March 24, 2011
Cornell Defense, Goaltending will be Sturdy Next Season
Photo by Dave Burbank
The following article appeared in the March 24 issue of the Ithaca Journal.
By Brandon Thomas
It seems the only purpose of the ECAC Hockey preseason polls is to give coaches and media something to scoff at before the games are played.
After all, this is a league where parity is the norm. The three bottom teams in the standings won first-round playoff series, and none of those results could really be called a surprise.
The polls are routinely wrong and sometimes look more like popularity contests than educated guesses. How else could Cornell's preseason selection as No. 2 in the conference be justified when it lost arguably its six best players from the previous season?
Complete article can be accessed via the Journal Web site by clicking here.
