Cornell vs Union

[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.

[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.

[VIEWfromK]

At this point, I think we need to just throw more at the net and be ready to pounce on the resulting bounces..

That goalie last night gave up no rebounds.  Early on they were letting fly and had bodies going to the net.  Sometime after the Penney in the crease call they went back to passing around and looking for the perfect opportunity.

[Big Dingus]

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.

But think of the smiling children!!

[Snowball]

I am new here and still learning the unwritten ELynah rules.  So patience please. I'll do my best to dial down any mention of happy children or babes who received free Cornell Big Red pucks.

And I won't do any hugging, so if you see me at Lynah DO NOT try to scam a hug out of me. My sister is much more of a loose canon but she's an adult, so.

Daughter not available for hugs. Duh.

I hereby pledge that if I post a positive comment about the team, even if it's: "those away uniforms are really red," I will make sure it is surrounded by plenty of screeds about how the team sucks.

And Bearlover, for all your negativity, you make insightful comments about hockey, so thanks for that.

XO ELynah

[FD2024]

The Women's team is so hot right now. I hope they can keep their foot on the gas pedal.