Charlie Shub wrote in part:
>the story asserts sterling was playing with a broken bone in his right
>hand and sertich was playing with an injured right knee. The article
>further notes that the injuries happened late in the 3-2 loss at
>minnesota on January 21.

Thanks for the link and an interesting story in the Gazette.

Of course this goes on with lots of teams and when crucial players are 
injured it has a greater impact on a team prospects.  On the flip side it 
seems that teams that manage to stay healthy can achieve more that might 
have been expected.

I do know that two important starters for Cornell this year Scott and 
Pegoraro had surgery after the season was over.  Based on a very serious 
looking brace/cast one defender was playing with a broken bone or other 
serious injury in the hand or forearm.  Another defender seemed to me to 
have his skating seriously impaired.

Coach Schafer is as silent about injuries as Coach Owens probably for the 
same reasons.  It also occurs to me that student records (including medical 
records) are confidential and the coaches may not be at liberty to release 
such information.   Anyway, here at Cornell we get almost no information 
about injuries.  If you see someone go down and not pay the next game you 
can guess there may be an injury.  Or if you see someone come back after 
missing a few games who does not seem to have the jump or shot or 
physicality they used to have you can guess there are lingering 
effect.  However, in the cases of Scott & Pegoraro I did not have a clue 
while the season was under way.  They both played with great intensity.

--Steve