1/3 vs Umass

[chimpfood]

Less than a week away from the second half now, close enough to look ahead. Umass is a solid team but has a mediocre record and are buoyed by a strong strength of schedule. We played an exciting game with them in placid last year with us leading late and them scoring a goal with the net empty to tie it (if I remember correctly), and us winning the shootout. The main scorers to look out for are forwards Suniev and O'Hara. They will be missing two guys because of the world juniors, their tank of a goalie, Hrabal (playing for Czechia), and freshman forward jencko (playing for Slovakia), who hasn't produced much this year. This means we will face the backup goalie Jackson Irving who hasn't played much but has been really good in his rare minutes.


The last game will be against either ASU or Robert Morris. Neither team scares me much but Robert morris would certainly be the easier game. I think that both teams are overrated by the pairwise right now but arizona state is red hot (won their last 5, all NCHC games) and is playing at home. At least we should be used to this arena by now because it seems like we've played in Tempe as much as we have in Ithaca during the Schafer warm weather tour over the past few years.

[scoop85]

Less than a week away from the second half now, close enough to look ahead. Umass is a solid team but has a mediocre record and are buoyed by a strong strength of schedule. We played an exciting game with them in placid last year with us leading late and them scoring a goal with the net empty to tie it (if I remember correctly), and us winning the shootout. The main scorers to look out for are forwards Suniev and O'Hara. They will be missing two guys because of the world juniors, their tank of a goalie, Hrabal (playing for Czechia), and freshman forward jencko (playing for Slovakia), who hasn't produced much this year. This means we will face the backup goalie Jackson Irving who hasn't played much but has been really good in his rare minutes.


The last game will be against either ASU or Robert Morris. Neither team scares me much but Robert morris would certainly be the easier game. I think that both teams are overrated by the pairwise right now but arizona state is red hot (won their last 5, all NCHC games) and is playing at home. At least we should be used to this arena by now because it seems like we've played in Tempe as much as we have in Ithaca during the Schafer warm weather tour over the past few years.

ASU swept Denver this season.

[fastforward]

Let's hope that the holiday break and school/finals break gave them the physical and mental break they apparently needed.
I can vouch for just the academic side taking its toll, I can't imagine adding in the physically taxing aspect on top of that.
Looking forward to tuning in for the games!

[stereax]

Let's hope that the holiday break and school/finals break gave them the physical and mental break they apparently needed.
I can vouch for just the academic side taking its toll, I can't imagine adding in the physically taxing aspect on top of that.
Looking forward to tuning in for the games!

Same here in Europe for the holidays, and the Internet here is god awful (it's a struggle to watch NHL games because they freeze constantly) so I'll probably only check in the morning after. Fingers crossed for some good games

[Trotsky]

A reminder:

5 PM EVERYBODY!  5 PM!

[The Rancor]

A reminder:

5 PM EVERYBODY!  5 PM!

Eastern Time?

[fastforward]

A reminder:

5 PM EVERYBODY!  5 PM!

Eastern Time?

Yes
3pm their time, 5pm Eastern

[BearLover]

It's impossible to really say much about this game before it happens. Cornell desperately needs players back from injury and then it needs to win at an astronomical clip the remainder of the season to get an at-large bid. If Cornell plays like it did the first half of the season then the game against UMass/ASU will be no better than a coin flip and probably worse than that. I'm pessimistic by nature, obviously, but even when I squint I can't find many sources for optimism unless we get almost all of the injured players back. So many games first semester were lost on special teams, but this problem has been clear for a long time now and hasn't been fixed. So why would now be different? An OT win and a regulation loss against a bad team to close out last semester showed me this team was nowhere close to turning the corner. Unlike early in the season when I was hoping for and expecting the best, now I'm hoping for the best and expecting the worst. Winning in regulation tonight would go a long way towards changing that narrative.

[upprdeck]

It could also be that 3-4-5 guys were playing, were hurt, and not full practicing, but we needed bodies so they played.

lets see how it goes

[BearLover]

It could also be that 3-4-5 guys were playing, were hurt, and not full practicing, but we needed bodies so they played.

lets see how it goes

True. But injuries are so common. Did Cornell actually have it that much worse than other teams? I think I remember reading a Colgate defenseman went down a few seconds into the game at Lynah and did not play the rest of the weekend. Colgate still beat us and got an OT loss without him.

[Trotsky]

Last season we had practically no injuries.  The first third of this season we came down with one helluva case of Gambler's Fallacy.

[Trotsky]

Anyone get the NCHC video to come up yet?

[fastforward]

Had to reboot but it's on

[TimV]

It didn't pop up until a minute into play.  The camera is mounted in a Chinese spy balloon.

[Trotsky]

Devin, Penney, Wallace "not expected back anytime soon."