Women's Team 2017-18

[ugarte]

that late intentional offsides call was a bit strange to see.

a reasonable call though - ref had her hand up for like three seconds and cornell kept carrying forward. losing both draws after the call was really bad.

teams pack in tight and for all the shots on the scoresheet there weren't nearly enough "plays" where a player tried to move into space to receive a pass. and goddamn it you really have to be willing to let it fly sometimes from outside. ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE THE PUCK ON YOUR STICK WITH 4 SECONDS LEFT IN OT.

[scoop85]

that late intentional offsides call was a bit strange to see.

a reasonable call though - ref had her hand up for like three seconds and cornell kept carrying forward. losing both draws after the call was really bad.

teams pack in tight and for all the shots on the scoresheet there weren't nearly enough "plays" where a player tried to move into space to receive a pass. and goddamn it you really have to be willing to let it fly sometimes from outside. ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE THE PUCK ON YOUR STICK WITH 4 SECONDS LEFT IN OT.

I thought the intentional offsides call was absurd, since the Cornell gal who was just offsides had her back to the lineswoman and reasonably could've thought she was onsides. But I agree it was awful cleanly losing the draws leading to the tying goal, and I was shaking my head when the gal at the point didn't just let one go in the final seconds of OT.

My impression of this year's women is a team that's a scorer or two short. They rely too heavily for scoring on O'Neill and Mills.

[upprdeck]

intentional offsides is to stop people from intentionally stopping play not for someone trying to play the puck on a marginal call.. i rewound ii just to see the call was actually offsides and it was, but there are plays every game where someone tries to make a play at the line and pass the puck back in when it was clearly outside..  this was a play puck sliding and a player racing towards it and the ref not in view at all..  to make that call at that point of the game was absurd.

[Jim Hyla]

Women lose to Clarkson in OT 4-3. 1856 fans at Lynah.

[mountainred]

1856 fans at Lynah.

Men's hoops has only topped that figure twice in the Earl Era and haven't reached 1000 fans yet this season.

I am NOT saying the fans are choosing incorrectly.

[Trotsky]

#6 women hosting #8 SLU on ILDN right now.  SLU's sweaters are gorgeous.

[Trotsky]

Cornell playing great, up 3-0.  Putting Daft Punk on hour loop behind the broadcast works eerily well.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVXSezaWO3w fits perfectly with the cadence and "feel" of the PBP guy (who is quite good).

[Trotsky]

Kristin O'Neill is a stone cold killer but it's Amy Curlew with a wonderful dance through the defenders and an eng to push us back up by 3 with 4 mins to go.

[Trotsky]

Who.  SLU coach just got booted.  Never seen that before.

[Trotsky]

Women (13-7-3, 10-5-2, #7 PWR) at Dartmouth (5-16-1, 3-13-1) today on ILDN and lead 2-0 after 1.

[Trotsky]

Women win 3-1, are settling into 3rd.

[scoop85]

Women win 3-1, are settling into 3rd.

Women's hockey must be down this year, because frankly I don't think our women are close in talent to our Frozen Four teams, yet somehow we are ranked 5th.

[imafrshmn]

The women's team has shown that they can dominate play against weaker teams and hang tough with better teams, but they just don't have the depth of scoring to be one of the top tier teams this year. And they don't always score enough to get past teams that they outplay (Harvard yesterday, case in point). There does seem to be a significant drop off in strength after the quartet of Wisconsin, Clarkson, Boston College, and Colgate. But, there is a lot of reason to be excited about this team--our Freshman and Sophomore classes this year are full of skill, speed, athleticism. If Boissonnault is hot in the ECAC playoffs and we get a bit of puck luck, this team could potentially reach the championship game or better. They seem to be playing their best hockey of the season at this point and will have a 'nothing to lose' attitude going into the playoffs, so I think they will make it interesting.

[Trotsky]

Women blow out Yale and Brown by a combined score of 10-1.  Tied with SLU for 3rd.  Now in 6th in PWR.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Women blow out Yale and Brown by a combined score of 10-1.  Tied with SLU for 3rd.  Now in 6th in PWR.

And win the Ivy title.