Cornell-Michigan State game 1 postmortem

[billhoward]

You're right that expectations are so high with Mike Schafer. At least with the current Mike Schafer. We forget that after he won the ECACs in his first two years (meaning the team had a lot of Brian McCutcheon in it), Schafer then suffered through seasons of 15, 16, and 14 losses before the turnaround 16-12-5 season of 2001 and then the three great seasons leading up to this year.

I still think there's a lot of randomness to life. Losing the 2002 ECAC title to Harvard in 2002 in multiple overtimes, that could've gone either way. Losing the NCAA semis to UNH, that could have gone the either way in 2003. Losing a best-of-three series to Clarkson last year, what are the odds that'd happen again?

So let's see how randomness plays itself out at Vermont this coming Friday.