There haven't been that many 36+ point seasons in the ECAC, and if the Big Red capture 6 points in the final two weekends they will have three in the last four seasons. That has been equaled or exceeded only four times:
4x4 67-70 Cornell
4x5 75-79 BU
3x4 76-79 UNH
4x4 86-89 Harvard
By my count (of your data, of course!), there've been 28 36-point seasons in 40 years - not all THAT rare...
Interestingly, there have been a couple of 36-point teams that didn't win the league (Cornell '67, BU '75). BU '75 is the worst - because of the unbalanced schedule, they racked up 40 points with a 20-2 record, but were beaten for the "RS Championship" (yes, I know it didn't exist and nobody cared about it or even defined it back then) by Harvard's 19-1, based on winning %. That sucks - couldn't have happened to a nicer team!
Robb
The subject line, I thought at first, was going to be about the last time a Cornell player got that many goals and assists.
Speaking of which, Moulson's up to 86 career points... probably not good enough to hit 100 before the end of his junior year, but I guess it could happen. None of the seniors are close (Knoepfli has the most with 79).
Well, a longer season would make it that much more likely for Moulson... ;-)
[Q]Trotsky Wrote:
Well, a longer season would make it that much more likely for Moulson... [/q]
Even if the team wins out, that's 12 games, and he's got 14 points to go. Tall order But while I'm fantasizing that we'll win out, why shouldn't he get 14 more points? So be it.
[statistical trivia] With 86 points now and up to 12 games remaining* if Cornell makes the NCAA title game, 100 points for Moulson is possible.
- He's averaging 1.2PPG now.
- The next four games are against bottom-half teams against whom we theoretically could score five goals apiece. (Um, that's theoretically.)
- Hh scored 4 points over the last 2 games; that's a trend. (He also had 8 points in the previous 10 before that and his last 3-point game was Dec. 3.) http://www.tbrw.info/2005/2005ScoringByGame.html
To hit 100 he'd need a 42-point season. There have been four 40-point seasons the past decade (plus three more in that star-crossed 1991 season.
The last 20-goal season at Cornell was 1996.
Ideally he'll get a hat trick in one of the remaining RS games or the first round of the playoffs and continue his pace of at least one HT in each of his first two seasons.
* Lucky us: There could be 13 games remaining: The ECAC playoffs second round (first round played for the top four, who draw byes) could go 3 games. Gee, wouldn't that be swell for Matt if he got that opportunity? And it would be one more chance for McKee to work on his shutouts. And Iggulden on man short goals ...