Albany Roll Call II: Electric Boogaloo (NCAA Regionals)

Given my work situation, I can't guarantee that I'll actually be there in time for Friday night's game, but I've apparently bought tickets.

Can't go Friday but just like in the ECACs I'll be there on Saturday if we win on Friday

I'll be there. I'll be around.

I will be there with my now fiancé (as of Saturday) and my best friend from high school who is an RIT alum. Hoping for another great Cornell sports weekend!

Well, I guess I picked the worst possible year in a long time to miss the tourney (though the Sebring 12 Hours were great), but I get a reprieve this weekend. I'll be there +3.

I'll be there, +3.

+9 or so. There goes another $600 on the credit card.

Will be there with my wife Jaime on Friday. Will be back in Ithaca watching daughter in musical and then game on TV on Saturday. If the musical started a half hour earlier, or ran a half hour shorter, or if the game was scheduled for a half hour later we would have been driving back to Albany, assuming we had won on Friday night. Oh well.

Somers and I will be back, along with a couple of my old fraternity brothers. I'm happy if 116 is standing. Don't know about those other "old" guys.

ebilmes
+9 or so. There goes another $600 on the credit card.

I'll be there as part of this +9 crowd.

amerks127

ebilmes
+9 or so. There goes another $600 on the credit card.

I'll be there as part of this +9 crowd.

So that means he's paying, right?

I'll be there as well. It's like deja vu. Same flight up, same rink, same hotel. It would be freaky if 'm back in the same room.

judy
I'll be there as well. It's like deja vu. Same flight up, same rink, same hotel. It would be freaky if 'm back in the same room.

I'll take a pair of 3-0 wins, though.

Chris and I will be there, although if they win Friday, we'll drive back to MA so I can work Saturday morning, then return to Albany for Saturday night.

I think we'll stay somewhere different to break up the monotony!

I'll be there.

Arriving from Syracuse the night before (hopefully with a big smile on my face).

Anyone going to Albany from Syracuse with room in their car for 2 people (two guys - '08 and '09)? PM me please. Thanks.

So far I have been unsuccessful in talking my wife into the fact that it will be now problem to bring a 3 1/2 week old baby. She also isn't too keen on me going with a few friends even if I drive back home Friday night and only go back Saturday if they win.

I still think we should take our new daughter to see her first game. She was at the BU game, but she had an obstructed view seat.

cth95
So far I have been unsuccessful in talking my wife into the fact that it will be now problem to bring a 3 1/2 week old baby. She also isn't too keen on me going with a few friends even if I drive back home Friday night and only go back Saturday if they win.

I still think we should take our new daughter to see her first game. She was at the BU game, but she had an obstructed view seat.

I am very hopeful that by marrying a fellow Lynah Faithful I can avoid this problem. We celebrated our engagement on Saturday by seeing Cornell get the ECAC Championship. Doesn't get much better than that!

sockralex

cth95
So far I have been unsuccessful in talking my wife into the fact that it will be now problem to bring a 3 1/2 week old baby. She also isn't too keen on me going with a few friends even if I drive back home Friday night and only go back Saturday if they win.

I still think we should take our new daughter to see her first game. She was at the BU game, but she had an obstructed view seat.

I am very hopeful that by marrying a fellow Lynah Faithful I can avoid this problem. We celebrated our engagement on Saturday by seeing Cornell get the ECAC Championship. Doesn't get much better than that!

Great move, Alex. Congratulations.

Al DeFlorio

sockralex

cth95
So far I have been unsuccessful in talking my wife into the fact that it will be now problem to bring a 3 1/2 week old baby. She also isn't too keen on me going with a few friends even if I drive back home Friday night and only go back Saturday if they win.

I still think we should take our new daughter to see her first game. She was at the BU game, but she had an obstructed view seat.

I am very hopeful that by marrying a fellow Lynah Faithful I can avoid this problem. We celebrated our engagement on Saturday by seeing Cornell get the ECAC Championship. Doesn't get much better than that!

Great move, Alex. Congratulations.

Thanks, Al. "Hopeful" is the key word though.

sockralex

I am very hopeful that by marrying a fellow Lynah Faithful I can avoid this problem. We celebrated our engagement on Saturday by seeing Cornell get the ECAC Championship. Doesn't get much better than that!

Congratulations on the engagement. Actually, my wife has been great. She has been really impressed with the Faithful and does enjoy going to the games. She is actually a UHN grad, but she will probably root for us this weekend. If our new baby was just a little older, I'm sure we would be going and bringing her.

I would really like to go, but I understand why my wife isn't into it this year. It probably wouldn't be easy changing diapers and nursing every couple of hours in a hockey arena.

Sherri and I will be there Friday. I may be alone Saturday. Man, I can't leave that statement unanswered. Sherri's mom may be up and she'd stay home; I haven't been kicked out of the house yet.

sockralex

cth95
So far I have been unsuccessful in talking my wife into the fact that it will be now problem to bring a 3 1/2 week old baby. She also isn't too keen on me going with a few friends even if I drive back home Friday night and only go back Saturday if they win.

I still think we should take our new daughter to see her first game. She was at the BU game, but she had an obstructed view seat.

I am very hopeful that by marrying a fellow Lynah Faithful I can avoid this problem. We celebrated our engagement on Saturday by seeing Cornell get the ECAC Championship. Doesn't get much better than that!

Congratulations! I have to say, marrying a fellow member of the Faithful certainly makes hockey road trips easier. Now if only work and money weren't making figuring out how to afford those trips more difficult.

CowbellGuy
Well, I guess I picked the worst possible year in a long time to miss the tourney (though the Sebring 12 Hours were great), but I get a reprieve this weekend. I'll be there +3.

Wait, what?, the guy who created eLynah missed the ECACs to watch some people drive around in cars?

There is no room here for a diversity of interests.

I'll be in Albany on Friday after Syracuse on Thursday!

sen'08 and I will be there on Friday, and she on Saturday as well if we win, although I'll unfortunately have to watch from home in NJ.

Josh 03
I'll be in Albany on Friday after Syracuse on Thursday!

Ditto. Me +1 (at least), same scenario.

Is anyone driving from Boston (or the surrounding area) on Saturday if the team wins on Friday? I will go, I'd just rather not have to shell out for a Zip Car ($$$ for 24 hours).

I'll be there Saturday (with a RIT alum as well). Any plans for a pre-game get-together? Anyone know a good nearby bar?

De-lurk. I'll be there +4/5 on Friday, +2/3 Saturday.

Will
I have to say, marrying a fellow member of the Faithful certainly makes hockey road trips easier.

D'oh!

(Well, the other 11 months of the year are great. )

ebilmes
+9 or so. There goes another $600 on the credit card.

The NCAA is going pro in cash management.

sockralex
I will be there with my now fiancé (as of Saturday) and my best friend from high school who is an RIT alum. Hoping for another great Cornell sports weekend!

Good luck to you. Our first date was the NCAA regionals in Providence and Gwen's Smithie friends thought it was incredibly romantic.

I'll be there, + 2 hopefully, for Saturday's game (and yes, Cornell will be playing on Saturday!). As for a pre-game get together, Jillians is a decent sports bar type place only a few blocks from the arena.

Anyone need a ride? I'm leaving Friday @10 am from Brooklyn. Anyone want to split a room at the Best Western on Wolf Road (indoor pool, baby! and total for the room is about $88) I plan to take a swim and then get to the arena around 4. I was at the hotel with my wife and daughter last weekend! If you're already planning to drive, I can leave my car in Brooklyn and go with you. E-mail me at moskcraig@att.net.

I'll be in Albany, but not Syracuse. And because some people had the nerve to ask, if Cornell plays RIT on Saturday, I will be rooting for Cornell.

jtwcornell91
I'll be in Albany, but not Syracuse. And because some people had the nerve to ask, if Cornell plays RIT on Saturday, I will be rooting for Cornell.

We didn't ask. We demanded and threatened.

audreybb
I'll be there Saturday (with a RIT alum as well). Any plans for a pre-game get-together? Anyone know a good nearby bar?

The best pregame gettogether I know of will be the Denver/RIT game. I probably won't make it there in time, though.

Beeeej

audreybb
I'll be there Saturday (with a RIT alum as well). Any plans for a pre-game get-together? Anyone know a good nearby bar?

The best pregame gettogether I know of will be the Denver/RIT game. I probably won't make it there in time, though.

So we're all in agreement, we're RIT fans for one day, right?

Greenberg '97

Beeeej

audreybb
I'll be there Saturday (with a RIT alum as well). Any plans for a pre-game get-together? Anyone know a good nearby bar?

The best pregame gettogether I know of will be the Denver/RIT game. I probably won't make it there in time, though.

So we're all in agreement, we're RIT fans for one day, right?

After rooting really hard for Bemidji last year I think I'll be a bit more restrained. Be careful what you wish for and all that.

Go, Brick City!

Will be there Friday with 4 others. My husband (trainbow) and I will be there for all 3 games regardless of Cornell's success.

Sockralex, congrats on your engagement. We spent the Saturday after Cornell's 2004 Friday quarter-final victory over Clarkson fantasizing about getting married at center ice between periods at the ECACs in Albany the following weekend (and he's not even a Cornellian!). Turned out Cornell lost the next two games and didn't get to Albany until after we were married (in a conventional mansion-for-hire). Not too late for you though!

ugarte
After rooting really hard for Bemidji last year I think I'll be a bit more restrained. Be careful what you wish for and all that.

Excellent point. I'll just root for fights and multiple suspensions.

I was actually thinking of the geographic proximity and rabid fan base angles, not the easy opponent angle. Anyone who made the tournament, by AQ or otherwise, is not an easy opponent. I think the hardwood showed us that already.

munchkin
Is anyone driving from Boston (or the surrounding area) on Saturday if the team wins on Friday? I will go, I'd just rather not have to shell out for a Zip Car ($$$ for 24 hours).

The Boston-Albany bus is pretty decent. And the Albany bus station is like three blocks from the arena. Just don't go for a layover in Springfield.

billhoward
Go, Brick City!

Newark?

RichH

billhoward
Go, Brick City!

Newark?

Not yet. The Nets don't start playing there until November.

Greenberg '97

ugarte
After rooting really hard for Bemidji last year I think I'll be a bit more restrained. Be careful what you wish for and all that.

Excellent point. I'll just root for fights and multiple suspensions.

Don't forget overtimes to tire them out. Although we don't want them going too long, sice we have the late game. Just enough to take the spring out of their Saturday legs.

RichH

billhoward
Go, Brick City!

Newark?

I was thinking Baltimore for an entirely different reason.

I will be in 119 with "The Chief" aka Chief Albany Bear whenever he haunts eLynah. Will be accompanied by a long suffering RIP alum who cheered for us at the regionals in 2003.

Janice will be with me in 119 on Saturday.

Sat. @ 117 LGR

Now it's official... tickets just arrived.

Section 120, +1.5

Greenberg '97

Beeeej

audreybb
I'll be there Saturday (with a RIT alum as well). Any plans for a pre-game get-together? Anyone know a good nearby bar?

The best pregame gettogether I know of will be the Denver/RIT game. I probably won't make it there in time, though.

So we're all in agreement, we're RIT fans for one day, right?

Some of us will even be wearing RIT jerseys for the early game.

mnagowski

munchkin
Is anyone driving from Boston (or the surrounding area) on Saturday if the team wins on Friday? I will go, I'd just rather not have to shell out for a Zip Car ($$$ for 24 hours).

The Boston-Albany bus is pretty decent. And the Albany bus station is like three blocks from the arena. Just don't go for a layover in Springfield.

I secured a ride with other CU alums for Saturday. But thanks for the suggestion. When I was a student I took the bus from Ithaca to Syracuse then Syracuse to Albany my freshman year (06) to go to the ECAC championship so I know exactly how to walk from the bus station to the rink.

jtwcornell91
Some of us will even be wearing RIT jerseys for the early game.

I'm going to guess "some" here means "one."

Not that anyone asked, but I'll be at the Crown Plaza, proudly wearing The Shirt ... once I'm off USCHO's clock, of course. Go ECAC Hockey, and LGR!

You all suck.

I'm in the airport on my way back to Europe.

RichH

billhoward
Go, Brick City!

Newark?

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Sorry. You'd know this if you grew up in Rochester, otherwise, HUGARA. RIT is called Brick City. Every freaking building on campus (one or two exceptions now) is clad in RIT Orange (it's trademarked) brick. 14 million at last count, including the pavers. More bricks than anyplace except the Great Wall. It benefits a lot from vines IMO. [www.thetigerbeat.com]

(HUGARA: Who gives ...)

I've spent much of the week trying to convince myself that a 7+hr ride each way from DC is not worth it... but have been unsuccessful... so if we win Friday I'll more than likely be there +1 on Saturday.

billhoward

RichH

billhoward
Go, Brick City!

Newark?

120px-RIT_bricks.jpg

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Sorry. You'd know this if you grew up in Rochester, otherwise, HUGARA. RIT is called Brick City. Every freaking building on campus (one or two exceptions now) is clad in RIT Orange (it's trademarked) brick. 14 million at last count, including the pavers. More bricks than anyplace except the Great Wall. It benefits a lot from vines IMO. [www.thetigerbeat.com]

(HUGARA: Who gives ...)

So then Brick City has nothing to do with this:
[www.1010wins.com]

billhoward

RichH

billhoward
Go, Brick City!

Newark?

120px-RIT_bricks.jpg

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Sorry. You'd know this if you grew up in Rochester, otherwise, HUGARA. RIT is called Brick City. Every freaking building on campus (one or two exceptions now) is clad in RIT Orange (it's trademarked) brick. 14 million at last count, including the pavers. More bricks than anyplace except the Great Wall. It benefits a lot from vines IMO. [www.thetigerbeat.com]

Right. I'm only from the sticks outside of Rochester. Here in CT, where there's nearly zero knowledge of upstate NY, I have to say I'm from "the Rochester area" (see SNL quote below) and even that gets blank stares. Even when I was at the U of R, I don't think I ever heard the "Brick City" nickname, but I tried not to go out to RITs ugly suburban campus too often. When I did, I always liked that they publicly displayed their DIII hockey championship trophies...I think it was either in a student center or a library or something. I still can't believe the internets voted that campus the winner of the Google Trike contest over Princeton or Stanford, because which campus would you rather look at? Such is irrational internet voting at a tech school.

SNL - The Real World
Brian: Listen to me - I'm from Dublin! Don't any of ya care about that?! [ flees the room in tears ]

[ cut to another Confessional ]

Brian: Well, actually.. I'm not from Dublin - just outside of Dublin. A place called ?? But when people would ask me where that was, I had to explain it's just outside of Dublin. And I got tired of saying "I'm.. from just outside of Dublin." So I started telling me I'm from Dublin. So, nowadays, when people ask me where I'm from, I say I'm from Dublin.

[snltranscripts.jt.org]

I cannot be there for tomorrow night's game.

But I will be there Saturday if we win tomorrow.

billhoward

RichH

billhoward
Go, Brick City!

Newark?

120px-RIT_bricks.jpg

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Sorry. You'd know this if you grew up in Rochester, otherwise, HUGARA. RIT is called Brick City. Every freaking building on campus (one or two exceptions now) is clad in RIT Orange (it's trademarked) brick. 14 million at last count, including the pavers. More bricks than anyplace except the Great Wall. It benefits a lot from vines IMO. [www.thetigerbeat.com]

(HUGARA: Who gives ...)

Let me tell you, it doesn't make it very easy to find things on campus. ("It's the brick building behind the other brick building."

RichH

billhoward

120px-RIT_bricks.jpg

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Sorry. You'd know this if you grew up in Rochester, otherwise, HUGARA. RIT is called Brick City. Every freaking building on campus (one or two exceptions now) is clad in RIT Orange (it's trademarked) brick. 14 million at last count, including the pavers. More bricks than anyplace except the Great Wall. It benefits a lot from vines IMO. [www.thetigerbeat.com]

Right. I'm only from the sticks outside of Rochester. Here in CT, where there's nearly zero knowledge of upstate NY, I have to say I'm from "the Rochester area" (see SNL quote below) and even that gets blank stares. Even when I was at the U of R, I don't think I ever heard the "Brick City" nickname, but I tried not to go out to RITs ugly suburban campus too often. When I did, I always liked that they publicly displayed their DIII hockey championship trophies...I think it was either in a student center or a library or something. I still can't believe the internets voted that campus the winner of the Google Trike contest over Princeton or Stanford, because which campus would you rather look at? Such is irrational internet voting at a tech school.

Jon Stewart did a piece about the Museum of Play placing toys into its Hall of Fame, and had a line to the effect of "Why don't you folks in Rochester get your heads out of your garbage plates?"

RIT still having banners, trophies, etc from D3 is cool, although it was a bit confusing when the [URL="[url]http://www.rit.edu/news/?v=47423"[/url];]RIT News story[/URL] referred to the Tigers making their "14th trip to [the] 'big dance'".

jtwcornell91

billhoward

RichH

billhoward
Go, Brick City!

Newark?

120px-RIT_bricks.jpg

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Sorry. You'd know this if you grew up in Rochester, otherwise, HUGARA. RIT is called Brick City. Every freaking building on campus (one or two exceptions now) is clad in RIT Orange (it's trademarked) brick. 14 million at last count, including the pavers. More bricks than anyplace except the Great Wall. It benefits a lot from vines IMO. [www.thetigerbeat.com]

(HUGARA: Who gives ...)

Let me tell you, it doesn't make it very easy to find things on campus. ("It's the brick building behind the other brick building."

At Indiana University in Bloomington, IN, almost all of the buildings are made of limestone from a quarry a few miles outside of town. The symmetry and limestone are nice (especially compared to the eclectic and not ivy-covered buildings at Purdue), but as JTW says, it makes finding the building you need to go to a bit harder.

jtwcornell91
RIT still having banners, trophies, etc from D3 is cool, although it was a bit confusing when the [URL="[url]http://www.rit.edu/news/?v=47423"[/url];]RIT News story[/URL] referred to the Tigers making their "14th trip to [the] 'big dance'".

This is also pretty cool: [URL="[url]http://www.rit.edu/news/?v=47433"[/url];]Going for the Triple Crown[/URL]

Rita
At Indiana University in Bloomington, IN, almost all of the buildings are made of limestone from a quarry a few miles outside of town. The symmetry and limestone are nice (especially compared to the eclectic and not ivy-covered buildings at Purdue), but as JTW says, it makes finding the building you need to go to a bit harder.

CUTTERS!

Heading down to MA from Vermont on Friday... figured I'd take a "little" detour and catch the game in Albany. LGR!!!

With Barry Melrose using a sample size of 1 to anoint Cornell the greatest team ever, and with players in our bracket contest overwhelming choosing Cornell (http://www.collegehockeynews.com/community/bracketcontest/) .... I decided to bring everyone back down to Earth with some horrible memories

[www.collegehockeynews.com]

Enjoy ... kinda.

I am in for both days. LGR!

There +1 in ~ 3hrs. Love beer at games, just not the price

DevilDerby
There +1 in ~ 3hrs. Love beer at games, just not the price

damn jamie, 9 yrs out of college and still poor!? lgr!