False. This weekend was, in a word, awful. The Bears played a great 30 minutes against RPI and then fell apart in one minute, which cost them the game. What is more troubling is that with th eseason on the line (this was a must-win), the Bears got a powerplay and generated nothing. They then came up with a punchless 3rd period that looked more like a team wanting to just get out of their own rink with fewer mistakes.
Then comes the Union debacle. I didn't go, but to see a 3-0 result against a team that was winless for the past 119 league games is pathetic. What's more - a description from someone there (I was at the RPI game but decided against going to the Union contest) made it seem as though the Bears had about 1000 other places they would rather be than skating against the Dutch.
To think - this team started the weekend with a legitimate shot at making a run at the playoffs. Now, 120 minutes of hapless hockey later, and they are going to be able to make early plans for a March vacation. Sad, really. Many of us long for the glory days of the 1995-2006 run (3 ECAC tournament titles, a bunch of finals appearances, a couple national berths, the 2002 Frozen Four), and this is not to say that the young women in the locker room aren't capable. But a loss to Union (no disrespect to them) is just plain sad.
(And I am completely neutral on this. I have no children on the team, am not a former hockey player, am not a hockey parent, and am merely a fan of Brown hockey and longtime poster to the men's board. All I want to see is this team turn it around - and my guess is some significant changes have to happen, be it with the roster, the coach, the university support, whatever).
