Red Hot game thread and watch

For a different experience/experiment, let me invite you to a game watch breakout room as part of the biweekly Cornell Global Mixer on Zoom this evening.
[cornell.zoom.us]
The event starts at 6:00 PM Eastern Time. Our host, Tony Chen, is going to designate a game watch breakout room among all the other breakout rooms. When you sign in you land in a general greeting room. Just tell Tony that you are looking for the game watch room. He can move you there or you can wander from room to room on your own.

I don't know how well Zoom will deal with everyone having the same game audio in the room with different phase delays. In the worst case, everyone mutes and the chat feature is available.

David Harding
For a different experience/experiment, let me invite you to a game watch breakout room as part of the biweekly Cornell Global Mixer on Zoom this evening.
[cornell.zoom.us]
The event starts at 6:00 PM Eastern Time. Our host, Tony Chen, is going to designate a game watch breakout room among all the other breakout rooms. When you sign in you land in a general greeting room. Just tell Tony that you are looking for the game watch room. He can move you there or you can wander from room to room on your own.

I don't know how well Zoom will deal with everyone having the same game audio in the room with different phase delays. In the worst case, everyone mutes and the chat feature is available.

Huh. Very interesting idea.

r/collegehockey also has a mega-thread (created I believe by a BU fan) which could be promising. I plan to keep it up on one of the billion screens in the house.

Howe is back.

I don't like that we miss faceoffs to watch goal replays and crowd shots.

5 goals scored--in the first period? As an alum who graduated, ahem, almost 20 years ago, it's going to take me some time to wrap my head around high scoring Cornell hockey games. I'll gladly take the decrease in defense as it is offset by the increase in offense, and I can't argue with the results this season. LGR.

Interesting to see the skill and speed of BU. They are disorganized and sloppy but dangerous. We need to keep our shape and make their defense and shaky goalie work.

Am I the only one freaking out at all of the crowd shots with no one wearing masks and everyone's mouth open?

jtwcornell91
Am I the only one freaking out at all of the crowd shots with no one wearing masks and everyone's mouth open?

Darwin never sleeps.

Stienburg got hurt?

Edit: He's back.

I think we got lucky, there. That could have been a 5 + GM.

Trotsky

jtwcornell91
Am I the only one freaking out at all of the crowd shots with no one wearing masks and everyone's mouth open?

Darwin never sleeps.

Darwin needs to step up his activity in Flori-dumb.

Listening via WHCU. No engineer? Ads interrupt the game, interviews - like they were scheduled/programmed in advance. Missed the second goal. Jason doesn’t seem to know.

3 very stupid penalties by Cornell and could have had another. Get your heads in the game, guys.

Trotsky
I think we got lucky, there. That could have been a 5 + GM.

Thought it was a good hit. These masshole announcers on ESPN+ are starting to get very very homerish though.

lhayes
Listening via WHCU. No engineer? Ads interrupt the game, interviews - like they were scheduled/programmed in advance. Missed the second goal. Jason doesn’t seem to know.

ESPN plus broadcast isn't perfect either. had a close up of the cornell bench and missed like 20 sec or so of on ice action. weird. Also volume balancing is out of whack- very low for the broadcast but then when they go to commercial or intermission, volume is way up.

however, very happy to have video and multiple replays.

My wife and I are wearing masks for what it’s worth. I’d say no more than 10% in my section are masked. Not good. B

Rita
had a close up of the cornell bench and missed like 20 sec or so of on ice action.

They do that when the goal is announced. They also cut to the guy in the box as the last seconds of the penalty expire. This has been the case for previous MSG broadcasts. I guess it's locked into their camera choice.

jtwcornell91
Am I the only one freaking out at all of the crowd shots with no one wearing masks and everyone's mouth open?

I don't know MSG specifically but pretty much everywhere in NYC is asking for proof of vaccination and then allowing people to not wear masks in those places. Wouldn't be surprised of they just had vaccination status checked as a part of normal arena entry procedures.

CU2007

Trotsky
I think we got lucky, there. That could have been a 5 + GM.

Thought it was a good hit. These masshole announcers on ESPN+ are starting to get very very homerish though.

I think the announcers are good. The accent is hideous but that's a birth defect.

Rita

lhayes
Listening via WHCU. No engineer? Ads interrupt the game, interviews - like they were scheduled/programmed in advance. Missed the second goal. Jason doesn’t seem to know.

ESPN plus broadcast isn't perfect either. had a close up of the cornell bench and missed like 20 sec or so of on ice action. weird. Also volume balancing is out of whack- very low for the broadcast but then when they go to commercial or intermission, volume is way up.

however, very happy to have video and multiple replays.

There typically isn't a TV camera crew for this game but just a pickup of the rink camera. The view is the same as is seen by the fans on the MSG center ice screen.

Rita

lhayes
Listening via WHCU. No engineer? Ads interrupt the game, interviews - like they were scheduled/programmed in advance. Missed the second goal. Jason doesn’t seem to know.

ESPN plus broadcast isn't perfect either. had a close up of the cornell bench and missed like 20 sec or so of on ice action. weird. Also volume balancing is out of whack- very low for the broadcast but then when they go to commercial or intermission, volume is way up.

however, very happy to have video and multiple replays.

It looks like they’re just pulling the in-house video feed, which is why you see so many crowd shots and bench shots after goals. They’ve done this whenever the game hasn’t been picked up by MSG Network or some other channel.

Same here. Synced up Jason with the video, but random commercial drops screw that up. FWIW, this happened to me on the TuneIn app. Guessing it's an app intrusion and it has nothing to do with over-the-air feed locally in Ithaca.

After two periods of this, going with a different source for WHCU radio feed for the third period.

Same dropouts here via the TuneIn radio app. Ditching that feed for the WHCU feed here for the third period.

[onlineradiobox.com]

OK, get the next goal, Red.

WOW. Malinsky.

Thanks - trying that.

Trotsky
WOW. Malinsky.

Indeed. Hell of a special play there.

facemadeforradio
Same dropouts here via the TuneIn radio app. Ditching that feed for the WHCU feed here for the third period.

[onlineradiobox.com]

Nope...audio just went to random commercial drop in the middle of a rush on this app as well.

Gonna suffer with the BU crew the rest of the way.

We should study BU's power play.

Trotsky
We should study BU's power play.

Since I am only following the stats (not listening on watching), I am not sure what you mean--BU's power play is 0 for 5 so far tonight.

djk26

Trotsky
We should study BU's power play.

Since I am only following the stats (not listening on watching), I am not sure what you mean--BU's power play is 0 for 5 so far tonight.

They have generated a ton of fantastic chances.

Cornell 6 BU 4

I will take that win.

very satisfying

A good, heavily pro-Cornell crowd at MSG. Was worried about attendance at the start but arena filled in pretty well. There was a large group behind mine that knew each other and I think said were class of 2013 or thereabouts doing a lot of the classic cheers. Fun to hear and join in.

Cornell in its last 38 games:

31-3-4

Last 18 games:

17-1-0

Iceberg

jtwcornell91
Am I the only one freaking out at all of the crowd shots with no one wearing masks and everyone's mouth open?

I don't know MSG specifically but pretty much everywhere in NYC is asking for proof of vaccination and then allowing people to not wear masks in those places. Wouldn't be surprised of they just had vaccination status checked as a part of normal arena entry procedures.

They checked vax status, but masks would be helpful.

Yell Cornell

Let's take 2:26 to show ten goals.

Or take a minute to show one!! Sam Malinski, third period!

And two minutes to show six seconds!!! Liam Motley, Sam Malinski, Brenden Locke and Max Andreev, first period.

Cornell hockey as done by Family Guy.

marty
And two minutes to show six seconds!!! Liam Motley, Sam Malinski, Brenden Locke and Max Andreev, first period.

Locke's pass is such a beautiful thing. He had a great game.

marty

Or take a minute to show one!! Sam Malinski, third period!

I hadn't noticed this watching in real-time, but check out the BU player Malinski beats. He leaves his stick on the ice and kinda throws his hands up in despair!

andyw2100
I hadn't noticed this watching in real-time, but check out the BU player Malinski beats. He leaves his stick on the ice and kinda throws his hands up in despair!

I hadn't seen it either. #7. Hilarious.

Trotsky

andyw2100
I hadn't noticed this watching in real-time, but check out the BU player Malinski beats. He leaves his stick on the ice and kinda throws his hands up in despair!

I hadn't seen it either. #7. Hilarious.

Vlasic found himself in a pickle.

marty

Trotsky

andyw2100
I hadn't noticed this watching in real-time, but check out the BU player Malinski beats. He leaves his stick on the ice and kinda throws his hands up in despair!

I hadn't seen it either. #7. Hilarious.

Vlasic found himself in a pickle.

Vlasic is a UNDTP hot shot who is a 2019 2nd round pick of the Black Hawks. Malinski made him look silly.

BU goalie Commesso likewise is a UNDTP player who also was taken in the 2nd round of the 2020 draft by Chicago. Supposedly he’s the likely number 1 goalie for the U.S. in this year’s World Juniors. If so the USA may be in for a heap of trouble if he doesn’t play considerably better than he did last night.

interesting team to watch so far. once we clear the zone we are creative and pretty fast. I guess the season will hinge on how well the D controls the mistakes/giveaways. We create more than enough chances. We probably have a good shot at 3-5 15 goal guys and 5-6 10 goal guys and considering 2 yrs ago we had 1 and 2 thats pretty big uptake. We had 11 five goal guys our last full yr and probably have 8-10 this yr. Strange to see a team good on the cycle on one end but lose many 2x1 plays on the D end though

Adam’s game story with some interesting quotes

arugula

Iceberg

jtwcornell91
Am I the only one freaking out at all of the crowd shots with no one wearing masks and everyone's mouth open?

I don't know MSG specifically but pretty much everywhere in NYC is asking for proof of vaccination and then allowing people to not wear masks in those places. Wouldn't be surprised of they just had vaccination status checked as a part of normal arena entry procedures.

They checked vax status, but masks would be helpful.

This was the case at the Cornell-RIT women's game in October, but there about half the people were wearing masks, and there were a lot fewer people in the arena. And, at least in Rochester, the community infection rate is even higher now than it was then.

andyw2100

marty

Or take a minute to show one!! Sam Malinski, third period!

I hadn't noticed this watching in real-time, but check out the BU player Malinski beats. He leaves his stick on the ice and kinda throws his hands up in despair!

I saw that. It was wonderful.

scoop85
Adam’s game story with some interesting quotes

Adam
he last time Cornell played Boston University at Madison Square Garden — as part of the teams' semi-annual Red Hot Hockey event — the Big Red were en route to a 25-2 season readying for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

I assume this was a typo, but amusing in the context of the discussion of attendance.

Not a typo! It's really every other year as Red Hot Hockey, and on the intervening year it's called something else.

Do you mean semi-annual vs. bi-annual? If so, I agree! It should be bi-annual!

BMac
Not a typo! It's really every other year as Red Hot Hockey, and on the intervening year it's called something else.

Do you mean semi-annual vs. bi-annual? If so, I agree! It should be bi-annual!

The “off” years are called the “Frozen Apple” IIRC.

BMac

Do you mean semi-annual vs. bi-annual? If so, I agree! It should be bi-annual!

Better yet, biennial.

I didn't really want to pile on, but I saw 25-2 again, and while the Big Red was damn good in 2019-20, they were 23-2-4. Which even now that we're keeping track of OT wins and OT losses, and this is worth 55% of that even though points-wise it's worth 67% -- well, it's still not quite the same as 25-2...

BMac
Not a typo! It's really every other year as Red Hot Hockey, and on the intervening year it's called something else.

Do you mean semi-annual vs. bi-annual? If so, I agree! It should be bi-annual!

Adam has corrected the article to read "biennial". The original posting was "semi-annual", as I quoted.

BMac
Not a typo! It's really every other year as Red Hot Hockey, and on the intervening year it's called something else.

Do you mean semi-annual vs. bi-annual? If so, I agree! It should be bi-annual!

Look at the confusion among people with college degrees. Frequency confusion is the scourge of the magazine business, explaining publications out every two weeks: bi-weekly can mean twice a week as well as every 2 weeks. The British fortnightly is clearer as "every two weeks." Semi-monthly means twice a month (24 not 26 issues yearly). The current best description for many such publications is simpler: online, no longer published in print.

When there's confusion about biennial or bi-weekly, the writer has to use a longer phrase not as elegant. Red Hot Hockey could also be described as the every-odd-year competition dating to 2007. Gad, can it really be that long ago?