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Discussions about the Cornell men's and women's hockey teams
Re: Which Team Is The Weakest Link? - 20 years ago
Shorts Wrote: In other news, our women's polo team (the one with the horses, not in the water) just won its umpteenth consecutive National Championship. Too bad Cornell can't have a women's hockey team as competitive as the men's team. Harvard and Dartmouth do. Women's lacrosse came close, what, two years back to the NCAA title.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Which Team Is The Weakest Link? - 20 years ago
Cornell beat Ohio State. The Buckeyes beat somebody who probably beat Denver. So we're just as good as national champions. You could probably follow a route so convoluted the Big Red basketball team could have been proven better than UConn, but that's one I wouldn't want to back up on a court.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: LeNeveu: 10% more playing experience in the pros - 20 years ago
I was nostalgic, watching the Saturday championship, and thinking that this year's offense and defense, plus LeNeveu in goal (with McKee finishing up his Junior B prep year and heading for Cornell this coming fall), could have taken Denver or Minnesota. I mean, we can score one and maybe two goals against any team in the country.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Years since last NCAA championship - 20 years ago
jmh30 Wrote: billhoward Wrote: You mean the Cubs and the Sox. "Red Sox" is unncessary and redundant, just as "late-season Red Sox collapse" would be a triple redundancy on the order of "white rap music." There are the Sox and the White Sox. Okay? Now back to hockey and lacrosse. "late-season Red Sox collapse" is redundant. "white rap music"by billhoward - Hockey
LeNeveu: 10% more playing experience in the pros - 20 years ago
You turn pro early, you get more experience than if you stayed in college? In the past two years for Dave LeNeveu: Springfield 37GP 2157:23min 16-18-3WLT 99GA 2.75GAA Cornell BR 32GP 1946:19min 28-03-1WLT 39GA 1.20GAA Okay, so 60 times more he got the exercise of turning and fishing the puck out of the net. Not that he shouldn't have takent the money and run ... I think he likelyby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Years since last NCAA championship - 20 years ago
Avash '05 Wrote: So I guess this means that CC and Cornell are the Cubs and Red Sox of college hockey You mean the Cubs and the Sox. "Red Sox" is unncessary and redundant, just as "late-season Red Sox collapse" would be a triple redundancy on the order of "white rap music." There are the Sox and the White Sox. Okay? Now back to hockey and lacrosse. Youby billhoward - Hockey
Bridesmaids - 20 years ago
David Harding Wrote: billhoward Wrote: With Denver's NCAA championship this year, now only Colorado College has suffered a worse championship drought than Cornell... That's just counting the schools that have ever won. What about the, admittedly small, number who have been playing for 50 years without any championships? Here's the bridesmaids - been to the title game and came upby billhoward - Hockey
Re: [LAX] Quick headline post at cornellbigred.com - 20 years ago
ben03 Wrote: billhoward Wrote: ... Heck, when Princeton's in the semis, Baltimore is not exactly a long ride. Not to mention those six national championships since 1992 All those southern chauvinists keep forgetting there was the 10 year span throuigh 2003 when eight of the ten titles were won by northen teams.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Years since last NCAA championship - 20 years ago
David Harding Wrote: billhoward Wrote: With Denver's NCAA championship this year, now only Colorado College has suffered a worse championship drought than Cornell... That's just counting the schools that have ever won. What about the, admittedly small, number who have been playing for 50 years without any championships? More have been bridesmaids than brides. Like Yale, likeby billhoward - Hockey
Re: [LAX] Quick headline post at cornellbigred.com - 20 years ago
I do believe college sports in America are in attendance-decline except for parents and girlfriends/boyfriends, plus in the big time schools, all those alumni. Everywhere, not just Cornell. I don't think it's 11,000 students filling North Dakota's new hockey rink. It's hard to compare Cornell lacrosse now vs. the mid-1970s because not only has a generation gone by, but also Cornell was aby billhoward - Hockey
Years since last NCAA championship - 20 years ago
With Denver's NCAA championship this year, now only Colorado College has suffered a worse championship drought than Cornell. Colorado College last won 47 years ago in 1957. Denver's last NCAA championship before this year was the 4-3 victory over Cornell 35 years ago. Cornell has been waiting 34 years since that 29-0 season. (Stats going back to 1948) : Title Team/record in title year Yeaby billhoward - Hockey
Re: LeNeveu's GAA record in jeopardy? - 20 years ago
jtwcornell91 Wrote: 26 goals is not current; Howard finished with 27 goals in 1303:52 for a GAA of 1.196 vs Lenny's 1.202. I'm sure he'd rather have the NCAA title than the record, just like Lenny last year. You sure it isn't 1.19 GAA by Howard? The USCHO numbers say 27 goals allowed in 1363:52 (minutes:seconds) or 22.731111111111111111111111111111 ad infinitum games. That's 1.1877993by billhoward - Hockey
Re: [LAX] Quick headline post at cornellbigred.com - 20 years ago
DeltaOne81 Wrote: billhoward Wrote: Hope y'all in Cambridge didn't freeze your butts off. Us Jersey boys are enjoying balmy (well, sixtyish) weather. By the sound of the Cornell contingent, I don't think they were minding . Actually, damn them... it took me about 30 seconds to figure out for sure who won. Our announcer was excited, I thought the names sounded like our goal, but the crowby billhoward - Hockey
[LAX] Quick headline post at cornellbigred.com - 20 years ago
Nice to see Cornell's official site posted a one paragraph summary and then the box score within an hour of the game's ending (maybe sooner). Especially since it was an away game. Often the opposing team, even when playing in Ithaca, had the results on its site sooner than Cornell had on cornellbigred.com. Of course, the eLynah quarter by quarter results are faster still. Hope y'all in Cambriby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lessard gets the Hobey - 20 years ago
dss28 Wrote: billhoward Wrote: And if Danis won this year but Leneveu didn't win last year, there'd be material to keep eLynah humming through late summer. Or fuming... Either way, we're spreading the faith. As is everyone who agrees or disagrees with the Hobey award, or thinks North Dakota really ought to be in the title game, or that Howard this year is/isn't better than LeNevby billhoward - Hockey
All-America team - 20 years ago
Notice the geographic breadth of the All-America team . This is the American Hockey Coaches Association team (not the USCHO team). Three from New York State. One from Philadelphia, one from Darien, three from Europe. None from Ontario. None from BC. Only one repeater on the overall team, Yann Denis moving from second to first team. I East First Team G Yann Danis, SR, Brown* (Saint Jerome,by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lessard gets the Hobey - 20 years ago
Al DeFlorio Wrote: ... the Hobey isn't played on the ice until one player is left standing, and the candidates have to be judged by voters on what they've done over the course of the season. I'm not convinced that Danis should even have been in the so-called "hat trick" based on his season-long performance. In my view, it's absolutely just that he didn't get the Hobey. And thereby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Hosts? - 20 years ago
Greg Berge Wrote: Has an undrafted college player ever left early to sign a pro contract? Good question. I know a couple Cornell players left to go back and play junior hockey when they didn't get enough (or any) playing time -- I'm trying to think of one guy's name, early 1970s, something Nattress or Natrass -- and they would likely have been undrafted had they made the pros. I'm sure thby billhoward - Hockey
Re: The NCAA on top of its game again - 20 years ago
Shame that Bullock, a superb goalie, ran into the one perfect team in the history of college hockey. Maybe he was atoning in advance for the alleged sins of defenseman Nickerson 34 years later.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lessard gets the Hobey - 20 years ago
CUlater 89 Wrote: Thank goodness it wasn't Danis; Why? Is it a bad thing to show recruits that the ultimate national recognition can come to those who play in the ECAC? Would it be a bad thing to show fans of the other conferences that the national media believes (rightly or wrongly) that the player with the best performance in a season played in the ECAC? Give me a break. Right onby billhoward - Hockey
Re: The NCAA on top of its game again - 20 years ago
Mea culpa. It was of course the game-winning on that play, not the series-winning run, that scored, and and left the Sox so disconsolate they never really had a chance in game seven. Sort of like Cornell never had a chance in game 3 against Clarkson this year after coming so close in game 2 and expending all their emotional energy then.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Hosts? - 20 years ago
jtwcornell91 Wrote: From what I've seen, the ECAC is hosting, with no team identified. Hopefully they'd send us there for attendance purposes anyway, but it'd be nicer to be assured of going to Rochester if we made the tournament. Back in June 2003 the ECAC announced it was hosting the 2007 NCAA regional not, say, Cornell (95 miles away) or Colgate (long haul) or Syracuse (oops, no team).by billhoward - Hockey
Re: The NCAA on top of its game again - 20 years ago
Well, you get to play four varsity seasons, right, and since Dryden broke in in the 1966-67 season, that must have been his freshman year. It's no different than the number of people who believe Bill Buckner's, ah, miscue led to the winning run against the Sox on that very play.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Semi #2 BC vs. Maine - 20 years ago
Pete Godenschwager Wrote: During the game, ESPN was showing fans with different jerseys on and showed two fans with Cornell jerseys, way to represent! Anybody know who they were? Emotionally, that was *all* of us in Boston Garden of old and Fleet Center of modern day, cheering on Kennedy and Dryden and Lodboa and Ugolini and Nieuwendyk, Schafer the defender and Schafer the coach, and LeNeby billhoward - Hockey
Re: [Slightly OT] MIT's got our back - 20 years ago
Apropos of the location of this sign, take this Jeopardy quiz and provide the question that goes with this answer: ANSWER: Harvard, MIT, and BU. QUESTION: In Boston, name two colleges and a bridge.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Semi #2 BC vs. Maine - 20 years ago
Watching BC go down the tubes 2-1, helped along by its 0-for-7 power play, had me thinking: Haven't we seen this before, a team with incredibly precise stickhandling and passing on the power play - truly a thing of beauty - marred only by the team's seeming reluctance to TAKE A SHOT AT THE NET. Actually, I was also thinking: So Maine goalie Jim Howard is like 1/100000000 of a percentage pointby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Midshipmen hockey? - 20 years ago
DeltaOne81 Wrote: So Navy wants to go D-I? Didn't Penn give up D-I hockey in the late 1970s because it was so hard to recruit talent the farther south your school was? I mean, it's not like you're going to get good hockey players from, say, Texas.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Semi #1 Denver vs. UMD - 20 years ago
ugarte Wrote: If Maine moves on, you can bet that I'm rooting for Denver. If BC wins, I'll probably root for the Eagles. You could also root for Maine to win 5-4 if you're thinking primarily of wanting to see Jim Howard's GAA rise above 1.20.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: [OT] Freshman room assignments - 20 years ago
In all back and forth about working mothers (when mom is hope, it nurtures the kid vs. when mom is working, the kid learns independence) one positive attribute of both parents coming home dead tired from work was they were in no mood to wash that very special pair of jeans you just had to wear the next day ... so you learned to do laundry on your own and thus didn't have the problem of the whitesby billhoward - Hockey