ECAC '24-25: Who rebuilds? Who reloads?

[QuasiCosmos]

Interesting that ECAC travel partners are 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 and 11-12.

 

[thirdtime's . . .]

A famous coach once said, "You are what your record says you are". And for Harvard, that means they are the worst team in D-1 women's college hockey (go look it up if you don't believe me). Harvard has two distinct problems. 1. a talent deficit when compared to the rest of the league. They simply cannot skate with the better teams. They are routinely outshot by wide margins and if not for their goalies, would get blown out of most games. (Exhibit A: yesterday's game against Cornell. Outshot 30-8) 2. They have a loser's mentality. By that, I mean that losing has become a way of life inside the program for the past two years. The team expects bad things to happen and it usually does. To wit, the recent games against BU and Colgate. Those were very winnable games even with the talent gap.

Maura Crowell is going through the same thing at Dartmouth. If she can recruit better players, the program will see better days. Hopefully the same is true for Harvard. I'm not convinced that Bellamy is the right coach for the job but time will tell. No question that the fallout from the Stone debacle has affected the program and it may take years for them to recover.

Calling Klaus Kinski! Calling Klaus Kinski!

Oh for the good old forum days when one could post the monkey scene from Aguirre, The Wrath of God.