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Discussions about the Cornell men's and women's hockey teams
Re: Ertel to OHL - 3 months ago
BearLover Swampy Ertel's story reminds me of Tony Romano's. He also was a hotshot scorer (but 178th in the draft) who left Cornell for the OHL. I don't think he even got a cup of coffee in the NHL. I hope Ertel does.Ertel could be serving cups of coffee at Starbucks in a few years. Tough crowd tonight.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Ertel to OHL - 3 months ago
BearLover Scores one goal all season, gets scratched from the playoffs, quits the team. Sounds about right. Some players don't grow to meet the promise expected of them. I was looking at the stats for Joey Epstein of John's Hopkins, the highest-rated player of the class entering for the 2019 season: * 2019, 73 points, All-America third team * 2020, named co-captain, played only 5 games (injuby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Andy Noel announces his retirement! - 3 months ago
There were some not-ridiculous reasons for naming interim lacrosse coaches, certainly including continuity. Ben DeLuca was let go fall 2013, not the time for find the right head coach, so assistant Matt Kerwick was named as interim. Kerwick was dismissed May 2017 and associate head coach Peter Millman was moved up, again as interim; this promotion maybe could have been made a permanent hire. Thenby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Yet another collegetown bar bites the dust - 3 months ago
Iceberg... when I was a student I thought it couldn't get any worse in Collegetown As the number of bars goes down, rental rates go up. I was leafing through Collegetown rental sites, they seemed outrageous. But then I see Cornell dorms are $9,000-$12,000 for the year.by billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2022 - 3 months ago
Trotsky Is Buczek setting up to be the lax Schafer? Set sights higher*: Connor Buczek is destined to be Cornell's athletic director 2030-2055. Bob Kane '34 had a run of thirty-some years, so it's possible, and Buczek should walk away before the time when a sixty-something athletic director comes to find students annoying. Bob Kane at the end railed against student government and how a bunch of 20by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Andy Noel announces his retirement! - 3 months ago
Connor Buczek was ~27 when he was named Cornell head coach. That was something of a risk to take, at a time when Brown - Penn - Yale - maybe Harvard were showing the ability to be top-ten teams and Cornell lacrosse was mired in that era of Could Make the Playoffs, Title Game Quite Iffy.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Andy Noel announces his retirement! - 3 months ago
Knowing that many here regard Andy Noel as the blind squirrel who finds some nuts ... does he get credit for Connor Buczek and the lacrosse team's incredible run from "unlikely to make a deep run" to the closest anybody came to beating Maryland?by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: 2022 Incoming Recruits - 3 months ago
This is dedication to playing your sport and wanting to keep moving forward. Sweden to Amarillo, Texas, to Union to Cornell. 6-foot-4 is nice and so is 215 pounds. Brown's lacrosse goalie Connor Theriault managed to put 210 onto 5 feet, 7 inches. Notice hockey gives brief bios, Cornell football just names the incomers and their heighs, weights and hometowns. Cornell PR Gabriel Seger Fby billhoward - Hockey
Re: 2022-23 Women's Schedule - 3 months ago
Trotsky billhowardOhio State ... exams Well, here's your problem, right here. I can be a solid straight man for the headlining comic. So, you're welcome. (And yes, with discussions such as this, we're just wandering in the summer wilderness waiting for hockey practice to fire us up, that or a run of three straight (either direction) by the football team.)by billhoward - Hockey
Re: 2022-23 Women's Schedule - 3 months ago
arugula Is it naive of me to be surprised at that date--right in the middle of finals. Might be even tougher on the Ohio State players, on the road and all, during exams. Perhaps.by billhoward - Hockey
Cornell football 2022 - 3 months ago
2022 Cornell Big Red football schedule. Incredibly, Cornell hasn't formally published game times as of mid-June. Date Opponent Sep17 130 @VMI 130pm per VMI Sep24 Yale (Homecoming) Oct01 @Colgate (which opens at Stanford) Oct07 Harvard (Friday night lights) Oct15 Lehigh Oct22 @Brown Oct29 @Princeton Nov05 Penn Nov12 Dartmouthby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - 3 months ago
We've had so many good coaches who moved Cornell a couple rungs up the ladder then found greener pastures elsewhere. Conner Buczek could be the Mike Schafer of Cornell Lacrosse we've been hoping for since, ah, just about forever, since only Ben DeLuca '98 was also a Cornell alum. Let's see how good the entering class is. A lot of first-years aren't quite as good as their HS stats. But: Did anby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2023 - 3 months ago
Thanks for starting. (I was waiting for the excitement to die down over UConn vs Cornell at MSG.) Always nice to put the 2023 schedule in that first post, then a link to the pre-season polls, pre-season All-Americas, yada yada. Stuff readers would like to see w/o scrolling. I think you know the trick for monospaced fonts that let the schedule line up easily type the word code inside brackets to sby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Yet another collegetown bar bites the dust - 3 months ago
Hmmph. Hardly any recent posts on Collegetown bars closing.by billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Recruits 2023 and beyond - 3 months ago
Trotsky In passing, this was the most recent name added to Elite. I demand we immediately recruit him just for the name. And when he blocks a slapshot with his cup ____.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2023 and beyond - 3 months ago
Trotsky The second French Canadian Jew after Duddy Kravitz (if you have never seen that movie drop everything and see it immediately, Richard Drefuss' finest role which is a high bar.) His Elite page. We won't be hurting for goalies, anyway. Let's hope he's The Chosen. One of the best-known refs of 40 years ago was Percy Shore, of the Tribe, often partnered with Giles Threadgold. When Percy depby billhoward - Hockey
Re: 2022 NCAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament Thread of DESTINY - 3 months ago
Bill Tierney won six titles at Princeton, won one coach of the year award. Plus another at Denver. I mean, he picked up the slack for the Ivy League when things cooled down for Cornell after 1988. I hope Buczek loves Cornell. Because offers from non-Ivy schools could approach $300,000.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: 2022 NCAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament Thread of DESTINY - 3 months ago
toddlose “looking to Piatelli to break Mike French's record.” Only want to see him win a title like French did. I dc if he has 10 assists with zero goals. I’m sure he feels the same way. French played fewer games but the advantage of being able to score multiple points in overtime sessions. Such as against Maryland, 16-13 in OT, 1976, French had 7G 4A. PS Cornell was down 7-2 at the half.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: 2022 NCAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament Thread of DESTINY - 3 months ago
scoop85 Al DeFlorio USA Lacrosse article looking forward: , Much to look forward to for next season, but it will a challenge with a target on our back. Many strong teams will be in the mix, and we’ll be one of them. Plus we have to play all those unrated teams that gave us fits in 2022.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: 2022 NCAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament Thread of DESTINY - 3 months ago
Al DeFlorio USA Lacrosse article looking forward: , ... and had the good luck to be bracketed so the only contact with Maryland would be in the title game.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: 2022 NCAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament Thread of DESTINY - 3 months ago
KenP Even if we won that last, all-important game I'd still say Maryland is the better team overall and deserving of #1 in the polls. "Tournament finals produce winners, not always best teams."by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Women's hockey 2022 - 3 months ago
WederI have no idea how Lindsay Browning managed hockey, biomedical engineering and ROTC. Intramural hockey and the Daily Sun extended me to the limit. Plus the road games, pickup matches at Cass Park.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Alumni in the Pros 2021-2022 - 3 months ago
A couple nice shifts Saturday 6/11 by Riley Nash including batting a puck out of the air that is almost put in for a goal (almost). Tampa Bay beats NY Rangers 2-1 and Riley Nash not Adam Fox (Harvard '20) goes on to the Cup finals.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: 2022-23 Men's Schedule - 3 months ago
BearLoverNumber one priority should be filling the stadium.. Not sure if I posted this before. WSJ says the cost to rent MSG for an event is $350,000. $19.40 a seat if all 18,006 are filled.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Women's hockey 2022 - 3 months ago
scoop85 blackwidow Cornell womens hockey, even prior to the U18 IIHF, i thought was already insanely stacked. Wow Well given how dominant the US team was last night, it seems we'd rather have more of them than the Canadians this year. More USA-American women on the Cornell team, then we can be happy no matter whether Canada or USA takes Olympic gold.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Women's hockey 2022 - 3 months ago
Dragon15 She is very interested in Cornell’s Nuclear science/engineering school. Most of us would have trouble getting through that kind of program playing intramurals. Good luck to her.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: New indoor campus recreation & sports center - 3 months ago
upprdeck most of these type buildings have space for a few hundred and lax makes it even harder with a ball gong 100 all over the place to avoid. Sidelines netting is common for protection.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Alumni in the Pros 2021-2022 - 4 months ago
Jeff Hopkins '82 Trotsky billhoward Trotsky Riley Nash is on Tampa, oh right. I think he's the only Cornell alum left. G Bettman '74 < crowd becomes noticeably menacing > At this point, booing him is more of a fun tradition. "Cornell fans made the rafters roar."by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Alumni in the Pros 2021-2022 - 4 months ago
Trotsky Riley Nash is on Tampa, oh right. I think he's the only Cornell alum left. G Bettman '74by billhoward - Hockey