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Re: Love Means Not Having to Say "You Just Suck": Cornell at Harvard - Yesterday
You have to go back to the 2006-07 season to find a Cornell team with a save percentage close to as low as ours this season. Note that the below include empty net goals, so each season’s save % should be a few points higher. For example, Cornell’s save % in 2018 with a goalie in net was actually .939. Cornell’s save % by season: 2007: .898 2008: .924 2009: .923 2010: .932 2011: .915 2by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Love Means Not Having to Say "You Just Suck": Cornell at Harvard - Yesterday
Scersk '97 I do think we need to put the body to them as much as possible, though. I’m not sure we’re playing as physical as we can. Of course, a missed hip check or two can very well be a puck in the net. Yet Harvard’s rink, at 204 x 87 with lots of room behind the nets, makes that difficult. So you have to tire them out through cycling, which, as you say, the 2003 team would’ve been able toby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Love Means Not Having to Say "You Just Suck": Cornell at Harvard - 2 days ago
Also, what’s the point of pulling your goalie with 2 minutes left when you’re down by 3? Either try to win and pull Shane with like 6 minutes left or don’t pull him at all.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Love Means Not Having to Say "You Just Suck": Cornell at Harvard - 2 days ago
You can’t just look at how the puck went in to determine the level of skill that goes into a goal. Harvard’s top two lines (especially its top line) had Cornell pinned its own end on a number of shifts. Cornell played fine when Harvard’s top line wasn’t on the ice, except in transition, where Harvard killed Cornell. Yes, Cornell had a few more shots, but Harvard had at least three times as many oby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Love Means Not Having to Say "You Just Suck": Cornell at Harvard - 2 days ago
chimpfood BearLover Harvard’s five goals all scored by top-three-round draft picks. Maybe we can finally dispense with the notion that draft picks don’t matter and that Harvard doesn’t play up to its talent. Only one of them was a snipe. The others were screens and a wide open net from a 2 on 1. A lot of things go into a goal. Maintaining possession and prolonged o-zone time are two things that Hby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Love Means Not Having to Say "You Just Suck": Cornell at Harvard - 2 days ago
Harvard’s five goals all scored by top-three-round draft picks. Maybe we can finally dispense with the notion that draft picks don’t matter and that Harvard doesn’t play up to its talent.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: ECAC 2022-23 - 2 days ago
abmarks BearLover Thanks to the Pairwise, it’s really hard to justify not putting out your best lineup every night. Must be that portion of the lunar cycle where Bearlover and good take meet. Who else on this forum can claim to have another poster completely obsessed with them? Maybe someone needs to start a fanclub.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: ECAC 2022-23 - 3 days ago
Thanks to the Pairwise, it’s really hard to justify not putting out your best lineup every night.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Polls - 5 days ago
jkahn BearLover There are of course a lot of different ways things can go. But there are only two teams in the league that are (IMO) better than us, and if we want to win the ECAC it’s easier if we only have to beat one of them. If Q and Harvard get the 1 and 4 seeds, then we don’t have to beat them both. It’s not the biggest concern in the world, but it’s a tiebreaker when choosing who to rootby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Polls - 5 days ago
RichH BearLover JasonN95 billhoward JasonN95 Cornell up to 11th in 1/23/23 USCHO poll. Has me wondering where the team would be ranked if it had gotten a tie at BU seeing BU with some first place votes. I thought Q would drop a bit further than 3rd. Might Q only have fallen to #2 if they hadn't blown a 2-0 lead at Colgate and lost 3-2 the day after losing to us? I was pulling for Q to beat Colgby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Polls - 5 days ago
JasonN95 billhoward JasonN95 Cornell up to 11th in 1/23/23 USCHO poll. Has me wondering where the team would be ranked if it had gotten a tie at BU seeing BU with some first place votes. I thought Q would drop a bit further than 3rd. Might Q only have fallen to #2 if they hadn't blown a 2-0 lead at Colgate and lost 3-2 the day after losing to us? I was pulling for Q to beat Colgate. Cornell isnby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Alumni in the pros 2022-2023 - 5 days ago
I wish they could find a way to honor the 2019-20 team for finishing the season #1 in the country. Obviously that wouldn’t fall under any of the existing categories of championships, so I’m not sure the best way.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2023 and beyond - 8 days ago
scoop85 BearLover Kraft, Walsh, Fegaras, Devlin, Robertson, Wolfenberg should be here next fall for sure. All have two years of junior hockey experience and/or were drafted, and they’ve produced in juniors. Some or all of Mosko, Major, Steele, Wishart, Catalano will be here then too. Hoyt Stanley is only 18 but was rated highly by Central Scouting and may be college-ready next year. The others arby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2023 and beyond - 8 days ago
scoop85 With Big Red Puckhead defunct and having a bit of time to kill I thought I’d provide an statistical update on our recruits. The number in parentheses is the age they will be at the close of 2023: Jacob Kraft, C, Cedar Rapids, USHL (20) — 26 GP, 11 G, 8 A Connor Arsenault, C, St. Andrews, CA Prep (17) — 23 GP, 9 G, 2 A Nick Wolfenberg, D, Okotoks, AJHL (19) — 36 GP, 6 G, 18 A Hoyt Sby BearLover - Hockey
Re: IT'S A TRAP! Cornell vs Princeton - 8 days ago
I also hadn’t even realized that was the intent of Trotsky’s post. Anyway, I think the real take-away is that Cornell was an elite program in the four years until Covid hit, then 20-21 got canceled, then in 21-22 Cornell suffered as a result, and now in 22-23 Cornell appears to be back. The other takeaway is that abmarks hasn’t added anything of substance to this forum in recent memory.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2023 and beyond - 8 days ago
scoop85 With Big Red Puckhead defunct and having a bit of time to kill I thought I’d provide an statistical update on our recruits. The number in parentheses is the age they will be at the close of 2023: Jacob Kraft, C, Cedar Rapids, USHL (20) — 26 GP, 11 G, 8 A Connor Arsenault, C, St. Andrews, CA Prep (17) — 23 GP, 9 G, 2 A Nick Wolfenberg, D, Okotoks, AJHL (19) — 36 GP, 6 G, 18 A Hoyt Sby BearLover - Hockey
Re: IT'S A TRAP! Cornell vs Princeton - 8 days ago
abmarks BearLover Trotsky BearLover Trotsky Let's appreciate what we have. Cornell's record after 12 ECAC games, last 5 seasons: 18 10-1-1 19 8-3-1 20 9-1-2 22 8-2-2 23 9-3-0 I think we need to differentiate between regulation wins vs. 3x3 OT wins, and between regulation losses vs. 3x3 OT losses. Otherwise these are apples-to-oranges comparisons. No. Apples and oranges would be lby BearLover - Hockey
Re: IT'S A TRAP! Cornell vs Princeton - 8 days ago
Trotsky BearLover Trotsky Let's appreciate what we have. Cornell's record after 12 ECAC games, last 5 seasons: 18 10-1-1 19 8-3-1 20 9-1-2 22 8-2-2 23 9-3-0 I think we need to differentiate between regulation wins vs. 3x3 OT wins, and between regulation losses vs. 3x3 OT losses. Otherwise these are apples-to-oranges comparisons. No. Apples and oranges would be lumping shootout wiby BearLover - Hockey
Re: IT'S A TRAP! Cornell vs Princeton - 8 days ago
Trotsky Let's appreciate what we have. Cornell's record after 12 ECAC games, last 5 seasons: 18 10-1-1 19 8-3-1 20 9-1-2 22 8-2-2 23 9-3-0 I think we need to differentiate between regulation wins vs. 3x3 OT wins, and between regulation losses vs. 3x3 OT losses. Otherwise these are apples-to-oranges comparisons.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: IT'S A TRAP! Cornell vs Princeton - 9 days ago
Cornell was much better defensively in the latter two periods. All Big Red goals came on the power play, and all came from players who are in their first season with Cornell. Really good weekend for Shane too. Neither of the two goals did he have a chance on, and he saved Cornell in at least three separate Princeton breakaways or clear paths to the net. Two dumb penalties, one by O’Leary in the oby BearLover - Hockey
Re: IT'S A TRAP! Cornell vs Princeton - 9 days ago
Cornell not looking ready to play. Last night took too much out of them.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Tonight on Skate to Survive: Cornell 4 Quinnipiac 0 - 9 days ago
RichH ugarte BearLover That was a convincing win. Not because the game was lopsided, but because after tonight it’s impossible to deny this team is capable of making the NCAAs. Cornell has played some strong opposition this season (Q, Harvard, BU, UConn), and in each of these games play was at worst even (and at times tilted towards Cornell). Against weaker opponents Cornell has consistently lookby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Tonight on Skate to Survive: Cornell 4 Quinnipiac 0 - 9 days ago
That was a convincing win. Not because the game was lopsided, but because after tonight it’s impossible to deny this team is capable of making the NCAAs. Cornell has played some strong opposition this season (Q, Harvard, BU, UConn), and in each of these games play was at worst even (and at times tilted towards Cornell). Against weaker opponents Cornell has consistently looked like the better teamby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Tonight on Skate to Survive: Cornell vs Quinnipiac - 10 days ago
Trotsky Give My Regards From TBRW's Top 10 section, tonight's four goals is the largest margin of victory the Big Red has had over a #1-ranked team (dating back to 1983). Indeed. But I only vouch for that stat in games after 1999, before that my records re: opponent's polling place are spotty. We have now knocked off Q as a #1 four times in the last 10 seasons (not including the year we sat oby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Tonight on Skate to Survive: Cornell vs Quinnipiac - 10 days ago
Trotsky George64I hope Stienburg’s back in the lineup tonight.Per Mike, "mid-February at the earliest." Where is this quote from?by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Polls - 12 days ago
osorojo Declarative statements about future events can only imagine the likelihood of such events. Would-be sports gurus both professional and on-line, in print or in taverns, are chronic losers. Neither your moving finger nor your wit will make you a seer or a winner - only a guesser. Soup kitchens are packed with living proof. Thank you.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ Boston University, Jan. 14, 2023 - GAME TIME IS 4PM - 14 days ago
Trotsky abmarksThe sitout for a year thing is gone permanently.Then it becomes a race to gain Segers at least as fast as losing them. Frankly, the traditional powers are likely better placed for that. Late developing player arrives at Brown unheralded, has amazing breakout season, and that summer has an epiphany that he'd love to study Hotel Management and just incidentally play on a line thatby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ Boston University, Jan. 14, 2023 - GAME TIME IS 4PM - 14 days ago
Trotsky BearLover Trotsky abmarksI'm confused. Once this covid 5 yr rule is some away with, players will be back to the standard 4 year eligibility. I don't see how being able to immediately transfer as a grad student helps anyone except players who had a medical issue, had a year not count for eligibility, and then finish their undergrad degree in 4 and having 1 year remaining of eligibility?Mby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ Boston University, Jan. 14, 2023 - GAME TIME IS 4PM - 15 days ago
Trotsky abmarksI'm confused. Once this covid 5 yr rule is some away with, players will be back to the standard 4 year eligibility. I don't see how being able to immediately transfer as a grad student helps anyone except players who had a medical issue, had a year not count for eligibility, and then finish their undergrad degree in 4 and having 1 year remaining of eligibility?My (likely mis-) unby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ Boston University, Jan. 14, 2023 - GAME TIME IS 4PM - 15 days ago
Trotsky BearLoverTransferring without having to sit out a year will remain the rule going forward, but that doesn’t have much to do with the foregoing. It may not be dependent on the COVID-5 rule, but it is critical. If the Ivies hold on to their no grad nonsense, and players can transfer with no year off (as they should), then we are, to use the technical term, fucked harder than a Brown coby BearLover - Hockey