{"id":29953,"date":"2008-10-04T20:23:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T01:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2008\/10\/04\/200809-cornell-season-preview\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:57:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:57:15","slug":"200809-cornell-season-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2008\/10\/04\/200809-cornell-season-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2008-09 Cornell Season Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Offense<\/b><\/p>\n

The Red lost some spunk and some spark in Scott (10-20-30) and Sawada (10-16-26), but returns three of its top five scorers and eight of 10 double-digit producers from last year. Greening (14-19-33) led the team in goals and points, and lined up with Riley Nash (12-20-32) and, by the end of the season, freshman Patrick Kennedy (4-6-10). <\/p>\n

“The biggest thing [working for us] is we lost a small class … we lost one defenseman … as far as big gaping holes, we don’t really have that this year,” said coach Mike Schafer. <\/p>\n

The coach looks to Greening, Nash and third-year Blake Gallagher (6-11-17) to steadily improve, and the squad looks well-suited to support its more assertive members. Senior center Michael Kennedy (10-16-26), Nash and Greening each notched double-digits in goals last year, as did transfer senior Derek Punches with Wayne State’s now-defunct program.<\/p>\n

Defense<\/b><\/p>\n

Krantz was the only defenseman to don the mortarboard last spring, as Schafer will welcome back six blueliners who played significant time for him in 2006-07.<\/p>\n

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Junior Brendon Nash (2-14-16) was the most prominent among them, but sophomore Mike Devin (4-11-15) and junior Justin Krueger (4-5-9) made a little ruckus on the season’s scoresheets as well. Jared Seminoff (1-4-5) and Taylor Davenport (1-2-3) are the senior leaders in back, and sophomore Jordan Berk (1-0-1) rounds out the veterans who skated in at least two dozen contests.<\/p>\n

Keir Ross will try to nose his way into the lineup, after playing a strong defensive season with the Omaha Lancers of the USHL, “arguably the best junior team in the country last year,” according to Schafer.<\/p>\n

Goaltending<\/b><\/p>\n

This section should begin and end with Ben Scrivens. Seniors Dan DiLeo and Troy Davenport will back up the .930-save percentage junior, who posted a 2.02 goals-against average as well … good for the nod as the preseason All-League goaltender. Twenty-one year old Mike Garman hops over from Nanaimo of the British Columbia league to vie for attention in Scrivens’ shadow.<\/p>\n

Outlook<\/b><\/p>\n

Cornell looks to be as good a bet as any to fight for a top-three spot in the league, and will realistically have to be considered a disappointment should it fail to secure a first-round bye. Simply too many talented and battle-tested cogs out there in the Big Red Machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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