Brown 2/1

[Dafatone]

See, I thought we tried to put the puck on net plenty of times. Must've been about a thousand blocked shots.

We need more movement away from the puck in the offensive zone. Our PP is the three umbrella players passing back and forth and nothing from the players down low. More crisscrossing, skating the puck, and player movement might shake some things free. We possessed the puck well on the PP, but ultimately, all our shots came from the outside wings and got blocked.

[BearLover]

I don't want to be That Guy, but these are the games that Galajda, Iles, McKee, Scrivens, and Gillam won 1-0.

Wild take. The goaltending is the only thing somewhat promising about Cornell's performance the last few weeks. Almost no playmaking ability outside of the top 4 or 5 guys, PP can't get set up in the other team's zone, PK gives up way too much space and other teams have learned how to take advantage.

With that said, Shane looked like a deer in the headlights on the breakaway that led to the second Brown goal. How do you give up that much space between the legs?

If there is one key difference between this year's team and prior years', it's the depth. In prior years Cornell could roll three or four lines that could punish opponents that were worn down. This year, opponents can match up their shutdown defenders against the first line, while Cornell's other lines are just biding time until Stienburg is rested enough to get back on the ice.

The future of the program may very well be bright, but this year's team is going nowhere. I don't think the voters who keep ranking Cornell in the top 15 have seen them play this year.

[Scersk '97]

See, I thought we tried to put the puck on net plenty of times. Must've been about a thousand blocked shots.

In the third, we started to put the puck on net a bit better. Where was that in the first and second?

So many times I see the chance for a sneaky backhand; instead, the player slows down, gives the defender time to get in front, and we end up with another blocked shot. Or worse, a bad pass or another braindead slappah into somebody's ankles.

Rego had a great backhand sometime in the second; one of those is going to go in eventually. In a game like this one was, anything that creates any bit of chaos is the right thing to do.

[BearLover]

this team has forgotton how to score..  the wide open shots are not going in and pretty much mostly tough goals now..  

still lose on a PP and the Dman falling down creating a breakaway.

would love to see a real angle on the goal that was reviewed.. it was on the line when we could see it from center ice, probably had no view at all from above on goal cam.

other than a burst against Princ in last 3 min we can get anything to go in. we went from a high scoring team to a low scoring team pretty fast the last 30+ days

IIRC, Cornell the second highest shooting percentage in the country through the first half of the season. That is a sign that you've been very lucky. It also included three (at the time) 3v3 goals. Cornell's scoring has regressed to the mean.

[Trotsky]

If there is one key difference between this year's team and prior years', it's the depth. In prior years Cornell could roll three or four lines that could punish opponents that were worn down. This year, opponents can match up their shutdown defenders against the first line, while Cornell's other lines are just biding time until Stienburg is rested enough to get back on the ice.

Up until the last couple games I'd say we were rolling multiple dangerous lines.  In the last couple games they all collapsed, especially the Stienburg line.

Until the last three games I'd have said the Tupker line was actually our most ferocious in terms of wearing the other team down.  But they've disappeared.

Somebody check the Pizza Hut.

[Dafatone]

It's easy to point at one injured guy and say he makes all the difference, but Andreev fills that sparkplug role. I bet we'd look more lively with him.

Also, hard to evaluate what the absence of Coach does to the team, both from a strategy standpoint and overall morale.

[billhoward]

I was guessing game attendance would either be 250, or 250 from Brown and 250 Cornell fans. From the box score, attendance 262:  https://brownbears.com/boxscore.aspx?path=mhockey&id=11193

Maybe 12 Brown fans came?

[Swampy]

I don't want to be That Guy, but these are the games that Galajda, Iles, McKee, Scrivens, and Gillam won 1-0.

...

With that said, Shane looked like a deer in the headlights on the breakaway that led to the second Brown goal. How do you give up that much space between the legs?

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Shane looked like he'd never practiced defending 1-on-1. The first goal wasn't his fault. Several of our past goalies could have stopped the second goal.

[TimV]

Center ice Brown logo looks like a 97-year old French whore's faded tattoo.

I remember her!  You were there around 1986, right?

[billhoward]

We play that rarest of games, midweek Tuesday and on February 1. I woke up thinking we'd be back in Providence playing it again, still Feb. 1. So, it could be worse.

[Weder]

We play that rarest of games, midweek Tuesday and on February 1. I woke up thinking we'd be back in Providence playing it again, still Feb. 1. So, it could be worse.

You know Groundhog Day is Feb. 2, right?

[nshapiro]

We play that rarest of games, midweek Tuesday and on February 1. I woke up thinking we'd be back in Providence playing it again, still Feb. 1. So, it could be worse.

You know Groundhog Day is Feb. 2, right?

and Punxsutauney Phil had bad news.

[Scersk '97]

We play that rarest of games, midweek Tuesday and on February 1. I woke up thinking we'd be back in Providence playing it again, still Feb. 1. So, it could be worse.

You know Groundhog Day is Feb. 2, right?

and Punxsutauney Phil had bad news.

A matter of perspective and preference. Phil provides news: you interpret it and act upon it how you wish.

I, for one, welcome winter as the season of skiing, hockey, and of beautiful snow. So too it is the season of the truly great contrast—at least for those fortunate to have insides to go to—that reminds you that you're alive: cold outside, warm inside. Living through four seasons each year is best for the soul, and of those four seasons I anticipate winter the most.

[nshapiro]

We play that rarest of games, midweek Tuesday and on February 1. I woke up thinking we'd be back in Providence playing it again, still Feb. 1. So, it could be worse.

You know Groundhog Day is Feb. 2, right?

and Punxsutauney Phil had bad news.

A matter of perspective and preference. Phil provides news: you interpret it and act upon it how you wish.

I, for one, welcome winter as the season of skiing, hockey, and of beautiful snow. So too it is the season of the truly great contrast—at least for those fortunate to have insides to go to—that reminds you that you're alive: cold outside, warm inside. Living through four seasons each year is best for the soul, and of those four seasons I anticipate winter the most.

Winter is one of the four seasons that I hate the most

[Scersk '97]

Winter is one of the four seasons that I hate the most

Ah, you must subscribe to the midwestern 11-season schema. A devotee of mud season, perhaps?

Code Select Expand


winter
fool's spring
second winter
spring of deception
third winter
mud season
actual spring
summer
false fall
second summer (1 week)
actual fall

I detest "fool's spring," a.k.a. January thaw. My favorite is third winter, i.e., that time of the year when everyone always seems to have forgotten that the big snowstorms come in March. Hockey playoffs and fewer idiots on the slopes—what could be better?