2022 Takeaways

[Trotsky]

We played, what 15, guys who had never seen college ice?  And still got a bye.

0 minutes of experience among three goaltenders.  We come back next year with a solid #1 and a good backup, with another guy coming in.

The top 6 scorers, and 13 of the top 15, are expected to return.

Schafer lived.

And I'm still so confused I'm writing "2020" for "2022."  If Age is still around, can you fix that?

[marty]

I might add that it was a very entertaining year for Cornell fans.  Some of us learned a bit of humility and yet the overall play and spirit of the Mike Schafer Cornell coached team is alive and well.

[marty]

And another thing...

[Trotsky]

Is the 3-point cancer here to stay like the DH, or do we excrete it after the plague?

[BearLover]

I might add that it was a very entertaining year for Cornell fans.  Some of us learned a bit of humility and yet the overall play and spirit of the Mike Schafer Cornell coached team is alive and well.

I would definitely not use "entertaining" to describe this season. "Excruciating" at the worst times, "promising" at the best times. Right from opening weekend against Alaska it was clear that this was going to be a difficult year. But the narrative was slow to catch up to how unpolished this team was. We were a mid-20s PWR team for most of the season, but kept getting ranked in the top 15 and even the top 10. We kept tying bad teams, but the media would treat our OT 3x3 wins like regulation wins. It was Bizarro World: watching the games, we looked consistently mediocre and we weren't even consistently winning, but we continued to receive acclaim. By the end of the season we actually started to look pretty solid, culminating in a domination of Colgate over three games that we managed to lose anyway.

As the year progressed I grew to resent the Ivy League's decision to cancel last season more and more. I know this is an unpopular opinion in these parts, but the Ivy League's decision served no purpose other than to decimate the roster. Every game we'd go up against a team with far more experience. And that's not to mention the players who signed pro contracts or transferred. I'd argue that if almost any one of the eight or so players who left the team were on our roster this year, we'd be heading to Lake Placid right now.

I do think the future looks fairly bright, given the returning players and the incoming recruits.

[upprdeck]

the ivies took it more serious than most schools, thats not a bad thing.. it hurt the team for sure.. given what people knew at the time it was probably the best decision.  Had more serious things happened to kids I dont anyone would be questioning what they did.. And kids did get sick around the country and some were seriously sick even if its not widely publicized and and small number. The whole campus took a hit trying to get kids thru school and stay safe.

[Trotsky]

Canceling 2021 is one of the precious few things the Ivies did right over the last 50 years.

When compared with health and life sports simply does not matter.

[Al DeFlorio]

Canceling 2021 is one of the precious few things the Ivies did right over the last 50 years.

When compared with health and life sports simply does not matter.

Boggles the mind that some can't seem to comprehend this.  This is just a goddam game.

[billhoward]

What Cornell did with a young roster was amazing. We overperformed against Quinnipiac and Clarkson, also against No. 1s such as North Dakota. We had trouble with the lower half of the ECAC order, and that seems kind of oh-so-Cornell. If only the power play was better than 17%.

Any year is a good year when we beat BU at Madison Square Garden. And there's the halo of Cornell sports heading into early spring: The basketball team showed real life, Wrestling has nine going to the NCAAs. And now Cornell lacrosse is top five.

Let's hope Mike Schafer continues on as Cornell coach. And gets win No. 500.

[BearLover]

When compared with health and life sports simply does not matter.

Yes, agreed. If canceling 2021 benefitted health or life in any discernible way, I would certainly view that decision differently.

[Jim Hyla]

the ivies took it more serious than most schools, thats not a bad thing.. it hurt the team for sure.. given what people knew at the time it was probably the best decision.  Had more serious things happened to kids I dont anyone would be questioning what they did.. And kids did get sick around the country and some were seriously sick even if its not widely publicized and and small number. The whole campus took a hit trying to get kids thru school and stay safe.

My problem is not that they cancelled the season, it's how they treated the players that were left behind. If they were truly thinking about the players, they would have acted differently and not hung the seniors out to dry.

How much better might have this years team been with more upperclassmen to steady them.

Does anyone think we wouldn't have had more success with Galajda as a senior?

[Trotsky]

the ivies took it more serious than most schools, thats not a bad thing.. it hurt the team for sure.. given what people knew at the time it was probably the best decision.  Had more serious things happened to kids I dont anyone would be questioning what they did.. And kids did get sick around the country and some were seriously sick even if its not widely publicized and and small number. The whole campus took a hit trying to get kids thru school and stay safe.

My problem is not that they cancelled the season, it's how they treated the players that were left behind. If they were truly thinking about the players, they would have acted differently and not hung the seniors out to dry.

Yes, they flat out fucked the players.  I don't know why they Hamletted it, though I assume it was in some way related to the cynical brand protection that motivates virtually everything the Ivies do.

[upprdeck]

the ivies took it more serious than most schools, thats not a bad thing.. it hurt the team for sure.. given what people knew at the time it was probably the best decision.  Had more serious things happened to kids I dont anyone would be questioning what they did.. And kids did get sick around the country and some were seriously sick even if its not widely publicized and and small number. The whole campus took a hit trying to get kids thru school and stay safe.

My problem is not that they cancelled the season, it's how they treated the players that were left behind. If they were truly thinking about the players, they would have acted differently and not hung the seniors out to dry.

How much better might have this years team been with more upperclassmen to steady them.

Does anyone think we wouldn't have had more success with Galajda as a senior?

100% on that..  But the ivies are pretty much against the players of all the sport all the time anyway..   Why do we not let kids stay for 5 yr to work on grad degrees at schools that say there are here to make kids smarter.

[Trotsky]

the ivies took it more serious than most schools, thats not a bad thing.. it hurt the team for sure.. given what people knew at the time it was probably the best decision.  Had more serious things happened to kids I dont anyone would be questioning what they did.. And kids did get sick around the country and some were seriously sick even if its not widely publicized and and small number. The whole campus took a hit trying to get kids thru school and stay safe.

My problem is not that they cancelled the season, it's how they treated the players that were left behind. If they were truly thinking about the players, they would have acted differently and not hung the seniors out to dry.

How much better might have this years team been with more upperclassmen to steady them.

Does anyone think we wouldn't have had more success with Galajda as a senior?

100% on that..  But the ivies are pretty much against the players of all the sport all the time anyway..   Why do we not let kids stay for 5 yr to work on grad degrees at schools that say there are here to make kids smarter.

Being dicks to the athletes is a discriminator so rich fucks keep sending their kids for the designer trophy, rather than looking at cost-effective degrees.

[upprdeck]

the whole school is full of grad students but we can let the athletes play it out.