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Discussions about the Cornell men's and women's hockey teams
Re: 2/4: Cornell @ Colgate Postgame - 19 years ago
There are Colgate fans heading to Lynah? Just one unkind thought: If they drink like they allegedly did last night, is it possible they'll chuck their fish on the ice?by billhoward - Hockey
Re: 2/4: Cornell @ Colgate Postgame - 19 years ago
The other difference is the way the puck bounces. We had some unlucky breaks in the first half of the season and some lucky breaks. Now they're going almost all our way. That we won all but one of our one-goal games (actually all but one of our games period) so far in 2005, that's luck and that's skill combined. Ditto if we win out the rest of the way. If we win all but say two the rest of the waby billhoward - Hockey
Re: 2/4: Cornell @ Colgate Postgame - 19 years ago
1) This Post-Standard story had the clearest explanation yet of the lone goal. >>> The game appeared destined to end in a scoreless tie when Colgate called a timeout with 1:44 to play and a faceoff due to be dropped to McKee's right. ... The Big Red won the draw, and senior defenseman Jeremy Downs wrapped the puck behind the net and up the boards toward teammate Mike Knoepfli. A Colgaby billhoward - Hockey
Re: 2/4: Cornell @ Colgate Postgame - 19 years ago
This is good insight. A lot of us have been hoping for neutral reporting (as best one can be while rooting for Cornell) on who had the upper hand in the game and how well Colgate played. The USCHO story was pretty convoluted using a quote to explain the goal. The Cornell bigred.com game story, dry as it was, was a little better. The faceoff was at neutral ice? Cornell's end? Did somebody takeby billhoward - Hockey
Re: DIY PWR/RPI/KRACH script for 2005 - 19 years ago
How about a version with training wheels? *You* show the rest of us the reasonable tinkerings with home - neutral - away wins that make us look best, and then we can start a forum thread to argue how that's the way the seeding committee should look at things. The annoying problem with playing with PWR right now is, many of the things that move Cornell up also move up about half the other teams.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell at Colgate on T.V.? - 19 years ago
pfm10 Wrote: So really, how much trouble could some one get in for webcasting the television feed? Fascinating question: As a practical matter, first time, correction, first time you get caught, not much. If you streamed the whole show, let's see, you are increasing Time-Warner's viewing audience and eyeballs watching the commercials. Posting just the clip of the winning goal, thatby billhoward - Hockey
Re: 2/4: Cornell @ Colgate Postgame - 19 years ago
BCrespi Wrote: How about Mike Iggulden? No gaudy stats, but the two biggest goals of the season. Clutch baby. Man, what a win. Great job fans for all those who were there with us. I have the Colgate student section cheer count of different cheers at 4. Pathetic really. But I've got to hand it to them, at least they were obnoxious and drunk. Plus his pair at our lone all-victorious Everbby billhoward - Hockey
Re: The Feb 2 '05 Hockey News - 19 years ago
Even if everybody knows the formula, not everyone can (what a terrible word productize it.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: 'Gate signs/cheers - 19 years ago
When the Colgate lads and lasses applied and started keying in college sites, they must have used type-ahead, and went they got to www.co___ they just took the first entry offered alphabetically. Now they're paying for it for four (maybe five) years.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: New Final Proposal from NHL - 19 years ago
There is a wee bit of a problem getting into the golden triangle (such as it is) of Newark's downtown via motorcar. By train and subway (PATH) it's a snap from New Jersey and from the island we bought for $24 worth of trinkets. I'm sure that if and when the arena is built, Newark will then come crying to the state and feds for highway improvements to Realize the Dream. And that will be on top ofby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Recap - 19 years ago
RichS Wrote: By the way, don't they teach you to use Caps at cornell? Have a nice night. Cornellians use them all the time. Has a big red C on front. Says "Screw BU" on back. Keeps the occasional Ithaca rain and snow off.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Bracketology - 19 years ago
jkahn Wrote: Why am I even paying attention to this at this point? Bracketology should be forbidden until two weeks are left in the regular season. Because you believe GNP and personal productivity are growing too quickly and our collective time on eLynahcarping about bracketology or McKee's chances for the Hobey is part of a grass-roots circuit breaker mechanism that keeps the economy fromby billhoward - Hockey
Re: New Final Proposal from NHL - 19 years ago
The Nets' plan for Brooklyn is proceeding but it is still not a guanantee they're moving. The current arena is one of those charmless buildings in the middle of a parking lot in the middle of a swamp - correction, revitalizing nature refuge - that is still a darn sight better than the current Madison Square Garden that destroyed Pennsylvania Station. There is lots of talk of putting a civic aby billhoward - Hockey
Re: RPI follows Clarkson and St Lawrence games with suspensions - 19 years ago
Academic tenure ought to at least be a topic for ongoing discussion unless we believe lifetime tenure has only upsides and no downsides. From the outside, a lot of people wonder: Once a professor gets tenure, how many explore their newfound freedoms and continue to grow, and how many coast? Is it possible - and this is a Forbes / WSJ kind of argument, the law of reverse consequences - that tby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Keep voting For McKee - 19 years ago
1 David McKee, So, COR 21 15-4-2 1261:04 30 432 .935 1.43 1 Matti Kaltiainen, Sr, BC 13 9-3-1 796:52 19 269 .934 1.43 3 Adam D'Alba, Fr, BN 14 9-2-2 792:35 23 369 .941 1.74 4 Dov Grumet-Morris, Sr, HU 17 11-4-2 991:38 29 463 .941 1.75 5 Cory Schneider, Fr, BC 11 8-0-3 679:37 20 232 .921 1.77 6 Tuomas Tarkki, Sr, NMU 20 11-5-3 1127:12 34 522 .939 1.81 7 Steve Silverthorn, Sr, COL 24by billhoward - Hockey
Re: RPI follows Clarkson and St Lawrence games with suspensions - 19 years ago
RPI of course can have team rules saying no booze on the bus. But overall the 21-year drinking law is an ass. There's no way you can stop 18- to 20-year-olds from drinking. The ex-President of Middlebury, John M. McCardell Jr., said in an Op-Ed piece in The New York Tiimes last fall (the link is to a fee not free page) that there were two things he should have spoken out against more forcefullyby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Frozen Four at Ford Field? - 19 years ago
An ice hockey NCAA championship in a football stadium seating 65,000-75,000 would be a very cool publicity stunt in a year when Cornell wasn't in the final four and none of us had tickets, either. Because the view for everybody other than the goal judges would be lousy. It would be fine to watch on TV. Downtown Detroit is a city always looking for some stunt to make everyone forget for a bitby billhoward - Hockey
First to score wins - misleading stats? - 19 years ago
Are some stats self-proving truths? Specifically, there is frequent mention of the team to score first being the one to win the game (or the team to win game one being the more likely to win the series). In football, there's talk of how often the team ahead at halftime is the team that wins the contest. For Cornell, for instance ... cornelbigred.com >>> One of the best indicatoby billhoward - Hockey
Re: New Final Proposal from NHL - 19 years ago
>>> Tom Golisano (owner of the Sabres) owns Paychex, which makes billions of dollars a year. Paychex processes billions. Earnings are a couple zeros to the left. Golisano's net worth is pegged by Forbes at $1.1 billion. So whether the Sabres make or lose money, Family Golisano will not be filling out financial aid forms for college, and since the Sabres are separate from Paychex, Goliby billhoward - Hockey
Re: New Final Proposal from NHL - 19 years ago
It would be awesome to see a merger of capitalism and socialism as the NHL folds and the players form NHL2. They own it, they control it, they pay themselves. They decide if every player is a free agent on Day One or never. They decide how much to fund the farm teams. They decide how much retirement to pay themselves and how much tenure is required for how much money. They decide if they cap theiby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Keep voting For McKee [scare off recruits] - 19 years ago
Say McKee actually made the final round of ten Hobey nominees. Some hotshot netminder out of the Chilliwack Chiefs is going to see the publicity, recall that Davenport bailed, and sign on with Colgate instead. No good deed goes unpunished.by billhoward - Hockey
Grantland Rice Award (meow) - 19 years ago
In addition to players, rookie players, and coaches, perhaps honors should fall also to some of the outstanding and insightful hockey writing we're seeing online. For instance: >>> And stay tuned, because a lot can change each weekend ... ] >>> The PairWise is so volatile each and every weekend that's it's almost impossible to predict what will happen day by day. That'by billhoward - Hockey
Re: INCH Coach of the Year Candidates - 19 years ago
Adam has a good point: Voters (and scribes) love rags-to-riches, worst-to-first kinds of stories. I cannot believe I am saying something nice about the Y*ankees, but Joe Torre is a great manager every year and he might get more recognition club-hopping (baseball-, not Jeter-style) and taking a .400 team into a .580 team. There ought to be, say, three hockey COTY awards: Rookie of the yearby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Peter King and Colgate - 19 years ago
A story in the paper today says the U.S. ambassador to Mexico is marrying the daughter of one of Mexico's wealthiest families and it's brewery money. The sacrifices for king and country.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Ejections for foul language at Yost - 19 years ago
This is essentially what Mike Schafer has been saying but with slgihtly different words: >>> "Our students are too creative, and they're too smart to let this thing hurt our program," Berenson said. "And if they don't care about our program then they'll continue what they're doing."by billhoward - Hockey
Re: The GAA Battle - 19 years ago
nyc94 Wrote: jeh25 Wrote: Yet culturally, we allow the Prius owner to feel morally superior to the Excursion owner. Who is "we"? We is everybody who does a story in the New York Times about "gas-guzzling" Suburbans and never a word about big houses or multiple houses and the ski house is always heated ... who don't question the validity of the Prius as the only caby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Bracketology - 19 years ago
The seeding committee should take into consideration which teams actually get fans to travel. Cornell could put 1,000 fans in Amherst or Worcester but not Grand Rapids. (Lord, what a missed opportunity that was that we didn't make the title game in 2003 when it was in Buffalo.) Wisconsin fans are insanely loyal, too, and ought be rewarded with something that's within an eight-hour charter bus ridby billhoward - Hockey
Re: The GAA Battle - 19 years ago
Good stuff so long as one includes the energy input at the other end. We (Americans) are more concerned about MPG, when we're concerned about it all. The Europeans' hot button (other than not liking the president) is global warming although when you aggressively tax any engine larger than a lawn mower, that tends to drive up MPG. Too bad there isn't a way to measure and tax (just kidding; heby billhoward - Hockey
Re: The GAA Battle - 19 years ago
jeh25 Wrote:I get 47 mpg. What are you doing to reduce your oil consumption? (You get forty-seven-point how many miles per gallon? <g> Is that miles per gallon or passenger miles per gallon? A loaded SUV getting 11 miles per gallon does better than two people in a 30 mpg Focus SVT or one person in a 50 mpg alternative fuel car. 'Course, most of the time Shamu just has the driver, her noby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Keep voting For McKee - 19 years ago
Haven't a couple of goalies (SLU, Union) had super games against Cornell ... in defeat? If McKee is having his ups and downs, it still wasn't enough to convince Davenport he saw light at the end of the tunnel.by billhoward - Hockey