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Re: Cornell 2021-22 season prediction - 2 years ago
Trotsky I am very surprised how hopeful people are given the roster will have so many unknowns. Is it hope or just an assessment of the relative weakness of the rest of the ECAC? Setting aside the bold dreamers with FF expectations, most people seem to think a finish in the top half of the ECAC with some possibility of an NCAA appearance is reasonable. It's kind of hard to argue with that basedby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Rules Changes? - 3 years ago
toddlose abmarks upprdeck everyone on knew who was watching was fed up with the game once it got beyond 2 OTs. The majority of people watching a game are the fans of the teams, bettors, fans of hockey. bettors were not happy fans of teams were happy mostly hockey fans probably didnt watch the whole thing mostly I remember some four or five OT games in the past with full 5v5 20 minute OT, aby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Season's Over - 3 years ago
Weder I think it might have been just the pep band (plus a few others in Section A) that did that chant? Hah, I forgot about that chant. I think it was mainly from section A. My memory is the band did the GENE! PHIL! DAVE! ART! thing and then did DAVE! DAVE! DAVE! DAVE! whenever he was driving. He used to only work one of the nights each weekend so "YOU'RE NOT DAVE" wasn't really a thby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Bracketology for 2020 NCAAs - 4 years ago
upprdeck they could have offered to share hosting with the ECAC. its not like making the cut was a wild long shot. it probably would have required a few phone calls and maybe a trip or 2 all the way to Albany. Huge schools like Holy Cross figured out a way to do it. Probably too overwhelmed by all the other things that they have going on. You’re assuming the ECAC would’ve been willing to sby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: 2020-02-28: Cornell vs St. Lawrence - 4 years ago
ice Some video 2/28/20 Nice, thanks for sharing! From that angle you really get an appreciation for how good Cornell is along the boards. Granted SLU is a weaker team but the Cornell forwards are consistently in better position and moving the puck out with control even under pressure.by Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Would this help recruiting? NCAA Permit Athletes to Profit - 4 years ago
Beeeej ugarte ugarte Tom Lento Oh, interesting. Still, unless Doug Murray branded the Ubertap with his name, I imagine that still wouldn't apply, and even then only to the licensing for the name, right? putting your name on a product is an endorsement, not a NIL issue. NIL is about being able to sell the three things in the acronym, as themselves, as opposed to the school or another third partyby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Would this help recruiting? NCAA Permit Athletes to Profit - 4 years ago
ugarte Tom Lento Rita What about the next Cornellian, who happens to play hockey, that wants to create a better version of the beer tap? Under the new NC$$ regs, would s/he be able to get the patent and profit and still keep their eligibility? That part of the NC$$ rules always bugged me. If an athlete has talent in another area (musician, cupcake baker) why couldn't they make money from thatby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Zamboni Gig in Toronto has Perks - 4 years ago
ursusminor Swampy Jim Hyla ugarte Robb That gives a rather perverse incentive. You’re winning 3-1, goalie goes down. You come in the game and your team goes up 4-1. You now have an incentive to let the other team score 2, so that your 4th goal becomes the winning goal. Strange.this is only an incentive to the very dumbest goalie Who, I suspect, would not be in the league for very long. Whby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Would this help recruiting? NCAA Permit Athletes to Profit - 4 years ago
ugarte Trotsky Regardless of what the NC$$ decides, the Ivies will never permit student athletes to earn money. They have a lucrative marketing brand principles to protect. If the NCAA relents on NIL rights it will be because of litigation fears. The Ivies will allow it if for no other reason than NIL rights for Ivy athletes are probably negligible. In the absence of litigation risk I can seeby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Would this help recruiting? NCAA Permit Athletes to Profit - 4 years ago
Rita What about the next Cornellian, who happens to play hockey, that wants to create a better version of the beer tap? Under the new NC$$ regs, would s/he be able to get the patent and profit and still keep their eligibility? That part of the NC$$ rules always bugged me. If an athlete has talent in another area (musician, cupcake baker) why couldn't they make money from that and still keep tby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Bracketology for 2020 NCAAs - 4 years ago
BearLover The Pairwise Probability Matrix, which I believe "accounts for" uncertainty the same way playoffstatus.com does, gives Cornell (currently in 3rd place in the Pairwise/KRACH) a 67% chance of finishing with exactly the 3-seed. It gives NoDak (currently first) an 87% likelihood of finishing with the 1-seed. It gives Minn State (currently second) 75% odds of finishing with the 2-sby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Pairwise tweak idea - 4 years ago
jtwcornell91 The problem with giving more weight to head-to-head or even common opponents is that they focus on just a few games rather than a team's performance over the entire season. It's good that it's difficult for the anecdotes to overwhelm the rest of the data. I agree with this, but I think the reason this comes up every now and again is because there are two different ways of thinkingby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Penalty Kill Woes - 4 years ago
Scersk '97 That’s one way of changing things. My sarcasm aside, I’m happier lately. Clears are certainly being made with authority now. Even Kaldis. And Topher referred to that concept quite a few times tonight, chastising Dartmouth for its clearing, so one wonders if those words have been in the air around Lynah lately. I was also encouraged tonight to see us make some shorthanded rushesby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Penalty Kill Woes - 4 years ago
Swampy When I've seen us give up goals on the PK, they often seem to result from lapses on our part. I haven't kept track of anything, but could our reliance on frosh defenders have something to do with it? I agree on the lapses. I haven't watched many games but even on the successful PKs I've seen the kill looked disorganized - positioning and communication just wasn't sharp, and several oby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: 2019-12-07: Cornell at Dartmouth - 4 years ago
Dafatone osorojo Ice hockey is not a game of chance. Which is why there has never been an upset in the history of hockey, right? Well, I know from The Lore that Ned Harkness never, ever, let his teams have mental lapses, so I'm guessing CHN has its history pages wrong. 11-0-1 Cornell couldn't have lost to a 6-5-0 Yale team at Lynah in early January in 1967. All kidding aside, the CHN pageby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Polls 2019-20 - 4 years ago
Jim Hyla Jeff Hopkins '82 Trotsky Can we appreciate both CHN and indy nerds who reverse-engineer everything, or do we have to take sides here? Just tell me whom to hate, dammit! Starts with an H... Whose loss dropped their PWR to 11 and also dropped the PWR of Clarkson, Dartmouth and Q. Can't anyone else in the ECAC help us and the rest of the league. I can see EZAC popping up all overby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Replacing ELF Chat for game nights - 4 years ago
pfibiger Slack claims that the link will allow you in w/o any approval step: If that doesn't work, people can DM me their preferred email addresses and I can send them an email invite. Ah! Sorry, didn't realize the "join" link was the invite to the workspace, thought it was an invite to slack and never clicked it since I have an account already. Looks like Slack lets you makby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Replacing ELF Chat for game nights - 4 years ago
pfibiger All, I chatted with Age and it looks like it won't be straightforward to bring chat back. It seems like the easiest path is to replace it with an existing chat app, and Slack seems like a straightforward candidate. You can use it on your phone or on the web. You can choose if you want notifications and for what. We can segment channels into 'game chat' and 'out of town scores' etc.by Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: 2019-11-23: Cornell vs Princeton - 4 years ago
Jim Hyla Swampy Dafatone I know what you mean, but one advantage of our goaltending and offensive talent is that we put up more goals than we surrender even when we're not outplaying the other team. But, going forward, we will be playing teams against which we won't get away with sloppiness. Have to clean up such bad habits, and soon. Like Clarkson and MSU? Yes it's frustrating to see theby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: 2019-11-23: Cornell vs Princeton - 4 years ago
CU2007 Trotsky Tigers outplayed us in the first. But not the second. Lol Honestly, Cornell only outplayed Princeton after jumping out to that 3-0 lead. From what I saw on the video Princeton basically made two mistakes and both of them ended up in the back of the net. After that the wheels came off the bus for them, and the last half of the third was basically a dumpster fire. I’m glad Cornelby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Polls 2019-20 - 4 years ago
BearLover Tom Lento BearLover Signs that Harvard and Cornell will regress: the Crimson's shooting percentage (18.2%) is first in the country, and the Big Red's (15.8%) is second. Meanwhile, Harvard's save percentage (96.2%) is far and away number one in the nation. Cornell's (92.6%) is tied for tenth, though that is in line with Galajda's and Cornell's historical save percentages, and so may notby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Polls 2019-20 - 4 years ago
BearLover Signs that Harvard and Cornell will regress: the Crimson's shooting percentage (18.2%) is first in the country, and the Big Red's (15.8%) is second. Meanwhile, Harvard's save percentage (96.2%) is far and away number one in the nation. Cornell's (92.6%) is tied for tenth, though that is in line with Galajda's and Cornell's historical save percentages, and so may not regress much if at aby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: 2019-11-15 Cornell at Clarkson - 4 years ago
BearLover Cornell came to play in the third. CLK really took it to them in the first half of the game, but Cornell controlled play for nearly all of the third. This probably explains the oddball shot stats. Cornell was pretty dominant in terms of total even strength shot attempts, but SOG were pretty even in the third and Clarkson clearly controlled the entire first period. If Cornell was domiby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Cornell 6 - Yale 2, 11/9/2019 - 4 years ago
Robb upprdeck if we can keep up the volume of quality chances thats a good thing.Hint: we can't. I think this year could be something very special, but for me, I still haven't seen any actual evidence for that yet. Let's be honest, MSU, Brown, and Yale just aren't going to be competitive this year. Let's keep the over-exuberance in check for a few more weeks, at least. I agree with all ofby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Incoming Recruits - 4 years ago
Trotsky Tom LentoThere were only 3 freshmen who saw regular ice time last year, so 2021-22 could get ugly if a lot of the newcomers don't pan out. That's a little misleading. Of the 7 players after Brakel left, 1 was the obvious "goalie who raises the median GPA" so that leaves us with 6. Of those 6 we had Regush as a star, Leahy and Motley as solid contributors, and Andreev as oneby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Incoming Recruits - 4 years ago
BearLover marty BearLover Updated the list to account for Cobb's recent commitment and EliteProspects correcting the spelling of Stienburg's name. All good things must come to an end, and soon the coaching staff will have to start lining up replacements for the excellent Class of 2021 (Barron, Galajda, Donaldson, Mullin, Locke, Green, Betts, Haiskanen, Cairns, McGrath). Yes, it's June 29th. Tby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: ECAC QF Game 1: Union 3 Cornell 2 - 5 years ago
Dafatone Speaking of reviews, anyone else think that Union's no-goal for goalie interference was a textbook call? I was very confused to hear the announcers thinking it was a tough call. They kept saying the wrong things, too, talking about the Union player's intent and how there wasn't that much contact. The rule (I think) is that it's interference if you deny the goalie an opportunity to make aby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: 2019 ECAC QF - 5 years ago
Swampy Tom Lento ... I don't know if this is really that overstated for the QF in general. If QPac didn't have missing players I'd take them as a 10-1 favorite for taking 2 of 3 from Brown at home, and I don't think Clarkson or Harvard's QF odds are all that far off either. 15% isn't likely, but it's not a super shocking upset either, and I think Dartmouth beating Harvard 2 of 3 is pretty unby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: 2019 ECAC QF - 5 years ago
BearLover Dafatone BearLover Trotsky PlayoffStatus.com has us 4th in likelihood of advancing to Placid: SF F 1 $$ QF SF F 1 Qpc .89 .58 .35 1.00 .60 .32 .16 .08 Hvd .84 .39 .19 .63 .27 .12 .05 .02 Clk .73 .38 .17 .86 .39 .17 .07 .03 Cor .67 .36 .17 .76 .35 .15 .07 .03 Uni .33 .12 .06 .23 .09 .04 .01 .01 Yal .27 .09 .04 .04 .01 .01 --- --- Drt .16 .05 .01 .02 ---by Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: 2019-02-22: RPI 3 Cornell 2 (ot) - 5 years ago
ugarte Jeff Hopkins '82 What I saw was basically a team that offensively never even tried to get the puck back to the point, except occasionally on the power play and even then, not enough. That lets teams like RPI pack everyone around the goalie. *ding* I don’t doubt what you saw (I didn’t see the game) but from looking at the stats it’s kind of hard to argue with the team’s offensive appby Tom Lento - Hockey