Cornell - SLU

[ugarte]

Cornell up 1-0 on a PPG off a scrum in front of the net but the real news is that Donaldson skated off a few seconds earlier holding his arm with what looked like it might be a broken wrist.

[andyw2100]

Donaldson skated off a few seconds earlier holding his arm with what looked like it might be a broken wrist.

I thought it looked like he was holding his elbow at first, and then it looked like it could be a shoulder issue. I'd be surprised if it was his wrist.

[Cop at Lynah]

Injury occurred when he fell forward onto the ice in a kinda awkward fashion.  Looked on replay like it might have been separated shoulder.

[Trotsky]

So are we disbanding by attrition?

[BearLover]

This year is probably the worst I've ever seen in terms of injuries. Up until this point it felt like Cornell still could patch together a lineup, even with Andreev and Haiskanen out long-term and Smith banged up. But losing Donaldson sort of feels like the dam bursting.

At this point, the best-case scenario is probably for Cornell to limp into the bye week without losing anyone else and get back all except one or two of the above.

[Trotsky]

With tonight's results, all teams have played the same number of conference games (16) and we have opened up some daylight:

 

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 1. 24 Cornell
 2. 21 Quinnipiac
 3. 20 Clarkson
    20 Harvard

 5. 19 Yale
 6. 17 Brown
 7. 16 Dartmouth
 8. 15 Union

 9. 12 Colgate
    12 RPI
11. 11 Princeton
12.  5 SLU


[Swampy]

It's a great tribute to this team, and the coaches, that we've been missing key players all season long and have been banged up and playing hurt. Yet here we are with only 3 weeks left in the regular season having won the Ivy League title, sitting on top of the ECAC (during a year when the league has distinguished itself against non-conference competition), and 8th in the pwr. Someone goes down, and someone steps up. E.g., Regush filled in for Donaldson tonight.

Let's hope Smith comes back next week. (Been down so long, it looks to me like up is the only way to go.)

[BearLover]

https://twitter.com/CUBigRedHockey/status/1094429992786845696

LGR!

[scoop85]

https://twitter.com/CUBigRedHockey/status/1094429992786845696

LGR!

The t-shirts should read "empty the infirmary"

[Trotsky]

That's a great picture.  Evidently the instructions were "look like goofballs!"  ::cheer::

Please to explain the hardhat and sledgehammer?  I assume one of them is the ubiquitous "blue collar belt."

[ursusminor]

It's a great tribute to this team, and the coaches, that we've been missing key players all season long and have been banged up and playing hurt. Yet here we are with only 3 weeks left in the regular season having won the Ivy League title, sitting on top of the ECAC (during a year when the league has distinguished itself against non-conference competition), and 8th in the pwr. Someone goes down, and someone steps up. E.g., Regush filled in for Donaldson tonight.

Let's hope Smith comes back next week. (Been down so long, it looks to me like up is the only way to go.)

Someone needs to come up with a decent metric quantifying how hurt a team is. I suspect that every team at this point of the season is missing important players. RPI has been playing without its player with the most points (Hayhurst) and its top goal scorer (Polino) the last couple of weeks. Now certainly RPI is not in the hunt for the Cleary Cup as Cornell is, but they are ahead of where they were picked preseason.

[Trotsky]

Someone needs to come up with a decent metric quantifying how hurt a team is.

Missed games due to injury.  Pretty simple.

Jason made the observation on Friday that we already had 20 missed games among the top 6 D, while last season after the same number of games we had just 7.  That was before Haiskenen was hurt.

We've had some really bad seasons with injuries, though.  I don't think this one is among the worst, though it seems worse than average.  I suppose we could count Bliss and really hike the number up.

[marty]

Someone needs to come up with a decent metric quantifying how hurt a team is.

We've had some really bad seasons with injuries, though.

My least favorite was 1973. There were so many injuries that the 4th line played what seemed like most of the NCAA semi. The injuries were such that we only had 3 lines.  Our 3rd line was the regular season 4th line.  God knows they were good players but definitely a step down from the rest of the offense.

Bertrand kept throwing them out on the ice to save the top 2 lines for the final on Saturday. We played Friday and the other semi was Thursday.  Dick was sure that Denver was going to skate faster and better than Cornell on Saturday. That didn't happen because Cornell didn't skate in that game.

It was the most disappointing game I've ever seen.  Losing in OT to a team we dominated.  Then seeing them beat the team that was supposed to be the best.

[ursusminor]

Someone needs to come up with a decent metric quantifying how hurt a team is.

Missed games due to injury.  Pretty simple.

That doesn't take into account how important the player is. Swampy was talking about key players.

[Trotsky]

Someone needs to come up with a decent metric quantifying how hurt a team is.

Missed games due to injury.  Pretty simple.

That doesn't take into account how important the player is. Swampy was talking about key players.

Then weight by points per game or something.