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Discussions about the Cornell men's and women's hockey teams
Re: Polls 2019-20 - 4 years ago
Regardless of pages of statistics and complicated long-division there is only one credible way to discover which team is better . . .by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Colgate Weekend - 4 years ago
U.D. - I prefer the program you were using to your manual posts.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Colgate Weekend - 4 years ago
I hope the Colgate bus doesn't take the shortcut between Ithaca and Hamilton which goes over Muller Hill.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Colgate Weekend - 4 years ago
RE: "campus closed" - When I learned "classes are canceled" I equated this with "campus closed". I didn't realize Cornell usually maintains its athletic schedule regardless of academic closure.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Colgate Weekend - 4 years ago
My understanding of "bitchy" applied to discussions of college hockey games is endless repetition of minutiae. e.g. - detailed and endlessly repeated charts of power play goals made by right-handed left wings at away games - carried out to six decimal places.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Colgate Weekend - 4 years ago
Back in the 60's - early in Ned Harkness' stint as Cornell coach, I sat above and right next to the aisle in the bleachers used by both teams to reach the Colgate dressing rooms. At the end of the second period Cornell was CLOBBERING Colgate. Ned and the Colgate coach brought up the rear, walking side by side some distance behind their teams. I heard the Colgate coach speak to Ned, something to tby osorojo - Hockey
Re: 2020-02-01: Cornell 5 Princeton 3 - 4 years ago
U.D.: That's pretty good hockey - but not as good as Clarkson's 92.8 PK versus Cornell's 76.8% PK (cited above).by osorojo - Hockey
Re: 2020-02-01: Cornell 5 Princeton 3 - 4 years ago
The PK numbers are interesting but not very informative. More than any offensive situation, the PK depends upon teamwork and positioning. There are no breakaway penalty kills. The fastest, most elusive skater with the best shot is not necessarily the best penalty killer. Discipline and positioning (coaching) are paramount in PK's.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: 2020-02-01: Cornell 5 Princeton 3 - 4 years ago
Back in the day Cornell hockey coaches and teams were not too proud to resort to dumping the puck into the offensive zone and try to outrace or outhit the defenders. It kept the opposition blue liners honest and frequently resulted in goals - not pretty ones but they counted just the same.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ Quinnipiac 1/31/2020 - 4 years ago
Could it be that the Cornell game is some version of a one-trick pony and the opposition has noticed this?by osorojo - Hockey
Re: 2020-02-01: Cornell at Princeton - 4 years ago
What a game! This is old-time hockey of the kind I watched in the early 60's at Lynah: wire over the boards, tubes holding skate blades, and EVERY opponent gave us all we could handle, even Susquehanna. I'll bet today's Lynah crowds begin to more closely resemble the crowds in those good old days also.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ Quinnipiac 1/31/2020 - 4 years ago
The apparent absence of physical disabilities on the Cornell team makes this loss difficult to explain or rationalize. Wait. That wasn't a loss. That was a butt-kicking.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ Quinnipiac 1/31/2020 - 4 years ago
I hope that at least our fans outnumbered theirs!by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday - 4 years ago
Is that .842 a percentage of wins alone or wins and ties? I never did well in those classes with all the numbers but it seems Cornell failed to win (lost or tied) against lower-rated teams as frequently as they failed to win against top-fifteen teams.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday - 4 years ago
This year Cornell skaters seem to have consistently played at the level of their opponents. This could be an exciting game.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Darthmouth/Harvard weekend - 4 years ago
Ice hockey, particularly college ice hockey, always seems to defy statistics and probability better than any other athletic contests I am familiar with. This does not deter number crunchers in the least as evidenced by page after page of statistics and charts on this site. Screw the median regression coefficient and feel the desire - which wins hockey games. An early and cranked-up crowd is a morby osorojo - Hockey
Re: Visiting Lynah guide - 4 years ago
Collegetown lost its soul when the Palms was torn down.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: 2020-01-18: Cornell 3 Northern Michigan 1 - 4 years ago
Judging from C.U.M.H. scores relative to opponents' power ranking and hints - like lineup changes - one might suspect the Cornell Men's Hockey Team's performance are "uneven".by osorojo - Hockey
Re: 2020-01-17: Cornell vs Northern Michigan - 4 years ago
Nope. I have always found an "explanation" for failure to be a waste of time.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: 2020-01-17: Cornell vs Northern Michigan - 4 years ago
I don't remember Ned Harkness rationalizing any performances by his teams, and I can't remember any fans of his teams doing so. If you get beat the other team was better. If you tie the other team was just as good as you.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: 3 straight weekends - 4 years ago
I suspect it's easier to motivate a team with a mediocre ranking to focus on a second weekend game after winning the first than it is to motivate a top-ranked team to focus on a second weekend game after winning the first - especially if the first (victory) game was against a high ranked opponent.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Fortress Invitational - 4 years ago
Shootouts are entertaining. Have a shootout at the beginning of the game and then play the game. If the teams are tied at the end of regulation the team which won the shootout is the loser since shootout goals are bogus hockey.Everybody goes home happy.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: Golf, tennis, everything...including senior year - 4 years ago
I haven't been this stoked about Big Red Hockey in 50 years. GRIN!by osorojo - Hockey
Re: 2019-12-07: Cornell at Dartmouth - 4 years ago
By definition we can't predict random events at all or complex future events with much reliability, but we certainly must study the past events and learn from them to achieve our goals. There is not much correlation between a hockey game and a craps game - unless you're into predestination? I hope someone is looking into what the team did wrong (besides lose) in the last game so they don't do itby osorojo - Hockey
Re: 2019-12-07: Cornell at Dartmouth - 4 years ago
The examination of effects is not nearly as interesting as the examination of causes. A 2-1 hockey loss is an effect. "Nothing to see here folks - move on." Those who do not examine the causes and effects of the past are bound to repeat the past.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: 2019-12-07: Cornell at Dartmouth - 4 years ago
Ice hockey is not a game of chance.by osorojo - Hockey
Re: 2019-12-07: Dartmouth 2 Cornell 1 - 4 years ago
I have been following Cornell Men's ice hockey ever since Roger "The Beast" Eastman stepped on Lynah's ice. I have come to sense the difference between an Excuse for a loss, such as "bad breaks" and a Reason for a loss, such as "injuries". Cornell was rated #2 - Dartmouth #29. What physical (versus mental) disabilities did Cornell suffer at game time?by osorojo - Hockey
Re: 2019-12-07: Dartmouth 2 Cornell 1 - 4 years ago
I can't argue with cold, hard logic and solid evidence. On any particular night any hockey team could beat any other hockey team. But you would have to be very patient and very long-lived.by osorojo - Hockey