[Cornell @ UND -- Saturday Gameday]

On 1/9/2022 at 4:19 PM, SiouxBoys said:

Congrats on the weekend. Your team is incredibly average. 

So you are saying your team is "incredibly below average?"  Nice.

[Cornell @ UND -- Saturday Gameday]

3 minutes ago, brianvf said:

It's crazy.  I, too, expected him to have a great season and be an offensive catalyst for this team.
Not so much.

That's great and all, but the 19/20 season has absolutely nothing to do with this season.  Both teams have completely different rosters from two years ago.
Cornell is a fine team, but I'd say they're in the same boat as UND this year...both will be bubble NCAA teams and have a decent shot at not making the tourney.

I agree that they both might be bubble teams.  So why is everyone here so upset that one bubble team was swept by another?  And you cherry-picked only one piece of what I wrote.  A lot of that 2019-20 team is back, and some talented newcomers (Shane, Kovich, Psenicka, O'Leary, Ertel), all of whom burned UND this weekend.

[Cornell @ UND -- Saturday Gameday]

17 hours ago, SiouxFan100 said:

Wasn’t Cornell ranked number one in the last year or two?

Take the Kelly green glasses off and give Cornell some credit

not saying we played up to our ability 

Thank you.  I have to say it's disappointing to see so many North Dakota fans so underestimate the team they were facing this weekend.  Cornell finished its last full season, 2019-2020,  with a 23-2-4 record and a 1.53 goals-against-average, was ranked first in both national polls, and was third in the pairwise.  Prior to the anomalous Arizona State weekend, Cornell was 9-1-1 this season, giving it a 32-3-5 record (8-0-2 out-of-conference) over a forty game span across its last two seasons

 

The team had a four-week layoff for finals and holiday vacation before the ASU series, during which a wave of Covid swept the campus, shutting it down, with the virus affecting many players and disrupting team practices.  At ASU, that was not the Cornell team that we've seen over its past two seasons.  So stop the self-flagellation over the two losses.  The Fighting Hawks were playing a damn good team that historically plays tenacious defense and knows how to win.

 

Also worth pointing out is Cornell's first and third top scorers missed the UND series with injuries, and its head coach was sick and not behind the bench for Saturday night's game.  So, look for revenge and come to Lynah Rink next year to experience what college hockey is like in an old-time college hockey barn.