Iggulden = useless?

[Scersk]

For comparison, let's look at the career of one Matt Cooney:

Matt Cooney
Yr   Cl   Po   GP   G   A   Pts   PIM
1994   Fr   W   12   0   2   2   32
1995   So   W   26   7   3   10   52
1996   Jr   W   34   13   21   34   104
1997   Sr   W   23   9   9   18   45
               95   29   35   64   233

Now, Cooney was certainly more noticeable than Iggulden--who exactly could fail to notice a guy averaging around 2 PMs/game?--but he was similarly not an offensive powerhouse over his first couple of seasons.  What happened junior year?  Brad Chartrand.

Chartrand, who hadn't exactly been over-acheiving in his first three years, exploded for 43 points in his senior year.  Cooney and Chartrand together were the most unstoppable offensive pairing I had seen after '94 (I watched a lot before then, but I didn't pay the same attention, so leave out Derraugh, Andison, et al.) until Vesce and Baby.  To watch Chartrand and Cooney play the "power kill," as we called it at that time, was a thing of beauty.  I will always remember throwing my trombone about three rows down the stands after a Chartrand shorthander at Clarkson--I was listening on the radio at a basketball game.  Mmm... Grady... but I digress.

My point is that line chemistry is extremely important, and Iggulden just doesn't seem to have a place.  As they say, though, past results do not exactly predict future performance.  One can fill out a long list of Cornell hockey players that have stepped it up for their junior and senior campaigns.  Maybe next year we'll add Iggulden to that list.

[A 14 19 FAN]

HpyGlmore2-05 wrote:

Maybe Schafer has finally realized that the second Abbott is waaay better than Iggulden.

of course the "second abbott" is better !!! :-(

-the abbott fan

[jnachod]

HpyGlmore2-05 wrote:

Does anyone else think that Iggulden is useless?  I mean, when I watch him playing, he always just skates around in circles and never interacts with the puck.  The only time he made a valuable contribution this year was against Harvard - when Naoh Welch fell down at the blue line on a two on 1, and iggulden of course passed the puck to Hornby, who buried the puck on the 2 on 0 goal.

Also, the last time Iggulden played, Cornell lost to Colgate.  Iggulden hasn't played since, and we have been playing exceptional hockey ever since.  Maybe Schafer has finally realized that the second Abbott is waaay better than Iggulden.

Anyone want to start an Iggulden anti-fan club?

I think it's pretty safe to say that Iggulden is not useless, after his performance in today's Ohio State game.

[HpyGlmore2]

well...being that that post was in FEBRUARY last season!!!   Completely different season sometimes means a completely different person on the ice.  I believe this is one of those cases.

Man you had to dig through the archives for this one!

[Will]

Iggulden's most certainly improved, and I think that's great.  I would hope that all of our players are great and are really competing for playing time.

[Section A]

Meaningless fact:

Today Iggulden scored only his 2nd and 3rd goals of his career thus far. His last (and, therefore, first) goal was his freshman year on November 24, 2001 at Boston University. So he's still looking for his first goal against a conference opponent :-).

Now O'Byrne and Salmela are the two left looking for their first points of their careers.

[Will]

Maybe we should just send Iggulden out against nonconference opponents, and ride his coattails to an at-large NCAA tournament bid. :-D

[Greg Berge]

Hell, just dress him for the NCAAs. ;-)

[canucksfan]

Why don't we dress him for all of the games since he has been playing well? You can't expect him to put up amazing numbers on a line with two freshmen who are still adjusting to college hockey.

[daveman]

Iggulden has done a great job on the penalty kill as well this season.  He is skating better than in past years, and hopefully this tourney is a sign of some point production over the rest of this season into next year.  Dont forget that he has had some lengthy injuries as well.

[wsu200fly]

Still think Iggulden is useless after the everblades final?

[French Rage]

All that matters, really, is that Tyhach got owned.  Owned!  OWNED I TELL YOU!!!