ECAC 2024 Discussion Thread

[dbilmes]

Cornell is the CHN Team of the Week.

[Trotsky]

That was, unexpectedly, a good article.  Bravo CHN.

[dbilmes]

It was written by Jane, the Cornell student who reached out to eLynah about the hockey coverage. Kudos to her.

[Weder]

She's also on the field hockey team. Props to anyone who can balance classes, a varsity sport and the Sun.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

There's 14 games to go, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.

Hit it!

[upprdeck]

this 3 losses are really the killers to the season.

just winning 2 and we are top 10 in PWR and 2nd in the league with games in hand

[BearLover]

this 3 losses are really the killers to the season.

just winning 2 and we are top 10 in PWR and 2nd in the league with games in hand

Against Harvard and Princeton we had the better of the play, so us not winning was as much bad luck as anything. On the other hand, by far the most inexcusable game this season was the Colgate game at home. Colgate, a poor team in the first place, was so banged up they could only dress 4 defensemen. And yet, play was even. It was the last game before break, in our rink, and we laid an egg. Awful.

[chimpfood]

this 3 losses are really the killers to the season.

just winning 2 and we are top 10 in PWR and 2nd in the league with games in hand

Its not really fair for us to turn around the results of those games without at least getting rid of the BU win. Sure we outplayed Princeton and harvard pretty significantly but the same can be said for BU vs us.

[upprdeck]

i didnt think BU outplayed us in a big way.. They out shot us for sure in the 3rd period.

[chimpfood]

i didnt think BU outplayed us in a big way.. They out shot us for sure in the 3rd period.

I remember someone posted the expected goals for each team on the game thread and it was rough.

[Trotsky]

this 3 losses are really the killers to the season.

just winning 2 and we are top 10 in PWR and 2nd in the league with games in hand

One problem with having a lot of bad teams in conference is it increases the likelihood of a stinker severely punishing us in PWR.

All we can do is play our game the next 14.  As Schafer says in the article: play a faceless opponent. Take care of what we can control and que sera sera.

[upprdeck]

i didnt think BU outplayed us in a big way.. They out shot us for sure in the 3rd period.

I remember someone posted the expected goals for each team on the game thread and it was rough.

I bet if you did that for the ASU game we scored about half the expected goals..  Breakaways and off man rushes and high quality shots are not our strength.

The other reality is that we have really only given up goals a couple games so may expected goals allowed vs us is lower and our expected goals for is lower because we cant shoot.

[BearLover]

i didnt think BU outplayed us in a big way.. They out shot us for sure in the 3rd period.

I remember someone posted the expected goals for each team on the game thread and it was rough.

That was me. It was like 5 for BU to 2 for Cornell, and tbh I thought that was pretty evident from watching the game.

[adamw]

That was, unexpectedly, a good article.  Bravo CHN.

no one accepts kudos, when you preface with "unexpectedly"

[Trotsky]

That was, unexpectedly, a good article.  Bravo CHN.

no one accepts kudos, when you preface with "unexpectedly"

In retrospect, it being by Jane, I am not surprised at all.  She is a fine writer which, in sports journalism, may make her the first ever.