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Discussions about the Cornell men's and women's hockey teams
Re: WHCU ends broadcast partnership with CU - Yesterday
arugula BearLover VIEWfromK arugula Anyone so long as Pierre McGuire is not involved The notion that Pierre McGuire is worse than the local ECAC announcers was certainly one of the crazier views expressed on this forum lately Of course he's not worse. Most of the ECAC announcers are rank amateurs. I just don't like McGuire. We've been extraordinarily lucky to have real pros I’m not tryingby BearLover - Hockey
Re: WHCU ends broadcast partnership with CU - Yesterday
Trotsky BearLover Trotsky BearLover VIEWfromK arugula Anyone so long as Pierre McGuire is not involved The notion that Pierre McGuire is worse than the local ECAC announcers was certainly one of the crazier views expressed on this forum lately McGuire has National Hockey Media Syndrome: the affectation that college hockey is an "appetizer" to the NHL, driven in turn by Sports Insecby BearLover - Hockey
Re: WHCU ends broadcast partnership with CU - Yesterday
Trotsky BearLover VIEWfromK arugula Anyone so long as Pierre McGuire is not involved The notion that Pierre McGuire is worse than the local ECAC announcers was certainly one of the crazier views expressed on this forum lately McGuire has National Hockey Media Syndrome: the affectation that college hockey is an "appetizer" to the NHL, driven in turn by Sports Insecurity Syndrome, thby BearLover - Hockey
Re: WHCU ends broadcast partnership with CU - Yesterday
jts15 From Jane M. NEWS: Cornell Athletics has confirmed to @cornellsun the following updates to Cornell hockey broadcasts: Jason Weinstein (prev. WHCU) will do play-by-play for men's & women's ESPN +broadcasts. Tony Eisenhut will join as color for men's broadcasts; women's color commentator TBD. Well that’s interesting. Jason was pretty good back when he did the webcasts (was that lby BearLover - Hockey
Re: WHCU ends broadcast partnership with CU - Yesterday
VIEWfromK arugula Anyone so long as Pierre McGuire is not involved The notion that Pierre McGuire is worse than the local ECAC announcers was certainly one of the crazier views expressed on this forum latelyby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Why you should apply to the Hockey Beat - 4 days ago
I’ve lost the plot. Are we talking about whether AI can be conscious, whether it can discover novel ideas, whether it can replace humans in economically valuable tasks, whether it can create art? These are all different questions and I’m not really qualified to opine on them. Though, I don’t really think the answer can be derived from abstract philosophy or by analyzing the limitations of currentby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Rest in Peace Ken Dryden - 6 days ago
I also did not realize his career save percentage (.922) is tied for the highest in NHL history. Doesn’t get enough acknowledgement in the GOAT goalie debate. He retired in his prime, at 31, because he wanted to pursue other things.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Rest in Peace Ken Dryden - 6 days ago
I hadn’t realized he was color commentator alongside Al Michaels for the miracle on ice, nor that he was president of the Maple Leafs the last two times they reached the conference finals. RIPby BearLover - Hockey
Re: 2025-26 Men's Schedule - 7 days ago
stereax Next week student tickets come out. Already setting my alarm for 5:30 am Tuesday. I see it’s $209 for “all home-hosted competition,” excluding 4 games over winter break. Does that mean it covers any home playoff games as well? Assuming 2 home playoff games, that’s $16/game. Which is an incredible bargain compared to pro sporting events (one Rangers game in these seats would cost way mby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Why you should apply to the Hockey Beat - 9 days ago
Trotsky BearLoverbelieves AGI will arrive within the next five years. Every year since 1960. cf. cold fusion. It's not real, my friend. It's an illusion. War's over; Hubey dropped the big one. Even MIT eventually admitted it. I’ll read this stuff at some point but just FYI your form of argumentation is not persuasive. You’re citing as gospel theory that was written decades beforeby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Why you should apply to the Hockey Beat - 9 days ago
Swampy Trotsky BearLover Trotsky AI is a statistically-weighted revision of this. It isn't intelligence. It isn't consciousness. It doesn't have the self-awareness of a bumble bee. And it will never have any of these. It isn't undeveloped cognition, it is utterly a zero value. It's a probabilistic calculator. It's a blank canvas for our anthroporphism. To the extent these things are trueby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponent and other news and results 2025-2026 - 9 days ago
Trotsky toddlose BearLover Trotsky BearLoverWhy 5 years of eligibility when college is 4 years? That would kill the Ivy League if it happened. I have some bad news for you. ? . ^ The “?” still standsby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Why you should apply to the Hockey Beat - 10 days ago
Al DeFlorio Troyfan BearLover dbilmes fastforward Great article-fabulous opportunity I know who I would recommend but I think her hands are full with law school Sorry - for those not on X, Jane wrote a great article and they’re looking for after she graduates Jane has done a great job covering the hockey team the past few seasons. She's given Cornell hockey the best coverage it's had in thby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Why you should apply to the Hockey Beat - 10 days ago
Trotsky AI is a statistically-weighted revision of this. It isn't intelligence. It isn't consciousness. It doesn't have the self-awareness of a bumble bee. And it will never have any of these. It isn't undeveloped cognition, it is utterly a zero value. It's a probabilistic calculator. It's a blank canvas for our anthroporphism. To the extent these things are true of AI, they are also truby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Why you should apply to the Hockey Beat - 11 days ago
dbilmes fastforward Great article-fabulous opportunity I know who I would recommend but I think her hands are full with law school Sorry - for those not on X, Jane wrote a great article and they’re looking for after she graduates Jane has done a great job covering the hockey team the past few seasons. She's given Cornell hockey the best coverage it's had in the Sun in years. She's done soby BearLover - Hockey
Re: On-campus NCAA regionals - 13 days ago
adamw BearLover adamw BearLoverOverall, I prioritize fairness and excitement. On-campus regionals are more fair and more exciting. on-campus Regionals may be a lot of things - but more fair is not one of them. On-campus regionals seems quite a bit fairer to me than the current system. Under the current system, we have 4 seeds hosting 1 seeds, and we have teams being paired to maximize attendancby BearLover - Hockey
Re: On-campus NCAA regionals - 14 days ago
adamw BearLoverTV ratings would surely be higher for on-campus regionals though? The atmosphere is so bad, it’s not a good tv product. I've yet to see any evidence that seeing the stands full on TV, would make more people watch the game. We haven’t conducted a controlled experiment for this, but I would note that during the pandemic (empty stadiums), TV ratings of sports were very bad, even thoby BearLover - Hockey
Re: On-campus NCAA regionals - 14 days ago
adamw BearLoverOverall, I prioritize fairness and excitement. On-campus regionals are more fair and more exciting. on-campus Regionals may be a lot of things - but more fair is not one of them. On-campus regionals seems quite a bit fairer to me than the current system. Under the current system, we have 4 seeds hosting 1 seeds, and we have teams being paired to maximize attendance rather than baby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponent and other news and results 2025-2026 - 15 days ago
Trotsky Weder The Ivies and other elite schools are outliers in that undergrads tend to be the "traditional" age for college students and mostly graduate in 4 years. Most U.S. undergrads as a whole are older and take longer to graduate, and a large percentage of undergrads are not full-time students. So should NCAA athlete eligibility reflect some vanishing ideal of what an undergrad isby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponent and other news and results 2025-2026 - 15 days ago
Trotsky BearLoverWhy 5 years of eligibility when college is 4 years? That would kill the Ivy League if it happened. I have some bad news for you. ?by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponent and other news and results 2025-2026 - 15 days ago
The Rancor NIL Money should be held in a trust until players either graduate or otherwise leave the school. Players should be provided room, board, scholarship, team uniforms, equipment and can earn money washing jock straps after practice, but that's it. Otherwise, intelligible. You should get one 'free' transfer without sitting a year, the second transfer is sit one season, lose no eligibility,by BearLover - Hockey
Re: On-campus NCAA regionals - 16 days ago
marty Will BearLover (But I’m not sure this really helps Cornell win a national title, which is what I care about the most.) The more games Cornell gets to play at Lynah, the better. Obviously there's no guarantee Cornell will be in the top 8 or top 4 to guarantee postseason home games, but the risk seems worth it if Cornell can even get a postseason berth. I'm wondering whether the regionalby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponent and other news and results 2025-2026 - 16 days ago
Chris H82 I'm on Vancouver Island for a few days, and the CBC radio station out of Victoria had a 10-minute story today about the impact of the NCAA rule changes allowing CHL players to now play in the NCAA. Nothing particularly new in the story, but some good examples of the impacts to the local CHL (WHL) team, the Victoria Royals. We’re seeing this all play out even within our own recruitinby BearLover - Hockey
Re: On-campus NCAA regionals - 16 days ago
Will BearLover (But I’m not sure this really helps Cornell win a national title, which is what I care about the most.) The more games Cornell gets to play at Lynah, the better. Obviously there's no guarantee Cornell will be in the top 8 or top 4 to guarantee postseason home games, but the risk seems worth it if Cornell can even get a postseason berth. I generally agree. I do note though that wby BearLover - Hockey
Re: On-campus NCAA regionals - 16 days ago
Trotsky Conference tournament champion auto bids. The rest PWR, KRACH or whatever. 1-to-16 seeding On campus 16 @ 1, ... 9 @ 8. No exceptions or alterations. Single game elimination 1-to-8 reseeding On campus 8 @ 1, ... 5 @ 4. No exceptions or alterations. Single game elimination Frozen Four as now, with 4 @ 1 as early game, no day off That’s right. Seems like a much more compelling prodby BearLover - Hockey
Re: On-campus NCAA regionals - 17 days ago
617BigRed I think this has been litigated to death, it's not happening at least anytime in the near to mid-term future... I actually think there’s way more momentum for on-campus regionals than there has been in a long time.by BearLover - Hockey
On-campus NCAA regionals - 17 days ago
I think NCAA regionals should be on campus. I’ve consumed a lot of media on this topic recently and I see the main points as follows: * attendance at regionals is embarrassing currently. It’s a terrible atmosphere and bad look on TV * it’s not hard to accomplish: change the tournament from two weekends to three. First weekend, 1 hosts 16, 2 hosts 15, etc. Second weekend, top remaining seed hostby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponent and other news and results 2025-2026 - 21 days ago
VIEWfromK BearLover In sum, Robertson is a known quantity great collegiate player. Through ten games of his freshman year I thought he was on the way to being a great college hockey player. Then he struggled to maintain that pace all the way up until he started to get back to that level this past postseason. The power play was not much with him as the only defenseman on the top unit most tby BearLover - Hockey
Re: ECAC 2026 Predictions and Pre-season Polls Omnibus - 22 days ago
Pretty sure I asked the same question last year, but if I’m understanding correctly, isn’t the “future” category mislabeled as it is looking at the “past” ten seasons?by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponent and other news and results 2025-2026 - 22 days ago
Trotsky The blueline lost Robertson but picked up Fisher and Ashton, both NHL draft choices. That sounds like a net gain. We’ll see. At the moment, Robertson is more valuable than Fisher and Ashton put together. Fisher had (has?) a lot of potential but has been injured and has not produced for most of the last several seasons. While he is a draft pick, he is not on track to play professionally.by BearLover - Hockey