UNO

[jek86]

It looked like Bardreau was hurting pretty bad near the end of the game.  Did anyone else notice and does anybody have information on that?

[dag14]

Talked to him on campus today and he looked and acted just fine.

[jek86]

good to hear, thanks..

[RichH]

Cornell gets the "Team of the Week" write-up for CHN:

http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2013/10/29_team_of_the_week_cornell.php

[Scersk '97]

Scoff if you want, but most of the UNO shots were from far out—the kind of stuff I expect Iles to nearly always handle. Reminded me of old timey games against Clarkson during the Mark Morris years. Push 'em outside and let them shoot all they want.

Which leads me to this gem. Simply put, getting out shot by 20 shots on goal a night is NOT conducive to winning a lot in the long term.

Oh, don't get me wrong. I don't like that we're getting outshot at all. But, given the choice between a team that puts (to reference Rich's post) 65 shots on us that are either ineffectual or blocked and a team that gets, say, about 20 of those between the dots, I'd rather play the shot dumpers.

And, small sample size: do remember that we played the whole game ahead, likely tolerating more shots, even though we know we shouldn't.

Still, like you, I'd prefer we fixed this shot problem, running back, as it does, to 2009.

[Trotsky]

do remember that we played the whole game ahead, likely tolerating more shots, even though we know we shouldn't.

It was a 52:28 puck rag, beating the prior record of 40:49 in the 1997 ECAC F.

[Scersk '97]

do remember that we played the whole game ahead, likely tolerating more shots, even though we know we shouldn't.

It was a 52:28 puck rag, beating the prior record of 40:49 in the 1997 ECAC F.

That whole year was an extended "puck rag," not that I minded... :-D

[css228]

Scoff if you want, but most of the UNO shots were from far out—the kind of stuff I expect Iles to nearly always handle. Reminded me of old timey games against Clarkson during the Mark Morris years. Push 'em outside and let them shoot all they want.

Which leads me to this gem. Simply put, getting out shot by 20 shots on goal a night is NOT conducive to winning a lot in the long term.

Oh, don't get me wrong. I don't like that we're getting outshot at all. But, given the choice between a team that puts (to reference Rich's post) 65 shots on us that are either ineffectual or blocked and a team that gets, say, about 20 of those between the dots, I'd rather play the shot dumpers.

And, small sample size: do remember that we played the whole game ahead, likely tolerating more shots, even though we know we shouldn't.

Still, like you, I'd prefer we fixed this shot problem, running back, as it does, to 2009.

I mean yes one weekend this year. But as you noted, this is a trend that's gone back a couple years. It was a major problem last year. You make a very good point about score effects, but given that we scored all of our Saturday goals on the power play, I don't even want to know what our 5 v. 5 numbers were. We were probably out shot even worse at even strength than as a whole. Look we won and that's what is important, because you don't get points for dominating possession in a loss, but we got lucky. This is not even close to a sustainable way to win. We need to be better fast if we don't want to have another year like last year.