Polls 12/14

Cornell moves up to 4 in USCHO after a weekend off! And up one to 3 in the INCH poll

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edit: #4 in the USA Today Poll as well. And women drop to #8.

We're off for a couple more weeks, so maybe we'll close in on #2 before Florida.

The voters are impressed by the players' academic credentials. Insert Harvard joke here. Plus, when you play a game, there are 3 outcomes and 2 are not good for a top 10 team. We will not lose a game for 3 weeks, at the very least. (Apologies to Texas football coach that "there are three things that can happen when you pass the football ... and two of them are bad.”)

....I think that Woody Hayes said that....

The elusive first place vote is gone though. Whichever writer gave it to us should have more faith and give it back.

munchkin
The elusive first place vote is gone though. Whichever writer gave it to us should have more faith and give it back.

Well if you remember last weeks thread on the polls:

Jim Hyla

munchkin
We got the elusive first place vote this week. I wonder how long it'll stick around.

Well, since we're not playing, it'll probably be gone next week.

Jim Hyla

munchkin
The elusive first place vote is gone though. Whichever writer gave it to us should have more faith and give it back.

Well if you remember last weeks thread on the polls:

Jim Hyla

munchkin
We got the elusive first place vote this week. I wonder how long it'll stick around.

Well, since we're not playing, it'll probably be gone next week.

I'm sticking with that writer should continue to give it to us until he/she has a reason to take it away. I'm looking forward to going to the UNH game to see how well they fare against the top team in Hockey East, hopefully a win in that game will resecure the vote.

munchkin
I'm sticking with that writer should continue to give it to us until he/she has a reason to take it away.

Here's a good reason: maybe he thought some other team was more deserving?

I have successfully kept myself from bitching about this for years, but I'm finally fucking sick of it. The reason Cornell moves in the polls even when it doesn't play is that the voters are adjusting the positions of the other teams that are playing. This is not fucking rocket science, people. Good lord, get over it already.

How serious do you think I'm being? Because it's not very... this is a distraction for me while in the midst of grad school finals. These polls don't mean much, especially several months away from championship time. It's the PWR where Cornell is tied for 16th that makes a bigger difference when trying to analyze where teams lie in relationship to each other. I'm more mocking the writers for the random first place votes that seem to jump around at the beginning of the season, although with this week's poll the votes seem to have settled as only two teams got first place votes.

Kyle Rose

munchkin
I'm sticking with that writer should continue to give it to us until he/she has a reason to take it away.

Here's a good reason: maybe he thought some other team was more deserving?

I have successfully kept myself from bitching about this for years, but I'm finally fucking sick of it. The reason Cornell moves in the polls even when it doesn't play is that the voters are adjusting the positions of the other teams that are playing. This is not fucking rocket science, people. Good lord, get over it already.

Easy, Kyle!
Have an eggnog, dude!!
Maybe the Ithaca Journal will give us that vote back next week??

Johnny 5

Kyle Rose

munchkin
I'm sticking with that writer should continue to give it to us until he/she has a reason to take it away.

Here's a good reason: maybe he thought some other team was more deserving?

I have successfully kept myself from bitching about this for years, but I'm finally fucking sick of it. The reason Cornell moves in the polls even when it doesn't play is that the voters are adjusting the positions of the other teams that are playing. This is not fucking rocket science, people. Good lord, get over it already.

Easy, Kyle!
Have an eggnog, dude!!
Maybe the Ithaca Journal will give us that vote back next week??

LOL. Sorry, I'm just sick of reading the same fallacious argument week to week during the regular season. It would be fine if people recognized it as an obvious joke (e.g., Jerk/Typical), but it's clear that some people take it seriously, as if they really don't understand why Cornell moves around when they don't play.

Kyle Rose

Johnny 5

Kyle Rose

munchkin
I'm sticking with that writer should continue to give it to us until he/she has a reason to take it away.

Here's a good reason: maybe he thought some other team was more deserving?

I have successfully kept myself from bitching about this for years, but I'm finally fucking sick of it. The reason Cornell moves in the polls even when it doesn't play is that the voters are adjusting the positions of the other teams that are playing. This is not fucking rocket science, people. Good lord, get over it already.

Easy, Kyle!
Have an eggnog, dude!!
Maybe the Ithaca Journal will give us that vote back next week??

LOL. Sorry, I'm just sick of reading the same fallacious argument week to week during the regular season. It would be fine if people recognized it as an obvious joke (e.g., Jerk/Typical), but it's clear that some people take it seriously, as if they really don't understand why Cornell moves around when they don't play.

[insert jerk/typical loop here]

Man, you unleashed a vipers' nest here. It's like the black & white-era war movies: Before the GIs (the farmboy, the kid from Jersey, the Southerner, the poet from California) land on hostile shores to fight the dirty Hun, they fight among themselves. We've got three weeks here with no enemy action. All we're missing is, "It's quiet here, Sarge." "Yep, too quiet."

billhoward
Man, you unleashed a vipers' nest here. It's like the black & white-era war movies: Before the GIs (the farmboy, the kid from Jersey, the Southerner, the poet from California) land on hostile shores to fight the dirty Hun, they fight among themselves. We've got three weeks here with no enemy action. All we're missing is, "It's quiet here, Sarge." "Yep, too quiet."

So which one of us is going to get killed during the Florida tournament?

Jeff Hopkins '82

billhoward
Man, you unleashed a vipers' nest here. It's like the black & white-era war movies: Before the GIs (the farmboy, the kid from Jersey, the Southerner, the poet from California) land on hostile shores to fight the dirty Hun, they fight among themselves. We've got three weeks here with no enemy action. All we're missing is, "It's quiet here, Sarge." "Yep, too quiet."

So which one of us is going to get killed during the Florida tournament?

"Killin pigs ain't kosher, Sarge" said Silverberg as he refused to go over Pork Chop Hill.

Jeff Hopkins '82
So which one of us is going to get killed during the Florida tournament?

The one in a red shirt.

Uh oh.

Kyle Rose

Johnny 5

Kyle Rose

munchkin
I'm sticking with that writer should continue to give it to us until he/she has a reason to take it away.

Here's a good reason: maybe he thought some other team was more deserving?

I have successfully kept myself from bitching about this for years, but I'm finally fucking sick of it. The reason Cornell moves in the polls even when it doesn't play is that the voters are adjusting the positions of the other teams that are playing. This is not fucking rocket science, people. Good lord, get over it already.

Easy, Kyle!
Have an eggnog, dude!!
Maybe the Ithaca Journal will give us that vote back next week??

LOL. Sorry, I'm just sick of reading the same fallacious argument week to week during the regular season. It would be fine if people recognized it as an obvious joke (e.g., Jerk/Typical), but it's clear that some people take it seriously, as if they really don't understand why Cornell moves around when they don't play.

In my spare time from job-hunting, I've been working on numerous angles and mathematical models to predict our movement when we don't play. Right now my best lead seems be the abundance of winter moths. We've been seeing a lot this year, and last week's record temperatures (Thursday?) resulted in a huge presence. Obviously, this caused us to rise from 5th to 4th. Still trying to figure out where that 1st place vote went, though. The moths don't seem to have a handle on that one.

Killer

Kyle Rose

Johnny 5

Kyle Rose

munchkin
I'm sticking with that writer should continue to give it to us until he/she has a reason to take it away.

Here's a good reason: maybe he thought some other team was more deserving?

I have successfully kept myself from bitching about this for years, but I'm finally fucking sick of it. The reason Cornell moves in the polls even when it doesn't play is that the voters are adjusting the positions of the other teams that are playing. This is not fucking rocket science, people. Good lord, get over it already.

Easy, Kyle!
Have an eggnog, dude!!
Maybe the Ithaca Journal will give us that vote back next week??

LOL. Sorry, I'm just sick of reading the same fallacious argument week to week during the regular season. It would be fine if people recognized it as an obvious joke (e.g., Jerk/Typical), but it's clear that some people take it seriously, as if they really don't understand why Cornell moves around when they don't play.

In my spare time from job-hunting, I've been working on numerous angles and mathematical models to predict our movement when we don't play. Right now my best lead seems be the abundance of winter moths. We've been seeing a lot this year, and last week's record temperatures (Thursday?) resulted in a huge presence. Obviously, this caused us to rise from 5th to 4th. Still trying to figure out where that 1st place vote went, though. The moths don't seem to have a handle on that one.

Working on mathematical models in your spare time to predict poll movement when Cornell doesn't play? Sounds like something Kramer would be doing on Seinfeld

scoop85

Killer

Kyle Rose

Johnny 5

Kyle Rose

munchkin
I'm sticking with that writer should continue to give it to us until he/she has a reason to take it away.

Here's a good reason: maybe he thought some other team was more deserving?

I have successfully kept myself from bitching about this for years, but I'm finally fucking sick of it. The reason Cornell moves in the polls even when it doesn't play is that the voters are adjusting the positions of the other teams that are playing. This is not fucking rocket science, people. Good lord, get over it already.

Easy, Kyle!
Have an eggnog, dude!!
Maybe the Ithaca Journal will give us that vote back next week??

LOL. Sorry, I'm just sick of reading the same fallacious argument week to week during the regular season. It would be fine if people recognized it as an obvious joke (e.g., Jerk/Typical), but it's clear that some people take it seriously, as if they really don't understand why Cornell moves around when they don't play.

In my spare time from job-hunting, I've been working on numerous angles and mathematical models to predict our movement when we don't play. Right now my best lead seems be the abundance of winter moths. We've been seeing a lot this year, and last week's record temperatures (Thursday?) resulted in a huge presence. Obviously, this caused us to rise from 5th to 4th. Still trying to figure out where that 1st place vote went, though. The moths don't seem to have a handle on that one.

Working on mathematical models in your spare time to predict poll movement when Cornell doesn't play? Sounds like something Kramer would be doing on Seinfeld

However, if present trends continue & we avoided playing any games until the playoffs we could conceivably be seeded #1!

scoop85

Killer

Kyle Rose

Johnny 5

Kyle Rose

munchkin
I'm sticking with that writer should continue to give it to us until he/she has a reason to take it away.

Here's a good reason: maybe he thought some other team was more deserving?

I have successfully kept myself from bitching about this for years, but I'm finally fucking sick of it. The reason Cornell moves in the polls even when it doesn't play is that the voters are adjusting the positions of the other teams that are playing. This is not fucking rocket science, people. Good lord, get over it already.

Easy, Kyle!
Have an eggnog, dude!!
Maybe the Ithaca Journal will give us that vote back next week??

LOL. Sorry, I'm just sick of reading the same fallacious argument week to week during the regular season. It would be fine if people recognized it as an obvious joke (e.g., Jerk/Typical), but it's clear that some people take it seriously, as if they really don't understand why Cornell moves around when they don't play.

In my spare time from job-hunting, I've been working on numerous angles and mathematical models to predict our movement when we don't play. Right now my best lead seems be the abundance of winter moths. We've been seeing a lot this year, and last week's record temperatures (Thursday?) resulted in a huge presence. Obviously, this caused us to rise from 5th to 4th. Still trying to figure out where that 1st place vote went, though. The moths don't seem to have a handle on that one.

Working on mathematical models in your spare time to predict poll movement when Cornell doesn't play? Sounds like something Kramer would be doing on Seinfeld

I was going to say it sounded like something JTW would be doing in real life.

Trotsky

Jeff Hopkins '82
So which one of us is going to get killed during the Florida tournament?

The one in a red shirt.

Uh oh.

So (moving from war movies to cop movies) who gets the line "I'm getting too old for this shit"?

jtwcornell91

Trotsky

Jeff Hopkins '82
So which one of us is going to get killed during the Florida tournament?

The one in a red shirt.

Uh oh.

So (moving from war movies to cop movies) who gets the line "I'm getting too old for this shit"?

Sounds like a poll question JTW!

Trotsky

Jeff Hopkins '82
So which one of us is going to get killed during the Florida tournament?

The one in a red shirt.

Uh oh.

I've got a bad feeling about this.

jtwcornell91

Trotsky

Jeff Hopkins '82
So which one of us is going to get killed during the Florida tournament?

The one in a red shirt.

Uh oh.

So (moving from war movies to cop movies) who gets the line "I'm getting too old for this shit"?

Danny Glover?

jtwcornell91

Trotsky

Jeff Hopkins '82
So which one of us is going to get killed during the Florida tournament?

The one in a red shirt.

Uh oh.

So (moving from war movies to cop movies) who gets the line "I'm getting too old for this shit"?

"Just one damn week to retirement!"

Johnny 5

jtwcornell91

Trotsky

Jeff Hopkins '82
So which one of us is going to get killed during the Florida tournament?

The one in a red shirt.

Uh oh.

So (moving from war movies to cop movies) who gets the line "I'm getting too old for this shit"?

Danny Glover?

We don't do thread wins, but, thread win.

Trotsky

Johnny 5

jtwcornell91

Trotsky

Jeff Hopkins '82
So which one of us is going to get killed during the Florida tournament?

The one in a red shirt.

Uh oh.

So (moving from war movies to cop movies) who gets the line "I'm getting too old for this shit"?

Danny Glover?

We don't do thread wins, but, thread win.

Thank you, thank you. And, no Googling, either!

I will frame this and put it next to my autographed Ken Dryden jersey!!

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INCH’s FIRST HALF ALL-ECAC HOCKEY TEAM

G-Ben Scrivens, Cornell: The league’s leader in goals-against average and save percentage will continue to be cursed by “it’s a product of the system” stereotyping, but his play has gradually improved all season.

D-Tom Dignard, Yale: The standout from the defending league champs missed the end of last season due to injury, but has been right back in the mix this year after missing the first couple games. He has 11 points in nine games.

D-Mike Schreiber, Union: The Dutchmen don’t get much offensive punch from the blue line, but they don’t need it. The senior has contributed four goals and eight assists in 16 games.

F-Brandon Wong, Quinnipiac: A dozen goals and a dozen assists for Wong leads the way for one of the nation’s most pleasantly surprising teams this year. Wong has four game-winning goals.

F-David McIntyre, Colgate: A premier player previously known for his goal-scoring proficiency has been more of a setup man this year, with a league-leading 14 assists.

F-Colin Greening, Cornell: He is second on the Big Red in scoring with 16 points and sets the physical and emotional tone for Cornell.