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Colgate 2024-25 Harder Hockey

I would go back to Andrew Takacs. Sometimes goalies have a bad night or two.

Nick Haas hasn't played much this season. He and Takacs were splitting time to start the season then Takacs "won" the job in November. Both were inexperienced to start the season after Carter Gylander held the reigns for 2 whole seasons.

Keep the faith! SLU is coming to town on Friday night and we surely want to avenge that home sweep in last season's playoffs.
 
Four games left, two home and two away, we control our own destiny. Tiebreaker wise we're in good shape, we hold the tiebreaker with Dartmouth, we are tied with Union with a game against them next weekend and we own the breaker against Clarkson 1-0 and play them home tomorrow night. We are also tied with Union currently in third place.

Throw Cornell in the mix also, playing Clarkson tonight, at Lynah and this weekend being Shafers last two regular season games in Ithaca I'm sure they will want to win badly for him !
Union at Harvard tonight and a bigger game tomorrow night at Dartmouth. We can be anywhere from second to fifth after this weekend. Gotta win at home !
 
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Andrew Takacs led Colgate out tonight.
Mason Kucenski did the same for Saint Lawrence.

Big Shout-out to Barb!! Hope she is hanging in there.

Colgate penalty (slashing). PPG for Saint Lawrence.

Minutes later, Andrew Takacs was wickedly screened and Saint Lawrence scored again.

And Ryan Sullivan scored a beauty from Simon LaBelle.

Seconds later, Reid Irwin shoots on a screened SLU goalie and scores (from Jack Brandt).

Seconds later, Takacs leaves the net open and Saint Lawrence takes advantage of it. 3-2 SLU.

Saint Lawrence 12, Colgate 11, SOG after one.
Saint Lawrence 3, Colgate 2, score after one.

Pep Band is in the house tonight.

Saint Lawrence penalty (tripping). Killed.

Getting chippy.

Antonio Fernandez with a beautiful goal from Michael Neumeier and Owen Neuharth.

Back to square one… SOG 16-16, score 3-3.

Colgate 20, Saint Lawrence 20, SOG after two.
Colgate 3, Saint Lawrence 3, score after two.

Jack Brandt from Reid Irwin and Tommy Bergsland. Finally, the lead in this game by putting pucks on the net!!

Hopefully we keep our feet on the gas and not go into a defensive shell.

Saint Lawrence with a wrap-around goal.

8 minutes to go in regulation. 24-24 SOG. 4-4 score. The game is actually much closer than the stats indicate.

Unreal. Colgate scores. Owen Neuharth. From Robby Newton. 0.8 seconds remain in regulation.

Colgate penalty (cross-checking). .8 remaining.

Saint Lawrence challenges for a goal with 4:32 remaining. Unsuccessful. .8 remaining.

Saint Lawrence now challenging for goaltender interference. .8 remaining. Unsuccessful.

SLU penalty.

Colgate 29, Saint Lawrence 28, SOG final.
Colgate 5, Saint Lawrence 4, score final.
 
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Holy f***ing s**t, we found a way to win again! This time in very dramatic fashion!!!

With the win, we're guaranteed at least 1 home playoff game. 2 more points in our remaining 3 regular season games guarantees us the bye. We have head-to-head tiebreakers over both Dartmouth and Cornell.
 
And Iowa got a puck! Pretty good deflection to get it all the way up to you. The challenges at the end were annoying, otherwise a very entertaining game.
 
My Facebook post just now, after driving home in falling snow and seeing an Amish buggy come towards me at 10 p.m. on the Georgetown-Lebanon Road…

Another Absolutely Magical Day (AAMD), really. First, my photographer friend Dave Boland introduced me to Dave Reynolds, who attended the Grand Opening show at the Shangri-la Speedway in Owego, N.Y., on Sunday, July 28, 1946. Then Tom Schwarz of 07 Racing Collectibles showed me around his store in Endwell, N.Y. Then "Colgate Russ" Lura and "Clarkson Doug" McDonald joined me for dinner in Hamilton, N.Y., prior to the Saint Lawrence at Colgate hockey game, at which I claimed a souvenir puck that went over the boards. Colgate won the ECAC Hockey contest, 5-4, with the Game-Winning Goal coming 0.8 seconds before the end of regulation play! Finally, after the game, "Clarkson Doug" met Dan Elberty, the son of Doug's late Saint Lawrence University (SLU) geography colleague William T. Elberty. Dan is the father of Colgate's assistant director of athletic equipment services, Max Elberty, who gave me my prized game-worn 'Gate jersey in the winter of 2017-18.
 
Weird game, was shocked at the ending, we definitely got a lucky break ! SLU is not a bad team despite their record. We are now seven points up over fifth place with three games left so a first round bye looks very very good !

Takacs played better than last weekend but I bet he wishes he stopped the tieing 4-4 wraparound shot late in the third.
 
Over the past decade go back and look at the Gate-SLU games...almost without exception they are one goal games, notwithstanding the respective team records...watching on ESPN+ over the last five minutes was stressful, to say the least...
 
Andrew Takacs in goal for Colgate.
Ethan Langenegger in goal for Clarkson.

Beautiful ceremony honoring our senior class.

Colgate penalty (hooking), Clarkson PPG.

Clarkson scores on another defensive miscue by Colgate. 12-2 Clarkson SOG.

Clarkson penalty (slashing). Reid Irwin blasted one in (from Brett Chorske and Max Nagel).

Clarkson 19, Colgate 5, SOG after one.
Clarkson 2, Colgate 1, score after one.

Clarkson penalty (hooking). Killed.

Clarkson goal.
And another Clarkson goal, rifled it by Takacs.

Colgate penalty (slashing). Clarkson PPG.

Clarkson 36, Colgate 22, SOG after two.
Clarkson 5, Colgate 1, score after two.

Clarkson penalty (interference). Empty Colgate net. Killed. Takacs back in goal. 9:27 left in regulation.

Colgate goal. Ryan Sullivan from Simon LaBelle. Clarkson coach challenging for goalie interference. Unsuccessful.
 
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As a Colgate fan, it is extremely rare that I leave one of our games thinking, ‘well, that wasn’t very much fun to watch.’ But tonight was one of those nights. The highlight was the pre-game seniors’ honor ceremony. From the initial puck-drop, Clarkson was faster, more aggressive, more physical, etc. Even though the final score was 5-3, I thought we were blown out in our own building. I am not sure that I saw one positive from our offense, defense nor goaltender, which doesn’t sit well after basically playing even-Steven with Saint Lawrence last night. Thankfully, I enjoyed the company of Colgate Russ, Clarkson Doug, and Ken Parrotte of West Monroe at Seven Oaks and Class of ‘65 or the night would have been a total bust.
 
Only one weekend left, 'Gate can finish anywhere from second to sixth! The Raiders need a win to clinch a top four spot and a bye. But it won't be easy as RPI often plays us tough in their barn. If we lose to the Engineers Friday, then Saturday's game against Union could well be for the bye. Dartmouth or Cornell can earn a bye if they sweep the weekend and either Union or Colgate lose two.
 
  • The bad: we lost last night.
  • The really bad: we were the only home team in the ECAC that lost last night. Every other ECAC team honoring their seniors yesterday sent them off with a win. Except Colgate.
  • The atrocious: our penalty kill for the entire weekend had a 0% success rate. Yes, you read right, ZERO. We only took 1 penalty on Friday but failed to kill it. We only took 2 penalties last night but failed to kill them both. If we do not fix our defense/goaltending/penalty kill woes in the past 4 games we will NOT win a playoff game.
Also, we didn't get any help last night in the standings, so we still need 2 more points for the bye.
 
Let's face it...the last two weekends have been pretty abysmal...horrific play in our own end (forwards definitely part of the problem), little attention to detail, very little shot blocking, etc. With Coach Schafer retiring and Cornell healthy they will not be a team to face, whether on the road or at home...Q-Pac is Q'Pac, period...and Clarkson is playing its best hockey of the year...Union, Dartmouth and even Brown follow...we'd better turn this thing around soon or it will be an early end to a once promising season...
 
In the last four games we've allowed twenty goals, in the four before that we gave up Four goals with two shutouts.

This is a problem, not sure what's going on with the team ?
 
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Rainman said:
  • The really bad: we were the only home team in the ECAC that lost last night. Every other ECAC team honoring their seniors yesterday sent them off with a win. Except Colgate.
  • Also, we didn't get any help last night in the standings, so we still need 2 more points for the bye.
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The only home team to get more than three points this past weekend was Quinnipiac. They and Clarkson were the only teams to get more than three points. So the point differential for the four competifor teams (Colgate, Union, Cornell and Dartmouth) for the third and fourth spots did not change.
 
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