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Colgate 2022-23

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AUUUUGHHH!! A 3rd period lead turned regulation loss! AND we got help from Harvard! We were 11 minutes away from securing a 1st round bye and we choked.

Also, we have THE most absolute rotten luck in goalie-pulled situations. In our last 9 games we’ve allowed THREE extra attacker goals if the other team pulls the goalie. And if we pull the goalie, we’ve given up TWO empty net goals rather quickly, both shot from our attacking end!
 
I am in my hotel room, leaving the screw-top Gewurztraminer celebratory bottle of wine for another night.

What a disappointment. Give Yale credit… they wanted this one more than we did. You could just feel the momentum shifting early in the third period. Yale was being very aggressive with the puck… and we weren’t. I have no idea why we didn’t come out of the dressing room in the third period all fired-up. But we didn’t. What does it take to motivate the team? It should have been obvious what the opportunity was before us with Harvard leading 4-1 over Saint Lawrence at that point. And it’s not just the coaches job to motivate the team. That’s why we have team leaders, captains and associate captains.

And, truthfully, we never should have been in that position with which to begin the third period. A one-goal lead? Over the team that had five ECAC wins all season? And the one we beat 8-1 in Hamilton? Really?

Oh, well, we own that loss. On to Brown…

P.S. - If I understand it right, if we beat Brown in regulation (and get the 3 points), we get the Bye. If we don’t, then we are watching the out-of-town scoreboard to see if Saint Lawrence gets just one more point than us (which would give them the Bye).
 
Regardless of what has happened, How we felt throughout the season we have a chance to win and get a bye. And I’m pretty sure none of us would have predicted that at the beginning of the season and would have taken it if presented as the result at the beginning of the season so let’s all just enjoy the last game and hopefully they can pull it out

yes Iowa you are right we own our own destiny.
 
Went to the game last night and was impressed by the Colgate presence at the rink. Always nice to catch a game at Ingalls. The parking ticket was not so nice; thanks, New Haven.

As for the game itself, it was a tremendous disappointment. This is a very mediocre Yale team who markedly outplayed us in the third period. I understand that all the penalties did not help, but our third period “strategy” with a lead was dismal as ever.

I understand that we are playing for a bye tonight which is great. But if reaching .500 on the last day of the regular season is exceeding expectations, our expectations are too low.
 
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sshablak;n3791699) Bruins got even stronger.[/QUOTE said:
I assume you mean that team up in Beantown and not the one in Providence, right Shabby?

Bummer last night vs. the Eli. Gotta win tonight.
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ColSkate65 said:
I assume you mean that team up in Beantown and not the one in Providence, right Shabby?

Bummer last night vs. the Eli. Gotta win tonight.
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Brown calls themselves the Bears. It’s that NHL team in Boston that calls themselves the Bruins, which are a type of bear.

Ironically, the Bruins just acquired a former Brown player (Garnet Hathaway).
 
Should be touch? Marmot. My wrinkled hands are betraying me. And I’ll be ready for a small windowless white room if we lose tonight
 
Carter Gylander led Colgate out onto the ice tonight for the pre-game warm-up. Mathieu Caron did the same for Brown.

Brown penalty for tripping.
Brown penalty for interference.
Both penalties killed.
Colgate penalty for boarding. Killed.
Don Vaughan challenged for head-contact penalty. Denied. Lost time-out.

Colgate 15, Brown 6, SOG after one.
Colgate 0, Brown 0, score after one.

Here we go…
Brown scores first.

Brown penalty for tripping. Killed.

Halfway through the game…
Brown 2, Colgate 0, score.

Things are getting chippy after the second goal.
Brown penalty for Unsportsmanlike Conduct.
Colgate PPG by Ethan Manderville.
Second ‘Gate goal to tie the game, by Matt Verboon.
Clearly Colgate has a renewed sense of urgency after the second goal against.

Colgate 28, Brown 13, SOG after two.
Colgate 2, Brown 2, score after two.

I had to look… Dartmouth 0, SLU 0, in second.

Colgate 2, Brown 2, after regulation.
Headed to 3-on-3 OT.
Colgate penalty for hooking. Killed.

Going to Shoot-Out
Peace-Out.
 
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With St. Lawrence ahead 2-0 with 6 minutes to go and Colgate going into overtime, it's not looking good for Colgate getting 4th place. A StL win means Colgate would fall to fifth. Clarkson can't catch Colgate, since Colgate is guaranteed at least 1 point.
 
For a while this year I actually got fooled.

But at the end of the day, this team looks like almost every other iteration of a Vaughan squad.

Two points against Yale and Brown???
 
Marmot said:
For a while this year I actually got fooled.

But at the end of the day, this team looks like almost every other iteration of a Vaughan squad.

Two points against Yale and Brown???
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Better than one point under the old system?

But yeah, going back to at least 2006-07, we’ve been consistently inconsistent. We’ll have flashes of “we can be a top team” and there have been times where we play like a bad team.

We seem to have not recovered from the 2-goal 3rd period lead turned OT loss at Harvard. Our last regulation win was at home vs. Quinnipiac. Since then, we’ve gone 2-5-3 with both wins coming in 3x3 OT. We’ve also allowed 3 extra attacker goals and 2 empty net goals in that stretch. But each of our last 11 games were decided by 1 goal, or by 2 goals where the winning team iced it with an empty net goal. We’ve gone 3-5-3 in those games.

Can we avoid a crash ending to the season next weekend? I sure hope so.
 
Never fooled me. A monumental win over No. 1 Qpac, win over ranked Harvard, tie against ranked Cornell…all good things. But NEVER mistook that for turning the corner and actually being good. Certainly not with the current coach.

Dartmouth comes to town next weekend. They are last in the PWR. With our luck, that means it will likely be 3 tight games :-/
 
You’re right Magoo. But we only needed to win ONE game in our last 4!!! I wish the boys all the best going forward, but I’m done.
 
Don’t be done CU13.

Some of you may think I’m nuts but if we survive Dartmouth I can see us winning 2 of 3 at SLU.
But not if we had to go to Qpac, Harvard, Cornell or Clarkson.
 
Home safe-n-sound in Owego, N.Y., at 4 ayem…

After a loss to Yale and a tie against Brown, anyone who thinks that a win at home against lowly Dartmouth is a ‘sure thing’ has lost the plot. We can’t afford to look past lunch on Wednesday, let alone a game against the Big Green on Saturday.

This roller-coaster ride has become exhausting (and costly), I am ready for a change.
 
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