iowabasedtraveler
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Re: Colgate 2018-19
Mitch Benson again in goal for the final game of the regular season.
Mitch Benson again in goal for the final game of the regular season.
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Colgate 2018-19
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iowabasedtraveler
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Re: Colgate 2018-19
I think SOG after one was... Colgate 10, Saint Lawrence 8.
Saint Lawrence 3, Colgate 0, score after one.
Mitch Benson pulled in favor of Andrew Farrier after third goal.
Mitch was obviously not happy, but he had no defense in front of him. Their breakaway goal must have reminded him of last night’s penalty shot.
The team is not giving up, though.
I think SOG after one was... Colgate 10, Saint Lawrence 8.
Saint Lawrence 3, Colgate 0, score after one.
Mitch Benson pulled in favor of Andrew Farrier after third goal.
Mitch was obviously not happy, but he had no defense in front of him. Their breakaway goal must have reminded him of last night’s penalty shot.
The team is not giving up, though.
TheGreenCoat
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Re: Colgate 2018-19
well it's almost over, Thank God...actually one can make a strong case we've actually overachieved this year...if you run some hockey-like Sabremetrics to the season (one-goal wins, overtime record, goals for/goals against) our record could easily be 7-23-3 (not including our probable loss tonight)...the ONE thing you'd like to see out of your team is to come out prepared to play...feel for Benson tonight...he probably sees pucks in his sleep...the effort by these boys is there...the commitment and effort to elevate team skill/speed evidently is not...one of our de-commits (Scanlin going to Univ Nebraska - Omaha) is averaging over a point/game as a defenseman for the Brooks Bandits...disappointment, depression, even perhaps resignation...it's been a long 13 years...
well it's almost over, Thank God...actually one can make a strong case we've actually overachieved this year...if you run some hockey-like Sabremetrics to the season (one-goal wins, overtime record, goals for/goals against) our record could easily be 7-23-3 (not including our probable loss tonight)...the ONE thing you'd like to see out of your team is to come out prepared to play...feel for Benson tonight...he probably sees pucks in his sleep...the effort by these boys is there...the commitment and effort to elevate team skill/speed evidently is not...one of our de-commits (Scanlin going to Univ Nebraska - Omaha) is averaging over a point/game as a defenseman for the Brooks Bandits...disappointment, depression, even perhaps resignation...it's been a long 13 years...
iowabasedtraveler
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Re: Colgate 2018-19
Got to talking to friends of Andrew Farrier who came down from Montreal to see Colgate.
SLU 4-1 after two.
Saint Lawrence 5-2, final score.
Got to talking to friends of Andrew Farrier who came down from Montreal to see Colgate.
SLU 4-1 after two.
Saint Lawrence 5-2, final score.
TheGreenCoat
Registered User
Re: Colgate 2018-19
60 DI men's hockey teams...scoring goals/game? 59th; power play percentage? 57th; penalty kill percentage? 60th...it is, in fact, a minor miracle to reach 10 wins and 3 ties...that's where we are boys and girls...
60 DI men's hockey teams...scoring goals/game? 59th; power play percentage? 57th; penalty kill percentage? 60th...it is, in fact, a minor miracle to reach 10 wins and 3 ties...that's where we are boys and girls...
Re: Colgate 2018-19
You don't need to sell me, GreenCoat. I picked the Saints to win. They are, after all, 59th/60 in the PWR.
Union is a dangerous draw, please just let the season end. There is no reason to be optimistic about our coaching or recruiting anymore. Not sure how the guys come motivated to play other than their love for the game...and possibly for Colgate.
You don't need to sell me, GreenCoat. I picked the Saints to win. They are, after all, 59th/60 in the PWR.
Union is a dangerous draw, please just let the season end. There is no reason to be optimistic about our coaching or recruiting anymore. Not sure how the guys come motivated to play other than their love for the game...and possibly for Colgate.
TheGreenCoat
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Re: Colgate 2018-19
where's Marmot these days...he has left the country? If not, he can join me in a comfy, state-run mental facility with male attendants at your beck and call...as the proprietor of the facility said to me upon my arrival: "We'll let you in, but may not let you out..."
where's Marmot these days...he has left the country? If not, he can join me in a comfy, state-run mental facility with male attendants at your beck and call...as the proprietor of the facility said to me upon my arrival: "We'll let you in, but may not let you out..."
ColSkate65
Signer of '65 Arena first beam.
Re: Colgate 2018-19
Well, I'd rather face Union than Brown, even given the Dutchmen's senior night win yesterday. Maybe the shorter bus trip will tip the balance? It's time to play giant killer. Not like we haven't been in this spot before :/)
Well, I'd rather face Union than Brown, even given the Dutchmen's senior night win yesterday. Maybe the shorter bus trip will tip the balance? It's time to play giant killer. Not like we haven't been in this spot before :/)
Re: Colgate 2018-19
Green Coat, alas I’ve been stuck in a rut for weeks trying to recall what the antonym for “superlative” is. For I fear I’ve run out of whatever those are in trying to describe the abject failure of this season.
It is amazing how far the men’s hockey program is behind most of our other sports. Football, soccer, lacrosse, women’s hockey and even basketball (first league title in 20 years!) seem to be on an altogether different plane than our moribund hockey program. It’s depressing.
As Green Coat is apt to point out, it’s not for lack of effort of the part of the kids on the team; they give their all very night. Unfortunately, they for the most part don’t have the talent to compete on an event level with our competitors.
My question now is what happens when the season ends which I fear is most imminent.
Green Coat, alas I’ve been stuck in a rut for weeks trying to recall what the antonym for “superlative” is. For I fear I’ve run out of whatever those are in trying to describe the abject failure of this season.
It is amazing how far the men’s hockey program is behind most of our other sports. Football, soccer, lacrosse, women’s hockey and even basketball (first league title in 20 years!) seem to be on an altogether different plane than our moribund hockey program. It’s depressing.
As Green Coat is apt to point out, it’s not for lack of effort of the part of the kids on the team; they give their all very night. Unfortunately, they for the most part don’t have the talent to compete on an event level with our competitors.
My question now is what happens when the season ends which I fear is most imminent.
TheGreenCoat
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Re: Colgate 2018-19
indeed Marmot...what does happen at the end of the year (probably Saturday night)?...I suspect nothing, at least nothing publicly...took a long look at our 2019 and 2020 recruits (as usual we seem to be "under recruiting", especially for 2020) and it would appear to be more of the same...God I hope I'm wrong...the Young Brothers, especially the younger one, seem to be good adds, maybe one or two more...but, again, when you look at the teams where these young men have plied their trades as 17, 18, 19 year olds they are generally not the best players on these teams...it would appear, and this is just speculation, that we are competing with the bottom third of the ECAC and against Atlantic Hockey...our presence in Ontario is not nearly what it used to be...we were very late (at least a decade) to tap what virtually every other DI program tapped, i.e., the USHL...yet the commitment of our current kids is impressive; they play hard and do a pretty good job defensively in our own end...but, honestly, we have a few kids on the team who should not be playing DI hockey...the numbers I quoted above are simply jaw dropping...and only by the continued efforts of virtually everyone on the roster have we been able to achieve 10 wins and 3 ties...
indeed Marmot...what does happen at the end of the year (probably Saturday night)?...I suspect nothing, at least nothing publicly...took a long look at our 2019 and 2020 recruits (as usual we seem to be "under recruiting", especially for 2020) and it would appear to be more of the same...God I hope I'm wrong...the Young Brothers, especially the younger one, seem to be good adds, maybe one or two more...but, again, when you look at the teams where these young men have plied their trades as 17, 18, 19 year olds they are generally not the best players on these teams...it would appear, and this is just speculation, that we are competing with the bottom third of the ECAC and against Atlantic Hockey...our presence in Ontario is not nearly what it used to be...we were very late (at least a decade) to tap what virtually every other DI program tapped, i.e., the USHL...yet the commitment of our current kids is impressive; they play hard and do a pretty good job defensively in our own end...but, honestly, we have a few kids on the team who should not be playing DI hockey...the numbers I quoted above are simply jaw dropping...and only by the continued efforts of virtually everyone on the roster have we been able to achieve 10 wins and 3 ties...
iowabasedtraveler
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Re: Colgate 2018-19
Clarkson recap...
https://gocolgateraiders.com/news/2019/3/1/mens-ice-hockey-clarkson-comeback-downs-raiders.aspx
Saint Lawrence recap...
https://gocolgateraiders.com/news/2019/3/2/mens-ice-hockey-raiders-conclude-regular-season-at-slu.aspx
Clarkson recap...
https://gocolgateraiders.com/news/2019/3/1/mens-ice-hockey-clarkson-comeback-downs-raiders.aspx
Saint Lawrence recap...
https://gocolgateraiders.com/news/2019/3/2/mens-ice-hockey-raiders-conclude-regular-season-at-slu.aspx
iowabasedtraveler
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Re: Colgate 2018-19
Headed to the Frank L. Messa Rink at the Achilles Center at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., this coming weekend for the first round match-up of Colgate versus Union in the ECAC tourney. Tickets were $15 each night, plus a $5 fee. Since it is at one of my least favorite rinks, along with Cornell’s Lynah, I decided to make the trip better by first watching Boston College at Providence on Thursday night in a regular-season contest at Schneider Arena (#95, lifetime, for me). Tickets were $25 each, plus a $5 fee. Go ‘Gate.
Headed to the Frank L. Messa Rink at the Achilles Center at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., this coming weekend for the first round match-up of Colgate versus Union in the ECAC tourney. Tickets were $15 each night, plus a $5 fee. Since it is at one of my least favorite rinks, along with Cornell’s Lynah, I decided to make the trip better by first watching Boston College at Providence on Thursday night in a regular-season contest at Schneider Arena (#95, lifetime, for me). Tickets were $25 each, plus a $5 fee. Go ‘Gate.
ColSkate65
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Re: Colgate 2018-19
Iowa - whatever car/truck/pickup/vehicle you're driving, I gotta get me one. The miles you put on, yikes.......
Iowa - whatever car/truck/pickup/vehicle you're driving, I gotta get me one. The miles you put on, yikes.......
iowabasedtraveler
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Re: Colgate 2018-19
ColSkate65, you can have it when I am done with it (he he he). It is my fifth straight black Dodge mini-van, as I am a creature of habit when I find something good (and reliable). I bought it just before the 2017-18 hockey season and I have over 63,000 miles on it already. When I spent three weeks in eastern Canada this past September with Brazil Lucas and Alaska Mike, I put 7,000 miles on it. I am already booked for Lake Placid ECAC, Allentown “Midwest” Regional, and Buffalo Frozen Four. Then I really start taking off in it, following short-track auto racing (two Midwest trips already planned for this summer).
ColSkate65, you can have it when I am done with it (he he he). It is my fifth straight black Dodge mini-van, as I am a creature of habit when I find something good (and reliable). I bought it just before the 2017-18 hockey season and I have over 63,000 miles on it already. When I spent three weeks in eastern Canada this past September with Brazil Lucas and Alaska Mike, I put 7,000 miles on it. I am already booked for Lake Placid ECAC, Allentown “Midwest” Regional, and Buffalo Frozen Four. Then I really start taking off in it, following short-track auto racing (two Midwest trips already planned for this summer).
TheGreenCoat
Registered User
Re: Colgate 2018-19
TchrBill has probably nailed it...I'll watch; I almost always do...but nowadays it like watching myself during a visit to the dentist...
TchrBill has probably nailed it...I'll watch; I almost always do...but nowadays it like watching myself during a visit to the dentist...
Wicked Slappaahs
I miss Tie Domi
Re: Colgate 2018-19
Good luck to Colgate this weekend at the DOT Salt shed. Hope they can steal a road series.
Good luck to Colgate this weekend at the DOT Salt shed. Hope they can steal a road series.