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Re: Future Coaching? - 8 years ago
RichH css228 my opinion is if you're not in a position to get an at large bid, you didn't have a good season. Got it, glad you're on record. Cornell is still alive for an at-large bid. A year after a 11-14-6 season, we turn in a 16-11-7 season with a more difficult schedule. I see that as a positive step for a team few had high expectations for. Grabbing 1 or 2 more points in the regular seby css228 - Hockey
Re: Future Coaching? - 8 years ago
Scersk '97 css228 Scersk '97 For "bad," see Clarkson or RPI, once proud programs that have fallen on really tough times. Clarkson hasn't made the semis since 2007, and RPI (2002) is "on the clock." Look, I'm not going to look this stuff up for you anymore. If you can't come back with a real sense of perspective, there's no sense in continuing this. We are not Clarkson or RPby css228 - Hockey
Re: Future Coaching? - 8 years ago
abmarks BearLover abmarks KeithK BearLoverSo I'm not content not being awesome. If we're perpetually mediocre, I'll find some other hobbies to fill this time. I think this gets to the heart of some of the disagreement here. For me, and I think some of the folks here, being a fan means supporting the team through hell and high water. Now that doesn't mean I won't let my team know it when they'reby css228 - Hockey
Re: Future Coaching? - 8 years ago
CowbellGuy You seem to think coaches have some mystical powers here. They're not puppeteers. You can't make players do anything. You can just try to guide and steer them in the right direction. Ultimately, the worst thing a coach can do for a player is take away their ice time, which he certainly does routinely. Beyond that, you're going to have to go find a magic wand. Let me know if you do. Noby css228 - Hockey
Re: Future Coaching? - 8 years ago
CowbellGuy Yeah, I'm sure you know exactly what was going on in the locker room with lat year's team. If you don't believe Schafer maybe you should ask a player. Even if you believe Schafer, isn't that an indictment of his locker room management and his recruiting? He hand picked those players. It's his job to manage the personalities on his team. I think Bear Lover's take on this is the generousby css228 - Hockey
Re: Future Coaching? - 8 years ago
BearLover CowbellGuy Expecting an NCAA appearance every other year is simply a hallucinogenic pipe dream, particularly for an Ivy League school. Notice what Yale's been doing? Dartmouth just swept an on-fire Yale. By getting extremely lucky. That happens in hockey. Yale isn't getting punished for their bad luck because they played a great regular season. Your last point is exactly on the moby css228 - Hockey
Re: Future Coaching? - 8 years ago
BearLover Trotsky This has been a rollercoaster season, but it looks like we're going to finish exactly where we were picked and most of us expected: around (exactly!) .500 and a QF elimination. I think there are reasons to be hopeful. The style has changed significantly. The lockeroom problems from last year have apparently ended. Our freshman class was considered the best in the conferencby css228 - Hockey
Re: Future Coaching? - 8 years ago
Trotsky css228How is treating entertainment as an investment an illegitimate perspective. I think you're lost. Objectivist meeting is next door. MRA is down the hall. Thanks for the ad hominem. I'm a proud feminist and my political views have nothing to do with the validity of my argument. Regardless of whether or not you like the conclusion that I come to. abmarks Css, your whiny demandby css228 - Hockey
Re: Future Coaching? - 8 years ago
Dafatone css228 Dafatone css228 Scersk '97 css228 Also everyone is so high on Angello and Vanderlaan but those two are shooting at an unreal percentage this year. When Angello and Vanderlaan don't shoot at 16.7% and 14.3% respectively next year, everyone's going to wonder what happened when they should really just apply Occam's razor and realize that their true talent probably wasn't that high inby css228 - Hockey
Re: Future Coaching? - 8 years ago
Robb css228 Scersk '97 css228 Also everyone is so high on Angello and Vanderlaan but those two are shooting at an unreal percentage this year. When Angello and Vanderlaan don't shoot at 16.7% and 14.3% respectively next year, everyone's going to wonder what happened when they should really just apply Occam's razor and realize that their true talent probably wasn't that high in the first place. Iby css228 - Hockey
Re: Future Coaching? - 8 years ago
Scersk '97 css228 What have you done for me lately? 6 seasons is a hell of a long time to be bad. Your perspective is out of whack. In the previous five seasons, we've had one runner-up and made two other semi appearances, which isn't "bad." There are at least seven other ECAC schools that would love to have done half as well. This season is still ongoing, if you hadn't noticed.by css228 - Hockey
Re: Future Coaching? - 8 years ago
Dafatone css228 Scersk '97 css228 Also everyone is so high on Angello and Vanderlaan but those two are shooting at an unreal percentage this year. When Angello and Vanderlaan don't shoot at 16.7% and 14.3% respectively next year, everyone's going to wonder what happened when they should really just apply Occam's razor and realize that their true talent probably wasn't that high in the first placeby css228 - Hockey
Re: Future Coaching? - 8 years ago
Scersk '97 BearLover I don't think this is true. Cornell Hockey is clearly at its lowest point since 2001. In 2002, we turned it around and became a dominant force. There are low points (1999; not 2001, when we made a surprising run to a championship matchup with SLU), low points (2015), and low points (1993). That's historical perspective. Lets just do a tracking over the last decade. 2by css228 - Hockey
Re: Future Coaching? - 8 years ago
Scersk '97 css228 Also everyone is so high on Angello and Vanderlaan but those two are shooting at an unreal percentage this year. When Angello and Vanderlaan don't shoot at 16.7% and 14.3% respectively next year, everyone's going to wonder what happened when they should really just apply Occam's razor and realize that their true talent probably wasn't that high in the first place. I could see maby css228 - Hockey
Re: Future Coaching? - 8 years ago
marty css228 scoop85 css228 I'll say what I'd want to see in a new coach. I want a Dave Hakstol style system that aggressively challenges opponents with a forecheck and d-men pinching regularly to create offense. And i want to see a team that is encouraged to carry the puck rather than dump and chase. The best defense is controlling the puck, and I've had enough of the damn 1-2-2 trap. And furtheby css228 - Hockey
Re: Future Coaching? - 8 years ago
scoop85 css228 I'll say what I'd want to see in a new coach. I want a Dave Hakstol style system that aggressively challenges opponents with a forecheck and d-men pinching regularly to create offense. And i want to see a team that is encouraged to carry the puck rather than dump and chase. The best defense is controlling the puck, and I've had enough of the damn 1-2-2 trap. And furthermore I wantby css228 - Hockey
Re: Future Coaching? - 8 years ago
I'll say what I'd want to see in a new coach. I want a Dave Hakstol style system that aggressively challenges opponents with a forecheck and d-men pinching regularly to create offense. And i want to see a team that is encouraged to carry the puck rather than dump and chase. The best defense is controlling the puck, and I've had enough of the damn 1-2-2 trap. And furthermore I want a coach that caby css228 - Hockey
Re: ECAC Quarterfinals Cornell @ Q 03/11/16 - 8 years ago
marty css228 #FireSchafer I salute you for your prescient post. I stand by what I saidby css228 - Hockey
Re: ECAC Quarterfinals Cornell @ Q 03/11/16 - 8 years ago
RichH css228 #FireSchafer Mid-game? Yawn. Your drum is boring. So are the New Jersey Dev... I mean Cornell hockeyby css228 - Hockey
Re: Alumni in the Pros - January - 8 years ago
Jeff Hopkins '82Too bad the Flyers are so deep at center. Not really that deep. Without Couturier they're running Cousins, Laughton and Pierre Eduard Bellemare out (although i'll admit Cousins has impressed). Given that Laughton has been so disappointing this year defensively. Sure they could put Schenn at center, but he never really fit there and neither does Raffl or Gagner. The bigger issue foby css228 - Hockey
Re: Cornell vs. Yale 02/13/2015 - 8 years ago
Trotsky Ah well, that was just an ass-kicking. A bye is all but out of reach now, and we appear destined for a QF road loss. Sad fate for a season that began with so much promise. Eh we were never as good as we looked at the beginning of the season, and we're not as bad as we look now, although the true talent is surely closer to this end of the spectrum. If this season is the one that getsby css228 - Hockey
Re: CU vs Dartmouth 01/22/16 - 8 years ago
Dafatone css228 Jim Hyla Scersk '97 css228 ugarte Scersk '97 Schafer, from the USCHO recap: "We refuse to stay in front of the net, we refuse to shoot pucks, now we want to make one extra pass as opposed to putting it on net." Maybe I do know something about hockey, because I've been frustrated with the same things. Maybe after this weekend we can go back to playing dirty goal, pby css228 - Hockey
Re: CU vs Dartmouth 01/22/16 - 8 years ago
Trotsky Are advanced hockey analytics something that can be reconstructed for past seasons by looking at game tapes? That would be an interesting project. Yes this is how the guys at Broad Street Hockey and many of the other excellent analytic focused sites track neutral zone stats. Obviously each stat is somewhat subjective to the individual tracker, but tracking at game speed is near impossibleby css228 - Hockey
Re: CU vs Dartmouth 01/22/16 - 8 years ago
Jim Hyla Scersk '97 css228 ugarte Scersk '97 Schafer, from the USCHO recap: "We refuse to stay in front of the net, we refuse to shoot pucks, now we want to make one extra pass as opposed to putting it on net." Maybe I do know something about hockey, because I've been frustrated with the same things. Maybe after this weekend we can go back to playing dirty goal, pressure-orientedby css228 - Hockey
Re: CU vs Dartmouth 01/22/16 - 8 years ago
Swampy Jim Hyla css228 ugarte Scersk '97 Schafer, from the USCHO recap: "We refuse to stay in front of the net, we refuse to shoot pucks, now we want to make one extra pass as opposed to putting it on net." Maybe I do know something about hockey, because I've been frustrated with the same things. Maybe after this weekend we can go back to playing dirty goal, pressure-oriented hocby css228 - Hockey
Re: HARVARD SUCKS - 8 years ago
Jim Hyla css228 Jim Hyla Quote from Coach Bennett following Union's loss to RPI in the Mayor's Cup yesterday: “If we’re relying on freshmen, we’re going to have serious problems these last 10 games.” It's the problem we have as well, just in a little different way. We have been relying on the freshmen to do a lot this year. As with most teams, in most sports, that doesn't usually lead to chaby css228 - Hockey
Re: HARVARD SUCKS - 8 years ago
Jim Hyla Quote from Coach Bennett following Union's loss to RPI in the Mayor's Cup yesterday: “If we’re relying on freshmen, we’re going to have serious problems these last 10 games.” It's the problem we have as well, just in a little different way. We have been relying on the freshmen to do a lot this year. As with most teams, in most sports, that doesn't usually lead to championships. Theyby css228 - Hockey
Re: CU vs Dartmouth 01/22/16 - 8 years ago
ugarte Scersk '97 Schafer, from the USCHO recap: "We refuse to stay in front of the net, we refuse to shoot pucks, now we want to make one extra pass as opposed to putting it on net." Maybe I do know something about hockey, because I've been frustrated with the same things. Maybe after this weekend we can go back to playing dirty goal, pressure-oriented hockey. Right? I'm glad heby css228 - Hockey
Re: What's going on with this year's team? - 8 years ago
Roy 82 I feel that the stats like time of possession, shots, CF etc. can be skewed against a team that jumps out to an early lead. I would like to see adjusted stats that reflect that a team with a healthy lead would naturally be expected to take fewer shots etc. I haven't checked our stats on that but at least against Q and BU we jumped out to an early lead and probably collapsed into a defensivby css228 - Hockey