Milestones

Assuming he plays, Wieckowski will be playing in his 125th game for Cornell on Friday (would have been Saturday if he hadn't been benched at Colgate) (Knopp holds the record with 133). Krys also picked up his 50th point on Saturday.

David Kozier got up his 50th point against Clarkson.

Milestones to watch for:

Matt McRae is 1 point shy of 50.

Denis Ladouceur is 1 point shy of 80.

David Francis and Brian McMeekin are 1 game shy of 100.

Stephen Bâby got his 70th point against Union, and barring injuries could make a run at 100 points next year for the first time since Ryan Moynihan finished with 106 in '00. (Stienstra ended his Cornell carreer with 99).

woah. knopp had 133 pts in 133 games???

if true, that is damn impressive!!

Knopp was damn impressive

Age Manocchia '98 wrote:

Stephen Bâby got his 70th point against Union, and barring injuries could make a run at 100 points next year for the first time since Kyle Knopp finished with 133 in '99.(Stienstra ended his Cornell carreer with 99).

Shouldn't that read, "since Ryan Moynihan finished with 106 in '00"?

But you're right, Knopp was damn impressive.

sorry. my bad.

Impressive, yes, but not as impressive as 113 goals in 113 games by Brock Tredway.

according to greg's website, knopp actually has 129 pts in 133 games, which is still impressive.

this may be a stupid question for you long-time lynah diehards ... but why didn't (or why couldn't) the freshman class play in any of the games during the 60s and the early 70s? i noticed that most of the players in that era have statistics only for their sophomore, junior and senior seasons...

Freshmen weren't eligible to play varsity sports back then. There usually were separate Freshmen teams playing limited schedules. When Freshmen were first allowed to play varsity, not all schools went along with it, and there was the expected "we won't play you if your use Freshmen," but this was soon ironed out. I'll leave you to guess which schools were on each side of this disagreement.

Keith's says 133.

If my Knopp total is wrong, I apologize. I'll see what I've got later in the week when I've got a chance.
I really need to put a disclaimer on my stats... I must say though that I would've thought the late 90's stats were pretty consistent. Then again, they're based on the boxes that I have and if those changed after the fact then I could miss the changes.

According to the Cornell media guide, Kyle Knopp indeed had 133 points in 133 games.

I'm sure Keith's numbers are right. I'll get the official record (or anyway Cornell's, which passes for it), and make the adjustment.

Something to add. If I remember correctly, what my dad has told me was that Ned Harkness had his father Pop Harkness coach the freshmen team the year that Cornell won it's first National Title (1967). Those freshman were the seniors the year that Cornell went 29-0-0.

first of all, just want to say thanks...
my guess would be the future hockey east schools versus the rest of ecac led by the ivies. but as to what each side wanted, hmmm... i venture to say that it's probably the latter group who didn't want to play freshmen.

According to something I read a while back on USCHO, freshman ineligibility was the reason why the perfect 1956 Clarkson team refused a bid to the NCAA tournament - their seniors would not have been allowed to play.

I found the article:
[www.uscho.com]

Found this tidbit on USA Today's website:
"With the sweep of Yale, Cornell tied Clarkson's ECAC record of 67 tournament wins."

Well didn't clarkson win two games last week, also. So therefore haven't we been tied since last post-season?

And that reminds me, aren't we closing in on Clarkson as far as win-loss head to head goes? Last I checked we were 5 behind. Plus 2 this season.. so now we're 3 behind? Or am I missing some games from last season?

TBRW? gives Cornell's record against Clarkson as 39-43-8. It's possible you might be forgetting the game last year at Cheel (Clarkson won 2-0).

If that includes the 1-8-1 record from the Beebe Lake era, then we've made real progress.

Found this amusing trivia on the imdb site for "Love Story" about some hah-vahd hockey guy:

"Both the Cornell and Dartmouth hockey teams were played by Dartmouth's actual team. Cornell hockey coach Ned Harkness only allowed Cornell jerseys to be used in the film on the condition that Cornell win the game with Harvard."

atta-boy Ned!

There's a huge feature about Ned Harkness in a recent Cornell Magazine (the alumni mag)...sometime within the past 6 months, I forget which issue

[cornell-magazine.cornell.edu]