Women 2023-24

[dag14]

I forgot about the Coach Stone scandal.  Tough for the players but I can't help it:  hee, hee, hee.

[dag14]

Women up 1-0 with a ppg about 5 minutes into the 2nd period.  Fraiser in goal - not sure why - but she is holding her own.  Either Dartmouth is way better than Harvard or we are not playing with the same intensity as yesterday.  Some sloppy play.

We scored on Dartmouth's first penalty and we just killed our own first penalty.

[dag14]

2-0 after another ppg.  I have the sound muted so no clue who scored but Izzy had the perfect pass assist.

[dag14]

And another ppg about halfway through the 3rd period.  We can't score even strength but we are 3-3 on the power play.

[dag14]

And as I was typing, Izzy scored even strength. So 4-0

[dag14]

Dartmouth got a couple late -- final score 4-2

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Might as well post this here.

Guilday is playing in the USA-Canada game tonight in LA.  She's getting a lot of love from the Canadian announcers on TSN.

Jenner, Bourbonnais, and O'Neill playing for Team Canada.

Final Score:  USA 5 - Canada 2.

[Weder]

Daniel up to 28 points in 11 games. Amazing season for her so far.

[dbilmes]

I just listened to the Big Red Sports Network podcast interview with freshman goalie Annelies Bergmann. She's quite a story.
She grew up playing hockey mostly only against boys, and this past April she became the only woman to play in a men's junior hockey game at the Tier I or II level in the U.S. She also said she committed to Cornell when she was in 7th grade!
Bergmann said Cornell's coaching staff asked her to matriculate at Cornell a year earlier than originally planned, so she had to scramble to take enough classes to get her degree. Derraugh must have realized that he needed to boost the goaltending corps sooner rather than later after that was the biggest weakness of last year's team. Bergmann also said she was told she could still enroll at Cornell without having her high school degree, but the dean of the ILR School didn't think that was a good idea.
In any case, she's off to a great start, and has started 8 of our first 11 games. It looks like her presence has also raised the performance of Deanna Fraser, who is also off to a good start, playing much better than she did last year. Bergmann said one of the biggest adjustments she's had to make after playing mostly against men is learning how to control rebounds. With the men's game, she said the shots were harder and she usually just had time to react to them, while the shots in the women's game aren't as hard, giving her more control of the rebounds.

[dbilmes]

I just listened to the Big Red Sports Network podcast interview with freshman goalie Annelies Bergmann. She's quite a story.
She grew up playing hockey mostly only against boys, and this past April she became the only woman to play in a men's junior hockey game at the Tier I or II level in the U.S. She also said she committed to Cornell when she was in 7th grade!
Bergmann said Cornell's coaching staff asked her to matriculate at Cornell a year earlier than originally planned, so she had to scramble to take enough classes to get her degree. Derraugh must have realized that he needed to boost the goaltending corps sooner rather than later after that was the biggest weakness of last year's team. Bergmann also said she was told she could still enroll at Cornell without having her high school degree, but the dean of the ILR School didn't think that was a good idea.
In any case, she's off to a great start, and has started 8 of our first 11 games. It looks like her presence has also raised the performance of Deanna Fraser, who is also off to a good start, playing much better than she did last year. Bergmann said one of the biggest adjustments she's had to make after playing mostly against men is learning how to control rebounds. With the men's game, she said the shots were harder and she usually just had time to react to them, while the shots in the women's game aren't as hard, giving her more control of the rebounds.

[George64]

Thanks, Thanks

[Weder]

It looks like her presence has also raised the performance of Deanna Fraser, who is also off to a good start, playing much better than she did last year.

It's interesting, I went back and looked at her stats from last season and on the surface they are not bad, but I agree that she has looked better this season. Having a healthier D (knocks on wood) has also been a plus. We still for the most part haven't seen the top ECAC teams play each other, so I'm not sure what to make of where Cornell stands this season. We'll know a bit more after this weekend against Quinnipiac and Princeton, but I think we'll really get a better sense when Cornell and Colgate play each other along with Clarkson and St. Lawrence in early January. Cornell is about to start a pretty brutal stretch:
vs. Quinnipiac
vs. Princeton
St. Thomas in D.C.
Minnesota in D.C.
(Winter Break)
vs. Clarkson
vs. St. Lawrence
vs. Colgate
at Colgate
at Princeton
at Quinnipiac

[Trotsky]

St. Thomas in D.C.
Minnesota in D.C.

Wait, what?  I am there!

Edit: oh that is so cool.  They are playing 23 minutes from my house!  For the record, they are not in DC, they are in lovely Ballston, VA, a hotbed of social rest.

I will go to support them.  Attendance will be in the tens!

[Weder]

St. Thomas in D.C.
Minnesota in D.C.

Wait, what?  I am there!

Edit: oh that is so cool.  They are playing 23 minutes from my house!  For the record, they are not in DC, they are in lovely Ballston, VA, a hotbed of social rest.

I will go to support them.  Attendance will be in the tens!

Oh, I know, I live about 2 miles away from that rink.

[Trotsky]

St. Thomas in D.C.
Minnesota in D.C.

Wait, what?  I am there!

Edit: oh that is so cool.  They are playing 23 minutes from my house!  For the record, they are not in DC, they are in lovely Ballston, VA, a hotbed of social rest.

I will go to support them.  Attendance will be in the tens!

Oh, I know, I live about 2 miles away from that rink.

Arlington?

Reston, here.