End-of-R.S. Stats

[zg88]

Here's a sweet one to get things started:

Cornell finishes the ECAC regular season with a team GAA of 1.55 -- the 2nd-best-ever in league history!!!  Only the '68 Big Red team (1.45) was better.  B-]

(Yeah, I know, different eras... blah, blah, blah...)  ::snore::

(Cornell now occupies 5 of the top 6 spots in that category ('68, '02, '67, [B.C. '65], '70, '69)).

[zg88]

And, to satisfy the "different eras" argument:

Cornell finishes the ECAC regular season with a team GFA of 3.36 -- the 9th-worst-ever in team history.  There... fair's fair... now we have balance, OK?!   ::nut::

[zg88]

Fun li'l nuggets:

Record when leading after two periods:  16-0-0  B-]

...and... when behind after two periods:  0-3-0  ::uhoh::

Record in OT games:  0-3-2  ::worry::

Record when game's final goal-margin is 3 or greater:  11-0  B-]

Last time Cornell had a regular season without any losses by more than 2 goals (as was the case this year):  1978

(Same criteria as above, but for an entire season:  1970).

[Josh '99]

zg88 wrote:

Cornell finishes the ECAC regular season with a team GFA of 3.36 -- the 9th-worst-ever in team history.  There... fair's fair... now we have balance, OK?!   ::nut::

Wow...  and here we were, excited about how good our offense is this year.  I'd hate to think of where last season (2.21) ranks.   ::twitch::

[zg88]

Well, the offense is good, by current ECAC standards -- it did finish in 1st place (as did the defense).  :-)

(As for last year's offense... well... you don't wanna know...).  ;-)

[Greg Berge]

No, you don't want to know:

http://www.spiritone.com/~kepler/records/records_ix.htm

[Al DeFlorio]

Some other nums:

Games trailing after third period:  3 (BU#1, OSU, Dartmouth#1)

Games giving up more than 3 goals in regulation:  2 (BU#1, Dartmouth#1)

Record against ECAC non-Ivies:  11-0-1; against Ivies:  6-3-1

[Greg Berge]

Record in ECAC games decided in regulation: 17-1!

Record in all games decided in regulation: 21-3.

[jy3]

http://www.uscho.com/stats/conf.php?gender=m&conf=ec
plus
underhill and lenny finished 1-2 in goals against and 2-3 in save percentage as well as both tied with others for 2 shutouts (most)...
Sam Paolini led the ecac with pp goals.

[PapaBear]

And the difference between Cornell being the top rated defensive team in the nation right now is 2 empty-net goals.

[jy3]

well maybe mich state gave up some empty nets too?

[Josh '99]

jy3 wrote:

well maybe mich state gave up some empty nets too?

Actually, they didn't.

Mmmmm, Monday morning boredom motivating me to look that up.

[Craine]

Here's one I found interesting...

Winning Percentage:

#1 - Mercyhurst - 0.865 - MAAC
#2 - Wayne State - 0.825 - CHA
#3 - Cornell - .818 - ECAC
#4 - UNH - 0.771 - Hockey East
#5 - Denver - .0768 - WCHA
#6 - Michigan - 0.750 - CCHA

So, looking at the winners of the 6 conferences, Cornell had the 3rd best winning percentage in the country, and, at the risk of sounding politically incorrect here, Cornell had the best winning percentage of teams in the four "major" conferences...

[Adam]

What is this year's record after eating at Pizza Hut?

[ugarte]

I don't think that chart really says anythin in our favor. We are a good team in a bad conference. (Mercyhurst is a mediocre team in a horrible conference.)  The top teams in the better conferences played tougher schedules, and lost more games as a result.