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[jtwcornell91]

Al DeFlorio wrote:

We may not see Mike Walsh this weekend.

That'll show me for not looking it up.  I was just proud that I remembered his name wasn't Shawn or Joe.  ::nut::

[Al DeFlorio]

I'll never claim to understand the goalie rotation process at Clarkson--even with the departure of Mark Morris--but it isn't clear to me that there is a "first" and "second" string goalie right now.  

Both Walsh and Traylen have played 300 minutes in ECAC games.  Walsh is 3-2 and Traylen 2-2-1.  Traylen is a highly-touted frosh--much like LeNeveu was last year.  As best as I can read between-the-lines of game recaps and comments on the Clarkson Round Table, their interim coach is now in a pattern of playing one goalie until he loses, and then going with the other.  So...Walsh losing to us (on what the Clarkson folks call a "soft" goal) three weekends ago gives Traylen a shot and he wins two the following weekend (including a shut-out), but then loses to SLU last weekend.  If that pattern continues, we'll see Walsh on Friday--but not because Traylen is "second string."  Whether one's better than the other...I'll leave that to their coach.

[Josh '99]

Walsh's career stats vs. Cornell:

1-5-0, 3.16, 0.860

If Traylen is the hot hand, it doesn't seem all that unreasonable to think that he might start tomorrow

[Will]

[q]their interim coach is now in a pattern of playing one goalie until he loses, and then going with the other.[/q]

Okay, I didn't know that, my bad.  All I know is that, according to USCHO, Walsh has the fourth lowest GAA in NCAA hockey (using their 33% of a team's games minimum).  Even if Walsh has a losing record against Cornell, given that should Clarkson be able to sweep the weekend, they might move up to fourth in the conference, I'd think they would want to play their very good and highly experienced (Walsh is a senior, I believe) goalie.  If Traylen is that good, he'll get his chance(s) to take on the Big Red next year.