Cornell vs Union

[BearLover]

Imagine Schafer at his son's wedding checking the score and punching a hole in the wall

[BearLover]

Awful performance and terrible crowd. This combined with the basketball loss makes for a pretty terrible day. I've been on Shane's ass all year and I've really had enough. He let in a couple softies tonight and even if you can say that he hasn't been bad most of the games, that's not enough, you need to actually be good. These are the types of games Shane would steal for us in previous years but instead he keeps his save percentage below 0.900. Please give keopple at least one game next weekend, he has been nothing but good and unless they're fully trusting that Roest will be the starter next year (bad idea), he is the future in goal. Don't even know where to go from here but just start winning.

Roest has left his USHL team and is headed to the Cowicham Valley Capitals of the BCHL. I'm not sure if CJ is willing to carry four goalies, but it's really looking like Cornell is going to need to find one in the transfer portal for next season.

[The Rancor]

After heroics last night, the game ends with Psenicka giving zero hustle. I'm annoyed by lack of effort.

[upprdeck]

I didnt see lack of effort at all

Lack of results sure

we outshot them 23-11 the last 2 periods and got out scored 3-1

Union goalie played well.

But 3 min of extra man and 3 PP come up with zero once again as it has all season.

This team doesn't need a bye. It needs to play, and hope at some point it clicks into goals.

We have dominated too many end of game periods with nothing to show for it.

What we really don't have is that guy that scares the other team. no real leader.

[fastforward]

Watching this team play is amateur hour every night. Bad turnovers, soft goals, looks like no structure at all on the breakout. Oh, and three too many men on the ice penalties within four periods.

Watch a team you like, dude

welcome to elynah but grow a thicker skin please or at least stop pandering to the people most reflexively reactive to criticism. you've been watching the team for three months.

::shrug:: aren't we tired enough of the constant dooming that there are SEVERAL threads about it? I usually don't reply, but I'm just exhausted at this point, and it feels like it's not only me. Am I supposed to go around banging the drum like WE SUCK, THERE'S NO HOPE, SEASON'S OVER, EVERYONE FAILED SCHAFER? Or am I allowed to enjoy the team?

There's a group of kids here, most of whom got sticks or pucks or something from the team (home or away), and they're all super happy, even if the team sucked and we lost and the sky is falling. Borrow some happiness. Find the joy in things. And breathe. It's just a hockey game. We're not going to die if we don't get a bye or win the ECACs. Enjoy things as they are and as they come.

I'm just happy I have a nice hockey team I can watch twice a week that plays hockey. And yeah, maybe I only started being a Cornell fan this year. Sure, I don't know the lore of the 70s and 80s and 90s; that was before I was born. I don't know the full significance of Schafer, don't know just how beloved he is by all of you guys. But I do enjoy this team. I enjoy the people on this forum (at least, when we're not dooming like the program will shut down with every turnover). I just like hockey, man, and it's nice to talk hockey with people. These players are my age, or a little older or younger. It's tough for me to be too hard on them on a public forum. You never know who's reading what. And it's really not that deep, to me, you know? Maybe I yap and complain in person, but it's all just... coming from a place of love, of wanting this team to do better, to play up to the potential we know they have. We don't know the full of what's going on in the locker room - who's playing at 100%, who's hurt, who's sick.

I just... I want to give them grace. And I feel like, as it gets less and less likely that we get the bye, that we win the playoffs - that we just... give them grace. Next year is another season.

I dunno. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I see this wrong, but that's my outlook on it all.

I'm with you!
I enjoy the games regardless.
I see how hard the guys work every day at the rink, in the weight room, and in class.
No one wants a better result than these guys.
No one wants to make the playoffs more than these guys.
They've been plagued by injury after injury, sickness after sickness, many guys dressing for games that are still sick or injured just so they can fill enough of a roster to play.
Please stop the harping and gloom and doom and keep hoping for continued health and healing.
We will still have a team next year regardless of this year's outcome.

[BearLover]

Is it just me or have the crowds kind of sucked this year? Very little energy from the students. Almost no chants. Even versus Harvard, I think I heard five or so chants the whole game and they only came from A/B, C barely participated and D not at all.

[BearLover]

I appreciate people's optimism/willingness to continue to watch a total disaster of a season. Personally, I've given up. I'm instead looking forward to seeing if the women can make a run this year, watching men's basketball in the Ivy tourney, and following lacrosse. The men's hockey team is my one true love, though, and absent a national title in one of our other sports, nothing is going to take the sting out of this season.

[upprdeck]

Well with the NIH news coming out we wont have to worry about hockey ever again.

[BearLover]

Well with the NIH news coming out we wont have to worry about hockey ever again.

Huh

[Swampy]

Also lets not forget that the women look like a serious contender and lacrosse looks very promising.

The women's team is making me super excited too! Not a fan of lax (yet) but I do have a discount code from the Boulevard event to burn... should probably go watch a lacrosse game and see how it goes.

Yes you should. I saw my first lacrosse game when I was a Cornell undergraduate and wound up playing intercollegiate lacrosse on a club team in graduate school. Besides being great fun, getting me into the best shape of my life, and teaching me so much about teamwork, lacrosse taught me much about other sports because it combines elements from so many: basketball, hockey, & soccer to name a few.

[upprdeck]

Well with the NIH news coming out we wont have to worry about hockey ever again.

Huh

University is in a world of hurt if this funding dries up, they already sent out campus emails.

[ugarte]

Watching this team play is amateur hour every night. Bad turnovers, soft goals, looks like no structure at all on the breakout. Oh, and three too many men on the ice penalties within four periods.

Watch a team you like, dude

welcome to elynah but grow a thicker skin please or at least stop pandering to the people most reflexively reactive to criticism. you've been watching the team for three months.

::shrug:: aren't we tired enough of the constant dooming that there are SEVERAL threads about it? I usually don't reply, but I'm just exhausted at this point, and it feels like it's not only me. Am I supposed to go around banging the drum like WE SUCK, THERE'S NO HOPE, SEASON'S OVER, EVERYONE FAILED SCHAFER? Or am I allowed to enjoy the team? ... I dunno. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I see this wrong, but that's my outlook on it all.

i know the inherent pot/kettle in me saying this but... you can ignore him if the results-supported gloom is bothering you. the commitment to making him a whipping boy for being right first is what drives multiple threads about it and very clearly has only made him more trolly. He revives the clownlover thread after every loss and while i probably wouldn't go back to that well quote so often... he earned it. he was right!

i, on the other hand, *can't* really ignore this kind of post. this insistence that to be critical or disappointed or frustrated is some kind of moral failing. that i should think about the smiling children seeing their first game. get the fuck out of here! I'm very happy for the kids to have those experiences and enjoy hearing about them but they are NOT why I've spent more than 30 years invested in this hockey team.

or keeping in mind that the players are barely adults themselves. again, no. that's why i give them grace for almost anything but how they play hockey for 60 minutes twice a week. that's the part i watch. i react to what i see.

for all the years I've spent on here, the bridges I've built and burned, the one thing i can't abide is this place turning into a hugbox like the old Roundtable.

[Trotsky]

Well with the NIH news coming out we wont have to worry about hockey ever again.

Huh

Derps cut medicine --> everybody dies --> no more worries

[Trotsky]

What's missing in contemporary society is a hero standing up for petulant entitled assholes.

[pjd8]

Well with the NIH news coming out we wont have to worry about hockey ever again.

Lawsuits will be filed tomorrow. One expert estimated that 80% of these tactics will be struck down by the courts in short order. The rest of the time, these tactics will likely gain some traction before sanity is restored.

The hockey lesson in that: 20% of the time chaos gets some results. At this point, I think we need to just throw more at the net and be ready to pounce on the resulting bounces. Goals aren't going to happen with the points passing back and forth to each other.