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Re: 2023-2024 Predictions - 3 months ago
adamw BearLover adamw BearLover—Cornell has only 2 seniors, one of whom is the third string goalie. They do not have enough experience to compete for a national title this year. My best guess is the finish in the 20s in the Pairwise. This isn't just a reaction to last night - because I said it on our CHN podcast 2 weeks ago ... and if you want to hear it, go listen to the podcast But all Iby BearLover - Hockey
Re: 2023-2024 Predictions - 3 months ago
sezenack BearLover ursusminor An RPI fan and his computer program's ECAC predictions. Cornell is #2, and Harvard is #7 below #4 Princeton. I appreciate that someone is trying to quantify these things rather than making prediction based on feel, but the fact this model ranks Harvard’s returning offense as 12th in the league evidences a clear flaw in its methodology, in my opinion. I would guesby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2023 and beyond - 3 months ago
Redpucks1! You beat me to it Bear! Bill Howard - you are a very wise man and 100% correct with the comment "followed by soul-crushing setbacks." Yesterday may not have been soul-crushing but it was not good on the recruiting front. As Bear mentioned one of the guys, Aiden Lane, that I was hoping would commit to Cornell, has instead chosen Harvard. Oh well, his loss and poor choice, nby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Cornell vs Quinnipiac, 1/20 - 3 months ago
RichH BearLover Actually, I’m pretty he just wants to be loud and outrageous. I highly doubt he is trying to provoke anybody. The only person who seems ruffled here is you. Ahhhh, thanks for that laugh - that was good forum comedy gold right there, baby. Damn, still ruffled I see…by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Cornell vs Quinnipiac, 1/20 - 3 months ago
Al DeFlorio Trotsky BearLoverHe justified it with the theory that it would force Schafer to try to win even harder, lol. No. I always root for the ECAC, because I like the league, and I want it to be strong and attract more talent to help raise our SoS. I do, too. And, anyone who gets upset over who I, or anyone else here, roots for needs to get a life. Desperately. Go on a Duke basketballby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Who deserves 2023 D1 championship - 3 months ago
Trotsky My hot take is having this malevolent glutton in our conference forces us to build a team that can compete with it, which accidentally will build a team that can win a national championship. Go Q. Set a standard for the rest of us to ascend to. That would be ironic. Bump. @RichH @Troskyby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Cornell vs Quinnipiac, 1/20 - 3 months ago
RichH BearLover RichH BearLover George64 Just came across this very old interview with Mike commenting on Pecknold. People on this forum rooted for Quinnipiac to win the national title last season (something Cornell hasn’t done in 53 years). *shrug* Where? Show me. Here’s the thread, it’s mainly people making fun of you for continuing to bitterly assert this. I hated Q winning it becauby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 3 months ago
scoop85 BearLover adamw I should probably just shut up - but I'm not good at that. I think Ben Syer and Topher are great guys. Neither will be the next coach. Casey Jones is one of my favorite people in hockey, and I think he's a great coach. However, he's only 4 years younger than Coach Schafer - and so it won't be him either. Why won’t Ben Syer be the next coach? Perhaps some guys are cutby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Cornell vs Quinnipiac, 1/20 - 3 months ago
RichH BearLover George64 Just came across this very old interview with Mike commenting on Pecknold. People on this forum rooted for Quinnipiac to win the national title last season (something Cornell hasn’t done in 53 years). *shrug* Where? Show me. Here’s the thread, it’s mainly people making fun of you for continuing to bitterly assert this. I hated Q winning it because they are an aby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Cornell vs Quinnipiac, 1/20 - 3 months ago
George64 Just came across this very old interview with Mike commenting on Pecknold. People on this forum rooted for Quinnipiac to win the national title last season (something Cornell hasn’t done in 53 years). *shrug*by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 3 months ago
adamw I should probably just shut up - but I'm not good at that. I think Ben Syer and Topher are great guys. Neither will be the next coach. Casey Jones is one of my favorite people in hockey, and I think he's a great coach. However, he's only 4 years younger than Coach Schafer - and so it won't be him either. Why won’t Ben Syer be the next coach?by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 3 months ago
David Harding BearLover There are only two realistic candidates to take over when Schafer finally decides to call it quits: Casey Jones and Ben Syer. Casey has had some decent success at Clarkson, but I think it’s very likely to be Syer, assuming he doesn’t take a job elsewhere in the interim. Syer is young and has been top assistant for many years during some of the best times for the program. Iby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 3 months ago
There are only two realistic candidates to take over when Schafer finally decides to call it quits: Casey Jones and Ben Syer. Casey has had some decent success at Clarkson, but I think it’s very likely to be Syer, assuming he doesn’t take a job elsewhere in the interim. Syer is young and has been top assistant for many years during some of the best times for the program. It’s not going to be Tophby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 3 months ago
adamw upprdeck well sometime in the next 2-10 yrs we will have to find out what a diff coach can.. I doubt he will be here when he is 70 so the window is probably even smaller. I'm going to go out on a really short limb and say that the odds of finding another coach that does as good a job, are about 5%. Umm, considering it’s probably going to be Syer, it will be much higher than 5%.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 3 months ago
Scersk '97 BearLover Just to be clear, I’m not suggesting that if you changed a bunch of variables (such as conference), RPI would literally be the exact same in a small sample. I’m making simplistic assumptions to demonstrate my point. But if you want me to edit my point to cover sample size, then I revise my point as follows (which has no effect on my ultimate conclusion): If Cornell plays oneby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 3 months ago
chimpfood Just because RPI accounts for SOS doesn’t mean that it does it accurately. Right now I think that winning percentage should hold more weight in the formula but I’m sure if cornell was having a 13-10 season in hockey east I would think otherwise. Yeah, whether the RPI is an accurate measurement is a different topic. Obviously, nobody really knows. We can see how teams from weak conferencby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 3 months ago
Scersk '97 BearLover Remember, if Cornell were to play in HE, or the ECAC were to be better, then Cornell’s SOS would improve, but it’s win% would go down. Its RPI, which, again, judges the “true” strength of Cornell, would be UNCHANGED. Therefore, being in a stronger conference would not benefit Cornell (or any team). Basically, you're forgetting about the effects of small sample spaces. We caby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 3 months ago
Scersk '97 TrotskyAs in society, a rising tide raises all boats. As in society, gross inequality damages even those on top. We need a stronger ECAC to support a stronger Cornell. We have nothing to lose but our chains. As you've said in other places, these things are cyclical. There has been, at least for the ECAC, quite a bit of coaching turnover lately, if you count lately as "in theby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 3 months ago
Trotsky Unless I am grossly misunderstanding your argument or RPI, you have it exactly backwards. RPI's adjustment for SoS is what brings it into consideration. Far from diminishing it, it quantifies it. That is indeed the whole point of RPI: to compare members of different sets which do not have direct common games. Without something like RPI we would go by winning percentage and then you wby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 3 months ago
upprdeck It doesn't help to have almost the whole ECAC be pretty poor. Better play brings them up and that helps Cornell and brings down all the teams OC that they lost to. Its hard to have a 4-5-6 loss season no matter what teams you play. RPI is meant to adjust for this, so I still don’t really buy these arguments. But yes, I think that, in the case where there are only one or two good teamby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 3 months ago
There have been almost no upsets the last few weekends. We need WMU/SCSU/Prov/UMass/Mich to lose to a bad team, but that hasn’t been happening. It would also probably be good if, when these teams happen to play each other (eg. SCSU plays WMU for two games in a couple weeks), one team sweeps rather than the teams splitting.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ Union, 2/10 - 3 months ago
Trotsky BearLoverBy the way, does anyone know why Fegaras was scratched? Did he finish last night’s game or did he get hurt?In the Union pre-game on WHCU with Jason, Schafer said Fegaras was dinged up just at the end of the RPI game, and didn't appreciate it was more than a stinger until he was back in the locker room. He should be okay for practice as early as Tuesday, but could not go against Uby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 3 months ago
Jeff Hopkins '82 upprdeck Mich loses so up to 13. Win next week and Hope BU takes card of Prov and BC does the same to Umass Actually, we were up to 13 before the UM v MSU game went final. In fact, that final actually narrowed the gap between us and St. Cloud. Per CHN we are now exactly tied with SCSU (in RPI and therefore in PWR).by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 3 months ago
I don’t really agree with the posters claiming the better team lost. Cornell shot lights out, especially when it built its big lead—that just isn’t sustainable. I don’t think Cornell is vastly worse than Yale or anything, but given Yale’s size and rebounding advantage and the big shooting percentage disparity, I think Cornell was fortunate to end up with a chance to win down the stretch.by BearLover - Other Sports
Re: Cornell @ Union, 2/10 - 3 months ago
upprdeck I thought mid game they said he got dinged last night and barely got off the ice? Did the Union or RPI announcers say that?by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ Union, 2/10 - 3 months ago
I’m still confused why random teams like Union and Dartmouth have much more fluid motion on their PP and create so many more chances than we do. From zone entries to O-zone playmaking, why are we clearly worse at the PP than otherwise lesser teams? By the way, does anyone know why Fegaras was scratched? Did he finish last night’s game or did he get hurt?by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 3 months ago
upprdeck Maine blew a late lead and refused to stay out of the box in falling in OT. Merrimack helps keep UNH below us Omaha wins on IT over WMU to help a little Minn ST is now the only team over .500 in the CCHA. MSU the big game left tonight UNH is so far behind at this point that if they catch us, we have other problems. We need to root for the following teams to lose: —Michigan —by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ Union, 2/10 - 3 months ago
Trotsky 12th in PWR! But getting no help from other teams. I think we might be back to 14th soon. Hopefully Michigan State hangs on vs Michigan so we stay there.by BearLover - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ Union, 2/10 - 3 months ago
Trotsky And another. This pp has been cromulent. On this PP, which indeed was improved from those prior, Cornell’s player at the blue line SHOT THE PUCK ON NET, rather than passing it endlessly around the perimeter, creating a good rebound chance and then several more good chances on the ensuing chaos. Still, there appear to be spacing issues on zone entries. Everyone is either too close to theby BearLover - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ Union, 2/10 - 3 months ago
Union (correctly) playing as aggressively as possible down 4 (now 3) goals and Cornell is struggling to handle it. There will be odd man chances the other way if we do manage to turn the puck up ice, though. Watching our PP is such a jarring experience because it’s been the same issues for months now. Coaching staff is content to stick with the no-movement plan, I guess?by BearLover - Hockey