2024-11-09 Brown

[abmarks]

We had some opportunities in close against Yale but they were all jam plays. Repeatedly whacking the goalie's pads with our sticks and pushing him into the net was the only scoring opportunities we created. No nice passing plays, no cycling, no sustained zone time.

Those kinds of plays are fine, in my opinion; indeed, I'd like us to learn how to score dirty goals early. That's been lacking a bit the last few years.

I'll agree, however, that he lack of cycling is bugging me too, but that could have a lot to do with what Dafatone identified upthread: we're having more trouble vs. big lumbering teams than in the past. Our own 2003 team would be a bear for us to play against now, for example, and would probably push us all over the ice. But the game has changed, and one wonders how many penalties the 2003 team would draw these days.

Which brings us back to the power play... Growing an effective one is how we can open up ice for ourselves.

I don't see why a big lumbering team should definitively slow us down.  A talented big team? OK.   But a rando lumbering one we should be able to offset with quickness, both of feet, and hand.  If you get rid of the puck fast enough when it comes to you they can't slow you down.

Or for you soccer afficianados, it's no different than having that deft first touch or the ability to progress the ball without any more touches than necessary,

[Trotsky]

We did skate around more during the pp. It was not just pass, pass, missed pass, clear.  It was pass, skate, pass, one-timer wide, clear.

Yay?

[VIEWfromK]

I really liked that Catalano play from below the goal line where he went between the legs to turn nothing into something.  I can't figure out the coordination of that type of play when I'm standing still on solid ground so I'm always impressed to see someone do it instinctively while on the move.

[Trotsky]

I really liked that Catalano play from below the goal line where he went between the legs to turn nothing into something.  I can't figure out the coordination of that type of play when I'm standing still on solid ground so I'm always impressed to see someone do it instinctively while on the move.

IMO Tyler has had two good weekends so far and has matured a lot.

[Trotsky]

OTOH Robertson has regressed or is playing hurt.  I assume it's the latter.

[chimpfood]

Oh come on that game winning goal was completely robertson's doing and he has looked good offensively. 2 points in 4 games from a defenseman is far from disappointing but I would guess that he would have more if it weren't for North Dakota being so fast and skilled that defenseman had to be more careful in that series and our offense was generally down this weekend. I think he'll be just fine. An interesting note though, I think it was on schlossman's podcast ahead of the Nodak series where he said he was talking with NHL scouts about Robertson and some saw him as just a perfect college player and not much of an NHL prospect. Not sure I agree with that but definitely interesting.

[Trotsky]

I didn't see the same control and vision from him as last year. However, I am not very observant.

[BearLover]

OTOH Robertson has regressed or is playing hurt.  I assume it's the latter.

Based on what, exactly? He made an awesome play to step around a NoDak player at the blue line which led to a goal last weekend. And then he made the nice backhand pass to Bancroft at the end of the Brown game. I haven't been tracking him every shift but I have to day he's one of the players on the team who has stood out to me positively a few times.

I would like to see more from Castagna.

[Trotsky]

OTOH Robertson has regressed or is playing hurt.  I assume it's the latter.

Based on what, exactly? He made an awesome play to step around a NoDak player at the blue line which led to a goal last weekend. And then he made the nice backhand pass to Bancroft at the end of the Brown game. I haven't been tracking him every shift but I have to day he's one of the players on the team who has stood out to me positively a few times.

I would like to see more from Castagna.

See above.

[BlueSky]

Man oh man. I'll admit that I, like many of you have very high expectations for the guys this year...and we are off to a rough start. We are 8th ranked and we haven't lost yet. I love that coach is calling out the leaders and this weekend is pretty big, but not the end of the world if we split or take 3 points. It's November 11th! If you want to hear about the end of the world, head over to USCHO and reach the Quinnipiac thread! Throwing in the towel as a fan base (spoiled at that).  Let's get healthy, get through a tough week of practices and hope for better performances in New England. But stop the belly aching about the crowds, the students, the refs, hell, the concessions.  We have a really solid team and they may go far....but college hockey has a high level of parity now and "any team can win any night" as we see in the weekend results, the exception would be teams in Colorado. This forum used to be great source of smart hockey analysis and intelligent chatter, now, like society its a bunch of bitching and moaning. Be better!

[stereax]

Man oh man. I'll admit that I, like many of you have very high expectations for the guys this year...and we are off to a rough start. We are 8th ranked and we haven't lost yet. I love that coach is calling out the leaders and this weekend is pretty big, but not the end of the world if we split or take 3 points. It's November 11th! If you want to hear about the end of the world, head over to USCHO and reach the Quinnipiac thread! Throwing in the towel as a fan base (spoiled at that).  Let's get healthy, get through a tough week of practices and hope for better performances in New England. But stop the belly aching about the crowds, the students, the refs, hell, the concessions.  We have a really solid team and they may go far....but college hockey has a high level of parity now and "any team can win any night" as we see in the weekend results, the exception would be teams in Colorado. This forum used to be great source of smart hockey analysis and intelligent chatter, now, like society its a bunch of bitching and moaning. Be better!

Oooh, I do love licking at other fanbases' salt, I'll check the Quinnipiac thread out later. But this, exactly, all of this. It's a fact that the refs will always suck, no reason getting mad about it. The crowd on Saturday was almost full, even if I still don't understand why Section C fills up around the end of the first and is half empty by the start of the third, haha. Assuming they're fans who buy tickets at the door. The food is decent for the price and the situation. We're not catering Michelin Star stuff and that's fine, lol.
Look, my Devils got shut out by the Sharks last night 1-0 off an own goal LMAO. Compared to THAT, Cornell looks like a team of All-Stars... and they don't get paid millions of dollars to play hockey...
Are there things to improve? Always. That's how hockey is. We won 3 out of 4 games so far, and the Yale SOL was almost purely awful puck luck. Take the bounces and wins as they come. It's gonna be fine. Get healthy, get the nerves out, and just play the game Everything will work out.

[upprdeck]

Win the OC games and the PWR will be good as long as we are decent in the league.

We are 2 weeks into the season. lets get the 3-4-5 guys back and see where it leads.

[BearLover]

Over the last few years, we have gotten much more offensively skilled without sacrificing size or defensive discipline. What we have sacrificed is the ability to outmuscle teams, because our big skilled guys probably could dominate with skill alone at the lower levels.

This means that we look great against offensively skilled teams where we play better defense than they do while having room to attack. But we struggle against lumbering defensive teams that clog the goal front on defense and push us around.

We'll keep improving at that as the year goes on. No Psenicka is noticeable. Hopefully he's back soon.

For what it's worth: Cornell is the heaviest team in the country, and the fourth tallest.

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/stats/

[fastforward]

Over the last few years, we have gotten much more offensively skilled without sacrificing size or defensive discipline. What we have sacrificed is the ability to outmuscle teams, because our big skilled guys probably could dominate with skill alone at the lower levels.

This means that we look great against offensively skilled teams where we play better defense than they do while having room to attack. But we struggle against lumbering defensive teams that clog the goal front on defense and push us around.

We'll keep improving at that as the year goes on. No Psenicka is noticeable. Hopefully he's back soon.

For what it's worth: Cornell is the heaviest team in the country, and the fourth tallest.

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/stats/

O'Leary, Kraft, and DeSantis really bring the height average down, but I wouldn't trade them for anything. True grit and the desire to make things happen!

[Trotsky]

Cornell is the heaviest team in the country

And that's just the fanbase! ::banana::

_{Note: this joke does not work after seeing North Dakota's traveling fans.}