St. Lawrence at Cornell, 2/18/22

[BearLover]

This team is putrid. The forwards just fumble the puck around, the defensemen who can actually create offense repeatedly turn the puck over, often in front of their own goal. And the goaltending is mediocre. Cornell is lucky they play so hard on defense or else they'd be a bottom-four team.

[scoop85]

The downward trend in performance has dovetailed with Schafer's continued absence. The connection seems more and more evident by the game.

[BearLover]

Schafer is a great coach, but he isn't going to save a team getting badly outshot by the 49th best team in the pairwise.

[ugarte]

Schafer is a great coach, but he isn't going to save a team getting badly outshot by the 49th best team in the pairwise.

What's maddening is that SLU didn't seem to have a possession advantage. They just shot the fucking puck at the net.

[ice]

What's maddening is that SLU didn't seem to have a possession advantage. They just shot the *** puck at the net

SLU won on hustle, faster transitions and lack of fear.

[upprdeck]

alot of complaining goes away if they just score on 1 of the many chances from a few ft away..

[ugarte]

alot of complaining goes away if they just score on 1 of the many chances from a few ft away..

but they don't! it's not one game! it's that they simply ... don't!

[BearLover]

alot of complaining goes away if they just score on 1 of the many chances from a few ft away..

but they don't! it's not one game! it's that they simply ... don't!

Also, our opponents miss just as many of these chances as we do. Cornell turned the puck over in front of its own net at least three times tonight and none of them went in.

[Trotsky]

Grasping at straws here, but if they come out and win tonight and in Hamden then what we'll have is a team who can beat or be beaten by anybody any given night.  Such teams can be very dangerous in the tournament.

OTOH we could be 5 losses from golf now.  What a very strange season. Maybe they're trying to wrap it up as soon as possible to go easy on Mike's heart.

[Give My Regards]

OTOH we could be 5 losses from golf now.  What a very strange season. Maybe they're trying to wrap it up as soon as possible to go easy on Mike's heart.

Yeah, well, watching that wasn't particularly good for my heart; I can't imagine it was 100% beneficial for his.

[Trotsky]

OTOH we could be 5 losses from golf now.  What a very strange season. Maybe they're trying to wrap it up as soon as possible to go easy on Mike's heart.

Yeah, well, watching that wasn't particularly good for my heart; I can't imagine it was 100% beneficial for his.

I am screaming a lot at the computer these days, and not in a good way.

[Trotsky]

It's up to Jim; he started the Q thread.