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Re: McKee Named ECACHL Goalie of the Week - 19 years ago
The CC goalie had a similar weekend to Mckee but he got his 36 saves in just one game against North Dakota, shut them out, and made CC's wimpy 14 shots on goal (1 went in) hold up. He probably deserved it.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Tuesday at the Rink - 19 years ago
Adam has a really strong, at-his-fingertips, knowledge of college hockey. Guy knows his stuff. The best and worst part was that he was fair to virtually every team, coach, and player he mentioned. This was not the place to ask, "What's the most boneheaded play you've seen this year?" or "Can you tell me three coaches who *deserve* to be canned come April?" But then if youby billhoward - Hockey
Re: The Q's rink - 19 years ago
Something about the phrasing that makes Fighting Deerticks sound better than Skating Deerticks. Now if only the Cornell Daily Sun opted to use that phraseology.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: The Q's rink - 19 years ago
That is one gorgeous building - er, rendition. Is that a fountain on the far right? Wonder what it looks like drained in winter and full of leaves and debris? No cars parked illegally in the circular driveway out front? No safety division cars using it as preferred parking (since they write the tickets)? Where do the rink employees step outside for a quick smoke without getting frostbite?by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Polls 1/17/05 - 19 years ago
If Cornell and Colgate continue their adjacent rankings, what happens the weekend we play the home-and-home? If one team sweeps both, then how far does Colgate fall? If we split one apiece, do we both fall? It would be even better to see Harvard in top ten, so long as it's 2-3 places below Cornell.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Davenport Has Left the Team - 19 years ago
At some point in the life of most athletes, they come to grips with their status of their skills not being able to take them to the next level - HS to college, college to college starter, starter to pro draft pick - and they turn to other pursuits: GPA and grade school, grad school, parties, whatever. Not that this is Chabot. But it could be someone in a similar situation. The guy won't showby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell-RPI Postgame Thread - 19 years ago
One reason I said POTW awards are oftens stats-based is if you hold two more or less inept opponents to a total of one goal is that it still makes a light go off in the dim recesses of some POTW judge even if say holding say a BC to three earned goals is as tough or tougher. And sometimes I think the judges may quietly factor in the previous week's performance. And/or the whole year's performanceby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Davenport Has Left the Team - 19 years ago
It would be great if there was a stat for shutouts plus one-goal (allowed) games. The two are the same give or take one lucky/unlucky break. McKee seems to have more than his share of one-goal-allowed games. A quick scan for one-goal-allowed games shows ~14 for McKee, or just under half his games with not more than 1GA. Is Dryden's 78 victories safe? Nineteen wins a season for a four-year stby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell-Union Postgame Thread - 19 years ago
I think the possibility of 5 mins for charging gives the ref an option that he can exercise only rarely.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: PWR volatile, Cornell -> #8t - 19 years ago
Al DeFlorio Wrote: Of the top sixteen teams in PWR, Hockey East and WCHA have five, ECAC four, and CCHA two. Not bad balance. Maybe it's too soon - or it's never too soon to play what-if? - to ask how many of the top sixteen teams are capable are making the title game?by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Davenport Has Left the Team - 19 years ago
Of course, LeNeveu's career stats are really one full season (less two games off for the Juniors) plus half of his rookie season (less Underhill doing all the playoffs). And Dryden would have had may 100 wins if he was eligible as a freshman. If, if, if. Meanwhile, no scoring records set by forwards seem to be in danger from this year's team, or last year's, or next year's. Not that we shouldby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell-RPI Postgame Thread - 19 years ago
What's it going to take for McKee to get an ECAC (how about USCHO) player of the week award? Assuming they're half BS and half stats-based, and maybe a little bit about talent, McKee at least deserves something for the stats part. One goal allowed in two games this weekend, four total in the last four games, GAA down to 1.62 and best in the nation, fifth in save % (so while he's not seeing a lotby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell-RPI Postgame Thread - 19 years ago
calgARI '07 Wrote:... I'm starting to get a bit concerned about Cam Abbott as he has missed three straight games now. Cornell is taking more penalties this season than I can ever remember. Part of it is horrible officiating but a fair amount of the calls are legit. All the freshmen are playing very well. How is the ratio of Cornell-to-opponent penalties? If penalties are up for both sidesby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell 5 RPI 0, 3rd - 19 years ago
Cornell getting 9 or 10 penalties, that's not going to help us win games when we don't mount a five-goal offense. Now it's #10 with Sawada going off.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell 5 RPI 0, 3rd - 19 years ago
Cornell 9x9 on PK tonight and 25 straight, radio says.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell-Union Postgame Thread - 19 years ago
The officials appear to be under pressure to stop the clutching and grabbing that leads to dull, low-scoring games such as last year's NCAA championship game. Cornell's defensive mindset may be translated by some officials into clutching and grabbing or obstruction even when (as likely) it's clean positional hockey. And it's also human nature to be more likely to call a charge on somebody who's 6by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell 2 Union 1, OT - 19 years ago
marty Wrote: Has the team ever had a SH-GWG in OT before tonight? See postgame thread. There is one recollection by Jeff Kahn '70/'72 of a SH OT goal in a (5-4?) win over Harvard at Lynah winter of 1970-71. That is one of those nice pieces of trivia that ought be in the press guide, along with say most goals scored on a five-minute, no-release powerplay, or game winning shorthand goalsby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Article about Texas goaltenders - 19 years ago
One can think of Albany as a pleasant enough (in summer) waystation en route to a decently regarded paper such as Chicago, Philadelphia, New York (if you can learn to write real dry and to be shocked, shocked at steroids in sports), or the mother ship of great sportswsriting, the Globe. Seriously, it is nice to see good writing outside Sports Illustrated or the Globe. Meanwhile do some good thereby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell-Union Postgame Thread - 19 years ago
jkahn Wrote: billhoward Wrote: And for one more random fact: When was Cornell's last SHG to win an OT game? Was it in Lynah or maybe on Beebe Lake? Not sure it was the last, but in Jan. '71 Jim Higgs scored shorthanded to beat Harvard at Lynah. Kevin Pettit had tied the game after we pulled our goalie (Cropper). The win kept a four-year home winning streak alive. Could it be 33 yeby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Mid Term CSB Rankings - 19 years ago
Greg Berge Wrote: Or give him to the Rangers to ensure he doesn't develop. Meow. Very nicely put.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell-Union Postgame Thread - 19 years ago
And for one more random fact: When was Cornell's last SHG to win an OT game? Was it in Lynah or maybe on Beebe Lake?by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell-Union Postgame Thread - 19 years ago
If we say the referees were terrible and we cite mostly calls that went against Cornell, a neutral observer might say the thing was off wasn't the officiating but the perspective of the person making the comment. But I wasn't there. It is possible the officials sucked in one direction more than the other. The 29-0 team wasn't dominant every game. They had their share of lucky breaks, inclby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell-Union Postgame Thread - 19 years ago
Cornell game story on bigred.com [ ] says Cornell's first goal snapped a scoreless streak of 123:35. I forgot the scoring against Brown was done early. Ouch!by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Article about Texas goaltenders - 19 years ago
John Paul Morosi is not that common of a name, and the article was very well written for a paper the size of Albany's. For all the J-schools in the world, the Harvard Crimson, Cornell Sun, Stanford Daily Cardinal, Michigan Daily, etcetera, turn out about half the world's journalists. Actually, the colleges do, b/c some of the great ones never worked for the papers. With all respect to Syracusby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell-Union Postgame Thread - 19 years ago
I think point was that if Mckee plays ~63 minutes, that makes up for the games when he's pulled at 59:05 and we lose 2-1, which is really a bit worse than 1.0000 for the game. I'm unsure how it counts with the goalie pulled in the middle. At the end of the game, I believe an empty net goal counts as a Team Against goal, and I thought if the goalie is pulled in the middle of the game, once he'by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell-Union Postgame Thread - 19 years ago
Gametracker had the stars as Iggulden, McKee, and (Union gets credit too) Mayotte in goal.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell 1 Union 1, in overtime - 19 years ago
Exactly right. Allowing 1 goal a game, 2 at most, we'll knock off someone higher-seeded in the NCAAs who can't cope with Cornell's defense. But you can't go all the way to the title game scoring 1 and 2 goals a game. But still. It's a long way away. Maybe CalgARI is right with his quick game report and we need to find a home for Bitz that's not between two wings. Maybe the loss of Cam Abbot iby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell 1 Union 1, in overtime - 19 years ago
Hmm, you're right, we did precede the Harvard game with the 4-2 win over Brown, so we came very close to being 1-1-1 for the month, not 0-1-1, and our GAA for January is 4 goals in 3 games or, let me see here, 1.33. Not enough to overtake Jim Howard who overtook St. Leneveu's 1.2 for the entire season, but still pretty good. Avoid - January - slump.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell 2 Union 1, OT - 19 years ago
Gametracker credits McKee with 65:00 played despite goal coming 3:08 into OT. This should help his GAA, which is either 0.950 (for this game only) if he played 63:08 or 0.923 if he played the the 65:00 Gametracker claims. He also had 26 saves which is .962. Not bad. Now Iggulden, first star here, with McKee second star and Union goalie Kris Mayotte #3, has the Everblades MVP from 2003-04by billhoward - Hockey