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2004-05 Cornell hat tricks - 19 years ago
Cornell doesn't get to three goals (team total) a game all that often, so this could be tough: What are the chances Moulson, Knoepfli, Scott, somebody, anybody, gets a hat trick in the last reamaining games of the year? We had three last year including Ryan Vesce's seven-point game in the 7-0 win at Princeton (also Moulson, Knoepfli), one hat trick the year before (Moulson), then nothing untiby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell RS Worst Case Scenario Finish - 19 years ago
Cornell leads with 30 ECAC points and four games remaining so it can amass 38 points (2 points for a win, 1 for a tie). Harvard is second (based on wining pct, third based on points) with 25 and five games remaining so it can reach 35 points. If Cornell wins 3 of 4 games (or wins 2 and ties 2), that's enough for Cornell to control its destiny. Colgate is third with 26 points and eight gameby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell gets slapped with baby powder by Steve Schlanger - 19 years ago
We had our chance to get respect in 2003 and then drew a stupid penalty with 3 minutes to play. We have to earn it again, minus Murray, minus LeNeveu but with maybe greater across-the-boards quality. But if the Western schools want to think to themselves as overdogs to Cornell, be our guest. One of Mike Schafer's talents is saying as little quotable as possible (unless you can lip-read afterby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Keep voting For McKee - 19 years ago
ursaminor's mckee.net simply can't be beat as a name, and we should all be embarrassed not have thought of it ourselves. Or to paraphrase the Oscar Wilde saying, "I wish I'd thought of that." "Don't worry, you will."by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Ask XMI to carry Senior Night - 19 years ago
Anybody know what plans commercial TV stations have to air Lynah playoffs, if any? Unfortunately if it's carried only by the Finger Lakes cable carrier (name?) it doesn't, I don't believe, get a satellite pickup the way NESN does for Beanpot coverage.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: USCHO on the Beanpot Final - 19 years ago
Thanks for the demi-compliment. Yes, when I want to I can take up space or airtime and sound superficially authoritative. <g> I was really good at that on the cable news shows during the Internet boom. Alas, I had and have a great face for radio, as the saying goes. This is a forum where we can have fun and perhaps exchange thoughts and suggestions, along with mostly good-natured ribbinby billhoward - Hockey
[OT] Re: USCHO on the Beanpot Final - 19 years ago
How much editing a deadline-driven story gets before going online, that would be a question perhaps put to someone from USCHO, and even there you may get a politic rather than frank air-the-linens-in-public answer. (You want someone to say, "We try, but we're thinly staffed and thinly funded, and stuff happens"?) Regardless, deadline pressures affect everyone, not just USCHO.com, anby billhoward - Hockey
Re: USCHO on the Beanpot Final - 19 years ago
I was making fun of the column's pyramid - not inverted pyramid - style. (Inverted pyramid meaning the important stuff in the first graf, eg "A crazed gunman wearing a black and red jersey shot and wounded four Boston Terrier mascot dogs outside Agganis Arena Monday night" and the last paragraph describing Boston laws on cruelty to animals.) As you have seen in Bracketology, you have toby billhoward - Hockey
Re: USCHO on the Beanpot Final - 19 years ago
Easy, big fella. Not only do journalists enlighten and amuse us, but they serve a valuable public service, namely keeping politicians, lawyers, and car salesmen from being lonely at the very bottom of the "professions you trust" polls. Plus, if Jason Moy is really typing that 2,000 word bracketology column from scratch each week, rather than cutting and pasting the 1,500-world boileby billhoward - Hockey
Re: [OT] Beanpot consolation, final - 19 years ago
Ah, good point, and I realized it once I hit the Post button. I mean, for every night there's a bunch of college hockey games played (not every night of the week), it woiuld be great to have a selection of games to watch ... leading up to the point in five, ten years when every game is available to everyone over satellite, cable TV, or high-quality Webcast. And then also for Lehigh and Iowa wrestby billhoward - Hockey
Re: USCHO on the Beanpot Final - 19 years ago
USCHO is about enthusiasm for college hockey first, absolute accuracy and fluid prose second. Plus, the guy was writing on deadline (by definition). I don't think there's a long line of copy editors in green eyeshades this story passes through en route to a posting. It's an order of magnitude better than a decade ago when your college hockey fix was the weekly column in the Boston Globe or NYby billhoward - Hockey
Re: [OT] Beanpot consolation, final - 19 years ago
After watching the Beanpot title game: Wouldn't it be nice if each night there were two or three games - I was about to clarify and say college not pro games, but that's not necessary this season - you could get? And maybe a half dozen on key weekends? That is one advantage satellite seems to have - more pickup of out of region sports networks. Eg DirecTV has NESN which had the Beanpot, but not cby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lynah remodel - keeping up with the Joneses - 19 years ago
(A little knowledge about urban planning is a dangerous thing, but here goes): Density is a good thing, up to a point. It creates vibrancy. Think of Lynah Rink. Think of midtown Manhattan at holiday season. Which is a better place to be: downtown NY or downtown LA? New York City sprawled upwards and that's okay, so long as it's a mix of three, twelve, and forty story buildings (plus good mass traby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Polls 2/14/05 - 19 years ago
The rest of the ECAC can move up to having a good weekend against Cornell and Colgate. We don't have that luxury because we are the 800 pound gorillas of the ECAC. I think the voters are simply recognizing that 9-0-1 is a pretty good streak no matter how crummy the competition.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: [OT] Beanpot consolation, final - 19 years ago
Cory Schneider got hurt and went off. In comes Matti Kaltianen. WHRB notes, "Matti leads the nation in goals against with 1.47." Come again? GOALTENDING LEADERS GOALTENDING LEADERS (Minimum 33% of team's total minutes needed to qualify) Rk Name GP W-L-T MIN GA SV SV% GAA 1 David McKee, So, COR 25 18-4-3 1506:04 34 521 .939 1.35 2 Matti Kaltiainen, Sr, BC 15 10-4-1 899:34 2by billhoward - Hockey
Re: [OT] Beanpot consolation, final - 19 years ago
Announcer one: "Goal, BC! It's three to nothing." Announcer two: "That's got to hurt if you're a Harvard fan." Well, yes. I know it's unfair to keep track of everything dumb announcers say when a game gets out of hand. But it's also so much fun.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: [OT] Beanpot consolation, final - 19 years ago
DeltaOne81 Wrote: It is really necessarily to refer to him a "Dov Grummet-Morris" EVERY SINGLE TIME they refer to him? More traditional Harvard students refer to him as "D*v Grumet-Morris"by billhoward - Hockey
Re: [OT] Beanpot consolation, final - 19 years ago
You're right: WHRB really is Radio Dov Ninety-Five-Point-Three. I think the only time I heard Noah Welch's name mentioned is when he went off for that penalty at the end of the first.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lynah remodel - keeping up with the Joneses - 19 years ago
Cornell should consider becoming the first Ivy school with its own monorail system. Then it wouldn't matter how far away the fields were. Maybe some dorms out there, too? Luxury apartments with covered parking for students with nice cars?by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lynah remodel - keeping up with the Joneses - 19 years ago
What's going to happen 20 years from now is that Cornell's going to be run out of free space, the grassy spaces having been taken for academic buildings. There's no way the U is going to buy up buildings and level them to make playing fields. It would make financial sense (sort of) to replace a building with a bigger building. Maybe it's time for Cornell to consider expanding south into Colleby billhoward - Hockey
Re: [OT] Beanpot consolation, final - 19 years ago
Well, the media loves a classic Harvard College riches-to-riches story.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Hobey Voting - 19 years ago
McKee is leading the ninth place votegetter by 13,000 to 12,000. Not that he doesn't need our support. It seems a grave slur on Cam's name that Noah Welch is tied with Abbott. Somebody should expend a couple second- or third-place votes to fix that. Points Name Team Pos. Year 28318 Tuomas Tarkki Northern Michigan G Sr. 23556 Jordan Sigalet Bowling Green G Sr. 16259 Jason Guerriero Northeaby billhoward - Hockey
[OT] Beanpot consolation, final - 19 years ago
Harvard-BC is on gametracker at 5pm EST 2/14. Root for the Cantabs. Ivy pride and all. Plus we want BC to drop in the polls. Northeastern-BU Beanpot final is 8pm on NESN and on satellite DirecTV 623, Dish Network on channel 434. (And those copycat Huskies are taking over the Park Avenue Country Club in NYC to watch it.) May as well root for Northeastern because they're underdogs, because theby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Polls 2/14/05 - 19 years ago
Fourth is a reasonable place for Cornell to be now and maybe finish the regular season. 2-3 are close in points as is the Cornell-Michigan band of 4-5. Beating up on cripples the rest of the way can't move Cornell up much although losing could push Cornell down. (Start by rooting for Fair Harvard against BC tonight in the Beanpot consolation.) It does feel nice to see BC at #2 and realize we wereby billhoward - Hockey
Re: game worn jerseys avail. for sale - 19 years ago
Not the price Cornell charges for jerseys isn't out of line (see what an NHL jersey costs) but I saw at Baker Rink in Princeton that they're selling vintage hockey jerseys for $75. Of course, it does say Princeton not Cornell hockey.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: game worn jerseys avail. for sale - 19 years ago
(Sorry, couldn't help myself. The question was sort of a fat pitch over the center of the plate just waiting to be pounced on.) You're right, that was a cheap shot at Chabot, who's been a loyal team member and at least the guys who are the sixth/seventh defensement know they'll get some ice tiime. He deserves a lot of credit for sticking it out. Someone who wants clean game-worn jersey shouldby billhoward - Hockey
Re: game worn jerseys avail. for sale - 19 years ago
dafein Wrote: Any idea if the puck marks/ stick wax is able to be removed? Why not pursue jersey #1 if you're looking for the closest-thing-to-new-and-unworn in a Cornell jersey?by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Quest for #1 seed - 19 years ago
How much does it matter? Assuming we don't really screw up in ECAC play, we're going to be a #2 seed or theoretically maybe a #1 seed (one of four #2 or four #1 seeds). So it means in the first of the two regional games, as a #2 seed you play a team just a little less good than you (the #3 seed) instead of the worst team in your region (the #4 seed). As a practical matter, say we're in the same rby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lynah remodel - keeping up with the Joneses - 19 years ago
Trotsky Wrote: And Lynah exceeds, by a huge margin, any future facility in intimacy, tradition, etc. Lacking the desire to replace things just for the hell of it, I have never been able to understand the drive to replace Lynah. It's ideal. Leave it alone. The suburbs are the place where, once you and your kind get in, you and your kind want to keep out everyone else and their kind. If you haveby billhoward - Hockey
Lynah remodel - keeping up with the Joneses - 19 years ago
Another hockey program finds its newer- and bigger-than-Lynah Rink inadequate to the task. The Bulldogs' DECC, built 1966, capacity 5,233, isn't up to snuff for Minnesota-Duluth: 2-3-2005 ... The Duluth (Minn.) Entertainment and Convention Center has chosen local architects in conjunction with renowned HOK Sport to design a new arena that would, among other things, house the UMD hockey prograby billhoward - Hockey