All-Ivy Teams

[Grady Whittenburg]

Doug Murray - Ivy League Player of the Year

Five other Big Red skaters honored.

http://ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=1523

Didn't scan for the usual Ivy League office typos ;-)

[Melissa \'01]

great find grady. am not surprised with the results really tho i might have voted differently (tho who really cares how i would vote :-) ) congrats to all six. am surprised that Lenny didn't at least get an honerable mention seeing as he is the #1 goalie in the country. as for the other ivy's members - am still confused why Dom Moore is getting all these kudos when he and Harvard as a whole have been playng like crap as of late!

[CowbellGuy]

LeNeveu: 1.51 GAA (#1) . SV% (#?)
Underhill: 1.93 GAA (#2) .917 SV% (#4)

Dave's save % was outside the top 8 and I'm too lazy to figure it out, but it really got hammered in the Dartmouth game. Possible the voting was skewed by that, but more likely it's just senioritis. Kind of a 4-year nod to Undy.

[Greg Berge]

LeNeveu did have five Ivy games:

W 4-1 at Brown
W 4-0 at Princeton
L 3-5 Dartmouth
W 2-0 Brown
W 3-2 Yale

4-1-0, 1.60 GAA, 2 Shut outs.

That seems pretty good to me.

[rhovorka]

First of all, these selections are voted on (supposedly) based only on Ivy-league games over the entire season.  Just because Harvard went on a slide late, shouldn't effect what they accomplished over the entire season, stats-wise.  Nowak and Moore were 2-3 in Ivy scoring, and certainly earned the spots they got.

If anything, Chris Baldwin of Dartmouth and Tim Pettit of Harvard probably have the most reason to feel jilted as Baldwin had 10 Ivy points and Pettit was the #2 Ivy goal scorer, while Vesce (2-6-8) and Baby (not on the leader list) got honorable mention. (I'm not complaining).  Probably due to their impact on Cornell's championship.  (Herrington of Dartmouth also had 10 points but he had only 1 lousy, stinkin' stupid, frustrating Ivy goal. :-( )

As far as goaltenders, Danis and Underhill tied in voting for first team.  Danis was #1 in Save % and #3 in GAA.  Underhill was #4 in SV% and #2 in GAA.  Stathos was #3 in Sv% (and faced by far the most # of shots) and #7 in GAA.  LeNeveu didn't rank in the top 9 of SV%, but was #1 in GAA.  He also had the fewest # of minutes played in Ivy games.  So it looks like the "senior effect" had something to do with it.  Stathos also had that final-day shutout of Harvard, which probably got him some votes.

Congrats to Murray and the other Cornellians honored.  Let's hope there are more accolades coming.

Stats accessible from this page: http://ivyleaguesports.com/sports/stats.asp?intSID=8

[Dart~Ben]

Maturo and Gillings over Harrington and Baldwin for Dartmouth? Hmmm...I could see Maturo up there even after cooling down in the last 6-8 games, but Gillings over either of the other 2 guys? I don't see it. Who voted on this thing?

[Give My Regards]

Saw the Ivy League stats page yesterday, and they're wrong.  (I know, big surprise)  It looks like they left out the second Yale game when they put together Lenny's stats.  He should have 298:08 for minutes played, 8 goals allowed, and a GAA of 1.61.  His save percentage in Ivy games was 0.914, so he should be on that list just behind Lombard.  I Emailed the Ivy site; we'll see if anything happens...

[Greg Berge]

If he gets elevated to a tie for second team, he should buy you an age-appropriate beverage.  ;-)

[Beeeej]

What, like Metamucil?  Oh, you mean appropriate to LeNeveu's age...

Beeeej

[ugarte]

Higgins had a very good season.  I still don't understand how he won the ROY vote unanimously when LeNeveu had the best GAA in the NCAA this year.

[zg88]

Well, I figger it's one (or both) of the following:

1.)  Games played.

2.)  "Show me the points, baby!"

[jeh25]

zg88 wrote:

1.)  Games played.

Perhaps I'm making too subtle a distinction about it but I'm thinking that it isn't "David didn't play enough games" but rather a "Chris had an impact night in and night out" kind of thing.

Chris Higgins singlehandedly made Yalies forget that Hobey Baker finalist Jeff Hamilton was gone. While David has a great career ahead of him in net for the Big Red, he simply wasn't able to have the same impact as Higgins did for Yale given David's spliting time with Matt.

Of course, the final weekend of the regular season didn't hurt either. With under 2:36 in the 3rd and down by one, Higgins scored 2 back to back goals in 83 seconds to give the Bullgdogs a 4-3 win over Harvard.  Not a bad final image to leave with the committee.

[Ben Doyle 03]

John, I agree, "Chris had an impact night in and night out," but can it also be argued that Dave's 9-1-1 conference record put more meaningful "points" on the board than any other freshman in the ECAC. Does anyone know how many games Higgins out right won for Yale (b/c we can chalk up 19 pts thanks to Lenny)?


oppppsss. . .Yale only had a 20 point season. . .:-))

St. Lawrence 20
Yale 20
LeNeveu 19
Union 19
Vermont 7

[RedAR]

Ben,

I kind of have to disagree with you here.  While Leneveu was in net for 19 of our points, he alone didn't win the game.  I would imagine that our D, O, and ST's had at least something to do with the wins.

I think Leneveu will get the recognition he deserves next year.

[CowbellGuy]

Well, except he won't be a freshman next year. Didn't Higgins go 7 games without a goal or something like that down the stretch?