Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
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Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: CAS (---.hsd1.nj.comcast.net)
Date: January 27, 2020 03:55PM
CU there
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: Iceberg (---.tmodns.net)
Date: January 27, 2020 06:10PM
Seated tickets for this sold out a long time ago. Not surpising since this is probably the most well-attended road game aside from Harvard
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: CAS (---.hsd1.nj.comcast.net)
Date: January 27, 2020 06:39PM
Princeton has a big home basketball game that nite. Hard to believe the rink will be full. Maybe Bill Howard can address the situation with getting seats at Princeton...
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: Jeff Hopkins '82 (---.102.132.76.res-cmts.sm.ptd.net)
Date: January 27, 2020 10:13PM
As per usual, the seated tix may be sold out, but given how bad their team is and the fact there's a squeakball game, there should be plenty of open seats.
As usual.
As usual.
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: Swampy (184.170.253.---)
Date: January 27, 2020 10:31PM
I didn’t want to start another thread about this, but does anyone know what to expect at Q for tickets this Friday?
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: dbilmes (32.218.117.---)
Date: January 28, 2020 06:39AM
They only have SRO tickets for sale. The Cornell Club bloc sold out quickly weeks ago.Swampy
I didn’t want to start another thread about this, but does anyone know what to expect at Q for tickets this Friday?
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: drs48 (---.hsd1.tx.comcast.net)
Date: January 28, 2020 09:42AM
As for Princeton, I have attended many years in a row having only been moved once by the season ticket holder. Despite being "sold out" every year, there are in fact many seats available. Having retired and relocated to Houston for the daughter/son in law (both '04) and grand kids, alas, I can no longer attend. Go Red!
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: Swampy (---.ri.ri.cox.net)
Date: January 28, 2020 10:29AM
dbilmes
They only have SRO tickets for sale. The Cornell Club bloc sold out quickly weeks ago.Swampy
I didn’t want to start another thread about this, but does anyone know what to expect at Q for tickets this Friday?
Wow. Last year I got an invite from the Cornell Club and bought my ticket that way. This year no invite. I guess not living in Connecticut has its disadvantages.
I still think I'll get SRO tickets and make the trip anyway. Last year, IIRC, there were many empty seats despite the number of tickets sold.
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: January 28, 2020 10:49AM
Unless you're living in Massachusetts I can't think of any.Swampy
I guess not living in Connecticut has its disadvantages.
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: dbilmes (32.218.117.---)
Date: January 28, 2020 02:58PM
If you buy a SRO ticket at Quinnipiac, you'll always be able to find a seat if you so choose. Most of the games I've attended there, even playoff games, have been announced as sell-outs, and most featured hundreds of empty seats. With Cornell being No. 1, though, I expect that even the townies who have season tickets but don't go to every game will show up for this one.Swampy
dbilmes
They only have SRO tickets for sale. The Cornell Club bloc sold out quickly weeks ago.Swampy
I didn’t want to start another thread about this, but does anyone know what to expect at Q for tickets this Friday?
Wow. Last year I got an invite from the Cornell Club and bought my ticket that way. This year no invite. I guess not living in Connecticut has its disadvantages.
I still think I'll get SRO tickets and make the trip anyway. Last year, IIRC, there were many empty seats despite the number of tickets sold.
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: January 28, 2020 03:18PM
It would be interesting to have an accurate measure of the traveling Faithful. My impression is in the Golden Age (66-73) we took over road barns, including Boston Garden (correct me if I am wrong, olde timers, I wasn't there until 81). I've seen a few road crowds completely dominate. RPI's contingent at the Garden in 85 is probably the biggest I have ever seen (I would conservatively estimate they had 70% of the arena). It also didn't hurt their pep band had an electric bass.
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Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: dbilmes (32.218.117.---)
Date: January 28, 2020 07:03PM
We had some huge road crowds in the early 2000s. I remember being at Yale games where it seemed like at least half of the rink consisted of Cornell fans.
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: Jim Hyla (---.239.191.68.cl.cstel.com)
Date: January 29, 2020 09:26AM
Trotsky
It would be interesting to have an accurate measure of the traveling Faithful. My impression is in the Golden Age (66-73) we took over road barns, including Boston Garden (correct me if I am wrong, olde timers, I wasn't there until 81). I've seen a few road crowds completely dominate. RPI's contingent at the Garden in 85 is probably the biggest I have ever seen (I would conservatively estimate they had 70% of the arena). It also didn't hurt their pep band had an electric bass.
Of course there is Lynah East, 'nuf said.
As far as the old Garden, go no further than "Cornell Fans Made the Timbers Tremble", Boston Globe, March/1970.
It was wonderful walking up the old ramps to get into the Garden. I could feel my body get excited with each step. You just knew that CU was going to take over the crowd.
Even driving the Mass Pike to Boston was exciting. When a car full of CU fans would pass another, horns would honk. You'd meet people at the rest stops on the way and get to Boston just in time to grab a bite at McD's across the street from the Garden.
Fun.
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"Cornell Fans Made the Timbers Tremble", Boston Globe, March/1970
Cornell lawyers stopped the candy throwing. Jan/2005
"Cornell Fans Made the Timbers Tremble", Boston Globe, March/1970
Cornell lawyers stopped the candy throwing. Jan/2005
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: January 29, 2020 10:46AM
I know this feeling from 85 and 86. I've never been as thrilled to enter into any other barn.Jim Hyla
It was wonderful walking up the old ramps to get into the Garden. I could feel my body get excited with each step.
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: Swampy (---.ri.ri.cox.net)
Date: January 29, 2020 02:51PM
Jim Hyla
Trotsky
It would be interesting to have an accurate measure of the traveling Faithful. My impression is in the Golden Age (66-73) we took over road barns, including Boston Garden (correct me if I am wrong, olde timers, I wasn't there until 81). I've seen a few road crowds completely dominate. RPI's contingent at the Garden in 85 is probably the biggest I have ever seen (I would conservatively estimate they had 70% of the arena). It also didn't hurt their pep band had an electric bass.
Of course there is Lynah East, 'nuf said.
As far as the old Garden, go no further than "Cornell Fans Made the Timbers Tremble", Boston Globe, March/1970.
It was wonderful walking up the old ramps to get into the Garden. I could feel my body get excited with each step. You just knew that CU was going to take over the crowd.
Even driving the Mass Pike to Boston was exciting. When a car full of CU fans would pass another, horns would honk. You'd meet people at the rest stops on the way and get to Boston just in time to grab a bite at McD's across the street from the Garden.
Fun.
I too remember this about the Garden, although I think certain kinds of impressions are unfair. If we were playing BU or BC (I don't recall ever playing Harvard in the Garden; maybe we never played BU or BC there either - I can't remember ), as one would expect there were quite a few supporters from the other side. OTOH, I do remember playing MSU there, and we far outnumbered them. But IIRC, MSU's representation was substantial considering how much further away their campus is.
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: billhoward (---.nwrk.east.verizon.net)
Date: January 30, 2020 08:57AM
The best-attended Princeton-Cornell game I ever saw had, maybe, 200 open seats in a rink of 2,000. That was when the Princeton team was doing well. Princeton is currently 11th in the ECAC at 1-8-3 although it is on a one-game winning streak.CAS
Princeton has a big home basketball game that nite. Hard to believe the rink will be full. Maybe Bill Howard can address the situation with getting seats at Princeton...
If you cannot, by the start of the second period, find two open seats together no more than two rows back of the Cornell bench, you're not trying.
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: billhoward (---.nwrk.east.verizon.net)
Date: January 30, 2020 09:03AM
Cripe! It's hard to think of 15 years ago as being the good old days. Then I looked and the mirror and I saw a Do Not Resuscitate waiver staring back. My take on "If thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee." Even millennials are starting to look real old.dbilmes
We had some huge road crowds in the early 2000s. I remember being at Yale games where it seemed like at least half of the rink consisted of Cornell fans.
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: Jeff Hopkins '82 (---.102.132.76.res-cmts.sm.ptd.net)
Date: January 30, 2020 03:52PM
billhoward
Cripe! It's hard to think of 15 years ago as being the good old days. Then I looked and the mirror and I saw a Do Not Resuscitate waiver staring back. My take on "If thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee." Even millennials are starting to look real old.dbilmes
We had some huge road crowds in the early 2000s. I remember being at Yale games where it seemed like at least half of the rink consisted of Cornell fans.
Yep, my nephew, who I remember holding when he was only 17 days old, just turned 20.
Face it, Bill. We're old.
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: Jim Hyla (---.239.191.68.cl.cstel.com)
Date: January 31, 2020 09:14AM
Jeff Hopkins '82
billhoward
Cripe! It's hard to think of 15 years ago as being the good old days. Then I looked and the mirror and I saw a Do Not Resuscitate waiver staring back. My take on "If thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee." Even millennials are starting to look real old.dbilmes
We had some huge road crowds in the early 2000s. I remember being at Yale games where it seemed like at least half of the rink consisted of Cornell fans.
Yep, my nephew, who I remember holding when he was only 17 days old, just turned 20.
Face it, Bill. We're old.
You don't know old.
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"Cornell Fans Made the Timbers Tremble", Boston Globe, March/1970
Cornell lawyers stopped the candy throwing. Jan/2005
"Cornell Fans Made the Timbers Tremble", Boston Globe, March/1970
Cornell lawyers stopped the candy throwing. Jan/2005
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: CAS (---.dia.static.qwest.net)
Date: January 31, 2020 12:18PM
Princeton ticket office reports that there an extremely limited number of remaining tickets.
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: osorojo (---.res.spectrum.com)
Date: January 31, 2020 12:21PM
This year Cornell skaters seem to have consistently played at the level of their opponents. This could be an exciting game.
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: January 31, 2020 01:13PM
osorojo
This year Cornell skaters seem to have consistently played at the level of their opponents.
You can tell this from the .842 percentage.
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Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: January 31, 2020 01:41PM
Opponents' combined conference records, final six weekends:
DH 14- 8-5 .611 QP 8-12-4 .417 GG 12- 6-6 .625 UR 11-16-2 .414 YB 10-14-0 .417 SK 11-15-0 .423
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Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: osorojo (---.res.spectrum.com)
Date: January 31, 2020 03:30PM
Is that .842 a percentage of wins alone or wins and ties? I never did well in those classes with all the numbers but it seems Cornell failed to win (lost or tied) against lower-rated teams as frequently as they failed to win against top-fifteen teams.
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: ugarte (---.177.169.163.IPYX-102276-ZYO.zip.zayo.com)
Date: January 31, 2020 03:34PM
includes ties as half-win, half loss. 14-1-4 = 16-3.osorojo
Is that .842 a percentage of wins alone or wins and ties? I never did well in those classes with all the numbers but it seems Cornell failed to win (lost or tied) against lower-rated teams as frequently as they failed to win against top-fifteen teams.
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Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: January 31, 2020 04:22PM
osorojo
Is that .842 a percentage of wins alone or wins and ties? I never did well in those classes with all the numbers but it seems Cornell failed to win (lost or tied) against lower-rated teams as frequently as they failed to win against top-fifteen teams.
(2w + t) / 2gp
or, (w + t/2) / gp
My point is we're not really playing at the level of the opposition. We're taking the points we need against unranked teams and then fighting tooth and nail against the ranked ones.
Union is the exception.
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Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: Dafatone (206.209.15.---)
Date: January 31, 2020 04:37PM
osorojo
This year Cornell skaters seem to have consistently played at the level of their opponents. This could be an exciting game.
The teams we've tied are ranked 9, 15, 20, and 55 in the pairwise.
The team we lost to is ranked 22.
Basically, we have a bad tie to Union. Otherwise, we've had some tough games against tough teams, and we've beaten teams all across the spectrum (8, 10, 15, 19, as well as 53, 56, 59).
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: January 31, 2020 04:47PM
Record vs current PWR bands:
To give you an idea, let's say we replicate over the final 10 games:
That would be 23-1-5 overall, 18-1-3 ECAC. Yeah, I'll take that.
1- 9 1-0-1 Clk, Prv 10-19 5-0-1 OSU, NMUx2, MSUx2, Qpc 20-29 3-1-1 Hvdx2, Drtx2, BU 30-39 1-0-0 Yal 40-49 1-0-0 RPI 50+ 3-0-1 Prn, Uni, Brn, SLU
To give you an idea, let's say we replicate over the final 10 games:
1- 9 2-0-1 Clkx2, Prv 10-19 6-0-1 OSU, NMUx2, MSUx2, Qpcx2 20-29 3-1-1 Hvdx2, Drtx2, BU 30-39 4-0-0 Yalx2, Cgtx2 40-49 2-0-0 RPIx2 50+ 6-0-2 Prnx2, Unix2, Brnx2, SLUx2
That would be 23-1-5 overall, 18-1-3 ECAC. Yeah, I'll take that.
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Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: arugula (38.109.75.---)
Date: January 31, 2020 04:56PM
Trotsky
I know this feeling from 85 and 86. I've never been as thrilled to enter into any other barn.Jim Hyla
It was wonderful walking up the old ramps to get into the Garden. I could feel my body get excited with each step.
I was also there those years. Crazy loud atomosphere. The timbers at the Garden truly swayed, which may have had something to do with shoddy construction too. I recall the 1986 double ot semi-final game with Clarkson and being worried that the T would stop for the night. My late roommate and I stood along with everyone else for basically the entire night, which in the Gahden sometimes meant banging your head on the overhang.
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: January 31, 2020 04:59PM
I remember that in the corners at the top of the rink the seats were all over the place and the rows lost their integrity. It was like the top of an ear of corn.arugula
Trotsky
I know this feeling from 85 and 86. I've never been as thrilled to enter into any other barn.Jim Hyla
It was wonderful walking up the old ramps to get into the Garden. I could feel my body get excited with each step.
I was also there those years. Crazy loud atomosphere. The timbers at the Garden truly swayed, which may have had something to do with shoddy construction too. I recall the 1986 double ot semi-final game with Clarkson and being worried that the T would stop for the night. My late roommate and I stood along with everyone else for basically the entire night, which in the Gahden sometimes meant banging your head on the overhang.
The 86 ECAC SF is still the most exciting game I've ever seen, and the greatest performance by a Cornell goalie I have been present for.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/31/2020 05:01PM by Trotsky.
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: arugula (38.109.75.---)
Date: January 31, 2020 05:13PM
Trotsky
I remember that in the corners at the top of the rink the seats were all over the place and the rows lost their integrity. It was like the top of an ear of corn.arugula
Trotsky
I know this feeling from 85 and 86. I've never been as thrilled to enter into any other barn.Jim Hyla
It was wonderful walking up the old ramps to get into the Garden. I could feel my body get excited with each step.
I was also there those years. Crazy loud atomosphere. The timbers at the Garden truly swayed, which may have had something to do with shoddy construction too. I recall the 1986 double ot semi-final game with Clarkson and being worried that the T would stop for the night. My late roommate and I stood along with everyone else for basically the entire night, which in the Gahden sometimes meant banging your head on the overhang.
The 86 ECAC SF is still the most exciting game I've ever seen, and the greatest performance by a Cornell goalie I have been present for.
If you had asked me then, I would have said dadswell was more likely to have the great nhl career than Joe.
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: January 31, 2020 05:17PM
arugula
If you had asked me then, I would have said dadswell was more likely to have the great nhl career than Joe.
I don't know about that, but when Joe scored 50 in his first couple years I was dumbstruck.
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: arugula (38.109.75.---)
Date: January 31, 2020 05:20PM
arugula
Trotsky
I remember that in the corners at the top of the rink the seats were all over the place and the rows lost their integrity. It was like the top of an ear of corn.arugula
Trotsky
I know this feeling from 85 and 86. I've never been as thrilled to enter into any other barn.Jim Hyla
It was wonderful walking up the old ramps to get into the Garden. I could feel my body get excited with each step.
I was also there those years. Crazy loud atomosphere. The timbers at the Garden truly swayed, which may have had something to do with shoddy construction too. I recall the 1986 double ot semi-final game with Clarkson and being worried that the T would stop for the night. My late roommate and I stood along with everyone else for basically the entire night, which in the Gahden sometimes meant banging your head on the overhang.
The 86 ECAC SF is still the most exciting game I've ever seen, and the greatest performance by a Cornell goalie I have been present for.
If you had asked me then, I would have said dadswell was more likely to have the great nhl career than Joe.
Funny, my wife is a Yale grad and her friend was friends with Mike Schwalb who was in the nets for Yale the next night, so I've heard a bit of being on the other side of Dadswell's hot streak. Good Yale team with Randy Wood but the Red were not being stopped that year, at least not in the ECAC.
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: arugula (38.109.75.---)
Date: January 31, 2020 05:22PM
arugula
arugula
Trotsky
I remember that in the corners at the top of the rink the seats were all over the place and the rows lost their integrity. It was like the top of an ear of corn.arugula
Trotsky
I know this feeling from 85 and 86. I've never been as thrilled to enter into any other barn.Jim Hyla
It was wonderful walking up the old ramps to get into the Garden. I could feel my body get excited with each step.
I was also there those years. Crazy loud atomosphere. The timbers at the Garden truly swayed, which may have had something to do with shoddy construction too. I recall the 1986 double ot semi-final game with Clarkson and being worried that the T would stop for the night. My late roommate and I stood along with everyone else for basically the entire night, which in the Gahden sometimes meant banging your head on the overhang.
The 86 ECAC SF is still the most exciting game I've ever seen, and the greatest performance by a Cornell goalie I have been present for.
If you had asked me then, I would have said dadswell was more likely to have the great nhl career than Joe.
Funny, my wife is a Yale grad and her friend was friends with Mike Schwalb who was in the nets for Yale the next night, so I've heard a bit of being on the other side of Dadswell's hot streak. Good Yale team with Randy Wood but the Red were not being stopped that year, at least not in the ECAC.
Wait a second, I'm getting (am) old. Got it all reversed. Yale was the double ot semi. Duh
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: upprdeck (38.77.26.---)
Date: January 31, 2020 05:31PM
we havent played at the level of the bad teams as much as we havent scored given all the chances..
we outshot union by over 10 on the road and tied.
quin we played an avg game at the stats show it as an even game
dartmouth we lost but we out shot them 40-17.. thats just the way hockey goes some nights
dart game 38-22 and another close game but good effort
harvard was the game that we probably deserved to lose out shot by 13 at home..
but harvard has played way below their talent level all yr.
we will know in 3-4 weeks whether we have leveled off our just hit the mid yr lull with the break..
we outshot union by over 10 on the road and tied.
quin we played an avg game at the stats show it as an even game
dartmouth we lost but we out shot them 40-17.. thats just the way hockey goes some nights
dart game 38-22 and another close game but good effort
harvard was the game that we probably deserved to lose out shot by 13 at home..
but harvard has played way below their talent level all yr.
we will know in 3-4 weeks whether we have leveled off our just hit the mid yr lull with the break..
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: Trotsky (---.washdc.fios.verizon.net)
Date: January 31, 2020 08:25PM
Welp. This is happening. There's one stinker every year.
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: ugarte (---.sub-174-202-33.myvzw.com)
Date: January 31, 2020 08:31PM
i thought the statcast was glitchingTrotsky
Welp. This is happening. There's one stinker every year.
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Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: upprdeck (38.77.26.---)
Date: January 31, 2020 08:32PM
we had 2 spurts of cycling where we produced tons of chances but other than that little zone time.
Quin has gotten goals on the pinch and some good bounce rebounds but this looks just like the harvard game, no pressure and very sloppy D.
we went 2 months with solid games and now its been several in a row and not great effort.
Quin has gotten goals on the pinch and some good bounce rebounds but this looks just like the harvard game, no pressure and very sloppy D.
we went 2 months with solid games and now its been several in a row and not great effort.
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday
Posted by: billhoward (---.nwrk.east.verizon.net)
Date: January 31, 2020 10:20PM
The most poignant moment was when a friend at the Springfield Newspapers, my first stop on the pro circuit, looked at his firstborn and said, I can see myself dancing at her wedding. Fast-forward 30 years and he is. Tick, tick,Jeff Hopkins '82
billhoward
Cripe! It's hard to think of 15 years ago as being the good old days. Then I looked and the mirror and I saw a Do Not Resuscitate waiver staring back. My take on "If thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee." Even millennials are starting to look real old.dbilmes
We had some huge road crowds in the early 2000s. I remember being at Yale games where it seemed like at least half of the rink consisted of Cornell fans.
Yep, my nephew, who I remember holding when he was only 17 days old, just turned 20.
Face it, Bill. We're old.
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