ECAC D1 Women's Hockey 2014-15 Season

[vicb]

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Congrats to all of these athletes.

First Team All-ECAC Hockey
Forward, Brianne Jenner, Cornell
Forward, Cayley Mercer, Clarkson
Forward, Jillian Saulnier, Cornell
Defense, Sarah Edney, Harvard
Defense, Renata Fast, Clarkson
Goaltender, Shea Tiley, Clarkson

Second Team All-ECAC Hockey
Forward, Emily Fulton, Cornell
Forward, Mary Parker, Harvard
Forward, Molly Contini, Princeton
Defense, Kelsey Koelzer, Princeton
Defense, Erin O'Connor, Cornell
Goaltender, Chelsea Laden, Quinnipiac

Third Team All-ECAC Hockey
Forward, Shannon MacAulay, Clarkson
Forward, Brooke Webster, St. Lawrence
Forward, Nicole Kosta, Quinnipiac
Defense, Erin Ambrose, Clarkson
Defense, Amanda Boulier, St. Lawrence
Goaltender, Emerance Maschmeyer, Harvard

All-Rookie Team
Forward, Taylar Cianfarano, Quinnipiac
Forward, Lexie Laing, Harvard
Forward, Kennedy Marchment, St. Lawrence
Defense, Erin O'Connor, Cornell
Defense, Savannah Harmon, Clarkson
Goaltender, Shea Tiley, Clarkson

Matt Desrosiers, Clarkson - Coach of the Year
Brianne Jenner, Cornell - Player of the Year
Sarah Edney, Harvard - Defender of the Year
Shea Tiley, Clarkson - Goaltender of the Year
Chelsea Laden, Quinnipiac - Mandi-Schwartz Student-Athlete of the Year.

 

[clarksoncluck]

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For any of you Canadians who can't get ESPN3 just go to the Clarkson Women's website and you can catch the games there.

http://www.clarksonathletics.com/sports/2015/3/6/WHOCK_0306154400.aspx

 

[OnMAA]

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Great to have you back, OnMAA; looking forward to your posts.

Glad I went. Two most interesting games, that both could have gone either way.

In the first game, Clarkson had plenty of chances to go up more than 1-0, but Cornell hung around, and a one minute span in the third with a couple of mistakes turned the game in quick and dramatic fashion in favor of the Big Red.

In the second game Harvard looked like the strong team for a long time, but it was Quinnipiac that held the 1-0 lead for most of the game. Two kind of "interesting goals" won it for the Crimson, the first one a deflection batted down by a bobcat D handcuffed the goaler for the tying score, and a bang bang play in the crease where the goalie got boaled over was the winner in OT. It was reviewed for several minutes before the goal was confirmed. Gotta give the Bobcats credit. Once Harvard tied the game, they kind of hung on for the last five minutes in the third, when the Bobcats pressed hard, before the dramatic (almost anticlimatic) conclusion in OT.

Should be a great game between Harvard and Cornell tomorrow. (Last years semi between these two was exciting as well). Good luck to both teams.

 

[TicTacToe]

Congrats to all of these athletes.

First Team All-ECAC Hockey
Forward, Brianne Jenner, Cornell
Forward, Cayley Mercer, Clarkson
Forward, Jillian Saulnier, Cornell
Defense, Sarah Edney, Harvard
Defense, Renata Fast, Clarkson
Goaltender, Shea Tiley, Clarkson

Second Team All-ECAC Hockey
Forward, Emily Fulton, Cornell
Forward, Mary Parker, Harvard
Forward, Molly Contini, Princeton
Defense, Kelsey Koelzer, Princeton
Defense, Erin O'Connor, Cornell
Goaltender, Chelsea Laden, Quinnipiac

Third Team All-ECAC Hockey
Forward, Shannon MacAulay, Clarkson
Forward, Brooke Webster, St. Lawrence
Forward, Nicole Kosta, Quinnipiac
Defense, Erin Ambrose, Clarkson
Defense, Amanda Boulier, St. Lawrence
Goaltender, Emerance Maschmeyer, Harvard

All-Rookie Team
Forward, Taylar Cianfarano, Quinnipiac
Forward, Lexie Laing, Harvard
Forward, Kennedy Marchment, St. Lawrence
Defense, Erin O'Connor, Cornell
Defense, Savannah Harmon, Clarkson
Goaltender, Shea Tiley, Clarkson

Matt Desrosiers, Clarkson - Coach of the Year
Brianne Jenner, Cornell - Player of the Year
Sarah Edney, Harvard - Defender of the Year
Shea Tiley, Clarkson - Goaltender of the Year
Chelsea Laden, Quinnipiac - Mandi-Schwartz Student-Athlete of the Year.

Congrats to all, I only wish that there was a little transparency. Choosing players based on stats is lazy. I personally watched about 70 percent of the ECAC’S games and while every player listed were very good and some exceptional. The first second and third team selections are a mystery. Some right? And yet others? Great numbers don't necessarily mean great players. One thing I don't see is ANY examples of character. That's not an attack on any of the players but rather a spit in the eye to all who voted.
I still maintain that ANY player on any of the awarded 1st, 2nd or 3rd teams. If they played a season on a cellar dwelling team, losing week after week would their head still be in the game or would they quit and transfer to a winning team? We'll never know!! As there is no recognition of those players and there are quite a few.

Women's hockey will continue to be a little boring until we can get to a place where players who choose to play on teams who hope to be a catalyst for change are recognized.

Disappointed for sure!!

 

[clarksoncluck]

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Tictactoe - you are such a loser!!!!!

Several comments .... You say you've watched 70% of all the games which is impossible unless you have 5 screens set up on a Fri/Sat and have fly like vision. Secondly, you say "One thing I don't see is ANY examples of character". Shame on you for judging these players character, I have met a lot of these players and your judging their character???? From all I have met, they are all great young individuals. Achieving at school and academics. If you know something that the rest of us don't, please inspire. Your a trash talking troll. I know you love Lundberg, and that's great, but to attack the character of these other players is really, really small of you. I really dispise losers who choose to attack others when they are actually the loser.

"Women's hockey will continue to be a little boring until we can get to a place where players who choose to play on teams who hope to be a catalyst for change are recognized." Tictactoe...

And to your comment of players to pick a team which isn't a leader ..... it wasn't many years ago that Clarkson was in the middle of the pack, chasing Harvard, SLU, Cornell and others. These players came to a team with a vision of success and winning. Go back and check the stats.

Your such a loser!!!!

 

[clarksoncluck]

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I have coached female hockey for many years and have been fortunate to have had many very skilled individuals play on these teams over the years. We almost always won, and what I found is that skill attracts skill, strong character attracts strong character.

Tictactoe comes across as a coach that never had skill play for his/her team. And Tictactoe probably never even played the game - or was awful at it. Tictactoe doesn't know how to find the skill, didn't know how to land it, and didn't know how to coach it. Basically a losing proposition.

Good luck in the rest of your life - Tictactoe - , you are someone who probably has never won anything in your life and never will. Attacking character of people you don't even know, shame .. shame on you!!!!!! Loser!!!!!!!!!

 

[D2D]

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Good luck in the rest of your life - Tictactoe - , you are someone who probably has never won anything in your life and never will. Attacking character of people you don't even know, shame .. shame on you!!!!!! Loser!!!!!!!!!

Not taking sides here, but is this not a perfect example of "the pot calling the kettle black"?

 

[vicb]

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As a Clarkson fan, good luck to Harvard. If you do not bury your chances, more than likely Jenner and Saulnier will bury you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR1YIb1F2Mk

 

[Watson Rink]

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As a Clarkson fan, good luck to Harvard. If you do not bury your chances, more than likely Jenner and Saulnier will bury you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR1YIb1F2Mk

Thank you! The key to today's game may be depth, and it will be interesting to see how many minutes Jenner, Saulnier et al. can stay on the ice. (This is the year, after all, that Harvard has the extra players back who missed last year, whereas Clarkson had severe graduation losses and Cornell has a very short bench). The Crimson will roll three lines and keep up relentless skating pressure.

(That said, it will be interesting to see whether Mary Parker, who got more votes than any other H forward in ECAC and Ivy League balloting, will remain on the third line. In the OT yesterday she was bumped up onto the second line and assisted on the game winner.)

 

[ARM]

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The key to today's game may be depth, and it will be interesting to see how many minutes Jenner, Saulnier et al. can stay on the ice.

Do the ECAC games have TV timeouts? Those always add an interesting element, particularly when it involves a team like Cornell with a top line that can be dominant.

 

[driventoit]

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Do the ECAC games have TV timeouts? Those always add an interesting element, particularly when it involves a team like Cornell with a top line that can be dominant.

Unlike in the Beanpot, there were none on ESPN3 yesterday. I think it can (and did) make a big difference; the question is for whom?

 

[driventoit]

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Thank you! The key to today's game may be depth, and it will be interesting to see how many minutes Jenner, Saulnier et al. can stay on the ice. (This is the year, after all, that Harvard has the extra players back who missed last year, whereas Clarkson had severe graduation losses and Cornell has a very short bench). The Crimson will roll three lines and keep up relentless skating pressure.

(That said, it will be interesting to see whether Mary Parker, who got more votes than any other H forward in ECAC and Ivy League balloting, will remain on the third line. In the OT yesterday she was bumped up onto the second line and assisted on the game winner.)

With Mullins filling in energetically for Crowe, and Heffernan seeming to find an extra gear these last few games, I think it's still true that designating first, second and third lines for H this second half of the season doesn't mean a whole lot. I'm happy to see any one of the three lines out there (especially since I'm not responsible for opposing match-ups).

BTW, in this understandably super-partisan time of the season as the playoffs unfold, it's nice to see appreciation and props being given to opposing teams and players across the board, win or lose. The all-conference lists, among other things, remind us of just how challenging it is to play this game well, and of all those who strive to do so. A reminder, I guess, that the best fans of this game are simply those who appreciate good play whenever and wherever they see it.

 

[TicTacToe]

I have coached female hockey for many years and have been fortunate to have had many very skilled individuals play on these teams over the years.

Thank you for your contribution. I may not have got my thoughts across in a manner that made any sense to you? To you it sounds like the selections and assignment made perfect sense? I never meant to attack the character of any of the girls selected. Maybe I should have better stated my thoughts. The concern that I was trying to point out is that "for the most part" when the top teams play the the bottom teams, it doesn't make for an exciting game "again for the most part" watching a team get beat up. I just feel that until exceptional athletes "if any" on the bottom teams get some kind of high level recognition, it will take along time for the across the board play to be more exciting as it seems that talent follows talent. As for your thoughts about Lundberg, I think she is a good example, *I also think that Brown's Moore last year is another exceptional athlete that really never got recognized for her exceptional skill. Yale's Ferrara and Princetons Koelzer are others. I have and have seen others write about the obscure player but that rarely is acknowledged at the league level?* In conversation with Hagwell & Krajewski, they both eluded to the fact that it is very hard to get it right and that for the most part the weekly and monthly awards are for fun? and based on SID writeups after the game as only the coach and opposing coaches actually witnessed the performance. Having said that, every school's coach or designate votes? Now I have been at games then later went back and watched via purchased play packages and listening to the announcers, you would wonder if they watched the same game! That coupled with both of the schools writeups and you have a real mess.
We all know who the top players are each year and year after year, and they are not always the same.
There has been much written about Brown, Union, RPI, Colgate and others recruiting, coaching or? It's would be helpful if the talking heads and the like found a way to pull cellar dwellers into the conversation, maybe write about the achievements however small because it's good for the sport!!
And by the way, one of the best games to watch and listen to just happens to be a last season's* Clarkson Union game, I wasn't there but I purchase blocks and it was great! Toward the end of the 2nd it was announced that the trophy was in the house, funny as Clarkson "I believe" needed the win to clinch the title or they had to face Cornell. Anyway, Clarkson with all the talent Patty Kazmaier runner-up and winner, one of the top goalies ever and riddled with talent was taken into overtime by either the last or* next to last place team? Nobody really said anything about that? Clarkson went on to win it all!!!

 

[clarksoncluck]

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I totally understand. I respect your viewpoint. I have a daughter which played her first year of spring hockey with the last picks of the top guys leagues. Her team was slaughtered usually. But over the next few years they became recognized, and many of those players went on to play pro hockey. It sucks when your lunch is handed to you.

It is probably more important to make a winning environment for the players regardless of the stats, wins/losses. Once you make a winning environment, the rest falls into place.

I personally have coached players of of both Colgate and Union. They are all seniors this year and it really hurts when you go into games trying to not be blown out.

Sorry if I attacked you about the character of the players comment. I just know that all of these young academic/atheletes are trying their best, as you know as well. So I just got real protective.

Keep up the posts and thanks for supporting women's hockey.

 

[Watson Rink]

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....The key to today's game may be depth, and it will be interesting to see how many minutes Jenner, Saulnier et al. can stay on the ice. (This is the year, after all, that Harvard has the extra players back who missed last year, whereas Clarkson had severe graduation losses and Cornell has a very short bench). The Crimson will roll three lines and keep up relentless skating pressure.

(That said, it will be interesting to see whether Mary Parker, who got more votes than any other H forward in ECAC and Ivy League balloting, will remain on the third line. In the OT yesterday she was bumped up onto the second line and assisted on the game winner.)

As it turned out, the goal that began the come-from-behind in the third period was set up by the #11 forward winning a battle along the boards and finding a streaking teammate with a perfect cross-ice pass, one of two goals scored by the third line today. And Parker was a contributor on the second line, with two goals and two assists.

A footnote for Maschmeyer critics: two of the three Cornell goals came on 5-on-4s and the third came on a 6-on-4, zero at even strength.