Cornell at Dartmouth 11/15

[billchu]

The guys got hurt in the practices leading up to the season.  All freak things.  None of those injuries occurred in Europe like I expected once I saw the carnage come that preseason game vs Princeton.  They have to figure out a way to stay afloat before the "trade deadline" acquisitions reinforce the depth in the new year.

So what's the timeline on the injured players returning? Seems like:
Mack—back next week
Psenicka—week to week
Fegaras—sometime in the next few weeks(?)
Wallace—next semester
Devlin—next semester
Wolfenberg—who knows, but looked like it will be awhile

Did I forget anyone? Is Mosko hurt too? He has seen no ice time despite being the 7th defenseman last year and Fegaras being out.

Need to get healthy ASAP because the team
 is really struggling right now.

From the Cornell Hockey Association Welcome Picnic (9/29/24), both Devlin and Wallace were in casts with knee scooters.  Devlin's looked like an Aircast Boot and Wallace's looked like a hard cast.  Fegaras didn't seem to be injured at that date.  Ironically, Psenicka looked to have a wrist cast (don't know if this is related to his current injury).  Here are the links to the photos.  You can scroll through.

https://www.cornellhockeyassociation.com/photos/nggallery/mens-hockey-2024-25/welcome-picnic-2024

[VIEWfromK]

Rayhill played in the Toronto pre season game.  He got some regular shifts in the third if I remember correctly (not always a certainty anymore).  I was happy to see him get a chance.

When was the last time they pulled from the club team to increase their depth?  Was that the situation with Matt Hedge a few years back?

[Weder]

Rayhill played in the Toronto pre season game.  He got some regular shifts in the third if I remember correctly (not always a certainty anymore).  I was happy to see him get a chance.

When was the last time they pulled from the club team to increase their depth?  Was that the situation with Matt Hedge a few years back?

Or  soccer players with a hockey background?

[abmarks]

Rayhill played in the Toronto pre season game.  He got some regular shifts in the third if I remember correctly (not always a certainty anymore).  I was happy to see him get a chance.

When was the last time they pulled from the club team to increase their depth?  Was that the situation with Matt Hedge a few years back?

Is there even still a club team?

[Trotsky]

Aint no rule says a dog can't play hockey...

[VIEWfromK]

Is there even still a club team?

Yes.  They played at Cortland a month or so back.

They smoked us the one season I played at IC in the late nineties.

[upprdeck]

do they still have the club roller hockey team?

[CU2007]

Rayhill played in the Toronto pre season game.  He got some regular shifts in the third if I remember correctly (not always a certainty anymore).  I was happy to see him get a chance.

When was the last time they pulled from the club team to increase their depth?  Was that the situation with Matt Hedge a few years back?

Is there even still a club team?

Players have been called up for a full season when a recruit decommits late or something along those lines. For a few weeks due to a rash of injuries though? I don't recall that.

[Tom Lento]

Rayhill played in the Toronto pre season game.  He got some regular shifts in the third if I remember correctly (not always a certainty anymore).  I was happy to see him get a chance.

When was the last time they pulled from the club team to increase their depth?  Was that the situation with Matt Hedge a few years back?

Is there even still a club team?

Players have been called up for a full season when a recruit decommits late or something along those lines. For a few weeks due to a rash of injuries though? I don't recall that.

It happened a few times with an emergency backup goalie back in the late 90s when the team's injury situation seemed to be even worse than this year, but I don't recall any skaters filling in that way.

[Trotsky]

do they still have the club roller hockey team?

Artist's conception:

[upprdeck]

I do see they were still the club roller hockey league up until Covid.  No mention after that.

[Anne 85]

I'm surprised no-one brought up the legend of Damian Rocke in the discussion of emergency call-ups.
In the 1996-97 season, he played in 1 game (maybe just 1 shift) and had 15 PIM. You can look it up.
https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=26694

[Weder]

I'm surprised no-one brought up the legend of Damian Rocke in the discussion of emergency call-ups.
In the 1996-97 season, he played in 1 game (maybe just 1 shift) and had 15 PIM. You can look it up.
https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=26694

Ahem.

Or  soccer players with a hockey background?

[Anne 85]

Sorry, Weder - you were too subtle for me!

[BearLover]

Cornell was clearly the better team last night. On the road, down six injured players, they controlled the game. Dartmouth created opportunities off Cornell turnovers but otherwise they got pushed around and outskated. For a team that's supposedly going to compete for the ECAC, Dartmouth was pretty unimpressive.

Cornell lost this game because of some of the worst special teams and some of the worst turnovers I can remember seeing from a Cornell team. Are the top three lines just exhausted from being over-shifted? There are big costs to not being able to field a full team.

You could see this coming with how Cornell has played so far, starting with the North Dakota weekend. The million dollar question is whether it's injuries or something more fundamental. Getting back the injured players is clearly necessary to have a good year. The season is at risk of going downhill quickly if Cornell loses to Harvard tonight. Harvard, which will be better than Dartmouth both at creating turnovers and capitalizing off of them, will score at least six if Cornell plays like it did last night.

Revisiting this post. Dartmouth is 1-6-2 since they beat Cornell. This is one prediction I got right, not buying into the Dartmouth hype.