WOW!!!!(team Statistics)

[duffs4]

I was looking through the team stats for the nation and to my surprise Cornell is #1 in team offense, team defense, penalty killing, and is number four on the power play [http://www.uscho.com/stats/conf.php?conf=d1] :-O .  I know we haven't played the toughest of opponents, but it's a good place to start after the first full weekend.  GO RED!

[Avash]

[Q]duffs4 Wrote:

 I was looking through the team stats for the nation and to my surprise Cornell is #1 in team offense, team defense, penalty killing, and is number four on the power play   .  I know we haven't played the toughest of opponents, but it's a good place to start after the first full weekend.  GO RED!



Edited 2 times. Last edit at 10/31/04 06:02PM by duffs4.[/q]


...not to mention, tied for first in winning percentage ;-)

Perhaps more impressive, even though it's only been 2 games, is that we're second to last in the NCAA in penalty minutes per game.

[Will]

It's nice to see, sure, but we all know that it doesn't mean anything when it's only two games and one of them was Army.  If by the end of the calendar year we're still up there, then we'll have reason to talk.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Schafer must have the officials in his pocket, because everybody knows that Cornell only can play "clutch and grab."  :-P

[pfibiger]

Also interesting: Last year our defensemen had a grand total of 6 goals over the entire season. This year, two games in, they've already scored 5.

[calgARI '07]

I'm actually writing my column this week on the blueline's offensive output over the weekend.  The defense scored 9 goals last year, not 6.  Gleed had 3, Cook had 2, Wallace had 2, Glover had 1, and Salmela had 1.  But point taken all the same.

[pfibiger]

ah yes. perhaps i should check which column i'm looking at in the elynah db when i'm adding up numbers.

[billhoward]

... the first weekend results are great. 'course, Cornell didn't exactly bring in North Dakota and Notre Dame.

Not to see the darker side, but: Wouldn't it have been nicer to have been 7-0 and 7-0 scores?

[BCrespi]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

Not to see the darker side, but: Wouldn't it have been nicer to have been 7-0 and 7-0 scores? [/q]

Yes, it would have, especially in the Army game.  The goal was quite weak, right at the start of the third, seemed to go 5-hole on McKee from the blue-line.  Not to nitpick after such an exciting weekend, even against weaker teams, but it seems like Dave can look so great one moment and lose total focus the next.  Hopefully he'll improve on that with maturity.

[duffs4]

I thought Dave looked great this weekend.  I think the goal he let in against army is something we used to see spoil a lot of shut outs Lenny should have had, and the one by SH, there were three Cornell players sreening him as well as a couple SH players.  I think the only thing that Dave M has to prove after last year and the short beginning of this one is that he can play in the playoffs.  Go Red!

[BCrespi]

I agree, I think Dave is a very good goalie, I just noted that he simply seems to let in easy goals on weak shots while he is very strong on tough plays in traffic and under pressure, etc.  Anyway, let's go Dave and let's go Red.

[RichH]

Schafer's words:

[q]"There are games last year where there is no doubt in my mind that David could have had the best goals-against average in the country. However, to do that, you can't give up many soft goals in order to achieve that status. You can go long periods, stretches without shots, and then all of a sudden, face a tough one. And that to me is what separates the great goaltenders from the good ones, for a guy to be able to stand there for a long period of time and all of a sudden face a real tough shot and control the rebound or not give up a real bad rebound or make the save. And that is the next step for David." [/q]
from http://www.theithacajournal.com/news/stories/20041028/localsports/1491533.html

[billhoward]

[Q]RichH Wrote:

 Schafer's words:

[Q2]"There are games last year where there is no doubt in my mind that David could have had the best goals-against average in the country. However, to do that, you can't give up many soft goals in order to achieve that status. You can go long periods, stretches without shots, and then all of a sudden, face a tough one. And that to me is what separates the great goaltenders from the good ones, for a guy to be able to stand there for a long period of time and all of a sudden face a real tough shot and control the rebound or not give up a real bad rebound or make the save. And that is the next step for David." [/Q]
from

[/q]

So the coach is speaking to David through the Journal and letting a couple thousand others listen in.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I'll give Schafer the benefit of the doubt that anything he's saying to the Urinal he's already said to his players.

[billhoward]

McKee seeing the coach's words in print, helps underscore the point Schafer almost certainly made already. Somebody who punches out his own hand probably isn't going to let his thoughts remain internal and not shared them with the team.

You're right that a player would be unhappy - can't ask for a trade, but he could perform below his abilities, maybe think about a transfer - if the coach doesn't say it directly first. Actually, there are instances where the coach (another school, another sport) might use the media as his messenger, for instance, "It is understood that the Alabama offense coaches have been impressed with the play of backup quarterback Bobby Rae Jordan, so much so that if starter Billy Rae Jordan had off stretches like he did in the third quarter against Vanderbilt, there'd be a possibility Bobby Rae might spell Billy Rae for a couple series of downs." That's actually the head coach telling Billy Rae to light a fire under his non-competitive butt.