Watching Cornell hockey over the last few years was essentially a two-period experience. Most of the time, you could watch the first 40 minutes of hockey and know whether Cornell would win or lose. As seen in Saturday’s win over Harvard, this may no longer be true.Cornell jumped to #3 in the meaningless polls. Voters punished Yale for its one-point weekend by dropping them from #6 to #12. Yale will try to gain back some respect by toppling Cornell on Friday. The Big Red (3-0-0, 2-0-0 ECAC) are the only untied and undefeated team in the country.
Future Cornell goalie Andy Iles continues to have success with the U-18 team, proving that his performance at Lynah was not too much out of the ordinary for him.
The Cornell women's hockey team is now ranked #7 nationally, which is the highest they've been since 1997. They sit at 4-2-0, with the two losses coming to #1 Mercyhurst.
Good analysis. While very early, this team seems to be our best since the 02-03 FF team. I think this team's offense might be even better, while that team's defense and goaltending was probably stronger.
ReplyDeleteIt should be a fabulous season.
There's obviously no substitute for having a goaltender like LeNeveu, but I think this team will ask more from Scrivens than that '03 team demanded from Lenny. It seems like Scrivens faces more odd-man rushes, point blank shots, etc., than Lenny had to. He also faces a lot more shots per game than either LeNeveu or McKee. Despite Ben's many critics in the Cornell hockey fan community, I think he's good enough to carry us to the FF.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to be careful not to get too far ahead of things. Remember that the team started 5-0-0 in 2006 and 13-1-3 in 2008, but neither campaign ended with a FF appearance.