Hockey Off-Season

Jim Hyla
Let's start this off with some good news. Maybe this is one reason we like being in the ECAC. Half of the national men's and women's teams that scored over 990 on the NCAA APR rankings were from the ECAC.

I might as well put up CU's post on this and the NCAA press release.

USCHO has a nice interactive table.

It’s the fifth straight 1,000 for the Brown men’s team; the women’s team has been there three years in a row.

Josh '99

Jim Hyla
Let's start this off with some good news. Maybe this is one reason we like being in the ECAC. Half of the national men's and women's teams that scored over 990 on the NCAA APR rankings were from the ECAC.

I might as well put up CU's post on this and the NCAA press release.

USCHO has a nice interactive table.

Good to see that so many of the teams scoring above 990 were from the ECAC; less good to see that the Cornell men's team is not among them.

KeithK

Josh '99

Jim Hyla
Let's start this off with some good news. Maybe this is one reason we like being in the ECAC. Half of the national men's and women's teams that scored over 990 on the NCAA APR rankings were from the ECAC.

I might as well put up CU's post on this and the NCAA press release.

USCHO has a nice interactive table.

Good to see that so many of the teams scoring above 990 were from the ECAC; less good to see that the Cornell men's team is not among them.

I'm so disappointed! Our men's team didn't reach an arbitrary level on a metric that isn't described in any detail at all!

So what does a score of 988 out of 1000 on the innovative APR mean anyway?

NCAA.org
How is the APR calculated?
While eligibility requirements make the individual student-athlete accountable, the Academic Progress Rate creates a level of institutional responsibility. The Academic Progress Rate is a Division I metric developed to track the academic achievement of teams each academic term.

Each student-athlete receiving athletically related financial aid earns one retention point for staying in school and one eligibility point for being academically eligible. A team’s total points are divided by points possible and then multiplied by one thousand to equal the team’s Academic Progress Rate score.

George64
Who knew that Michael Doonesbury played hockey? A friend sent me this copy when he was working in Indianapolis. I suspect that he might have done some editing, using an early version of Photoshop, i.e., White Out and a steady hand.

RichH

George64
Who knew that Michael Doonesbury played hockey? A friend sent me this copy when he was working in Indianapolis. I suspect that he might have done some editing, using an early version of Photoshop, i.e., White Out and a steady hand.

That's great. For those looking for some sort of connection and/or timeframe, Gary Trudeau is a Yalie through-and-through, enrolling as a freshman in 1966 and even earned his MFA at Yale in 1973. He also was raised in Saranac Lake, NY, which is only a few miles away from Lake Placid. According to Wikipedia, Doonesbury debuted in the Yale Daily News in September, 1968, and was first syndicated daily in October 1970.

Makes sense, that he would reference the Big Red in a hockey-themed strip.

jtwcornell91

RichH

George64
Who knew that Michael Doonesbury played hockey? A friend sent me this copy when he was working in Indianapolis. I suspect that he might have done some editing, using an early version of Photoshop, i.e., White Out and a steady hand.

That's great. For those looking for some sort of connection and/or timeframe, Gary Trudeau is a Yalie through-and-through, enrolling as a freshman in 1966 and even earned his MFA at Yale in 1973. He also was raised in Saranac Lake, NY, which is only a few miles away from Lake Placid. According to Wikipedia, Doonesbury debuted in the Yale Daily News in September, 1968, and was first syndicated daily in October 1970.

Makes sense, that he would reference the Big Red in a hockey-themed strip.

I remember one where an opponent tells him off in French and he surrenders the puck thinking it's a Canadian when it's actually a French major from the Bronx.

RichH
That's great. For those looking for some sort of connection and/or timeframe, Gary Trudeau is a Yalie through-and-through, enrolling as a freshman in 1966 and even earned his MFA at Yale in 1973. He also was raised in Saranac Lake, NY, which is only a few miles away from Lake Placid. According to Wikipedia, Doonesbury debuted in the Yale Daily News in September, 1968, and was first syndicated daily in October 1970.

jtwcornell91

RichH

George64
Who knew that Michael Doonesbury played hockey? A friend sent me this copy when he was working in Indianapolis. I suspect that he might have done some editing, using an early version of Photoshop, i.e., White Out and a steady hand.

That's great. For those looking for some sort of connection and/or timeframe, Gary Trudeau is a Yalie through-and-through, enrolling as a freshman in 1966 and even earned his MFA at Yale in 1973. He also was raised in Saranac Lake, NY, which is only a few miles away from Lake Placid. According to Wikipedia, Doonesbury debuted in the Yale Daily News in September, 1968, and was first syndicated daily in October 1970.

Makes sense, that he would reference the Big Red in a hockey-themed strip.

I remember one where an opponent tells him off in French and he surrenders the puck thinking it's a Canadian when it's actually a French major from the Bronx.

Trotsky

RichH
That's great. For those looking for some sort of connection and/or timeframe, Gary Trudeau is a Yalie through-and-through, enrolling as a freshman in 1966 and even earned his MFA at Yale in 1973. He also was raised in Saranac Lake, NY, which is only a few miles away from Lake Placid. According to Wikipedia, Doonesbury debuted in the Yale Daily News in September, 1968, and was first syndicated daily in October 1970.

"B.D." was Yale QB Brian Dowling; in fact in the first few strips he and the rest of the team have Y's on their helmets.

ugarte
I'm pretty sure a Calvin Hill analogue was in the early huddles with BD and Zonker too.

George64

ugarte
I'm pretty sure a Calvin Hill analogue was in the early huddles with BD and Zonker too.

Yup!

Jim Hyla
Doug Murray to join CU Athletic HOF.

ursusminor
RPI blog Without A Peer's annual article about Cornell.

Jeff Hopkins '82

ursusminor
RPI blog Without A Peer's annual article about Cornell.

I hope he's right.

Trotsky

Jeff Hopkins '82

ursusminor
RPI blog Without A Peer's annual article about Cornell.

I hope he's right.

Me too. It's actually a fairly well-researched and well-thought-out opponent review; not the boiler plate one usually sees. I'm looking forward to reading the other KYEs as a guide to our common opponents. I have for example absolutely no idea what to expect from Clarkson this year.

ursusminor

Trotsky

Jeff Hopkins '82

ursusminor
RPI blog Without A Peer's annual article about Cornell.

I hope he's right.

Me too. It's actually a fairly well-researched and well-thought-out opponent review; not the boiler plate one usually sees. I'm looking forward to reading the other KYEs as a guide to our common opponents. I have for example absolutely no idea what to expect from Clarkson this year.

You have a while to wait until Clarkson. After he finished the OOC teams, he has been posting one per week on Wednesday in the order that RPI faces them for the first time. So far, Harvard, Dartmouth, and Cornell. Next week is Colgate.

Trotsky

ursusminor

Trotsky

Jeff Hopkins '82

ursusminor
RPI blog Without A Peer's annual article about Cornell.

I hope he's right.

Me too. It's actually a fairly well-researched and well-thought-out opponent review; not the boiler plate one usually sees. I'm looking forward to reading the other KYEs as a guide to our common opponents. I have for example absolutely no idea what to expect from Clarkson this year.

You have a while to wait until Clarkson. After he finished the OOC teams, he has been posting one per week on Wednesday in the order that RPI faces them for the first time. So far, Harvard, Dartmouth, and Cornell. Next week is Colgate.

As long as he'd done by November.

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — Union senior-to-be Josh Jooris has decided to leave school and sign a two year entry-level NHL contract with the Calgary Flames. Jooris joins former teammates Troy Grosenick (San Jose Sharks), Jeremy Welsh (Carolina Hurricanes) and Keith Kinkaid (New Jersey Devils) as the fourth Union player in the past three seasons to sign an NHL contract as an undrafted free agent.

Trotsky
We missed a little good news last week:

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — Union senior-to-be Josh Jooris has decided to leave school and sign a two year entry-level NHL contract with the Calgary Flames. Jooris joins former teammates Troy Grosenick (San Jose Sharks), Jeremy Welsh (Carolina Hurricanes) and Keith Kinkaid (New Jersey Devils) as the fourth Union player in the past three seasons to sign an NHL contract as an undrafted free agent.

Jim Hyla
A nice way to start your season early. Bobcats Bound for Italy

Swampy

Jim Hyla
A nice way to start your season early. Bobcats Bound for Italy

Jeez, I could have sworn the Colosseum is in Rome. Maybe there's another one in Milan or at Lake Como. Or maybe the image of Q's hockey players as gladiators was more attractive for Q's publicists than one of the team going to church or going shopping.

Then again, maybe the person who designed the announcement was a geography major at Quinnipiac.

Jim Hyla
A nice way to start your season early. Bobcats Bound for Italy

redice

Jim Hyla
A nice way to start your season early. Bobcats Bound for Italy

Also a heckuva good team-bonding experience.

I don't know who arranged it. But, I would call it "brilliant" on a few levels.

Trotsky

redice

Jim Hyla
A nice way to start your season early. Bobcats Bound for Italy

Also a heckuva good team-bonding experience.

I don't know who arranged it. But, I would call it "brilliant" on a few levels.

Yeah.

Also, jokes aside, that looks like a damn fun trip. I'm not sure 20-something rockheads from Hamden are going to get the most of it and I would be perfectly happy to sit in for one on the flight.

Edit: if I'm reading it right, family and alumni are also invited (presumably they pay their own way). I gotta tell ya, if Cornell hockey did a trip like that I would seriously consider it if some others in the eLynah community did. It sounds like a blast.

Jeff Hopkins '82

Trotsky

redice

Jim Hyla
A nice way to start your season early. Bobcats Bound for Italy

Also a heckuva good team-bonding experience.

I don't know who arranged it. But, I would call it "brilliant" on a few levels.

Yeah.

Also, jokes aside, that looks like a damn fun trip. I'm not sure 20-something rockheads from Hamden are going to get the most of it and I would be perfectly happy to sit in for one on the flight.

Edit: if I'm reading it right, family and alumni are also invited (presumably they pay their own way). I gotta tell ya, if Cornell hockey did a trip like that I would seriously consider it if some others in the eLynah community did. It sounds like a blast.

Sorry. They can't even practice together at that time of year per Ivy League rules, never mind play some exhibition games.

Trotsky

Jeff Hopkins '82

Trotsky

redice

Jim Hyla
A nice way to start your season early. Bobcats Bound for Italy

Also a heckuva good team-bonding experience.

I don't know who arranged it. But, I would call it "brilliant" on a few levels.

Yeah.

Also, jokes aside, that looks like a damn fun trip. I'm not sure 20-something rockheads from Hamden are going to get the most of it and I would be perfectly happy to sit in for one on the flight.

Edit: if I'm reading it right, family and alumni are also invited (presumably they pay their own way). I gotta tell ya, if Cornell hockey did a trip like that I would seriously consider it if some others in the eLynah community did. It sounds like a blast.

Sorry. They can't even practice together at that time of year per Ivy League rules, never mind play some exhibition games.

Italy's nice in December, too.

Trotsky
We missed a little good news last week:

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — Union senior-to-be Josh Jooris has decided to leave school and sign a two year entry-level NHL contract with the Calgary Flames. Jooris joins former teammates Troy Grosenick (San Jose Sharks), Jeremy Welsh (Carolina Hurricanes) and Keith Kinkaid (New Jersey Devils) as the fourth Union player in the past three seasons to sign an NHL contract as an undrafted free agent.

Trotsky
Oddity: each of the other 5 Ivies begins its Ivy schedule with Princeton.

Rita

Trotsky
Oddity: each of the other 5 Ivies begins its Ivy schedule with Princeton.

So Princeton will get more than 1 chance to make a good first impression?

RatushnyFan
Joel, get off the babysitter.....

Trotsky

Jeff Hopkins '82

ursusminor
RPI blog Without A Peer's annual article about Cornell.

I hope he's right.

Me too. It's actually a fairly well-researched and well-thought-out opponent review; not the boiler plate one usually sees. I'm looking forward to reading the other KYEs as a guide to our common opponents. I have for example absolutely no idea what to expect from Clarkson this year.

French Rage
"During the national anthem, fans bust out with a unison cheer of “U!”"

During every cheer, the fans bust out with "U!" and only with "U!". It's literally the only cheer syllable they are aware of.

Trotsky

French Rage
"During the national anthem, fans bust out with a unison cheer of “U!”"

During every cheer, the fans bust out with "U!" and only with "U!". It's literally the only cheer syllable they are aware of.

Their fanbase is 70% little kids who get in free and tear around the arena oblivious to the game. Be glad they manage to be engaged for one syllable.

Josh '99

Trotsky

French Rage
"During the national anthem, fans bust out with a unison cheer of “U!”"

During every cheer, the fans bust out with "U!" and only with "U!". It's literally the only cheer syllable they are aware of.

Their fanbase is 70% little kids who get in free and tear around the arena oblivious to the game. Be glad they manage to be engaged for one syllable.

The rest of the fanbase is Union students, so be glad they can remember one syllable.

Josh '99

Trotsky

French Rage
"During the national anthem, fans bust out with a unison cheer of “U!”"

During every cheer, the fans bust out with "U!" and only with "U!". It's literally the only cheer syllable they are aware of.

Their fanbase is 70% little kids who get in free and tear around the arena oblivious to the game. Be glad they manage to be engaged for one syllable.

The rest of the fanbase is Union students, so be glad they can remember one syllable.

marty

Josh '99

Trotsky

French Rage
"During the national anthem, fans bust out with a unison cheer of “U!”"

During every cheer, the fans bust out with "U!" and only with "U!". It's literally the only cheer syllable they are aware of.

Their fanbase is 70% little kids who get in free and tear around the arena oblivious to the game. Be glad they manage to be engaged for one syllable.

The rest of the fanbase is Union students, so be glad they can remember one syllable.

I think you might mean one letter - their signature cheer. U

Trotsky

marty

Josh '99

Trotsky

French Rage
"During the national anthem, fans bust out with a unison cheer of “U!”"

During every cheer, the fans bust out with "U!" and only with "U!". It's literally the only cheer syllable they are aware of.

Their fanbase is 70% little kids who get in free and tear around the arena oblivious to the game. Be glad they manage to be engaged for one syllable.

The rest of the fanbase is Union students, so be glad they can remember one syllable.

I think you might mean one letter - their signature cheer. U

I never understood how a school called "UC" who has the wit (sic) to scream "You!" during the anthem isn't smart enough to make the big leap to yell "You See!"

RichH

Josh '99

Trotsky

French Rage
"During the national anthem, fans bust out with a unison cheer of “U!”"

During every cheer, the fans bust out with "U!" and only with "U!". It's literally the only cheer syllable they are aware of.

Their fanbase is 70% little kids who get in free and tear around the arena oblivious to the game. Be glad they manage to be engaged for one syllable.

The rest of the fanbase is Union students, so be glad they can remember one syllable.

No, there's also those three old people from Schenectady, who think being a good fan is bringing a gallon milk jug full of pennies and shaking them in people's faces.

Trotsky

marty

Josh '99

Trotsky

French Rage
"During the national anthem, fans bust out with a unison cheer of “U!”"

During every cheer, the fans bust out with "U!" and only with "U!". It's literally the only cheer syllable they are aware of.

Their fanbase is 70% little kids who get in free and tear around the arena oblivious to the game. Be glad they manage to be engaged for one syllable.

The rest of the fanbase is Union students, so be glad they can remember one syllable.

I think you might mean one letter - their signature cheer. U

I never understood how a school called "UC" who has the wit (sic) to scream "You!" during the anthem isn't smart enough to make the big leap to yell "You See!"