Mike Schafer
Mike Schafer
Mike Schafer is the Men's Ice Hockey Coach at Cornell. He graduated from Cornell in 1986 with a degree in business management after leading the team to its first conference tournament championship in six years. Schafer retired as a player after his senior season and immediately became an assistant with the Big Red. Schafer left his alma mater after the 1989–90 season, taking a similar position with the Western Michigan Broncos of the WCHA. Five years later, after a downturn...
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We took the guys to see Lambeau Field yesterday, and that's all they were talking about. Maybe they were still talking about it in the first period today.
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I know that our guy got off to a real slow start. Through the course of the year, his numbers got much better. He wasn't going to match (last year's) numbers ... the numbers he put up last year were pretty amazing.
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These two young men coming in will compete for positions on our hockey team, ... We expect them to help the defense and goaltending form the nucleus of our team.
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It takes time and money to develop a market.
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Both nights we scored early, but I thought Friday night we didn't come ready to compete and work as hard as we needed to work -- it's a whole different approach to the game.
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Louis Chabot has demonstrated to the team and the coaching staff that he is a capable Division I goaltender, ... Unfortunately, he is behind one of the best, if not the best goaltender in the nation. It's a very difficult situation, but Louis has handled it very well and has improved a lot over his first three years at Cornell. We have a lot of confidence in him, and he has the ability to do the job.
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Obviously, it is very comforting to know that David McKee returns, ... Having David back gives us a real solid base to build our team around. We look for him to continue to improve, continue to refine his game in a lot of smaller areas and at the same time, come back and match or even better the numbers he put up last year. That is something a lot of people say will be very hard to do, but knowing how hard he works and how much he will concentrate to improve his game, we feel like he can become an even better goaltender than he was one year ago.
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Dan had a lot of injuries last season, and we hope he remains healthy this year because he could be one of the better defensemen in the league, ... Evan has improved defensively, and it is a brand new year for the guys on our defense.
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It's a great environment for college hockey. Green Bay and Wisconsin has great fans that treated us with respect while we were here and when we left the ice.
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It was really nice, obviously as time goes along you want to get that, ... We had no idea what was going on, so we wanted to do it ourselves, and it was particularly nice to get the first-place banner and get the Ivy League championship all at once.
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We're fortunate to get out of this game. It's a credit to the leadership of our guys, to not get rattled. We kept plugging away.
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Hopefully, all the puck luck they (Harvard) had will be used up. I was shocked with the score of that game.
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We definitely addressed that loud and clear between the first and second periods. We could continue to play that way and it was going to be a long night. Or we could show discipline and play as a team. Disciplined teams are unselfish.
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To go down 2-0 and claw our way back is a credit to this team's leadership and ability to not get rattled. I'm proud of the way they handled adversity.