Women's Hockey 2015 - 2016 Season.

[Rita]

It's a new season. Deserves a New Thread.

Let's Go Red!!

[ithacat]

Looks like it's going to be a long season. BC looked very good, made us look like practice pylons for long stretches of play. Really need to recruit speed.

[profudge]

Yes they thoroughly outplayed us this afternoon.  

BC is one of the best teams in the country and with the best individual player in Alex Carpenter.   BC came into this weekend 6-0 with Carpenter the highest scorer in Hockey Easy and with 209 career points including 101 goals after Friday night.   We seemed to run out of energy in second game in less than 24 hours.  BC  had both team speed and some individual speed;  but it was teamwork and accurate passing that did most of the damage.   Alex had 3 goals on Saturday!

I am hoping as the women get a bit sharper and with better game endurance that we will still fight for top of ECAC although Clarkson looks very strong!  They  are 9-0  with sweeps of BU, New Hampshire, St Lawrence and Vermont.

[imafrshmn]

We got totally demolished because we were exhausted after Friday night and because Marlene Boissonault isn't as adjusted to NCAA-level play as Voorheis. We have a really solid defense corps and it looks like they will be expected to get deep in the offensive zone the way that former players like Laura Fortino and Alyssa Gagliardi were so effective at. Elite forwards like BC's Carpenter and Skarupa can rip most teams apart, but a fast/physical/smart opponent with good goaltending (like Harvard last year) can still beat BC. Despite the game outcomes this weekend, I remain pretty optimistic for the season. The biggest question to me is whether our talented-but-not-elite forwards can continue to develop into reliable point producers. An ECAC RS top-4 finish and NCAA berth are still reachable, though challenging, goals.

[ithacat]

We got totally demolished because we were exhausted after Friday night and because Marlene Boissonault isn't as adjusted to NCAA-level play as Voorheis. We have a really solid defense corps and it looks like they will be expected to get deep in the offensive zone the way that former players like Laura Fortino and Alyssa Gagliardi were so effective at. Elite forwards like BC's Carpenter and Skarupa can rip most teams apart, but a fast/physical/smart opponent with good goaltending (like Harvard last year) can still beat BC. Despite the game outcomes this weekend, I remain pretty optimistic for the season. The biggest question to me is whether our talented-but-not-elite forwards can continue to develop into reliable point producers. An ECAC RS top-4 finish and NCAA berth are still reachable, though challenging, goals.

I hope you're right. I'll reserve a little of my optimism until I see more this weekend. The team looks to be the slowest it's been in years (first weekend might explain some of that). I thought Boissonnault looked pretty good in the first period and made some nice saves. It seemed BC exploited her 5 hole in the 2nd and 3d (but I haven't watched the goals over) and I'm sure she'll learn quickly from that game. It was BC's first road games of the season and they were impressive. I still feel that the team is struggling to exit its own zone and is having trouble finding players who can carry the puck out or string together 1-2 passes consistently for meaningful transition opportunities. Lots of questions still to be answered.

For a few years we were truly blessed and I'm struggling to adjust to a more normal outlook.

[Jim Hyla]

We got totally demolished because we were exhausted after Friday night and because Marlene Boissonault isn't as adjusted to NCAA-level play as Voorheis. We have a really solid defense corps and it looks like they will be expected to get deep in the offensive zone the way that former players like Laura Fortino and Alyssa Gagliardi were so effective at. Elite forwards like BC's Carpenter and Skarupa can rip most teams apart, but a fast/physical/smart opponent with good goaltending (like Harvard last year) can still beat BC. Despite the game outcomes this weekend, I remain pretty optimistic for the season. The biggest question to me is whether our talented-but-not-elite forwards can continue to develop into reliable point producers. An ECAC RS top-4 finish and NCAA berth are still reachable, though challenging, goals.

I hope you're right. I'll reserve a little of my optimism until I see more this weekend. The team looks to be the slowest it's been in years (first weekend might explain some of that). I thought Boissonnault looked pretty good in the first period and made some nice saves. It seemed BC exploited her 5 hole in the 2nd and 3d (but I haven't watched the goals over) and I'm sure she'll learn quickly from that game. It was BC's first road games of the season and they were impressive. I still feel that the team is struggling to exit its own zone and is having trouble finding players who can carry the puck out or string together 1-2 passes consistently for meaningful transition opportunities. Lots of questions still to be answered.

For a few years we were truly blessed and I'm struggling to adjust to a more normal outlook.

I hope that's not true.

[mattj711]

Nice 2-1 win over Princeton this evening thanks to Taylor Woods scoring two goals in the last 1:30 of the game, the first being short handed.

[Jim Hyla]

Recruits, what a difference a few years makes.

[RichH]

ESPN3 will be airing streaming three women's games in 2016, according to this release:

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[b][u]Sport Date Opponent Time[/u][/b]
Women's Ice Hockey 1/8/2016 at Harvard 7:00 p.m.
Women's Ice Hockey 1/22/2016 CLARKSON 3:00 p.m.
Women's Ice Hockey 2/13/2016 at Yale 4:00 p.m.


Since they're also doing the Men's home game vs. Dartmouth on 1/22, that's a hockey double-header.

Redcast subscribers would have received access to these games anyway, but there will at least be professional announcers and production features on hand.

Anybody know if this means Redcast will be blacked out for these?

[Weder]

ESPN3 frequently just streams the local production, so I'd expect those games to be what you'd usually get from Harvard, Cornell and Yale via their broadcasts. If I remember right, ESPN3 used the Clarkson feed for the ECAC semifinals and final last year.

[Jim Hyla]

Considering the title of the article is "ESPN3 Picks Up 12 ILDN Simulcasts", I'd say we get the same broadcast. Also the article says, "all of which will also be simulcast on the Ivy League Digital Network". So I'd say we can also watch on ILDN.

[RichH]

Considering the title of the article is "ESPN3 Picks Up 12 ILDN Simulcasts", I'd say we get the same broadcast. Also the article says, "all of which will also be simulcast on the Ivy League Digital Network". So I'd say we can also watch on ILDN.

Thanks, Jim. When I'm having a bad week, reading comprehension is the 2nd thing to go.

[Trotsky]

Considering the title of the article is "ESPN3 Picks Up 12 ILDN Simulcasts", I'd say we get the same broadcast. Also the article says, "all of which will also be simulcast on the Ivy League Digital Network". So I'd say we can also watch on ILDN.

Thanks, Jim. When I'm having a bad week, reading comprehension is the 2nd thing to go.

After memory, right?  Wait, what?

[Jim Hyla]

Women beat SU 5-2, scoring 5 goals on 13 shots.

[Jim Hyla]

Big game against Colgate tonight. How often have we said that in women's hockey, but they have to win and Colgate isn't a terrible team.