Dartmouth/UVM

It's Monday morning and due to the lack of work here at work, I'm bored and feeling like


So what does everyone think of our chances of getting a win at Dartmouth? And in hoping that we get a win at Vermont, how much do we win by? Who's going? Where are you staying? Know of any good places in Burlington to go hang out during the day? Good places to go dancing at night?

looking forward to 6pm when Olympic hockey starts up again...

It's like someone else said of the Yale game. It really depends which team shows up. If the team that played against Hahvahd shows up to the Dartmouth game, it's so ours. If the team that played against Princeton (or even Yale I fear) shows up, we may not make it to a 10 game win streak.

> may not make it to a 10 game win streak.

Um. Let's get to nine, first.

Judy, stay anywhere but the Super 8 on the interstate in South Burlington. Anne and I stayed there years ago (when it was a Best Western) and tried the "bubble bath in the in-room jacuzzi" trick. Silly kids. Place has never been the same.

Ewww. I didn't need that image Greg. Dammit, I was about to have lunch too....

Sorry Greg... I got so caught up in wishing UVM were the Saturday game (to open up the possibility of a 4 point weekend/7 point season chant) that I forgot we still have to beat them.

Thanks for keeping me honest.

Adam, UVM is the Saturday game.

Beeeej

I'd also like to point out that it is now statistically possible for Cornell to clinch the Cleary Cup (or as I like to call it, "The #1 seed in the ECAC tournament" this weekend. It would be Cornell's first first-place finish since the '73-'74 season, which they were celebrating 6 months before I was born.

Not being the full-fledged stat geek, here's my thought process. With a 7 game lead going in, we'd have to emerge from the weekend with a 9-point lead to be guaranteed of first place (4 games remaining, including one with Clarkson). That means we have to have a net gain of 2 points vs. Harvard, a net gain of 1 point to Clarkson, and just not losing any ground to Colgate and Dartmouth. There are several possibilities, of course (I did tinker with JTW's great possibilities script at [slack.net] ), but with #2 Harvard playing #3 Clarkson Friday, we are guaranteed that both of them can not have 4 point weekends. But that also means the 2nd place team after Friday will have at least 21 points to our max of 29. So we can't clinch 1st place Friday (of course because that would require an 11 point lead with 5 games remaining...duh).

So, the possibility of clinching:
1) Outright Ivy Championship (Friday)
2) Home Ice for the playoffs (Friday if #1 happens)
3) #1 seed for the playoffs (Saturday)

All in the same weekend! More incentive to push those fence-sitters into going.

Realistically, I'm betting we don't clinch the Cleary Cup this weekend. But getting it in front of home fans (dare I say vs. Clarkson?) and taking league-pressure (not PWR pressure) off the last weekend of the season would be great. It isn't ours yet. And I'm confident that coach still has the team focusing on every game.

> It would be Cornell's first first-place finish since the '73-'74 season

72-73, actually. Heck, I was all of 10.

It was '73-'74 according to this graph: [www.spiritone.com]

But according to [www.augenblick.org] it was '72-'73. TBRW made a mistake?! Looks like they just counted the '71 3rd place finish twice, pushing everything up a year until missing the 4th place finish in '75.

What's the fastest route from Ithaca to Hanover (. . .knowing full well none of them are fast)?

LGR!!!!!

What's really scary is that all we need to do to be guaranteed a first-place finish is go 3-3 or better in our last three league games.

Incidentally, I hope everyone appreciates the irony in the new trophy named after Bill Cleary potentially being awarded to the team that ended his career as a head coach.

> TBRW made a mistake?!

Anything to keep you honest.

is to ride with Age.

Seriously, avoid the temptation to go via Syracuse.

Take NY79 to I81S to I88 to I90 to I91

Alternatively, you can take NY79 to NY206? to I88 to I90 to I91. This way is shorter and avoids Binghamton (no friggin P) but the road is a little curvy and can get hairy in the winter. Unless your car has plenty of power, you will also spend a lot of time downshifting out of turns and up hills.

I think in the Boston to Ithaca thread we determined that the best way to Albany was 79->206->I-88, so by extension that should apply here. But you might want to stick to the interstates if weather becomes a factor.

have been traveling 206 all season and so far has been great ....very clear. as long as we don't get any snow between now and then this is the way to go ( and the twists and turns are great for easing the monotony of a boring road trip ... tho if you like to get a groove on in your car road trips are NEVER boring!))

But all the downshifting gets in the way of the road head....

Yes, 206 is a much nicer drive -- if you actually like driving. If, on the other hand, you prefer to set the cruise control and just zone out, skip 206.

For getting back to Ithaca from Burlington, go this way:
Rt 7 -> Rt 22A -> Rt 4 -> Rt 149 -> I-87 -> I-90W (briefly around Albany) -> I-88 and so on.

And do me a favor and swear heavily at the cop outside Vergennes who gave me a ticket last night. (Shut up, Newman!)

It seems to me that this trip always produces at least one speeding ticket out of the Faithful group. Those Vermont roads are boring.

Or maybe the cops are just nasty. Come to think of it, the only two speeding tickets I've ever gotten were Vermont-related.

Greg Berge wrote:

It seems to me that this trip always produces at least one speeding ticket out of the Faithful group. Those Vermont roads are boring.

Or maybe the cops are just nasty. Come to think of it, the only two speeding tickets I've ever gotten were Vermont-related.

Hey, it's still better than the trip to Placid, which seems prone to produce car accidents.

(Or maybe my view on this is colored due to the fact that the first time I went to Placid, I was in a car accident (not me driving) on the way there, and then rode home in a DIFFERENT car that'd had an accident on the way there.)

Hey, it's still better than the trip to Placid, which seems prone to produce car accidents.

My first trip up to LP was last year. On the way up, my car had a run in with a deer. That's always fun.

My parents hit a moose on their honeymoon near Lake Placid. Totalled the car -- the moose just walked away.

I sense a pattern.

From what I can tell, the pattern is "driving with Greg or his family is done at the passenger's own risk."

ROTFLMAO.