St. Lawrence 2 vs. Cornell 3 1/21/17

[Iceberg]

St. Lawrence happens to be a bubble team. And quite frankly, they also have the best goaltender in the conference. A few of their best players are injured but that hasn't stopped them from showing up the last few weeks.

[A-19]

did anyone ever explain why they're wearing the red road helmets during this home weekend?

[TimV]

I mentioned on chat last night I didn't like it.  Too much like BU for me.  OTOH, if they wore white helmets with the road reds, it would look more like Ned's 60s and 70s teams.  Old time hockey!

[Iceberg]

I was thinking more along the lines of Wisconsin because BU at least always has the white gloves.

[ugarte]

If I had to guess, I'd say they were playing well on the road and this was a kind of good luck superstition goof.

[TimV]

Probably a good guess.  But I saw a lot of wins way back with the white lids on the red jerseys.  Let's do THAT again.

[Trotsky]

Very nice win tonight, and a great weekend over all.

[Iceberg]

Back up to 11 in the pairwise after the Providence sweep of Lowell and Yale getting the tie.

[Trotsky]

It feels good to be "warm" again.

[ugarte]

Back up to 11 in the pairwise after the Providence sweep of Lowell and Yale getting the tie.

We win the comparison with Lowell because we're ahead of them in RPI by .0001. lol

[upprdeck]

i thought the STL goalie was awful all night, he was beat on the glove side repeatedly. the McCarron goal was really soft.  he left a ton of rebounds and got saved by pipes a couple times.

[Jim Hyla]

i thought the STL goalie was awful all night, he was beat on the glove side repeatedly. the McCarron goal was really soft.  he left a ton of rebounds and got saved by pipes a couple times.

But then again we got saved by at least 1 pipe and 1 late crossbar. Those things happen. We also had a few that just missed, when Gillam was out of position. I certainly didn't think he was awful. We played so much better than last night. Partially that was because Clarkson was so good with their 2.5 man forecheck. I sure hope we work out a plan before we play them again.

I also have to point out that we have been able to at least keep up with the faster teams that we've faced. I haven't noted much discussion about how Schafer can't change. Maybe the team is starting to show new colors.

[BearLover]

i thought the STL goalie was awful all night, he was beat on the glove side repeatedly. the McCarron goal was really soft.  he left a ton of rebounds and got saved by pipes a couple times.

But then again we got saved by at least 1 pipe and 1 late crossbar. Those things happen. We also had a few that just missed, when Gillam was out of position. I certainly didn't think he was awful. We played so much better than last night. Partially that was because Clarkson was so good with their 2.5 man forecheck. I sure hope we work out a plan before we play them again.

I also have to point out that we have been able to at least keep up with the faster teams that we've faced. I haven't noted much discussion aout how Shafer can't change. Maybe the team is stating to show new colors.

I thought we played about equally well tonight and last night, but I didn't watch all of both games.  I think we're very solid defensively and that most of the goals we give up are individual momentary lapses, not a system-wide or talent-based problem.  Our goals tonight did seem pretty soft for the most part, but that's why you fire 30 SOG instead of 20.

[upprdeck]

I thought we played vastly better friday night.   Were it not for 2 awful clears we win that game 3-1 and feel pretty good.

STL i thought had a bit more speed entering the zone  but still the killer for this team is just bad clears leading to scoring chances.  Its one thing to be out worked and be forced into turnovers, its another under no pressure to not move the puck properly.

Both teams had chances to score, but A pipe on a clear shot from 15 ft to me is different than  pipe on a 30 ft shot thru a maize of people. We were lucky on a couple give aways for sure.

Both games though we were far better on the cycle.

the bad penalties continue at times. we went from ending the game on the PP to a 4-4 with the goalie pulled twice in the last 4-5 minutes because we went after guys..

[Trotsky]

We may have caught SLU at the perfect time: they had a bad night and they had injuries.  But.  We did put 3 past the best goalie in the ECAC (statistically).