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Colgate 2022-23

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Sol Diablo, I would think that the coaching staff and/or the team leadership have to be credited for that fact.
I thought both goaltenders had a great weekend and their respective shutouts were well-deserved.
The Mullett Arena is fantastic and the staff were super-friendly, inside and outside of it.
As I was leaving the arena last night, the ‘three stars’ were announced. I got a kick out of the fact that Colgate players were named the third and second stars in the 4-0 shutout, while an ASU player received the number one star of the game. Too much fun!
And thanks for your help on my trips last year to Oceanside and this year to the Mullett. Continued good-luck this season.
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The audio & video feeds were very good. I visited the arena before its opening, it looked like it's a good design for 5000 seats & SRO. I think you're right, the goalies were the main player variable and your coach, & team in general, did a great job recuperating from the prior game. Glad you had a great time!
 
Rainman, the trip to Mullett Arena was a trip!! I was fairly silent Friday night, but pretty loud on Saturday night (pent-up energy).
I sat around the Phoenix airport on Sunday but felt bad when I saw all the bull-riders arrive on Sunday evening.
Had I been smarter, I would have gone to Glendale, Ariz., on Sunday afternoon for the PBR Team Series final day.
A rider, Daylon Swearingen, from Pifford in upstate New York, is currently ranked and he rides for Richard Childress' team in NASCAR country.
I hope to make Merrimack this coming weekend, but prices are high for accommodations in the Boston, Mass., area (especially during leaf-peeping season in New England).
 
Decided not to follow Colgate to Merrimack this weekend but re-subscribed to ESPN+ and am watching the game tonight.
Carter Gylander in goal again tonight for Colgate, with Zachary Borgiel in nets for Merrimack.
Merrimack had the best chances in the first period, resulting in a beautifully set-up goal.
Colgate killed the only penalty of the period. Gylander looked good (again).
Merrimack 18, Colgate 8, SOG after one.
Merrimack 1, Colgate 0, score after one.

Merrimack killed a penalty, then came right back with a goal.
Merrimack scored a third goal midway through the period.
10.6 seconds left in the period, Merrimack scores off the face-off with Gylander screened.
Merrimack 30, Colgate 14, SOG after two.
Merrimack 4, Colgate 0, score after two.

RPI transfer to Merrimack scores their fifth goal (left all alone in front of the goal).

Merrimack 5, Colgate 0, final score.
Not a lot of positives in this game for 'Gate.
Merrimack announcers on ESPN+ broadcast were knowledgeable and fair, I thought.
 
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hate to correct IBT but SOG were 18-8 Merrimack and we're lucky to be down only one goal...better turn this thing around soon...the only team "Playing Fast" is Merrimack and they do look better than a mid-tier Hockey East team this year, buttressed, of course, by four high quality transfers...
 
we didn't belong on the same ice...getting hit in the head with a 2" X 4" for 15 years gets tiresome...even some people who've been in the Silver Puck Council are fed up and have packed up...
 
Here's score for you to think about: Michigan State 3, Long Island 1. How long has LI had a team?....a year maybe? And they played MSU that close? Some schools don't seem to have a problem attracting some very good hockey players, despite just starting out :/(
 
LIU has been competitive in every game they've played this year, including a 2-2 tie with Q-Pac...Brett Riley started this team from scratch during the COVID year of spring, 2020...I would hope Colgate fans remember Brett Riley...we had him as an assistant for (I think) two years and, from a number of legitimate sources, I know that young kids love playing for him...did we offer him a path to our head coaching job? His family line is amongst the best in college hockey (look it up)...maybe we did but it didn't work out, but methinks otherwise...sadly, the message that has been sent out - fair or not - is that the Colgate MIH program is satisfied to be consistently mediocre (it's probably why we lost our top recruits for this year and next to Colorado College and Denver, respectively...many people close to our program have pretty much given up...personally my contributions to SPC have dropped by 75%...I am not sold on Nicki Moore either...she talks a good game and she does get credit for staying with Matt Langel after several years of mediocre results...but firing Murphy (Lacrosse) and Hunt (football) is easy when you can slap them with personal transgressions...the hard decisions without the benefit of "political correctness" have not been made...Yale's successful AD (Beckitt) made a very tough decision to move on from Tim Taylor and ushered in the best decade in Yale's hockey history...we're sitting around looking for additional deck chairs on the Titanic...it's not just one game or one season...last 15 years? three winning seasons; one NCAA appearance...$38M invested in a new state-of-the-art facility? NO improvement...DV is a good guy, coaches great kids and has been a real credit to Colgate...but it's painfully obvious it's time to move on...
 
Watching tonight's Colgate at Merrimack non-conference match-up on ESPN+.
Carter Gylander in goal for Colgate again; Sweden's Hugo Ollas in goal for Merrimack.
Five minutes in, Colgate's Ben Raymond scored on a great 2-on-1 (with Ross Mitton).
Penalties were even in the first period, with it being chippy on both sides.

Colgate 10, Merrimack 9, SOG after one.
Colgate 1, Merrimack 0, score after one.

Halfway through the second period... Colton Young to bro Alex for a beautiful PPG.

Merrimack 20, Colgate 17, SOG after two.
Colgate 2, Merrimack 0, score after two.

Colton Young, Alex Young, Ben Raymond, Carter Gylander and Ross Mitton are all having good games tonight.

Less than a minute into the third, Alex DiPaolo scores Colgate's third goal.
Colgate's Nick Anderson puts a much-screened shot from the point past Ollas.
PPG by Merrimack at 12:30 of the third period.
Colgate's Matt Verboon scores an ENG with six minutes left in the third.
"14:42 the time. Don't go away." Merrimack scores (after pulling their goalie).
"It's become interesting here." Merrimack scores another goal (after pulling their goalie).

Colgate 5, Merrimack 3, final score.

"Good teams sweep at home and split on the road."
 
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Good, much better...and much needed...but, again, we tend to get overly passive with leads going into the third period...nonetheless, nice to see contributions from several in building 4-0 lead...
 
If we are a good team then we should be able to sweep a struggling Vermont team at home next weekend.
 
Magoo... you were reading my mind.

GreenCoat... I agree with you (again). But, to be fair, all three Merrimack goals in the third period were man-advantage goals, right? The first was a PPG and the second and third were when they pulled their goalie early. Having said that, I, too, would have preferred 4-0 as the final score (as would have Carter G.).

Vermont's season thus far...
UConn 4, Vermont 1.
UConn 3, Vermont 1.
Northeastern 5, Vermont 2.
Northeastern 5, Vermont 0.
Vermont 6, Holy Cross 0.

Finally, from College Hockey News (CHN)...

Colgate 5, Merrimack 3


Colgate is another example of a team that had a Friday-Saturday turnaround two weekends in a row.

Last week, playing in Tempe as Arizona State opened its new arena, the Raiders were shut out Friday, then returned the favor Saturday. This week, similarly, Merrimack dominated Friday's game in a win, but Colgate bounced back with the first four goals of Saturday's game, before the Warriors made a late rally to make it close.

Carter Gylander made 35 saves and held on despite two extra attacker goals by Merrimack in the third period.

“Disapointing result,” Merrimack coach Scott Borek said. “I was happy with the way we kept playing until the end, but I thought we played sporadically. It was a hard game. It was a physical game. Several times I thought I was watching a WWE match. But once the officials made the decision that the game would be allowed to be played like that, we had to stand up and play that way and we didn’t. So it was disappointing that we didn’t respond in a better way.”

Merrimack had more shot attempts, but Colgate was good at blocking shots, which frustrated Merrimack.

“(Colgate) wasn’t as aggressive on the forecheck,” said Borek, “and I think that’s because we transitioned a lot on Friday night. They sat back more and we got impatient and started sending several players up ice.”
 
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What an amazing through-the-legs, backward pass from Colton to his brother Alex for a goal!!!!! They are so fun to watch!!!! Go ‘gate!!
 
Magoo said:
If we are a good team then we should be able to sweep a struggling Vermont team at home next weekend.
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Their losses were to #10 UConn and #15 Northeastern, they are not a bad team. Also beat Holy Cross 6-0.
 
Carter Gylander (2-4-0) led Colgate onto the ice for tonight’s pre-game warm-up.
Gabe Carriere (1-2-0) did the same for the Catamounts.
Much of the period was poor play by both teams, but Vermont scored a beauty on a breakaway with four minutes left in the period.

Vermont 16, Colgate 11, SOG after one.
Vermont 1, Colgate 0, score after one.

We are asking an awful lot of Carter Gylander (again).

We came out of the box fired up, but that soon faded. We had a two-man advantage and couldn’t score on it. They came back to even strength and immediately scored (with five minutes left in the period).

Colgate 22, Vermont 20, SOG after two.
Vermont 2, Colgate 0, score after two.

SHG by Ross Mitton with eight minutes to go (from Pierson Brandon).

Colgate 34, Vermont 23, final SOG.
Vermont 2, Colgate 1, final score.

”Good teams sweep at home…”
Well, we answered that question.
 
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frankly SilverPuck weekend is now a joke and so was the performance of the MIH team in period #1...but don't worry things are going to change...right...it's only been 15 years...why get impatient? How many fannies in the seats tonight? 50?
 
sshablak said:
Their losses were to #10 UConn and #15 Northeastern, they are not a bad team. Also beat Holy Cross 6-0.
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Vermont may not be a bad team but they’re not a good team. Neither is Northern Michigan. But if we can’t beat them at home what does that say about us?
 
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