New Recruits

[Rosey]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

 Older players probably fit in better at Cornell because they're not bothered so much by the 21-year drinking age. [/q]

Why do I get the feeling that the Schafer System doesn't include drinking most nights of the week?

Kyle

[abmarks]

[Q]krose Wrote:

 [Q2]billhoward Wrote:

 Older players probably fit in better at Cornell because they're not bothered so much by the 21-year drinking age. [/Q]
Why do I get the feeling that the Schafer System doesn't include drinking most nights of the week?

Kyle[/q]

You didn't see his system when he was a player then

[Roy 82]

Schafer is the one system to have when you are having more than one.  ::nut::

(I fear that I am really dating myself)

[Trotsky]

Excellent post, Scott (and a lot of work)!

The only thing I would disagree with is that all the lines will be O/D balanced.  I think there will be a "#1 line" for sure, the difference being that the #1 line under Schafer is his primary checking line, to counter the other team's scorers.

[billhoward]

We're saying the 25 young men of the Cornell hockey team all go dry from October through April of each year? It must be a cruel reminder for the defenseman who lines up behind Matt Moulson during a faceoff, looks up, and sees that cool and refreshing word on the back of Matt's jersey. And then to have a coach named ...

At least the trainer isn't named Bud.

[DeltaOne81]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

 We're saying the 25 young men of the Cornell hockey team all go dry from October through April of each year? It must be a cruel reminder for the defenseman who lines up behind Matt Moulson during a faceoff, looks up, and sees that cool and refreshing word on the back of Matt's jersey. And then to have a coach named ...

At least the trainer isn't named Bud. [/q]
Um, anyone who says that has never been to Dunbar's on a Saturday night.

[Rosey]

[Q]DeltaOne81 Wrote:

 [Q2]billhoward Wrote:

 We're saying the 25 young men of the Cornell hockey team all go dry from October through April of each year? It must be a cruel reminder for the defenseman who lines up behind Matt Moulson during a faceoff, looks up, and sees that cool and refreshing word on the back of Matt's jersey. And then to have a coach named ...

At least the trainer isn't named Bud. [/Q]
Um, anyone who says that has never been to Dunbar's on a Saturday night.[/q]

I'm just contending that Schafer is probably a no-drinks-Sunday-night-through-Saturday-afternoon guy.  I would be, if I were a coach.

Kyle

[andyw2100]

[Q]krose Wrote:

I'm just contending that Schafer is probably a no-drinks-Sunday-night-through-Saturday-afternoon guy.  I would be, if I were a coach.

Kyle[/q]

Saturday afternoon? "Hey fellas, why don't we go out and get toasted before the game tonight, eh?"

But yes, I understand your point. I'm sure you meant to write "...through Saturday, after the game...", or something like it.
                                              Andy

[Rosey]

[Q]andyw2100 Wrote:
But yes, I understand your point. I'm sure you meant to write "...through Saturday, after the game...", or something like it.
[/q]
Indeed.  Thanks for the clarification.  Though tanking up before the game has its own advantages...

Kyle

[Byoo]

I see :
Pokulok - Seminoff ( played together on the same unit at Notre-Dame before Sasha's freshman campain, there defenitely has to be some chemistry there...)
Krantz - O'Byrne ( solid 1-2 punch of speed-offensiveness and huge-killing will shut other team good lines down)
Glover - Gleed ( will probably be counted on to take on the other team's top lines, never have i seen a player block so many shots as Gleed)

[Scersk '97]

Another thing that occurs to me re: McCutcheon:

We, rather famously, play a "left wing lock."  McCutcheon seems to have spent most of his time on the right side, where our big power forwards rack up assists but not goals by aggressively forchecking and then hitting the cutting left wing.  (Baby (or Paolini?)/Bitz/Hynes to Moulson/Paolini (or Baby?))  With all these experienced players returning, maybe Schafer will have the team playing a reversible version of the lock?  Having little actual strategic hockey knowledge, I don't know how easy/hard this new wrinkle would be to implement.

For all his lack of scoring, McCutcheon was recruited, I believe, as a scorer.  He's always looked more like a finesse player than a bruiser, a Moulson rather than a Carefoot.  I have a feeling that Schafer will be hunkering down with 101 Offensive Schemes for Hockey this summer, since he's obviously got defense down pat.  I bet that one of the things he comes up with will exploit McCutcheon's puck handling skills...  if McCutcheon hits the weights so he isn't easy to knock off the puck.

[atb9]

[Q]krose Wrote:
Though tanking up before the game has its own advantages...
[/q]

Depends on what you're tanking up on...  :-P

[RichS]

Yeah, it's Wednesday and I see the griping about the rink size costing cornell the game continues.  I never thought I'd see them whine.  ::rolleyes::

[Scersk '97]

The signal-to-noise ratio on RichS is awful.  Where's my "squelch?"

[ben03]

age are you still working on the "Ignore RichS" button? please tell me you're close ... ::help::