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Discussions about the Cornell men's and women's hockey teams
Re: SportsCenter Clip of BC Game Winning Goal - 21 years ago
As enjoyable as this is, I can imagine it being completely lost on the non-college hockey fan. A little bit of commentary might have been helpful. That said, I think I'm gonna watch it 4 or 5 more timesby gwm3 - Hockey
Re: Providence Tickets - 21 years ago
As of today, you can't even buy tickets for just one day. The PC box office is only selling a two day package for the absurd total of $84.by gwm3 - Hockey
Re: Tickets In Providence - 21 years ago
When I placed my order the woman on the phone asked me, before getting any other info from me, "Where do you want these -- Cornell section?" That's awesome-- we must be dominating the ticket ordersby gwm3 - Hockey
Sunday Night Scores - 21 years ago
Colgate 2, Dartmouth 1, end of 1st period Brown and Yale scoreless after 1. Post Edited (03-16-03 19:34)by gwm3 - Hockey
Re: Yell, please - 21 years ago
Few things are quite as painful as watching or listening to Lynah from far awayby gwm3 - Hockey
Re: Pretty Pics: old UNH, Brown, CC, and Maine logos wanted - 21 years ago
Imagine my horror when I saw this "Cornell" logo at www.fightmusic.com/ivyby gwm3 - Hockey
Re: #21 Doug Stienstra - 21 years ago
I never knew this about Doug: "Doug Stienstra is een stevige Nederlands-Canadese aanvaller met een neusje voor doelpunten. De in West-Canada geboren forward was tweemaal topscorer bij de Cornell University op het hoogste college-niveau in de VS. In 2000 tekende hij een contract bij de New Jersey Devils. Zijn Europese debuut beleefde hij vorig jaar bij Bracknell in de hoogste Britse divisie.by gwm3 - Hockey
Re: 3/10 Polls - 21 years ago
I promise this is the last thing I'll say about this, as the dead horse indicator on my desk has begun to flash: Whether calculated by computers, PhD's with slide rules, or trained chimps, all purely "objective" ranking systems were originally created by humans who had to decide what factors to include the formulas. At some point some people made the subjective choice that OOper is reby gwm3 - Hockey
Re: 3/10 Polls - 21 years ago
In any subjective analysis of the effect of injuries, I would propose that the committee should not concern themselves with WHEN any losses due to injury occurred, but could give weight to THE FACT of losses due to an injury. This was exactly the point of including teams A and C in my hypo. They would be treated the same regardless of at what point in the season their losses occurred. Iby gwm3 - Hockey
Re: 3/10 Polls - 21 years ago
I agree that rampant subjectivity is certainly not something we want to inject into the system. However, I think there are certain circumstances in which computers just can't comprehend all of the subtleties that go into determining what makes one team better than another. Therefore, I think that the committee should be allowed to interpose some human judgment at the margins (I actually think tby gwm3 - Hockey
Re: 3/10 Polls - 21 years ago
It makes perfect sense. The goal of this discretionary system I propose would be to give teams that currently have the strongest rosters the highest seeds. Obviously injuries earlier in the season which are no longer affecting the team will be treated differently than current injuries which affect the roster that a team will be able to put on the ice during the tournament. Example (assumingby gwm3 - Hockey
Re: 3/10 Polls - 21 years ago
Beeeej -- I think I edited my post to answer your question. If it doesn't, I agree that it's my fault. I do tend go on incomprehensible rants on this board from time to time Post Edited (03-10-03 23:29)by gwm3 - Hockey
Re: 3/10 Polls - 21 years ago
And yes, I realize the insurmountable impracticability of giving the committee such discretion, but it would theoretically produce a better field for the tournament.by gwm3 - Hockey
Re: 3/10 Polls - 21 years ago
Teams are as good as their current roster, and they should be ranked and seeded by their performance on the ice, not by how good they'd be if their entire roster were healthy. Everyone is completely misinterpreting my point. Here it is in black and white: "A team that sucks at the end of the season should be seeded lower in the end of season tournament than a team that sucked at the begiby gwm3 - Hockey
Re: 3/10 Polls - 21 years ago
The fact that star players were injured wasn't really central to my point. I included it to illustrate an extreme case where it is clear that a team is not as good going into the tournament as it was earlier in the season. Of course, I would apply the same logic to a team tanking down the stretch for any reason. I do think, however, that seeding for the NCAA's should probably include some humaby gwm3 - Hockey
Re: 3/10 Polls - 21 years ago
I don't know if playoff games should necessarily be given greater weight, but I do think that any ranking system should give an indication of how good a team is right now. Consider the following scenario: Team A wins its first 25 games, then has two of its star players go down with season ending-injuries and loses its last 5 games. Team B loses its first 5 games while waiting for its star goaby gwm3 - Hockey
Re: Impending hysteria for NCAA tickets... - 21 years ago
I would imagine that it would be even safer to wait until after the pairings are announced this year because everyone will be waiting until they know where their team is going.by gwm3 - Hockey
Re: Giant NC$$ Mess - 21 years ago
That's true, but BU is still the 4th place team in Hockey East.by gwm3 - Hockey
Re: Giant NC$$ Mess - 21 years ago
BU, with 12 losses, seems like a pretty weak #1. I know they are currently #4 in the PWR, but it still doesn't seem right.by gwm3 - Hockey
Re: Giant NC$$ Mess - 21 years ago
Greg's Providence bracket looks pretty darn nice. CHA/MAAC and two teams that have been in monumental tailspins of late. I'll take it... I'd also have to agree that Cornell is less likely to get sent West -- especially if we actually finish at #2. Only way I see us going is if we are at 4 or below, with two eastern teams above us. Post Edited (03-09-03 02:44)by gwm3 - Hockey
Re: Cornell QF on TV - 21 years ago
I believe that the Semis will also be broadcast live on both NESN and YES. NESN will have the final live; YES will have it on tape delay after a Nets game. Any word on whether YES will be covering the NCAA quarters like they did last year? I can only find their schedule for the upcoming week.by gwm3 - Hockey
Re: Sunday PWR: Big Doin's - 21 years ago
Tanking or not, I don't think that's a team any top seed would be too happy to draw in the first roundby gwm3 - Hockey
The RS at Lynah - 21 years ago
Cornell allowed 12 goals in 13 regular season games at Lynah this year. Say what you will about the ECAC competition that makes up most of the home schedule, that is still a remarkable achievement.by gwm3 - Hockey
Re: Interesting hockey poll in the Sun - 21 years ago
I have seen "all intensive purposes" in the Sun on more than one occasion. Glad to see I'm not the only one who is bothered to no end by that one.by gwm3 - Hockey
Re: FINALLY! Brown/Harvard - 21 years ago
Well, I can walk home from Bright, but some of my friends still haven't made it home to DC. (and the one who was flying to Charlotte via DC got rerouted through Atlanta just in time for the Charlotte airport to close -- I suspect he had a fun night in the airport).by gwm3 - Hockey
Re: How good is Lenny? - 21 years ago
I think it will take him a while to adapt to NHL speed Yeah, hopefully at least 2 yearsby gwm3 - Hockey
Re: Harvard Crimson article on LeNeveu - 21 years ago
I didn't realize we played in "Lyham Rink."by gwm3 - Hockey
Re: Average GPAs by Department and College - 21 years ago
Wow, I guess now I can safely admit to having been an Econ major. Wonder why government (my other major) is not listed. It's the biggest major in the Arts College, IIRC.by gwm3 - Hockey
Re: poor grades? - 21 years ago
I never said you don't exist... I suppose I should have qualified my statement by saying that I only actually met 3 people in the 4 years I was at Cornellby gwm3 - Hockey