Cornell at Dartmouth, 1/27

[Trotsky]

Dorfman will never not be funny.
 

[chimpfood]

Big to get that back before the period ended but we gotta get it together.

[Sperris]

I had a great time watching last night's game. There was some great team play but most of the game we were inconsistent.

[Trotsky]

Thank you Jack O'Leary.

[ugarte]

we're playing like we expect them to be afraid of us and they are attacking attacking attacking and it has us off-kilter. this 4x4 is when we should really take it to them.

[Trotsky]

Dartmouth classic case of no fucks to give.

[Trotsky]

Oof.  That was a hard hit.

[ugarte]

so much for that. back to the useless umbrella. dartmouth feels totally free to go after the skaters on the perimeter because they never leave formation to press the defense. they just tap it back and forth until they lose possession.

[Trotsky]

Thank you Jack O'Leary, again.

[Dafatone]

so much for that. back to the useless umbrella. dartmouth feels totally free to go after the skaters on the perimeter because they never leave formation to press the defense. they just tap it back and forth until they lose possession.

My bad. After about a minute, I thought "gee, our power play looks a lot better."

Then we spent the last minute nothing but umbrella.

[Trotsky]

"Towelie"?

[BearLover]

so much for that. back to the useless umbrella. dartmouth feels totally free to go after the skaters on the perimeter because they never leave formation to press the defense. they just tap it back and forth until they lose possession.

My bad. After about a minute, I thought "gee, our power play looks a lot better."

Then we spent the last minute nothing but umbrella.

As we all know, when Cornell doesn't see anything on the PP, they pass it around the point repeatedly until they either turn the puck over or the PP expires. They don't ever shoot the puck on net. Zero percent of the time do they just shoot instead of passing it around the outside.

[Trotsky]

We pick up ground on both Clarkson and Colgate.  Question is: 1 point or 2?

[Dafatone]

so much for that. back to the useless umbrella. dartmouth feels totally free to go after the skaters on the perimeter because they never leave formation to press the defense. they just tap it back and forth until they lose possession.

My bad. After about a minute, I thought "gee, our power play looks a lot better."

Then we spent the last minute nothing but umbrella.

As we all know, when Cornell doesn't see anything on the PP, they pass it around the point repeatedly until they either turn the puck over or the PP expires. They don't ever shoot the puck on net. Zero percent of the time do they just shoot instead of passing it around the outside.

I'm okay with the not shooting. Bouncing a shot off a defender's ankles and out of the zone doesn't work.

But they gotta get the puck down low and skate it behind the net or otherwise shake things up.

[BearLover]

so much for that. back to the useless umbrella. dartmouth feels totally free to go after the skaters on the perimeter because they never leave formation to press the defense. they just tap it back and forth until they lose possession.

My bad. After about a minute, I thought "gee, our power play looks a lot better."

Then we spent the last minute nothing but umbrella.

As we all know, when Cornell doesn't see anything on the PP, they pass it around the point repeatedly until they either turn the puck over or the PP expires. They don't ever shoot the puck on net. Zero percent of the time do they just shoot instead of passing it around the outside.

I'm okay with the not shooting. Bouncing a shot off a defender's ankles and out of the zone doesn't work.

But they gotta get the puck down low and skate it behind the net or otherwise shake things up.

Well, yeah, that would be good too. But Cornell does try that some portion of the time, maybe 10%. And the puck is turned over shortly thereafter. I.e. if Cornell has the puck at the blue line on the PP, it's never getting shot on net, and rarely getting passed or skated down low—and when it does, it basically never works.