No. 10 Men’s Hockey Beats Brown 4-2, Secures Road Sweep
“I thought it took us a little bit to work ourselves into the game a little bit, but overall, I thought it was a good weekend of hockey for us,” said head coach Casey Jones ’90.
“I thought it took us a little bit to work ourselves into the game a little bit, but overall, I thought it was a good weekend of hockey for us,” said head coach Casey Jones ’90.
There’s a specific reason why Derraugh’s interviews are becoming repetitive, and it helps explain the main difference so far between this season’s 13-9-2 record and last year's Frozen Four team.
“We've got to be road warriors for a little bit here,” Jones said. “We're looking forward to it.”
The Red’s senior guards Cooper Noard and Jake Fiegen contributed flashes of brilliance. Noard secured a 19-point performance, while Fiegen chipped in 15 points, four assists and four rebounds. Junior forward Kaspar Sepp anchored the glass with nine rebounds and four assists as Cornell edged Harvard on the boards.
“You know, you talk about big games, like MSG. And honestly, for me, [this] game is right up there. The crowd and the noise and the smell of fish.”
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“That's probably about as complete a game as we’ve played, going from start to finish,” Jones said.
“You’ve been playing really well five-on-five,” Derraugh said to his team midway through the second frame. “Let’s continue to do that and keep ourselves out of the box, or we’re gonna put ourselves in a bad spot.”
“This isn't a week where I have to wind anybody up. That's for sure,” Jones said. “It's more details and habits. They're ready to go. It’s a fun week as a player. They've got this one kind of circled.”
“We’re at a point now where we pretty much are going to have to win the ECAC tournament to get in the NCAA Tournament, or at least get to the [ECAC] championship game,” said head coach Doug Derraugh ’91.
“[I] thought we had our chances in the first and second and couldn't score,” Derraugh said. “And when you [have] a player like [Janecke], you can't give them that kind of time and space.”
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“We didn't play great in the third period and got exposed,” said head coach Casey Jones ’90. “I thought as skilled as they are and committed they are, they even did the little things better than us for the most part tonight.”
“You’re going to get calls against you when you are on the road,” said head coach Doug Derraugh ’91. “[We] just have to be smarter.”
“That’s a big-time play,” said head coach Casey Jones ’90.
“I think it’s been sort of a tale of three seasons,” said head coach Doug Derraugh ’91 “I think since we’ve come back from break, we’ve been rebuilding that form that we had at the start of the year. And I think we're starting to get there.”