So Much Winning

In addition to the RS title, we should also stop a moment and appreciate the second undefeated Ivy season since Ned.

If we win or tie tonight we'll have gone unbeaten on the road in league play

really just he bad effort the first RPI game from about a good as season as anyone could have dreamed.

Trotsky
In addition to the RS title, we should also stop a moment and appreciate the second undefeated Ivy season since Ned.

and so close in the yale game to a totally unblemished ivy slate.

It really is an amazing year so far. Hope they can keep it up. They are right up there with the best teams in the country.

Trotsky
It really is an amazing year so far. Hope they can keep it up. They are right up there with the best teams in the country.

This year has been great. If we could only "disappear" Union, we'd also be back to league normality.

It feels like 2010 (if that team had played in a weak ECAC) with an admixture of 2002, although I'm (barely, infinitesimally) slightly less confident in our goaltending than I was during either of those two seasons. (Only because Galajda is a freshman.)

I think this team could go very deep. Whether they do or don't, I think next year will be gangbusters. (All we're missing at this point is a dominant power play.)

Scersk '97
(All we're missing at this point is a dominant power play.)

All we're always missing, it seems, is a dominant power play.

Scersk '97
This year has been great. If we could only "disappear" Union, we'd also be back to league normality.

Can we disappear Quinnipiac instead?

We really need that Sniper to have the power play take off.. PC Drouin type who hit that top corner spot spot from the face off dot.. Angello has the skills but is seldom on that area.

Al DeFlorio

Scersk '97
This year has been great. If we could only "disappear" Union, we'd also be back to league normality.

Can we disappear Quinnipiac instead?

Why not both? Niagara/RIT are a natural rivalry.

Nia/RIT
Cor/Cgt
Clk/SLU
RPI/Prn
Yal/Brn
Drt/Hvd

Trotsky

Al DeFlorio

Scersk '97
This year has been great. If we could only "disappear" Union, we'd also be back to league normality.

Can we disappear Quinnipiac instead?

Why not both? Niagara/RIT are a natural rivalry.

Nia/RIT
Cor/Cgt
Clk/SLU
RPI/Prn
Yal/Brn
Drt/Hvd

I know this is a recency bias, but it would suck to lose a national champion from our conference. Union looks to be strong for the foreseeable future.

redliner

Trotsky

Al DeFlorio

Scersk '97
This year has been great. If we could only "disappear" Union, we'd also be back to league normality.

Can we disappear Quinnipiac instead?

Why not both? Niagara/RIT are a natural rivalry.

Nia/RIT
Cor/Cgt
Clk/SLU
RPI/Prn
Yal/Brn
Drt/Hvd

I know this is a recency bias, but it would suck to lose a national champion from our conference. Union looks to be strong for the foreseeable future.

On the one hand, maybe. On the other hand, fuck em.

Nah. Keep Union. Dump the Deer-ticks.

Jeff Hopkins '82
Nah. Keep Union. Dump the Deer-ticks.

Union has academic creds.

I'm not sure whether Union has good academics, but they don't pay their players in the same way that we don't pay our players. Cough.

Trotsky
It really is an amazing year so far. Hope they can keep it up. They are right up there with the other best teams in the country.

FYP

Trotsky
I'm not sure whether Union has good academics, but they don't pay their players in the same way that we don't pay our players. Cough.

U accepts 37%; Q 76%.

Oh, I know Q is a joke. Just wondered about U.

Union has a very good undergrad reputation with concentrations in the sciences and engineering. Their grad school has an excellent MPA program among other things.

Larry72
Union has a very good undergrad reputation with concentrations in the sciences and engineering. Their grad school has an excellent MPA program among other things.

OK, then we don't kick them out for academics. We kick them out for being annoying and having ugly sweaters.

As I wrote last night:

Tonight's win was @CUBigRedHockey's 23rd victory this season. Cornell has won 23 regular-season games only twice before (1967-68 & 1968-69). Tomorrow, Cornell can tie the program record of 24 regular-season wins (1969-70 & 2002-03). #ECACHpckey #LetsGoRed #LGR [t.co]

— Craig Buckser (@cbuckser) February 24, 2018

One caveat is that Cornell didn't begin playing a 29-game regular-season schedule until 1995-96. Cornell played only 24 regular-season games per season in its Harkness Era heyday. #ECACHockey #LetsGoRed #LGR [t.co]

— Craig Buckser (@cbuckser) February 24, 2018

cbuckser
As I wrote last night:

Tonight's win was @CUBigRedHockey's 23rd victory this season. Cornell has won 23 regular-season games only twice before (1967-68 & 1968-69). Tomorrow, Cornell can tie the program record of 24 regular-season wins (1969-70 & 2002-03). #ECACHpckey #LetsGoRed #LGR [t.co]

— Craig Buckser (@cbuckser) February 24, 2018

One caveat is that Cornell didn't begin playing a 29-game regular-season schedule until 1995-96. Cornell played only 24 regular-season games per season in its Harkness Era heyday. #ECACHockey #LetsGoRed #LGR [t.co]

— Craig Buckser (@cbuckser) February 24, 2018

Here are our RS v PS records which I have unaccountably only taken back to 1982 as of yet.

Fun trivia about Schafer's tenure. I went back and counted the number of years in which each team has failed to advance out of the First Round (or previously the Round of 5) during Mike's first 22 seasons. Note Cornell has already advanced this year as well.

 2 Cornell (1999 R5 at Princeton, 2015 1R at Union)
 5 Harvard
 5 Vermont + Quinnipiac
 6 St. Lawrence
 8 Clarkson
 8 Colgate
 8 Yale
 9 Dartmouth
10 RPI
12 Union
15 Brown
15 Princeton
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 9 average

"You don't know what you've got til it's gone." We should appreciate just how fortunate we as fans have been.

Agreed Larry, Union has great academic programs - I know of several friends kids who have done undergrad at Union and gone on to be Veterinarians and MDs and college profs all highly respected in their careers. They all speak highly of their educational experience there.