Cornell 6 Nebraska-Omaha 4, 1/2/26

[stereax]

UNO 4
Cornell 3
Walshy 3

That's our captain.

As I predicted - UNO is a gutsy ass team that's probably a little better than its record suggests. Can't be doing the cardiac let-in-four-goals experience again. Good win, very glad we stuck it out. Now lock it down before tomorrow.

[ugarte]

I guess UNO started to look better? Maybe? good guys won but yeesh.

[chimpfood]

Weird thing to say when we scored six goals, but I thought UNO's goalie played very well. We could have had eight or nine pretty easily.

CHN's box score has our expected goals at 4.6 and UNO's at 1.7. (I have no idea how reliable CHN's xG metric is.) We dominated this game, even accounting for the 5-to-2 PP disparity.

I think their xG is just based on where the shot comes from. So probably not very telling.

[chimpfood]

Latkoczy warmed up for UNO but was not on the bench. Wouldn't be shocked to see him tomorrow, they probably wouldn't like to put Cowan back out there after giving up 6 even though he didn't look terrible.

[chimpfood]

Also, I'm not sold on Stanley on the power play. He's like the modern day Travis Mitchell, just seems to slow everything down. I would prefer that we go 4 forwards on the top unit and just have Veilleux stay along the blue line a little more. Though, maybe today showed that he's too turnover prone to be trusted as the lone defenseman on the PP.

[Trotsky]

I thought Cowan looked fine, we generated a TON of great chances.  As somebody mentioned a few pages back we had empty nets at least 4 times and something happened -- a whiff, a roll onto the puck edge, a mystifying extra pass, a post.

We could have won this one 10-5.

I'm a bit worried about Cournoyer.  That was a bad performance.  He wasn't tracking the puck well.  UNO took his eyes but there were also times when they blasted unscreened and they just flat out missed, he didn't even react.  I really like him and I guess goalies can go stale and need playing time to spin back up, but I thought in period 2 he looked lost.

Walsh is better every game.  The Frosh already look experienced.  We have the ability to score.  This team could do something in March.

[BearLover]

Also, I'm not sold on Stanley on the power play. He's like the modern day Travis Mitchell, just seems to slow everything down. I would prefer that we go 4 forwards on the top unit and just have Veilleux stay along the blue line a little more. Though, maybe today showed that he's too turnover prone to be trusted as the lone defenseman on the PP.

I was going to make the same comment earlier, but I felt like I didn't really have any clue what I was talking about (I have a high threshold for posting only when I feel confident in what I'm saying). 

[Pghas]

Great one to be at last night.  Really enjoyed sitting over in section B for a change.

One thing that has to be said that nobody has mentioned is that Gio DeGulian had a huge impact last night.  After ringing one off the post in the second, just a wicked snipe to tie it at 4 on the PP.  Then assisted on the  winner off a turnover he created on a great forecheck.  It's two plays but it's a kid whose speed and skill stood out all night and those were not 2 plays that just anyone could have made.  We have long needed players with speed and skill who can make plays like that and win us games. The UNO goalie played well but we failed to finish on 3 breakaways and numerous golden opportunities. Digiulian scored when we desperately needed one.

[The Rancor]

What a roller coaster of emotion.
When we went up 3-0 in the first 10, I thought to myself how strong of a team this is, and how college hockey has evolved in the last few years, indeed in the 40 years I've been watching.
My other thought was, again, we were playing a team with 15 new players, like ourselves. Seems this is true for nearly every team we've faced this season and across D1. Wild shakeups to team chemistry.
Then... 4 unanswered. Disaster.
Followed by me literally jumping off the couch in the 3rd with the tying and winning goals. I'm proud of the team for not giving up and battling out of a psychological hole. LGR!!!

[marty]

What a roller coaster of emotion.
When we went up 3-0 in the first 10, I thought to myself how strong of a team this is, and how college hockey has evolved in the last few years, indeed in the 40 years I've been watching.
My other thought was, again, we were playing a team with 15 new players, like ourselves. Seems this is true for nearly every team we've faced this season and across D1. Wild shakeups to team chemistry.
Then... 4 unanswered. Disaster.
Followed by me literally jumping off the couch in the 3rd with the tying and winning goals. I'm proud of the team for not giving up and battling out of a psychological hole. LGR!!!

...and even the empty netter was a blast to watch. 

Finished your post.

[The Rancor]

What a roller coaster of emotion.
When we went up 3-0 in the first 10, I thought to myself how strong of a team this is, and how college hockey has evolved in the last few years, indeed in the 40 years I've been watching.
My other thought was, again, we were playing a team with 15 new players, like ourselves. Seems this is true for nearly every team we've faced this season and across D1. Wild shakeups to team chemistry.
Then... 4 unanswered. Disaster.
Followed by me literally jumping off the couch in the 3rd with the tying and winning goals. I'm proud of the team for not giving up and battling out of a psychological hole. LGR!!!

...and even the empty netter was a blast to watch. 

Finished your post.

A thing of beauty.

[stereax]

Also, I'm not sold on Stanley on the power play. He's like the modern day Travis Mitchell, just seems to slow everything down. I would prefer that we go 4 forwards on the top unit and just have Veilleux stay along the blue line a little more. Though, maybe today showed that he's too turnover prone to be trusted as the lone defenseman on the PP.

Yeah, I mentioned this to the kiddo I ended up next to. 3F2D on PP1 is certainly a choice, especially when it felt like Stanley spent all night not keeping pucks in the zone. But I also seem to remember Veilleux's goal coming with him deep in the crease, so maybe they want him to be able to activate into the cycle like a forward?

[adamw]

Bernie and I are hanging out at the basketball game... the topic of faceoff% came up. We ran the numbers manually because the Cornell site doesn't display them. Did y'all know Castagna is running a 63.9% on the dot this year? That's gotta be some sort of leader with a minimum fo%. Bernie's saying it could be a NCAA record if he keeps up the pace.

Walsh, btw, with a still-impressive 54.7%.

Faceoff stats are here - https://www.collegehockeynews.com/stats/overall.php ... also on team pages, and other places.

[stereax]

Bernie and I are hanging out at the basketball game... the topic of faceoff% came up. We ran the numbers manually because the Cornell site doesn't display them. Did y'all know Castagna is running a 63.9% on the dot this year? That's gotta be some sort of leader with a minimum fo%. Bernie's saying it could be a NCAA record if he keeps up the pace.

Walsh, btw, with a still-impressive 54.7%.

Faceoff stats are here - https://www.collegehockeynews.com/stats/overall.php ... also on team pages, and other places.

Yeah... except that shows all the 1 win guys first lmao, and I can't see a way to filter it without signing up for an account, and the account signup wasn't working yesterday when I tried it. :')

[pjd8]

Bernie and I are hanging out at the basketball game... the topic of faceoff% came up. We ran the numbers manually because the Cornell site doesn't display them. Did y'all know Castagna is running a 63.9% on the dot this year? That's gotta be some sort of leader with a minimum fo%. Bernie's saying it could be a NCAA record if he keeps up the pace.

Walsh, btw, with a still-impressive 54.7%.

Faceoff stats are here - https://www.collegehockeynews.com/stats/overall.php ... also on team pages, and other places.

But if you sort that page by FO%, you either see nothing but players at 100% or 0%, depending on the sort order. And the stats page for the team doesn't have FO%. Maybe it's someplace I haven't found yet.

The problem with offering lots of option is that eventually something gets buried.