According to USCHO, Cornell now leads the ECAC in the four main team statistical categories (offense, defense, power play, and penalty kill).
And the fifth: points. ;-)
It's interesting to note that although Cornell has the highest goals-per-game in ECAC league games, it has only one player -Sam Paolini tied for 6th- in the top fifteen league goal scorers. That's spreading it around.
Jason N '95 wrote:
QuoteIt's interesting to note that although Cornell has the highest goals-per-game in ECAC league games, it has only one player -Sam Paolini tied for 6th- in the top fifteen league goal scorers. That's spreading it around.
Indeed; this may have been remarked upon last week, but everyone who's played a game other than Ben Wallace (who's only played 5 games) and Charlie Cook (who has 7 assists) has scored a goal. (Other than Underhill and LeNeveu, obviously.)
And everyone with the exception of LeNeveu and Wallace has at least one point. (That's right, Underhill has an assist.) Does anyone know when that happened?
> ...only one player -Sam Paolini tied for 6th- in the top fifteen league goal scorers
It's slightly better than that: Paolini is tied for 5th, and Vesce's tied for 10th (with Mark McRae & Murray both supposedly tied for 16th -- although it seems that USCHO may be cheating McRae out of an assist (??) (so he may actually be tied for 15th, instead)). In any case, there are 4 Cornellians among the Top 20 -- that ain't so bad (at least it sounds better than 1 in the Top 15!). B-]
Oh... and Paolini's tied for the lead in power play goals (with Vesce tied for fourth).
Still, whatever the exact rankings, having goals come from 20 different skaters is very reassuring.
OK... here's a question that I'll bet not even the most rabid stats-geek can answer: When was the last time that a single team led the ECAC in all four of the above-mentioned major team-stat categories (offense, defense, power play, penalty kill)?
To clarify the discrepancy: zg88 is referring to league points where indeed Paolini is 5th with 3 other Cornell players making the top 20 and I was referring to merely goals. The point can be made with either; Cornell is not monopolizing the individual accomplishment charts --they are getting the job done as a team.
Uhhhhhh... oh, yeah... duh. Sorry. I should learn the difference between goals and points someday, huh? ::nut::