Cornell at Harvard 11/16

upprdeck · November 21, 2024, 12:41:07 PM

Additionally, how many chances do you get on PP matters

When you are dealing with Injuries, lines get shifted and players on the specials get over used at times

Iceberg · November 21, 2024, 05:14:06 PM

The PP seems slightly worse but it wasn't that great last year in many instances. The PK has appeared noticeably worse this year, though. Many instances of poor or blown coverage, including one I mentioned earlier in this very thread!

stereax · November 21, 2024, 08:14:55 PM

Quote from: Trotsky"You're never as good as you look when you win.

You're never as bad as you look when you lose."

Grab a drink, sit back, watch another 20 games. Maybe then we'll know something that isn't merely a reaction to the last shift.

Every time we lose a game we're getting relegated to DIII, every time we win it's our last of the season... can we just watch hockey and enjoy it?

The Rancor · November 21, 2024, 11:11:10 PM

I went back and watched both weekend games, and yes, mistakes were made, team is not perfect. But it might be one of the most talented group of players I've seen on the ice from this school. Some of y'all seem to just love to hate the Big Red and I don't understand it.

Trotsky · November 22, 2024, 04:07:52 AM

We gain self esteem when our sportsball team wins.

When our sportsball team loses, we feel bad.

Our sportsball team has hurt us.

They must be punished.

VIEWfromK · November 22, 2024, 09:26:51 AM

The good news is that I found my lucky Big Red shirt. I'll have it on tonight for the first time since the preseason. It was in the last place that I would ever think to look, hanging on the treadmill. Hopefully now I can edge back away from the cliff some.

Jeff Hopkins '82 · November 22, 2024, 09:37:40 AM

Quote from: stereax
Quote from: Trotsky"You're never as good as you look when you win.

You're never as bad as you look when you lose."

Grab a drink, sit back, watch another 20 games. Maybe then we'll know something that isn't merely a reaction to the last shift.
Every time we lose a game we're getting relegated to DIII, every time we win it's our last of the season... can we just watch hockey and enjoy it?

Excuse me. What website do you think you're posting on? ::popcorn::

stereax · November 22, 2024, 02:51:58 PM

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82
Quote from: stereax
Quote from: Trotsky"You're never as good as you look when you win.

You're never as bad as you look when you lose."

Grab a drink, sit back, watch another 20 games. Maybe then we'll know something that isn't merely a reaction to the last shift.
Every time we lose a game we're getting relegated to DIII, every time we win it's our last of the season... can we just watch hockey and enjoy it?

Excuse me. What website do you think you're posting on? ::popcorn::

I'm new here!! I don't know the vibes yet, hahahaha. I thought a good team would mean it wouldn't be doomer central 24/7, but alas, perhaps I misjudged haha.

Will · November 22, 2024, 03:34:56 PM

Quote from: stereaxI'm new here!! I don't know the vibes yet, hahahaha. I thought a good team would mean it wouldn't be doomer central 24/7, but alas, perhaps I misjudged haha.

I think we've learned not to get our hopes up. When we get our hopes up, the universe tends to respond in kind with the likes of unfair placement in a western regional against a highly-seeded first round opponent or global pandemics. Doom is our default state.

Dafatone · November 22, 2024, 04:33:37 PM

Quote from: Will
Quote from: stereaxI'm new here!! I don't know the vibes yet, hahahaha. I thought a good team would mean it wouldn't be doomer central 24/7, but alas, perhaps I misjudged haha.

I think we've learned not to get our hopes up. When we get our hopes up, the universe tends to respond in kind with the likes of unfair placement in a western regional against a highly-seeded first round opponent or global pandemics. Doom is our default state.

I think 2020 did a number on us. Obviously Cornell Hockey was not the biggest tragedy of that spring, but to go from "we're the best in the country" to "no hockey" so quickly stung.

arugula · November 22, 2024, 05:06:06 PM

The worst things from 2020: Cornell Men's Hockey ranked number 1, Cornell Women's Hockey ranked number 1, Cornell men's lacrosse ranked number 2, sports are cancelled. That was all I think...

Trotsky · November 22, 2024, 09:02:20 PM

Just get it right back.

BearLover · November 22, 2024, 11:11:09 PM

Quote from: adamwAnyone who says issues are "coaching" - should not be taken seriously in this forum, no matter whether slivers of good points are made elsewhere in his drivel. Attributing things to "coaching" is just clown talk. Same guy who says "the same players last year were good, so it must not be them" - then ignores a 30-year track record of coaching - equals ... clown.

I am sorry to say, but our beloved head coach Mike Schafer "should not be taken seriously in this forum."

From tonight's Sun article:
"It's hard to explain," Schafer said. "We just have no connection with each other on the forecheck, we have no connection coming out on breakouts, we have no connection on the power play, and that's my job. My job as a coach is to get them connected."

https://cornellsun.com/2024/11/22/no-8-mens-hockey-bested-by-no-18-quinnipiac-3-1/

adamw · November 23, 2024, 09:42:27 PM

Quote from: BearLoverhttps://cornellsun.com/2024/11/22/no-8-mens-hockey-bested-by-no-18-quinnipiac-3-1/

you are a clown - and you keep proving it ... alas, I'm not going to respond to the last 3 moronic posts you made - so, keep talking to yourself.

abmarks · November 24, 2024, 04:31:25 PM

Quote from: ClownLover
Quote from: adamwAnyone who says issues are "coaching" - should not be taken seriously in this forum, no matter whether slivers of good points are made elsewhere in his drivel. Attributing things to "coaching" is just clown talk. Same guy who says "the same players last year were good, so it must not be them" - then ignores a 30-year track record of coaching - equals ... clown.
I am sorry to say, but our beloved head coach Mike Schafer "should not be taken seriously in this forum."

From tonight's Sun article:
"It's hard to explain," Schafer said. "We just have no connection with each other on the forecheck, we have no connection coming out on breakouts, we have no connection on the power play, and that's my job. My job as a coach is to get them connected."

https://cornellsun.com/2024/11/22/no-8-mens-hockey-bested-by-no-18-quinnipiac-3-1/

Clownlover not a lover of reading comprehension skills.

Clownlover is making the idiotic conclusion that you can measure the quality of the coaching job by the results in what is without a doubt the short run. You can't.

No differently than you can hold teams or people responsible for effort, but not results, especially in a sport with such a high effect of variance in such a low scoring sport (as Clownlover himself has pointed out in the past).

Coach actually sounds a bit mystified in that quote. I've heard him use the hard to explain phrase in the past, and he's tended to say it with an inflection that speaks to it as mystery, and not as too difficult to actually explain to people.

Coach is saying that it's his responsibility to figure out how to fix the problem. That he hasn't yet solved it says nothing about whether he's doing a good or bad job of coaching. Take your pick of HOF coaches in any sport...you'll have heard them all make similar comments periodically. Every so often you'll see even a HOF coach shaking his head and saying that his team just cant seem to improve a particular problem, and that for the moment at least, they're genuinely stumped.

Schaf and the full coaching staff are most likely doing everything they're supposed to be doing, because track records speak to that.
But that's no guarantee of immediate results. There are a many other factors involved and if this stuff was really so easy to diagnose and fix them we could all sit back and watch with amusement as clownlover helmed the bench in a national title.run.