"Middlebury has moved to remote instruction as of December 10. In alignment with COVID-19 protocols for team play, all athletic competitions will be postponed until further notice. Makeup dates for each competition will be posted at a later date."
I guess Middlebury doesn’t have a vaccination requirement as some other NESCAC schools do. I am concerned about the tournament in January. Would hate to see the only non NESCAC school lose two OOC games.
You'd think so, right? Yet by their own admission in the below link of their announcement, they are 99% vaccinated. Go figure:
https://www.middlebury.edu/office/c...te-instruction-new-dining-and-event-protocols
I watched this game and the next two after it. While it was nice to see the Panthers score some goals, they were against St Mikes, a D2 school, so they don’t count for much except for the benefit of getting a W. They don’t count in any of the D3 metrics. There are problems. Like two years ago, they take a ton of penalties. Even against St Mikes, they had about 10 with a couple of lengthy 5 v 3’s against them. Fortunately, their penalty kill is pretty good or St Mikes PP pretty bad and they were able to kill most of them off. They weren’t so lucky against #5 Hobart where they gave up a similar amount of penalties and the 1-4 score reflected it. Yesterday, they faced Bowdoin on the road and lost 0-1 in OT. The goaltending in this one by Horoho and for that matter, Bowdoin’s Kozic, was outstanding, but they just couldn’t score. They did take fewer penalties, though. Midd was out shot 40-24, but I think they found a goaltender in Horoho. So they scored 5 goals against a suspect, St Mike’s team and collectively 1 goal against Hobart and Bowdoin. Without a scoring touch, Midd better stay out of the penalty box.That was nice to watch the Panthers have a game with the Purple Knights with a 5-1 win. That seems to have energized the team. The Northfield Savings Bank Holiday Tournament was canceled, which was two more NESCAC teams not playing. With all the cancellations and rescheduling this seems to be a really challenging season for everyone.
Yeah, I watched the game and it wasn't pretty. Midd was out shot 43-29 and could not finish at all. I think Coach Sinclair still wants a goalie tandem and probably Horoho will get tomorrow's game at Wesleyan. If Horoho can get a W perhaps he will get more time moving forward. One improvement is that they only committed 3 penalties for 6 minutes.Neumyer: "Midd was out shot 40-24, but I think they found a goaltender in Horoho."
Well, one might have thought so, but Sinclair went right back to Wisco against Trinity.
Rufus-this blog has become a conversation between you and I. I didn’t see the whole game, but you have to chalk this L up to an inability to score. Goaltending by Horoho was good and their penalties were down to just 3. It is sad far the mens team has fallen from its proud past. The rink is empty due to covid, but based on pefomance it would be empty. Kenyon and it’s predecessor used to be rocking.I'm certainly going to reserve judgement because of Covid etc, but I've followed Midd Hockey for a long time, I used to walk to games at the old War Memorial (Duke) arena, and its tough to watch this.
Would be interesting to track overall attendance figures for DIII hockey over the past 10 years. I think attendance has dropped all around and not just due to relative strength of teams (and without COVID #s of course).
Mens and Womens hockey tonight with Norwich and Plattsburgh against Midd have been canceled, but the mens basketball at Plymouth State is still on. Again, I wonder if it that will be played tonight? Perhaps the hockey cancellations are due to the opponent, not Midd? If it was Midd, why wouldn’t all three be canceled?