1/4 vs. ASU

[BearLover]

For a guy whose puck skills are alright at best, Kempf sure loves calling for the puck.

He's one guy I actually think has regressed since his freshman year. He hasn't looked good at many moments this year.

Who hasn't regressed this season? Walsh? Anybody else? The team is in total disarray.

Walsh.
 Castagna.  Bancroft.  Rego.  Mack. Suda.  Catalano.  All better than last year.

It's not great but it's not a complete dumpster fire.  I could see them continue to struggle along at .500, or I could them get stronger and stronger through the RS and roll through Lake Placid.

The real treasure are the friends we'll make along the way.

Castagna to me hasn't progressed nearly as much as I'd expected this year. I believe he only has 2 goals, which includes last night's ENG?

I think most people expected Castagna to be one of the best players in the entire league this season. The reality hasn't been anything close. Clearly less effective than last season IMO.

[Trotsky]

For a guy whose puck skills are alright at best, Kempf sure loves calling for the puck.

He's one guy I actually think has regressed since his freshman year. He hasn't looked good at many moments this year.

Who hasn't regressed this season? Walsh? Anybody else? The team is in total disarray.

Walsh.
 Castagna.  Bancroft.  Rego.  Mack. Suda.  Catalano.  All better than last year.

It's not great but it's not a complete dumpster fire.  I could see them continue to struggle along at .500, or I could them get stronger and stronger through the RS and roll through Lake Placid.

The real treasure are the friends we'll make along the way.

Castagna to me hasn't progressed nearly as much as I'd expected this year. I believe he only has 2 goals, which includes last night's ENG?

He's not getting the goals but he's playing awesome.  I watch him a lot in isolation (as best I can on TV) and practically every other shift he does something that shows how different he is in ability to anticipate.

[Trotsky]

For a guy whose puck skills are alright at best, Kempf sure loves calling for the puck.

He's one guy I actually think has regressed since his freshman year. He hasn't looked good at many moments this year.

Who hasn't regressed this season? Walsh? Anybody else? The team is in total disarray.

Walsh.
 Castagna.  Bancroft.  Rego.  Mack. Suda.  Catalano.  All better than last year.

Outside of Rego and maybe Suda those players all seem materially worse than last year. Especially Castagna, he's been so much worse. Barely creating anything with his hero ball this season. Last year his hero ball resulted in some goals for himself even if it resulted in few goals for his linemates. This yeah, almost zilch. Rego and Suda have added some more on offense but I believe both failed to pick up netfront guys on the PK early in the season, which is why I wasn't willing to say they've improved.

Opinions vary.

[BearLover]

I turned it off after the second. Is Shane seriously still in the game (according to CHN box score)?

[fastforward]

Yup
Unbelievable
How could any of the others possibly make this any worse

[fastforward]

Power play for Cornell

[Trotsky]

I think most people expected Castagna to be one of the best players in the entire league this season. The reality hasn't been anything close. Clearly less effective than last season IMO.

Those most people included the opposing coaches. He is being played very different from last year.  He has the best players on the other team matched against him -- last year they were on Seger.  He has .67 Pts/GP, last year he had .71.  And 8 of his points last year, and 5 of his 11 goals, came in just two games: 6-goal blowouts of Princeton and Union.

As I said I have watched him and he is playing better than last year.  You are right he is not scoring, and that sucks, but goal droughts happen and IMO he is good process bad result.  Points and goals will come.

[Dafatone]

It's a sign of how awful our PP has been that it's looked much better this weekend and we still haven't come terribly close to scoring.

[BearLover]

Yup
Unbelievable
How could any of the others possibly make this any worse

What kind of message does this send to Keoppel/Katz? Is there seriously no desire to get them game experience or see what they're capable of? This is insane.

[chimpfood]

A split vs Umass and ASU isn't bad at all. The pairwise doesn't care about margin. Next week a sweep would be massive especially with the road bonus.

[fastforward]

Yup
Unbelievable
How could any of the others possibly make this any worse

What kind of message does this send to Keoppel/Katz? Is there seriously no desire to get them game experience or see what they're capable of? This is insane.

Agreed and you can bet it is causing morale issues which often trickle down

[Trotsky]

Yup
Unbelievable
How could any of the others possibly make this any worse

What kind of message does this send to Keoppel/Katz? Is there seriously no desire to get them game experience or see what they're capable of? This is insane.

Agreed and you can bet it is causing morale issues which often trickle down

OTOH the coaches are on top of it and present in the room, and we are not.

I have never understood this pattern (which I am often guilty of too):

Amateur: < Draws conclusion about situation as an ignorant outsider.  Predicts action A. >

Expert:  < Draws conclusion about situation as an informed insider. Performs action ~A. >

Amateur: Well.  Obviously the Expert is an idiot.

Maybe. Or maybe the Amateur's conclusion is based on insufficient information and lack of experience in the situation.

[BearLover]

A split vs Umass and ASU isn't bad at all. The pairwise doesn't care about margin. Next week a sweep would be massive especially with the road.

When you're way outside the NCAA tournament bubble a split vs teams right around you in the PWR is really bad. Treading water is very bad when you're on the outside looking in. We are like 10% to get an at-large bid now (maybe we were 20% before this weekend.)

Those are just random numbers though. The other issue is that the team doesn't look good. If we continue playing like this, we're 0% to get an at-large bid.

[BearLover]

A split vs Umass and ASU isn't bad at all. The pairwise doesn't care about margin. Next week a sweep would be massive especially with the road bonus.

Cornell is now 27th in the PWR with a .5200 RPI. We can pretty much stop worrying about an at-large bid and make other plans during the Holy Cross weekend.

[Trotsky]

34 SOG, many of them good looks.  Yeah, we probably wouldn't have gotten 4 on a normal night, but it isn't like we were shut down.  Homer had a great night. Shane let in 2 softies.  We made a cripplingly awful turnover.  We failed on special teams. Again.  

Bah.  On to Fairfield (I think?).