 5-minute major against Princeton, zero goals. You’d think that when no passing seams haveby BearLover - Hockey
Re: 2023-2024 Predictions - 11 days ago
adamw BearLover—Cornell has only 2 seniors, one of whom is the third string goalie. They do not have enough experience to compete for a national title this year. My best guess is the finish in the 20s in the Pairwise. This isn't just a reaction to last night - because I said it on our CHN podcast 2 weeks ago ... and if you want to hear it, go listen to the podcast But all I'll say is - thaby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ Quinnipiac , 11/17/23 - 12 days ago
marty BearLover marty BearLover Iceberg I think regardless of this game's result we see Koepple tomorrowCornell should play the goalie that gives them their best chance to win. Why would that be Koepple? You have no idea why Shane didn't look good in the first. (And neither do the rest of us.) Is he sick? Is his head messed up? Why do you think you can coach while watching the game on ESPby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ Quinnipiac , 11/17/23 - 12 days ago
marty BearLover Iceberg I think regardless of this game's result we see Koepple tomorrowCornell should play the goalie that gives them their best chance to win. Why would that be Koepple? You have no idea why Shane didn't look good in the first. (And neither do the rest of us.) Is he sick? Is his head messed up? Why do you think you can coach while watching the game on ESPN+? Huh? All eviby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ Quinnipiac , 11/17/23 - 12 days ago
Iceberg I think regardless of this game's result we see Koepple tomorrowCornell should play the goalie that gives them their best chance to win. Why would that be Koepple?by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ Quinnipiac , 11/17/23 - 12 days ago
That no-goal was so fucked up, kudos to Cornell for staying with it.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ Quinnipiac , 11/17/23 - 12 days ago
chimpfood That’s a goal That is 100% a goal that won’t be called a goal because it’s impossible to literally see it over the line.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Jack O’Leary mic’d up at morning skate - 15 days ago
Trotsky That was a good joke, and it got the desired effect. It was better than your lacrosse rape jokesby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Jack O’Leary mic’d up at morning skate - 15 days ago
andyw2100 billhoward I'd like to hear the Lynah audience mic'd up next time Jack O'Leary is in the penalty box and the crowd chants "Free O'Leary." This doesn't bother you? I mean there have been some stupid chants over the years, but cheering for the opposing team to score is pretty high on the stupid list for me. That is very clearly not what they’re cheering for.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Cornell football coach - 17 days ago
Some of the stuff in this thread is crazy. People aren’t paying $100 to attend Harvard-Yale except maybe some crazy rich people who want to pay for some sort of VIP package. It needs to be stated that almost no one attends games at even the successful Ivy programs—they have very few fans in general and the students don’t care at all. Yeah the president of Cornell doesn’t care about athletics,by BearLover - Other Sports
Re: Fish N Fowl 11/11/23 - 17 days ago
VIEWfromK Despite the disappointing weekend I still feel like the team is ahead of my expectations. For a team with so many first year players playing key roles I have seen plenty of instances where it feels like these guys have been in the system for years. The lost weekend was definitely a team effort. I generally believe that the hallmark of successful Cornell teams is their straight aheadby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Fish N Fowl 11/11/23 - 18 days ago
Trotsky BearLoverI don’t see anyone creating offense other than Robertson.Kraft and Castagna were setting up plays all night, we just couldn't pot them. Yeah, I was just talking about the defensemen though.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Fish N Fowl 11/11/23 - 18 days ago
BearLover First two Harvard goals were on terrible mistakes by Cornell which led to two of Harvard’s best players skating in on Shane all alone. I don’t really fault Shane, neither was close to a gimme save, though Harvard’s goalie made some saves in similar spots. The offensive talent of Cornell is apparent, but the team lacks cohesion. I don’t know if the freshmen need to bulk up or somethiby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Fish N Fowl 11/11/23 - 18 days ago
By the way, do people use the new Slack channel? Seems like at least half the posters continue to post here during the game, so the outcome of the Slack channel may have been to divide the community in half.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Fish N Fowl 11/11/23 - 18 days ago
First two Harvard goals were on terrible mistakes by Cornell which led to two of Harvard’s best players skating in on Shane all alone. I don’t really fault Shane, neither was close to a gimme save, though Harvard’s goalie made some saves in similar spots. The offensive talent of Cornell is apparent, but the team lacks cohesion. I don’t know if the freshmen need to bulk up or something but weby BearLover - Hockey
Re: 11/10 Dartmouth game thread - 18 days ago
The crowd was fantastic from an attendance and punctuality perspective, but C and D were sitting down and didn’t participate in any of the cheers.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: 11/10 Dartmouth game thread - 19 days ago
scoop85 chimpfood BearLover BearLover We were due for some bad luck but wow, how do we not score on any of those odd-man rushes, including the 2x0? We didn’t come remotely close to executing on any of them. Dartmouth actually looked solid, but Cornell should have scored at least four goals. Also unclear what happened on the first Dartmouth goal, which came on a run of the mill slapshot from the bby BearLover - Hockey
Re: 11/10 Dartmouth game thread - 19 days ago
BearLover We were due for some bad luck but wow, how do we not score on any of those odd-man rushes, including the 2x0? We didn’t come remotely close to executing on any of them. Dartmouth actually looked solid, but Cornell should have scored at least four goals. Also unclear what happened on the first Dartmouth goal, which came on a run of the mill slapshot from the blue line off a faceoff. Shanby BearLover - Hockey
Re: 11/10 Dartmouth game thread - 19 days ago
We were due for some bad luck but wow, how do we not score on any of those odd-man rushes, including the 2x0? We didn’t come remotely close to executing on any of them. Dartmouth actually looked solid, but Cornell should have scored at least four goals. Also unclear what happened on the first Dartmouth goal, which came on a run of the mill slapshot from the blue line off a faceoff. Shane was slowby BearLover - Hockey