SHU @ Cornell, 11/22/2022

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In my opinion the pursuit of excellence in sports is a worthwhile enterprise, and size matters. Bemidji State has an enrollment of 2,800 students, a modest budget, and a D-1 hockey team ranked in 24th place. Cornell Men's varsity hockey is currently ranked in 27th place - up from 34th place. Don't blame me. These are not my numbers. If you are content with these facts enjoy the season and the elbow room in Lynah Rink.

You can't accurately judge the team's level by citing the pairwise 1/3 of the way into the season.  If we're still that bad at the end of the year, then fine, it's fair to question why we had a subpar season.

Weve lost 4 games.  Losing the opening two was entirely plausible against an opponent 5 or 6 games into the season.  Q was highly favored, and hard to say that we were favorites on the road against Clarkson.


Just as drawing grand conclusions from early in the season is useless and not informative, of we have a single crappy season or also is useless at evaluating the program; one season does NOT indicate a trend.  You need to look at the long term, say the last 15 years or so, to assess where our ceiling (and expectation) really is.

I don't think oso was a stats major