What is your definition of a Successful Season

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Successful season:

1) stop stupid penalties
2) crisper, smoother break-out
3) more energetic and less predictable power-play
4) RULE the front of our goal
5) stop stupid penalties!

No poofters!

I don't want to catch anyone not drinking in their room after lights out.

THERE IS NO...rule 6.

[Towerroad]

Were your expectations met?

[Jim Hyla]

Men: LP

Women: 1 or 2 in ECAC and get into NCAAs.

I think you're asking too much for the women to always make the FF. There are getting to be too many good teams.

The same. Yes, I expect we all feel the teams could have done better. And yes, I would have liked, and think it would have helped them next year, if the men could have made the NCAAs. But I'm glad they made it back to the ECACs, regardless of where they are.:-D I can hope that the team feels the same way, and work as hard in the off season as they were said to have done this past year.

It will be hard to go to the game tonight, but I'll be pulling for Colgate.

In regards to the women, they had a very successful season, although I think many of us felt they could have gotten to the FF. Since it's in the east, it would have been nice. I think they can do at least as well next year, but it's becoming harder to do that every year.

[BearLover]

This was not a successful season for the men.

[ajh258]

This was not a successful season for the men.

Not trying to troll, but I kind of agree. People should have high standards for things they care about, and for the regulars here, Cornell hockey is one of those things. In this context, 2014 was an OK season.

Successful to me means an NCAA bid and playing well in the tournament (i.e. not barely getting a bid and get steamrolled during the first game). 2009, 2010, 2012 were successful seasons.

[Dafatone]

This was not a successful season for the men.

Not trying to troll, but I kind of agree. People should have high standards for things they care about, and for the regulars here, Cornell hockey is one of those things. In this context, 2014 was an OK season.

Successful to me means an NCAA bid and playing well in the tournament (i.e. not barely getting a bid and get steamrolled during the first game). 2009, 2010, 2012 were successful seasons.

For me, it's just getting into the NCAAs.  So we came very, very close this year.  I remain annoyed at the lack of a consolation game.  Just looking at our record, it feels like we shouldn't be done yet.  Yeah, our goal differential says we've been getting lucky, but it's a short season.  Luck's a part of it.

[BearLover]

This was not a successful season for the men.

Not trying to troll...

Anyone who says anything bad about Cornell is a troll?

[RatushnyFan]

20-10-5.  Win the ECAC tourney, make it to the NCAAs and pick up a win.

[ugarte]

Not a successful season. On the outside looking in at the NCAAs because we couldn't score enough to distance ourselves from the genuinely bad teams we played. Union and Q are better than us, probably Colgate too, but 0-2-2 against Dartmouth and the Hockey East mediocrities are what cost us a spot in the postseason.

[MattS]

Back in the fall I agreed with Jim and both teams met those expectations.

Going into the season, I was hopeful of the men's team doing well but realistically I was very concerned about how the defense would play. Anytime that two freshman and a sophomore are half of the defensive pairings it could be cause for concern. However, I thought they played well. I thought the offense would be better than it was. So the D did better than I thought they would and the O did worse but overall it worked out to meet my expectations.

The women's team, with the losses to graduation and the Olympics, was certainly not going to be the same powerhouse, but overall they did well and played very hard though a lot of injuries resulting in a very short bench at times.

[Dafatone]

Back in the fall I agreed with Jim and both teams met those expectations.

Going into the season, I was hopeful of the men's team doing well but realistically I was very concerned about how the defense would play. Anytime that two freshman and a sophomore are half of the defensive pairings it could be cause for concern. However, I thought they played well. I thought the offense would be better than it was. So the D did better than I thought they would and the O did worse but overall it worked out to meet my expectations.

The women's team, with the losses to graduation and the Olympics, was certainly not going to be the same powerhouse, but overall they did well and played very hard though a lot of injuries resulting in a very short bench at times.

Kinda funny how that works.  It's "oh yeah, we're Cornell, aren't we?"

[Towerroad]

With the season sitting before us what set of conditions would lead you to say, "The team did well, this season was a success." Here is my take:

Women:

Return to the Frozen 4
Beating Harvard twice.


Men:

First round bye in the ECAC Tournament
League Average Penalty Minutes

The Women came up a bit short unfortunately. In retrospect, I think I set the bar too high but such is life

The Men met my first criteria but came up a bit short on the penalty minutes. They made progress falling in the Penalty Minutes/Game at #19 vs #1 last year but at 12.69 they are still above the median of 12.31. My expectations for this years team were modest but they came reasonably close to meeting them.

[Rita]

For both teams: top four in the ECAC, making the conference semi-finals and making the NC$$ tourney. For the boys, also include more discipline with respect to committing fewer penalties.

The women did well, I guess Mercyhurst is our kryponite.  The men fell short with not making the NC$$s. I'm not sure about the penalties, but there seemed to be fewer penalties (or ones that made me want to scream) and/or our penalty killing was better (I know I should look this up, but not motivated to do so)

[Dafatone]

For both teams: top four in the ECAC, making the conference semi-finals and making the NC$$ tourney. For the boys, also include more discipline with respect to committing fewer penalties.

The women did well, I guess Mercyhurst is our kryponite.  The men fell short with not making the NC$$s. I'm not sure about the penalties, but there seemed to be fewer penalties (or ones that made me want to scream) and/or our penalty killing was better (I know I should look this up, but not motivated to do so)

We were, for the most part, productively chippy, as opposed to the self-destructively chippy that we were the past couple years.

[underskill]

Hard to believe that Iles only tourney appearance was as a sophmore given all the hype coming in. It feels like we've definitely underachieved since the Scrivens-Greening class left.