Level B Fishbowl

I surmise that's mostly because he was able to get Dartmouth to play above expectations and make the NCAA's for the first time in over four decades. He also won ECAC coach of the year, which I don't agree with (should've gone to Syer at Princeton)

Q's goalie situation has been terrible for the past two seasons. I could've sworn they had a well-regarded freshman coming in next season, but maybe I'm mistaking them for another team in the conference.

10G, 12 A in 16 OOC games. Except for Notre Dame and UND, all opponents were AHA and HEA. 15 G, 22 A in ECAC play

Apparently his family wants him to stick at Q for a while and get his education, so I'd be surprised to see him leave before the end of his junior year. Both his dad and his uncle are Cornell alums although he wasn't considering Cornell as far as I know

Cornell loses two players as Jonathan Castagna and Hoyt Stanley sign deals with Calgary and Ottawa, respectively. Castagna was fully expected after Utah traded him but Stanley was out of nowhere (although I can't say I'll miss watching him)

Pierre McGuire's alma mater. And I'm not even sure if they'd have the funding to move hockey to D1.

Penn State is very much an eastern school given the student body and alumni base. That's like saying Syracuse isn't a northeastern school because they play in a basketball conference with a lot of southern teams.

Realistically this game is over. The big thing on Sunday for WMU will be to sustain offensive zone time. I'm not impressed with Hicks and he's given up some big rebounds this game that Cornell simply hasn't been able to capitalize on.

Bizarre that Buccigross isn't in the Albany regional where he can slobber all day about McKenna. Cohen is actually much more tolerable

Denver with two very pretty deflections this game

Dartmouth was definitely not a 2 seed quality team and Providence deserved their placement but had a poor game yesterday until the last period. The gap between the NCHC and Big 10 and the other conferences seems to be large this year.

3-0 now in this Denver home game. Cornell actually looked better than they did in the 1st but that miscue hurts.

NPI is the best you'll get unless every team plays each other, which we all know will never happen. Short of that, you'll have better teams and worse teams and whichever ones play well enough throughout the season to get in, deserve to be in and that's that

2-0 Denver now. Cornell getting killed on faceoffs like they were against Princeton

They hung on against MSU last year and wound up winning at the end. This team is definitely capable

Looked like a high stick; maybe even offisde. No review though

I don't think Cornell has seen a defenseman like Pohlkamp all year. Cournoyer looking very good in net, though

The pep band was supposed to make the trip to Loveland but had a flight that was cancelled at the last minute unfortunately. There should be a decent turnout of alumni around Denver and other parts of Colorado, though. Maybe Sam Malinski makes an appearance in the crowd or on the broadcast with the Avs probably having returned from Winnipeg by now.

I have to imagine CJ Foley leaves Dartmouth and signs a contract. I don't see him sticking around for his senior year

They kind of are. Dartmouth has been lucky with a few posts and can hardly do anything offensively because of how slow they are (or shanked shots)

Such a great stretch pass to set it up. Waited for PC to change and then passed it perfectly through the neutral zone

Dartmouth chasing play a lot. They're not a particularly fast or physical team and tends to get disorganized a lot on defense. Wisconsin doing a good job getting up the ice and through the neutral zone

Q looking like the much more dangerous team offensively. Not surprising given their personnel

All else equal, if either OSU or Princeton won their last games, UConn would've been out

Neither team scored more than two in both meetings and each team won a game. Cornell had a lot of roster turnover after last season (across all positions) and of course Schafer retired. That said, Cournoyer is a solid goaltender (he won the Ken Dryden award for best ECAC goaltender) who plays the puck extremely well (about as well as Marty Turco) and a lot of the other freshmen have stepped up. My big concern with that game is the overall weaker defensive core and being able to keep up sustained offensive pressure on Denver