Re: St. Lawrence University 2013-2014: Carey, Carey, carry us to Placid ... And beyon
Yikes........never seen so many comments about a single game. Sure nice to see all the Union and Colgate fans posting their thanks. Makes one feel good.
Now that the dust has settled I hope the team can build off of these two wins. We have 6 games left in the season. My experience as a former athlete and a 40 year plus watcher of hockey tells me that we can't read too much into the weekend. I am actually more impressed with our victory over Princeton than I am with the win at Q-Pac. We seem to do well (most of the time) against better competition, but often struggle against lesser or equal teams. Being an underdog as we were against Q-Pac, it is always easier to pull off that upset than to consistently beat the teams you are supposed to. It's a different kind of pressure and expectation.
We have 6 games left. If this team is for real....and they can build on what they have put together recently....I would "expect" our record in those 6 games to be 4-2. How they come? Not sure, but realistically the losses mostly likely would be Q Pac and Union, with wins over RPI, Dartmouth, Harvard and Princeton. Another upset of Union or Q Pac would be nice, but I think a loss to the other four would be more telling.
It seems one of the key's has been the play of the Defense and the improved goaltending. Carvy's comments certainly emphasized that. All year we have proven we can score (with a few exceptions.) As Wenny goes...so will this team. The other challenge remaining is solving the Appleton riddle. We have a winning record on the road and a losing record at Appleton. A lot of our stats show our inconsistency. Statistically overall our collective save percentages show why we have a losing record. Collectively our save percentage is 862 and Wenny's is 868. That is not going to win a majority of games unless our offense puts up big numbers, which it has most of the time.
This weekend provided some hope and optimism that the team still could make some noise down the line. But until we can win at Appleton and beat who we are supposed to beat regularly and consistently; then, our fate will be settled on the road in the playoffs.
Two nice wins.....relatively low goals against (3 for the two games).....let's see if we can build off of that. Next weekend to me will be a tell all. Two wins is the only acceptable outcome for next weekend.
Yikes........never seen so many comments about a single game. Sure nice to see all the Union and Colgate fans posting their thanks. Makes one feel good.
Now that the dust has settled I hope the team can build off of these two wins. We have 6 games left in the season. My experience as a former athlete and a 40 year plus watcher of hockey tells me that we can't read too much into the weekend. I am actually more impressed with our victory over Princeton than I am with the win at Q-Pac. We seem to do well (most of the time) against better competition, but often struggle against lesser or equal teams. Being an underdog as we were against Q-Pac, it is always easier to pull off that upset than to consistently beat the teams you are supposed to. It's a different kind of pressure and expectation.
We have 6 games left. If this team is for real....and they can build on what they have put together recently....I would "expect" our record in those 6 games to be 4-2. How they come? Not sure, but realistically the losses mostly likely would be Q Pac and Union, with wins over RPI, Dartmouth, Harvard and Princeton. Another upset of Union or Q Pac would be nice, but I think a loss to the other four would be more telling.
It seems one of the key's has been the play of the Defense and the improved goaltending. Carvy's comments certainly emphasized that. All year we have proven we can score (with a few exceptions.) As Wenny goes...so will this team. The other challenge remaining is solving the Appleton riddle. We have a winning record on the road and a losing record at Appleton. A lot of our stats show our inconsistency. Statistically overall our collective save percentages show why we have a losing record. Collectively our save percentage is 862 and Wenny's is 868. That is not going to win a majority of games unless our offense puts up big numbers, which it has most of the time.
This weekend provided some hope and optimism that the team still could make some noise down the line. But until we can win at Appleton and beat who we are supposed to beat regularly and consistently; then, our fate will be settled on the road in the playoffs.
Two nice wins.....relatively low goals against (3 for the two games).....let's see if we can build off of that. Next weekend to me will be a tell all. Two wins is the only acceptable outcome for next weekend.
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