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Discussions about the Cornell men's and women's hockey teams
Re: NCAA Tournament 2024 - 4 weeks ago
arugula Trotsky arugula It is? I’ve been following college hockey for forty years (oy vey!). Never experienced it from the BC group. 40 years here, too. It is. It's primarily the self-absorption of Bostonians. BC students are likely to be locals. BU gets a large contingent of kids who didn't get into Ivies, so the solution of Boston Idiocy has been diluted. But BC also carries itselby arugula - Hockey
Re: NCAA Tournament 2024 - 4 weeks ago
Trotsky arugula It is? I’ve been following college hockey for forty years (oy vey!). Never experienced it from the BC group. 40 years here, too. It is. It's primarily the self-absorption of Bostonians. BC students are likely to be locals. BU gets a large contingent of kids who didn't get into Ivies, so the solution of Boston Idiocy has been diluted. But BC also carries itself with aby arugula - Hockey
Re: NCAA Tournament 2024 - 4 weeks ago
Trotsky Dafatone Trotsky arugula It is? I’ve been following college hockey for forty years (oy vey!). Never experienced it from the BC group. 40 years here, too. It is. It's primarily the self-absorption of Bostonians. BC students are likely to be locals. BU gets a large contingent of kids who didn't get into Ivies, so the solution of Boston Idiocy has been diluted. But BC also carrby arugula - Hockey
Re: NCAA Tournament 2024 - 4 weeks ago
Chris '03 Trotsky Chris '03 Trotsky arugula It is? I’ve been following college hockey for forty years (oy vey!). Never experienced it from the BC group. 40 years here, too. It is. It's primarily the self-absorption of Bostonians. BC students are likely to be locals. BU gets a large contingent of kids who didn't get into Ivies, so the solution of Boston Idiocy has been diluted. But Bby arugula - Hockey
Re: NCAA Tournament 2024 - 4 weeks ago
It is? I’ve been following college hockey for forty years (oy vey!). Never experienced it from the BC group. As to not recruiting in Canada, if you have New England, why bother? I don’t see that as sanctimony I see it as realpolitik. I’m more regionally biased. I pretty much hate all the western schools and BU and of course our league rivals.by arugula - Hockey
Re: NCAA Tournament 2024 - 4 weeks ago
Jeff Hopkins '82 Trotsky Robb DU, UMich, BC, BU. Does the blood get any bluer? The two western teams with the most championships and the two eastern teams with the most championships. Yawn.Minnesota for Denver would be bluer. Go Pioneers. Least objectionable of the F4, with a fine Cornell history. Yep. That's where I stand, too. Perplexed by the objection to BC? Can you explain.by arugula - Hockey
Re: NCAA QF - Denver - 4 weeks ago
abmarks RichH But those memories are often washed out and faded deeply by the heartbreak and gut-punches that all happened a day or two later. But we had good times there for the regional stay. Frustrating that the feeling is always so fleeting. This quote needs to be held at the ready for these eventual situations: Next time we finally win a QF game and then lose the Semi. Except the heartbby arugula - Hockey
Re: NCAA QF - Denver - 4 weeks ago
Trotsky Q students are fine, Q as an institution of higher learning sucks. BC students suck, BC as an institution of higher learning is fine. Why do the BC students suck? The few alumni I know are fantastic.by arugula - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2024 and Beyond - 4 weeks ago
scoop85 BearLover I think Walsh was a fairly unique case. It’s possible, though. One analog to Robertson is Alex Green, another puck moving D who was drafted in the fourth round in 2018 after his freshman season at Cornell. Green had several inches on Robertson but nowhere near Robertson’s level of production in either juniors or during freshman year. While Green was a nice college defenseman,by arugula - Hockey
Re: NCAA QF - Denver - 4 weeks ago
BearLover arugula So for whom to root today? Jack or Zach? This is why we needed Wisconsin to win last round. I’m going Jack. Several reasons. I hate Q,I don’t hate BC, a good client and friend is a loyal BC guy, two of my all time favorites-Leetch and Krieder went to BC, and when my daughter, CAS ‘25, was looking at colleges, she and we all loved BC.by arugula - Hockey
Re: NCAA QF - Denver - 4 weeks ago
BearLover Beeeej ugarte "Can't we pull one damn upset" just doesn't rock my world the way "Clemsoning" became a synonym for choking until they finally won one. Yes, I want to win a championship but there have been two teams in my life that I thought were actually reasonably capable of it. One lost in the semifinals and one was taken away BY THE GLOBALISTS. This is pretty mucby arugula - Hockey
Re: NCAA QF - Denver - 4 weeks ago
I know we weren’t in the tournament that year but isn’t Yale a rather large exception and very good comparable?by arugula - Hockey
Re: NCAA QF - Denver - 4 weeks ago
abmarks BearLover Dafatone BearLover I guess I’m just kind of tired of it. “The future is bright.” “This freshman class is gonna be really special.” “Cornell will be the favorite in the ECAC next season.” That’s all well and good but at some point you actually have to win. It took a crazy series of events for us to end up in the NCAA quarterfinals with a great chance to win, but we DID end up theby arugula - Hockey
Re: Was that slashing? - 4 weeks ago
The referee who called it couldn’t see it. He surmised it. The back referee near center ice had the view of it and did not call it. Lame.by arugula - Hockey
Re: NCAA QF - Denver - 4 weeks ago
Don’t mind that as I think we can win the boards.by arugula - Hockey
Re: NCAA QF - Denver - 4 weeks ago
Seems like a lot of space for us to operate. Not impressed by DU’s defense.by arugula - Hockey
Re: NCAA Round 1 - Maine - 4 weeks ago
Rewatching the game, that third period was a masterpiece defensively.by arugula - Hockey
Re: NCAA regionals in Springfield - 4 weeks ago
I’ve had this happen several times during the season. I’d get it synched and the hcu link would go nuts. I’d love to just hear some clips of Jason’s goal calls.by arugula - Hockey
Re: NCAA regionals in Springfield - 4 weeks ago
I wish the radio stream wasn’t delayed as I’d like to watch live and hear Jason.by arugula - Hockey
Re: NCAA Tournament 2024 - 4 weeks ago
pjd8 arugula Alaska Arizona State earlier this month. A full on brawl. I saw that box. More penalty minutes than the Cornell-Union game that included the height of stupidity established by Leeor Shtrom (And then- And THEN- ). The video is astonishing. Disgraceful.by arugula - Hockey
Re: NCAA regionals in Springfield - 4 weeks ago
Their job is simple. Accurately describe who the players are. Don’t say smith if it’s Jones. That’s not that hard and you don’t need to have seen Maine play. Bob Sheppard who was the Yankee Stadium public address announcer until age 99 was remarkably unobtrusive and had three simple rules: (in stentorian tones) “be clear, concise, correct”. When a new player joined the team he personally weby arugula - Hockey
Re: NCAA Tournament 2024 - 4 weeks ago
Alaska Arizona State earlier this month. A full on brawl.by arugula - Hockey