2024-11-09 Brown

[scoop85]

Cornell is the heaviest team in the country

And that's just the fanbase! ::banana::

_{Note: this joke does not work after seeing North Dakota's traveling fans.}

Yeah, looked like a lot of XXXL jerseys in the stands

[BearLover]

Four point weekend anyone?

If I were them I would take the first eight seconds vs Yale and the last minute against Brown and then burn everything in between.

We dominaated that game in every category and in possession time.  Goals and wins aren't always going to go our way.

Unless as a team and as a fan base we have decided to move the goal posts on what being dominant is, there wasn't a single facet out of four games so far that would fit the Schafer era standard for domination.  This weekend there was no offensive zone cycle.  No forcheck.  Little to no physicality save for a stretch during the second period tonight.  No breakout.  No cohesiveness in any zone.  Not much to speak of on the power play.  They have had end results winning three out of four games but there is so much that remains to be desired about the right way to play and what we know it will take to win in late March and hopefully early April.  Last year they successfully blended a ton of freshman into a pretty young lineup and it was exciting and there was a methodology to how they played.  This year so far a team of nearly all returning players is struggling to find similar footing.  Sure there are injuries but there is plenty of experience in this current lineup to be able to re-establish their identity.  Yes it's early but I was really caught off guard this weekend by how much they struggled to execute in the areas that don't require excessive skill.  Robertson to Bancroft saved this from being a lost weekend.  Hopefully the first road trip of the season will help them rediscover the process.

Totally agree. You said it way better than I could have. Cornell has not looked good so far this season. There's no cohesion at all. I'll add one more thing to your list of problems: even the line changes feel discombobulated and ill-timed. Several times this weekend Cornell had a good rush that would have led to a grade-A scoring chance, but the backup was in the midst of a change. Tonight Charlie Major danced towards the goal but there were zero teammates in the offensive zone to pick up a rebound. Multiple times this weekend a rushing player could have found a trailing player with a lane to the net, but the trailer was still on the bench.

Even though we beat NoDak last weekend, we weren't gelling at all. If you go back and watch our goals from that weekend, they were the product of lucky bounces and bad goaltending more so than anything we ourselves did. I chalked it up to it being the first two games of the season, but now we're four games in and I'm concerned. This was an ugly weekend against two weak teams.

It has been clear since the Yale/Brown weekend that something is horribly wrong with this team.