Fake News?

[Swampy]

Let's ask the question in a different way.  Is Cornell'18 as scary as Clarkson'18?  Or Yale or Quinnipiac or Union or Sucks from recent seasons?  If I were a betting man I don't know if I'd put this team as the favorite in any of those match-ups....

We are good; still not sure if we are elite.

We'll find out soon enough.

[upprdeck]

I didnt look at the stats but does Cornell have a high shooting percentage if you analyze it subjectively?  Just watching the games and the quality of the chances it feels like we are under shooting. Clarkson has the same sh% as us, there is only a 4% difference from best to worst, but nothing shows how good the shots are..  I know there are some numbers for this in the NHL stats. it could be we score on 12% of all shots and 20% of quality shots and clarkson scores on 12% of all shots and 50% on quality shots?  who knows? interesting to see us so high in scoring and in the bottom 3rd in PP which usually where many of the best shots come from.. Coach even mentioned last week the 5x5 play has been really solid and leading to most of our scoring and that means a lot when games are played clean

[RichH]

Let's ask the question in a different way.  Is Cornell'18 as scary as Clarkson'18?

I'd say that Clarkson'18 has almost as much to prove nationally as Cornell. (The game at Lynah giving them the edge.) They're a team that did well in 2017 but didn't make the conference semis and lost at least one TERRIFIC defenseman to graduation. We thought they'd be in the race for the ECAC, but national top 5? Not many expected that, and they still have to prove their mettle to many outsiders, as do we.

Really, I think Denver was the only solid national favorite, and throw in Notre Dame's progress from 2017 (and the usual suspects like Duluth & DakotHawks) and the rest have to earn a seat.

[Beeeej]

Let's ask the question in a different way.  Is Cornell'18 as scary as Clarkson'18?  Or Yale or Quinnipiac or Union or Sucks from recent seasons?  If I were a betting man I don't know if I'd put this team as the favorite in any of those match-ups....

We are good; still not sure if we are elite.

I will say one thing, though - it's really nice, for a change, to be asking these questions.

[Swampy]

I considered putting this in a new thread for this upcoming weekend until I got to the next-to-last paragraph. An otherwise excellent article on the ECAC this week talks about current and former ECAC players in the Olympics but overlooks Ben Scrivens?? How can you justify mentioning Milos Bubela playing for Slovokia but not mention Ben as GK for Team Canada?

As for the first part of the article, which mentions that Dartmouth has beaten the #2 team in the country twice this year (Denver & Clarkson), well let's hope Garp was right.

[Beeeej]

I considered putting this in a new thread for this upcoming weekend until I got to the next-to-last paragraph. An otherwise excellent article on the ECAC this week talks about current and former ECAC players in the Olympics but overlooks Ben Scrivens?? How can you justify mentioning Milos Bubela playing for Slovokia but not mention Ben as GK for Team Canada?

Pretty much par for the course - Nate seems to put together his columns based only on 1) what he already knows or even merely believes, and 2) what's already in front of him.

[BMac]

... and apparently still hasn't learned the difference between "freshman" and "freshmen."

[Johnny 5]

Let's hope the boys bring their A-game tonight.
Then even CHN might run a piece on Cornell!?

::rock::

[BearLover]

Let's ask the question in a different way.  Is Cornell'18 as scary as Clarkson'18?  Or Yale or Quinnipiac or Union or Sucks from recent seasons?  If I were a betting man I don't know if I'd put this team as the favorite in any of those match-ups....

We are good; still not sure if we are elite.

I'd say Cornell is about as scary as Clarkson '18 and less scary than those other teams. Why? Because Y/Q/U were dominant for longer than half of a season. As others have noted, that shooting percentage number is going to go down for both Clarkson and Cornell, and both teams won't keep winning such a high percentage of the razor-close games they've played. Cornell is also incredibly light on defense: there are six healthy D on the roster right now. Last year's team for the final fourth of the season was playing at a disadvantage every night, suiting up five defensemen. This team is one injury away from having to go through that again. I'd guess that, if college hockey had 1000-game seasons, Cornell would probably be in the 10-15th in the country range. As it stands now, Cornell is in excellent shape to capitalize on having been a strong team with quite a bit of luck in the first 19 games of the season.

[Trotsky]

I'd guess that, if college hockey had 1000-game seasons, Cornell would probably be in the 10-15th in the country range.

Yeah, but somebody might break 20 goals again.

[Johnny 5]

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t147/Coelacanth64/D99861ED-C043-47F1-8EE1-8CBA9CBA46C0.jpeg

[Trotsky]

Counterpoint: ambush

[Johnny 5]

Counterpoint: ambush

LOL!!

:-D

[Johnny 5]

Ok,...we sweep the weekend, lock up the Ivy title, move into first place in the ECAC, and COLGATE gets the lead USCHO article because they beat Harvard!? WTF!!

Let's all genuflect before the throne of Colton Point? Not.

::bang::

[Beeeej]

Ok,...we sweep the weekend, lock up the Ivy title, move into first place in the ECAC, and COLGATE gets the lead USCHO article because they beat Harvard!? WTF!!

Let's all genuflect before the throne of Colton Point? Not.

::bang::

Honestly, buddy, you're starting to sound like a whining, entitled brat. You want a feature article on Cornell every freakin' week?! Even the article on Colgate shutting out Harvard talked about Cornell and Galajda. It might be hard to swallow, but very few people care about the Ivy title, and it's not as interesting when we win the fifth game in a row that we're supposed to win.