The least disciplined team in the ECAC

[RichH]

The thing that bugs me is that they are making the same stupid mistakes that they did at the beginning of the season, and they still struggle on the breakout. It's not exactly giving me hope.

While they still make mistakes, their overall play has improved dramatically from the beginning of the season. I'd say this team has shown the most in-season improvement of any I have seen in (oy!) 30 years.  Union completely outclassed them much in the way Yale did 2 seasons ago.  Yale themselves, well, we'll see this weekend -- we've lost 6 in a row to them, usually being badly outplayed, but Yale has shown flaws lately.  But other than those two teams this really is arguably the 3rd-best team in conference right now.

For the first time this year I can see this team playing well enough to get to Atlantic City without a miracle.  Given how much they lost in the off-season, I think this is one of Schafer's best coaching performances.  Also, look how far the Seniors have come!  They had to assume leadership roles and pick up their game to fill the huge shoes of the 2010 class and they've done a very good job of it since New Year's.  Joe's hot month and Tyler's clutch performance last night typify that.

Instead of the dreadful rebuilding year it could have (should have?) been (ask Colgate and Harvard) it's been a lot of fun with some memorable performances.  I actually am quite hopeful.

This.  Much of what Greg said is exactly what's been going through my head for the past month.  First of all, they no longer look as tired as they did early in the season for 3rd periods, so that strange habit of getting steamrolled by opponents late in games seems to have passed. Several players have turned the corner in terms of living up to their potential(or maybe just my expectations), and Roeszler & Joe Devin in particular are showing an Evan Barlow-esque blossoming offensively.  Not only that, but since the 3rd period at RPI, I've noticed a lot more touch & drop passes happening in transition than I've ever seen from a Schafer squad.  The PP still needs a lot of work, as does the breakout, but there's a little bit more that's "clicking" at other times than I thought I'd see.  Given my expectations for this year, I'm quite pleased right now, and this team is showing me something.

Given the obvious gap between the top 2 teams and parity of the middle-tier this season, I don't think anyone can really give CU significant odds to snatch the Whitelaw this season, but hey, why not make a run and see what shakes out?  At the very least, this can be a really good experience down the road for this young team.

[Jim Hyla]

The thing that bugs me is that they are making the same stupid mistakes that they did at the beginning of the season, and they still struggle on the breakout. It's not exactly giving me hope.

While they still make mistakes, their overall play has improved dramatically from the beginning of the season. I'd say this team has shown the most in-season improvement of any I have seen in (oy!) 30 years.  Union completely outclassed them much in the way Yale did 2 seasons ago.  Yale themselves, well, we'll see this weekend -- we've lost 6 in a row to them, usually being badly outplayed, but Yale has shown flaws lately.  But other than those two teams this really is arguably the 3rd-best team in conference right now.

For the first time this year I can see this team playing well enough to get to Atlantic City without a miracle.  Given how much they lost in the off-season, I think this is one of Schafer's best coaching performances.  Also, look how far the Seniors have come!  They had to assume leadership roles and pick up their game to fill the huge shoes of the 2010 class and they've done a very good job of it since New Year's.  Joe's hot month and Tyler's clutch performance last night typify that.

Instead of the dreadful rebuilding year it could have (should have?) been (ask Colgate and Harvard) it's been a lot of fun with some memorable performances.  I actually am quite hopeful.

This.  Much of what Greg said is exactly what's been going through my head for the past month.  First of all, they no longer look as tired as they did early in the season for 3rd periods, so that strange habit of getting steamrolled by opponents late in games seems to have passed. Several players have turned the corner in terms of living up to their potential(or maybe just my expectations), and Roeszler & Joe Devin in particular are showing an Evan Barlow-esque blossoming offensively.  Not only that, but since the 3rd period at RPI, I've noticed a lot more touch & drop passes happening in transition than I've ever seen from a Schafer squad.  The PP still needs a lot of work, as does the breakout, but there's a little bit more that's "clicking" at other times than I thought I'd see.  Given my expectations for this year, I'm quite pleased right now, and this team is showing me something.

Given the obvious gap between the top 2 teams and parity of the middle-tier this season, I don't think anyone can really give CU significant odds to snatch the Whitelaw this season, but hey, why not make a run and see what shakes out?  At the very least, this can be a really good experience down the road for this young team.

I'd say, as Brandon Thomas says in his IJ article they are 4-0-2 in last 6 OT games.