Estero 2015

I went two years ago, and about 50% of the tickets were still available at the entrance, 5 minutes before the first game. Does anyone have reason to believe it will be different this year?

Who's planning on going?

LaJollaRed
I went two years ago, and about 50% of the tickets were still available at the entrance, 5 minutes before the first game. Does anyone have reason to believe it will be different this year?

Who's planning on going?

Well, I'm not sure how much weight this will carry, the strength of the field this year, with possibly 3 top-10 teams, might attract a bigger crowd.

This is not just because these should be excellent games, but also because top teams usually have strong fan bases.

We'll be there this year. I have NEVER had a problem getting tickets at the box office in Estero.

Notre Dame drew a huge crowd but there are always a couple thousand empty seats.
Will be there with the missus and 4 friends (who always root against Cornell just to be that way, plus they are from New Hamshire.)
So usually when Cornell plays I am down on the ice next to Irv the Goal Judge. Stop down and say Hi - bald old guy with a Red fleece Cornell shirt.
Tom, ILR '74

tominvb
Notre Dame drew a huge crowd but there are always a couple thousand empty seats.
Will be there with the missus and 4 friends (who always root against Cornell just to be that way, plus they are from New Hamshire.)
So usually when Cornell plays I am down on the ice next to Irv the Goal Judge. Stop down and say Hi - bald old guy with a Red fleece Cornell shirt.
Tom, ILR '74

What is this goal judge of which you speak?

I'll be there both games, with a niece one night and a nephew the other.

Hoping the boys can shed the rust somewhere in GA on the way down.

The areana does not shield the goal judges (the guy that sits behind the goalie with the button that turns on the red light tc, etc.), he sits on a high chair next to the fans. On one end there is seating for us mobility impared folks with folding chairs. I just sit next to him and we chat from time to time as the play moves to the other end. Irv played for Dartmouth in the late 50's. My friends sit behind in the regular seats. Perhaps I do not use the correct terminology to discribe his job.

Regards

The Cornell sections have been 113-115 the last dozen years or so - and they'll have that info at the box office so you can just ask for seats in the Cornell section or pretty much anywhere else in the rink that you'd like. I'm typically at the top of 113. The seats always seem to be way less than 50% occupied, although a sizable amount of folks seem to come for only one game or the other. There's often a line to buy tickets at the box office right before game time that can take 5 to 15 minutes, so get there a little early or if you're in the area, swing by earlier to get your tickets.

tominvb
The areana does not shield the goal judges (the guy that sits behind the goalie with the button that turns on the red light tc, etc.), he sits on a high chair next to the fans. On one end there is seating for us mobility impared folks with folding chairs. I just sit next to him and we chat from time to time as the play moves to the other end. Irv played for Dartmouth in the late 50's. My friends sit behind in the regular seats. Perhaps I do not use the correct terminology to discribe his job.

Regards

It will be interesting to see if there are goal judges in Estero. I don't know if they are still used in any league play in the NCAAs.

marty

tominvb
The areana does not shield the goal judges (the guy that sits behind the goalie with the button that turns on the red light tc, etc.), he sits on a high chair next to the fans. On one end there is seating for us mobility impared folks with folding chairs. I just sit next to him and we chat from time to time as the play moves to the other end. Irv played for Dartmouth in the late 50's. My friends sit behind in the regular seats. Perhaps I do not use the correct terminology to discribe his job.

Regards

It will be interesting to see if there are goal judges in Estero. I don't know if they are still used in any league play in the NCAAs.

IIRC, Colgate still had them.

You learn something new all the time. Since my only yearly experience with college hockey is in Estero I was not aware of a rule change concerning goal judges At the tournement they always use them. So I just assumed...

Just noticed that Cornell's schedule strength, based on KRACH rankings on CHN, is #7, while Providence is #30. Looks like Friars' best win was over Yale at home, with two earlier ties against BU.

[SOS rankings are #12 and #34 on USCHO KRACH, strangely enough.]

tominvb
You learn something new all the time. Since my only yearly experience with college hockey is in Estero I was not aware of a rule change concerning goal judges At the tournement they always use them. So I just assumed...

Likewise, I don't see them anymore and assumed they were extinct.

Are there any insights on roster returnees as we head into the tourney?

Oh, and the best of (Your Holiday Here) to all!

Maybe we'll get to watch, according to CornellBigRed game article:

"While there is no confirmed live video feed for the tournament's four games, the games may still get picked up as part of the subscription-based Ivy League Digital Network at the 11th hour."

Good luck against Providence. You are the biggest team (#1 in height and #2 in weight) in College Hockey. Pound the stuffing out of them and then do the same against BC the next night. The whole ECAC is pulling for you. We don't get these opportunities against ranked HE teams often, got to take advantage. Nothing to lose here. The pressure is on Providence. They have not been tested. May the hockey gods be with you !!!!

is Cornell marketing doing what they should do and trying to get these games on the digital network? knowing how they work i doubt it by why post a message in an article if something is not happening behind the scenes? i wonder what the real cost is and if costs could not be worked out with 4 schools looking for ways to get the alumni to watch the game?

does anyone have an update if there will be an audio or video feed? thanks!

edit: i see audio will be on WHCU, any updates on video?

Monday pre-game story in the Naples Daily News: [www.naplesnews.com]

Ryan Tooheyn Naples Daily News
The strength of the tournament field is one of the strongest in recent history, even though there wasn't a way to know their rankings when the teams were selected two years ago. "It's hard to predict because we book these things a few years in advance," [Florida Everblades president Craig] Brush said. "The fact that Providence won the championship last year and are still ranked No. 1 this year just shows how strong their program is."

Five years ago, a field this strong would have gotten the tournament televised on one of the sports networks.

it might have been nice if cornell who puts out the nugget of hope would at least follow up on the story one way or the other.

The Cornell Ivy Digital Network page currently says, "Men's Hockey Test" for 10:00 AM EST.

On Ivy Digital's schedule, at 10 AM, there is listed "Men's Hockey Test"...so maybe that is a good sign of things to come.

LGR14
On Ivy Digital's schedule, at 10 AM, there is listed "Men's Hockey Test"...so maybe that is a good sign of things to come.

At the very least, it's not a bad sign.

O ye of little faith...Game is listed now on ILDN.

Al DeFlorio
O ye of little faith...Game is listed now on ILDN.

Calling out members of the Faithful for a lack of faith is cold.

So the 11th hour came slightly early. Great job, all involved. Brandon also tweeted out that Jason W. will be doing the call for all 4 games. Someone send him some lemon tea.

Anyway, official:

BREAKING: Fans can watch ALL of the 2015 Florida College Hockey Classic LIVE at [t.co] (

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/28/2015 01:46PM by RichH.

 

BC up on OSU 2-0 in the first 2 minutes. It's not as close as the score.

The carnage is on ILDN if you can stomach it.

BC's first goal must have hurt pretty bad for OSU. Their goalie was knocked off his feet into the net after a BC player (arguably) pushed an OSU defender into the goalie. The hapless goalie was then beaten by a bank shot from the corner just as he was getting back to his feet. A real slap in the face.

Trotsky
BC up on OSU 2-0 in the first 2 minutes. It's not as close as the score.

The carnage is on ILDN if you can stomach it.

Easier to stomach at 2-1 late 2nd.

Edit: Now 2-2 even later 2nd.

Al DeFlorio

Trotsky
BC up on OSU 2-0 in the first 2 minutes. It's not as close as the score.

The carnage is on ILDN if you can stomach it.

Easier to stomach at 2-1 late 2nd.

Edit: Now 2-2 even later 2nd.

Now Ohio it's the 3rd and OSU is ahead, 3-2.

KeithK

Al DeFlorio

Trotsky
BC up on OSU 2-0 in the first 2 minutes. It's not as close as the score.

The carnage is on ILDN if you can stomach it.

Easier to stomach at 2-1 late 2nd.

Edit: Now 2-2 even later 2nd.

Now Ohio it's the 3rd and OSU is ahead, 3-2.

And they do win, 3-2. Bad day for HEA. See you all tomorrow 7:30PM. Maybe we can win it all this year.

Jim Hyla

KeithK

Al DeFlorio

Trotsky
BC up on OSU 2-0 in the first 2 minutes. It's not as close as the score.

The carnage is on ILDN if you can stomach it.

Easier to stomach at 2-1 late 2nd.

Edit: Now 2-2 even later 2nd.

Now Ohio it's the 3rd and OSU is ahead, 3-2.

And they do win, 3-2. Bad day for HEA. See you all tomorrow 7:30PM. Maybe we can win it all this year.

Maybe. I'd have preferred BC though just to pimp out schedule strength.

Trotsky

Jim Hyla

KeithK

Al DeFlorio

Trotsky
BC up on OSU 2-0 in the first 2 minutes. It's not as close as the score.

The carnage is on ILDN if you can stomach it.

Easier to stomach at 2-1 late 2nd.

Edit: Now 2-2 even later 2nd.

Now Ohio it's the 3rd and OSU is ahead, 3-2.

And they do win, 3-2. Bad day for HEA. See you all tomorrow 7:30PM. Maybe we can win it all this year.

Maybe. I'd have preferred BC though just to pimp out schedule strength.

Agreed. But you take what you're given.

BC not Ohio State vs. Cornell for the title would help the attendance, too. BC fans didn't have to choose between the Florida Hockey Classic and the Fiesta Bowl. BC-Ohio State box score lists the day's attendance at 6,022 (hockey capacity listed as 7,186). First game wasn't that full; it looked pretty good by the time of the second game.

Impressive job by Cornell to come back after Providence dominated the first half of the game (shots were 12-4 Providence after one, 24-12 after two). Cornell showed real energy in the third.

Nice to see a couple other college jerseys and scarves at the rink including Union and Maine. Nice to see a college hockey game where you can get a beer at the concession stands.

Trotsky
Maybe. I'd have preferred BC though just to pimp out schedule strength.

Right. And, for some of us, for old time's sake.

Be nice for old time's sake to win the tournament as well. This is our chance to have as many titles (5) in the tournament's 16 years as we have fourths.

billhoward
Be nice for old time's sake to win the tournament as well. This is our chance to have as many titles (5) in the tournament's 16 years as we have fourths.

3 of our 4 wins have come via shootout. The other one was in overtime.

Trotsky
Maybe. I'd have preferred BC though just to pimp out schedule strength.

Sure. With tOSU clocking in at #50, a win today will probably be one of those "bad wins" that's thrown out in RPI calculation with respect to PWR because it would make our RPI go down. Against BC, we would have received yet another bump in SOS and had another shot at a "quality win" bonus. Not to mention, there's probably more pressure on getting a win, given the expectations and that a loss vs. Ohio State would hurt us more than a loss vs. BC.

But OF COURSE, this is the hand we're dealt, and hopefully we were paying attention to how the Buckeyes came back vs. BC. Given one trash-talk thing I saw on USCHO between Providence and BC fans, this very much reminds me of UVM and Clarkson squaring off in the 1996 ECAC Consolation game.

I was going to respond by saying that beating OSU would help us in the Pairwise by possibly giving us Common Opponents against teams like Michigan and Minnesota. But then I remembered that since PWR only has three components now (RPI, COp, H2H) this is pretty much useless (because RPI is the tiebreaker). So nevermind.

Just win.

I don't either think BC or Providence has entered the Ancient Eight, though the B(Eagles) would possibly argue the point. However the Live ILDN Video is here for those interested in this afternoon's game.

BC up 1-0 in the third.

Providence scores twice in 44 seconds to lead 2-1.

The Colgate-Brown game is the Nick Lappin day. Brown wins 7-5 and Lappin has 4 goals and 2 assists.

8 seconds to go and there's a fire in the lights by the BC bench.

Trotsky
8 seconds to go and there's a fire in the lights by the BC bench.

and controversy about whether BC got the even-up goal. It was waved off, but no reason given so far. I guess the BC team went back to locker room.

Jim Hyla

Trotsky
8 seconds to go and there's a fire in the lights by the BC bench.

and controversy about whether BC got the even-up goal. It was waved off, but no reason given so far. I guess the BC team went back to locker room.

My feed from Germaine froze. Is this goat rope still going on or is it over now?

Edit:

On the Cornell game ILDN feed the intermission clock is counting down now from 17:00, and the first game is listed on USCHO as final. I guess we're starting around 7:35, unless that countdown is only for the free skate in which case it'll be more like 7:50.

Trotsky

Jim Hyla

Trotsky
8 seconds to go and there's a fire in the lights by the BC bench.

and controversy about whether BC got the even-up goal. It was waved off, but no reason given so far. I guess the BC team went back to locker room.

My feed from Germaine froze. Is this goat rope still going on or is it over now?

BC Twitter says it's over. Providence won 2-1. Not sure how light issue was resolved.

Trotsky

Jim Hyla

Trotsky
8 seconds to go and there's a fire in the lights by the BC bench.

and controversy about whether BC got the even-up goal. It was waved off, but no reason given so far. I guess the BC team went back to locker room.

My feed from Germaine froze. Is this goat rope still going on or is it over now?

USCHO shows a 2-1 Providence win as final

Providence won, but they never explained about the disputed goal at 8 sec to go. The fire was a bad bulb. That took a while to fix and the game ended around 7 PM. Jason said the finals were still said to start on time, but I can't believe that, as it wouldn't allow warm ups and ice cleaning. I'd guess 8PM at earliest.

Trotsky
On the Cornell game ILDN feed the intermission clock is counting down now from 17:00, and the first game is listed on USCHO as final. I guess we're starting around 7:35, unless that countdown is only for the free skate in which case it'll be more like 7:50.

When I try to get the feed, the intermission clock starts at 17:50, counts down to 17:07, then freezes and buffers. Reloading gets me back to 17:50, counting down to 17:07... ad infinitum. Anybody else having this problem?

Beeeej

Trotsky
On the Cornell game ILDN feed the intermission clock is counting down now from 17:00, and the first game is listed on USCHO as final. I guess we're starting around 7:35, unless that countdown is only for the free skate in which case it'll be more like 7:50.

When I try to get the feed, the intermission clock starts at 17:50, counts down to 17:07, then freezes and buffers. Reloading gets me back to 17:50, counting down to 17:07... ad infinitum. Anybody else having this problem?

Same problem here.

Al DeFlorio

Beeeej

Trotsky
On the Cornell game ILDN feed the intermission clock is counting down now from 17:00, and the first game is listed on USCHO as final. I guess we're starting around 7:35, unless that countdown is only for the free skate in which case it'll be more like 7:50.

When I try to get the feed, the intermission clock starts at 17:50, counts down to 17:07, then freezes and buffers. Reloading gets me back to 17:50, counting down to 17:07... ad infinitum. Anybody else having this problem?

Same problem here.

And here.

Me too. I've emailed Brandon.

i think the game link is for game one.. the clock stops at 7:07 edt.

From Brandon's Twitter feed (https://twitter.com/BT_unassisted):

According to the clock, we're looking at a 7:45 p.m. start

Just planning to listen here. WHCU is still broadcasting talk - they haven't switched to the rink.

Looks like the video might have "caught up" at this point... showing about 6 minutes left, and they're trying a bunch of different camera feeds. Promising.

I hear voices and see Red uniforms.

1-0 OSU over Cornell 13:12 in the 1st period.

OSU 2 Cornell 0 end of 1st period.

losing, but one of the best periods we have played this year. shots. cyled the puck, created great chances. a couple of goals allowed on long shots. probably more what we should have ended up the first period yesterday

Stewart in for Garman after two quick ones make it 4-0 tOSU.

No wonder we've given up 4 - Garman is obviously rusty

...and now 5-0. This is totally fun.

Oh boy. Now 5-0. Hockey is a funny game.

Shorthander makes it 6-0. Funny, but not so much funny "ha ha."

followed a decent first with an awful 5 min of D.

Does this disaster hurt Cornell's PWR more than the win against Providence helped?

djk26
Does this disaster hurt Cornell's PWR more than the win against Providence helped?

Good question.

...

They need to stop beating #1s. Last time, this happened the next night: [collegehockeystats.net]

Trotsky

djk26
Does this disaster hurt Cornell's PWR more than the win against Providence helped?

Good question.

I went on CHN and flipped the results of this weekend's games. Our RPI would be .0018 lower in that case. So apparently we picked the better game to win. FWIW when I also flipped the BC-OSU game in order to allow us to play OSU after losing to Prov. our RPI went down another .0015 (.0033 total)

ACM
Me too. I've emailed Brandon.

Never fear - nearly 24 hours later, the ILDN has finally gotten back to me to let me know, despite the fact that all of us were having the same problem, and they were able to fix the problem after Arthur contacted the broadcasters to relay a message of the problem, that the problem must be on my end. I should, y'know, update my browser and clear my cache.

Beeeej

ACM
Me too. I've emailed Brandon.

Never fear - nearly 24 hours later, the ILDN has finally gotten back to me to let me know, despite the fact that all of us were having the same problem, and they were able to fix the problem after Arthur contacted the broadcasters to relay a message of the problem, that the problem must be on my end. I should, y'know, update my browser and clear my cache.

You could also try upgrading your computer or erasing your hard drive and reinstalling the operating system.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Everblades in the news.

Trotsky
Everblades in the news.

The player in the article played for UNH against us in the Estero 2013 tournament, and then transferred to Quinnipiac and played for them in 2014-15 (so he likely graduated from UNH as he avoided sitting out a year).

jkahn

Trotsky
Everblades in the news.

The player in the article played for UNH against us in the Estero 2013 tournament, and then transferred to Quinnipiac and played for them in 2014-15 (so he likely graduated from UNH as he avoided sitting out a year).

He appears to be wearing a 2013 tournament shirt in his mug shot.