St. Lawrence 11/16

[Trotsky]

Let's grill St. Lawrence tonight.

[Trotsky]

Hilbrich and de Swardt out; Buckles and Craig in.  Kubiak moves to center the line with Lowry and J. McCarron.

[TimV]

Where is the video?  CU Athletics sends me to America One, who had the Clarkson game, but they don't list our game tonight.

[cbuckser]

Where is the video?  CU Athletics sends me to America One, who had the Clarkson game, but they don't list our game tonight.

This is the link to the free Larrie-cast.

[TimV]

tyvm

[jeff '84]

tyvm

Tyvm x2

[cuhockey93]

A rare fast start for the Red. If only Ferlin would give a more consistent effort. The guy is unbelievably talented which isn't exactly something you can say about many players on this team.

[Rita]

tyvm

Tyvm x2

X 3 for me too .

[marty]

Where is the video?  CU Athletics sends me to America One, who had the Clarkson game, but they don't list our game tonight.

This is the link to the free Larrie-cast.

The video is now available to replay.

[Dafatone]

So, uh, is this the standard "people only post to complain when we lose" phenomenon?

Cause we beat a ranked team, on the road, by three goals.  Let's be happy!

[Robb]

I'm happy.

We've lost 3 ECAC games to the teams currently 1-3 in the league (by points), who have a combined 27-7-5 record.  We've also twice come back from 2-goal deficits on the road including to one of those teams and to the consensus #1 preseason pick.  While I would clearly love to BE one of those top 3 teams, we are definitely competitive in what looks to be a very tough league.

[upprdeck]

not having have Bardreau has changed the team.  a late deflecting against clarkson from being .500 in the league with no offense and 4 of 6 on the road. hopefully he does come back

[RichH]

And the biggest surprises of this team in the early goings has been 1) paucity of shots on goal and 2) PP effectiveness.  After a 2x5 night, Cornell has the best PP % in the nation at 31.7%.  I certainly don't expect that to be the case by the time the 2nd half rolls around, but whatever they're doing, it's working.  It seems like they're breaking the staid, old umbrella strategy for at least some of the opportunities.

Hello, Brian Ferlin! Good to see you.

Without Bardreau, Mowrey & Lowry both shoulder a heavier load. Last night tells me they are capable.

Again, it's early yadda, but Cornell has six players scoring 1.00 pt/game or better (this includes Bardreau's 3 P in 2 GP). The captain is 8th in the nation.

23 GF, 13 PPG, 10 even-strength goals. Not a good sign.

Team offense is #30, Defense #25. There's the mediocrity we're all kvetching about.

PIM/G is 14.4, good for #22 in the nation. So far, that's an improvement.

PK is sitting at 30/37 for 81.1%, which is 34th nationally. This has been my benchmark stat for strong CU teams. This is bad.

Sounds like the team played more as a team last night. All I can do is hope that that team shows up more often.

[Josh '99]

So, uh, is this the standard "people only post to complain when we lose" phenomenon?

Cause we beat a ranked team, on the road, by three goals.  Let's be happy!

Naysayers might suggest that it might've been a different game if not for the fact that we scored on 3 of our first 5 shots (twice on the power play) against a goalie who was then pulled, an occurrence we can't generally rely on going forward on a game-by-game basis.  

On the other hand, a basically even shots balance (outshot 24-20 is close enough) despite having to kill seven power plays on the road against a good team does bode well for the future.

[Trotsky]

Wonder if the lineup changes we saw Saturday will be repeated?  Craig was involved in several altercations.  He and de Swardt seem like a push.  Schafer implied in the pregame that Hilbrich was benched for "not showing up" Friday.  I didn't notice much of Buckles (as opposed to other games).  I'm not sure I heard Schafer correctly but if so then the Lowry center experiment has been deemed a failure.

It may go without saying given the scoresheet that Lowry, Mowrey and John McCarron were outstanding, but I'll say it anyway.  And what about Ferlin finding the net?  Cool beans, Brian.  But for a cymbal crash of a crossbar he'd have had our first hat trick in 34 months.