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Discussions about the Cornell men's and women's hockey teams
Re: Opponent News 18-19 - 5 years ago
Trotsky What the hell happened to BC? Did they get caught doing an Elephant Walk or something? The "since 2016" RichH is referring to is the calendar year, not the 2015-2016 season - BC's NC record in 2016-2017 was pretty much normal given their overall record. BC didn't win any NC games last season but they managed to finish first in Hockey East, which is supremely weird unlessby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: 2019-02-01: Cornell 3 Union 0 end of 1st - 5 years ago
Scersk '97 Can't miss the first with these guys or you'll turn it on and find out we're up 3-0! GBR! This was my experience tonight. Much better than last Saturday, when I tuned in to find Cornell down 2-1 to Colgate.by Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: 2019-01-26: #12 Cornell vs Colgate - 5 years ago
BearLover Colgate is hands-down the worst team we've played this season. Topher can talk all he wants about their defensive positioning or how strong the ECAC is but this was an absolutely terrible loss. Cornell played well following the 2nd Colgate goal and their goalie stole it. But the first 80 minutes and 15 seconds this weekend were embarrassing. Yeah, by the rankings Colgate is by farby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Gonna Fly Now/Gary Glitter - 5 years ago
LGR14 I first noticed it at MSG, so I am sure it has been happening all/most of the season. They actually didn't play Gonna Fly Now at all and started Gary Glitter with 2.5 minutes to go in intermission. Half the crowd missed it. Oh, that makes me sad. The horns opening Gonna Fly Now right when the team stepped on the ice at the start of the third is probably my favorite "regular band momby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Bye bye Bliss - 5 years ago
upprdeck so did he play in Mass getting upset last night? Not according to the box score. I doubt he'll see any ice time this season. It sounds like he's pretty far from returning to the ice, at least at the level necessary to be a productive D-I player. See the UMass coach's comments here:by Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Cornell Pricks in the News - 5 years ago
Trotsky There's no rule against it. I just have no desire to know which of you are gross. We're hockey fans. We're *all* gross.by Tom Lento - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Cornell football 2018 - 5 years ago
Ken711 Trotsky I do not have the luxury of retaining members of our coaching staff, both head coach and assistants, based on my personal affection for them or their effort. Massive effort is a baseline expectation. And, I do not make personnel decisions based on the demands of others, who while invested in our success, do not have the opportunity to gain full internal program detail. I'm prettby Tom Lento - Other Sports
Re: Opponent News 18-19 - 5 years ago
djk26 Arizona State appears to have an impressive schedule. I assume they are an independent--is this their first season in D1? According to Wikipedia they've been a D-I independent since 2015-16 (after winning the ACHA title in 2014-15) and have been playing a full D-I schedule since 2016-17.by Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Cornell football 2018 - 5 years ago
scoop85 ugarte i for one want to tsk tsk about standardized test scores from the good athlete who worked hard enough in high school to graduate with a 4.0 Certainly the merits of standardized tests is debatable. But the fact is that Cornell factors test scores into is admissions decisions, and Cornell's average ACT for accepted students is a 32. Maybe the kid got a 32 and slid one digit leftby Tom Lento - Other Sports
Re: Where are our Alumni Playing Now - 5 years ago
BearLover but this upcoming year we are going to have only four draft picks on the team, one of whom was possibly a novelty pick by the Islanders rather than a player chosen for his NHL potential. (Happy to be wrong here, but Andong Song has 1 goal and 2 assists in 100 USHL games.) We currently have only two players in the NHL. Those numbers place us in the middle of the pack in the ECAC and signby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Where are our Alumni Playing Now - 5 years ago
BearLover Tom Lento BearLover Academic standards for playing hockey, even at an Ivy, aren't very high. If this kid had ambitions of playing for Cornell, he could have gotten the B average or whatever he needed to do so. And the son of a guy who played 650 NHL games going with the cheaper option? Possible, but again it seems unlikely. The most likely reality is that for some reason he preferred Coby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Where are our Alumni Playing Now - 5 years ago
BearLover Academic standards for playing hockey, even at an Ivy, aren't very high. If this kid had ambitions of playing for Cornell, he could have gotten the B average or whatever he needed to do so. And the son of a guy who played 650 NHL games going with the cheaper option? Possible, but again it seems unlikely. The most likely reality is that for some reason he preferred Colgate to Cornell. Maby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2019 - 5 years ago
mike1960 Al DeFlorio While watching last night's high school "championship" game I looked for a Hill Academy roster and came across this SI article on Hill from May 2016. Two items struck me from the article: 1. A quote from Casey Vock: "Everyone believes he can elevate Cornell to where they would be a championship contender today if they had him." Prescient. 2. A Hby Tom Lento - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2018 - 5 years ago
djk26 Trotsky Tom LentoIs this one of those things where there are a handful of players good enough to shut Teat down like this? Sounds like it makes the sport needlessly boring, like allowing a basketball defender to wrap his arms around the legs of LeBron and neutralize him for the entire game. What was Mellen actually doing, though? From what I saw, he was just following Teat around, forcby Tom Lento - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2018 - 5 years ago
djk26 CU77 Did you actually watch the Syracuse game? Is that what you saw happening? I'm jumping in here because I want to understand this better. What I saw was Teat unable to participate (except for restarts) because Mellen followed him with every step. What can Teat do to escape this? I saw a video on v-cuts yesterday that looked promising, but also difficult to pull off as you need your tby Tom Lento - Other Sports
Re: Opponents News 2: Hockey's the Reason for the Season - 6 years ago
Al DeFlorio BearLover Al DeFlorio BearLover jtwcornell91 BearLover Beeeej BearLover Al DeFlorio Jim Hyla Hockey East ADs Vote to Change Playoff Format "The league's athletic directors, meeting at the annual Coaches' Convention in Naples, Fla., voted this week to eliminate the first round of the Hockey East playoffs, meaning that the top eight teams in the regular-season standings will quaby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Chapter House fire last night/this morning - 6 years ago
upprdeck isnt the profit on beer pretty high? i know the cost of soda to a macd is less then 10 a cup and i thought beer was pretty close to the same for draft I expect it is, but given the fixed costs of the business gross receipts matter a lot. If you put a bar in there at those lease terms and turn 100% profit over beer, equipment, and maintenance cost on every $5 draft (which implies you gby Tom Lento - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Chapter House fire last night/this morning - 6 years ago
Scersk '97 David Harding The owners are looking for a tenantfor 3000 sqft at $35/sqft gross. Out of curiosity and some concern considering the comment at the bottom of Crandall's summary, can anyone speculate as to what the Chapter House's lease might have been before the fire? Or, for that matter, what a fair rate would be for the property, since no one seems to be biting at Pyramid's ask? Asby Tom Lento - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Cornell-BU - 6 years ago
abmarks have none of you that advocate for playing the weaker schedule ever actually played a sport yourselves? Sure, a weaker schedule might well make it easier to get in to the tournament...but what it won't do is help prepare us to *win* against the best in the country. If you want to be able to beat the best out there come tourney time, you need to take the measure of yourself having someby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Cornell-BU - 6 years ago
BearLover Angello bolting is an illustration of why I don't think there is such a thing as "looking towards the future" or "playing with house money" in college hockey. When you make the tournament with a team that is good enough to win it, as we did this year, any loss is brutal, regardless of how many of your players are supposedly returning. With Yates (13 goals), Rauter (1by Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2018 (and beyond) - 6 years ago
BearLover Would be nice to see the program build on this season's success with some new higher-end commitments soon... You got me curious about commit timing so I took a look at Heisenberg's list. It appears most of Cornell's commits have come during the season - I just eyeballed the commit dates column for the past couple of years but I'd guess 80% happened in the fall. BC and BU (they were atby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Quinnipiac QF - 6 years ago
RichH Trotsky We can hope, but that aint gonna happen. It's going to be nip and tuck all the way. I'll be extremely pleased and relieved just to get by them. Very true. Despite their record, few teams have played Cornell as tightly as QU in our two games. Q is third in the nation in even strength possession metrics and way down in both shooting % and save %. They're 7-3-0 in their lastby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Predictions: The Stretch Run - 6 years ago
BearLover CU2007 BearLover seems to bring everyone else together around here Some people on this forum think having high expectations and not rooting for our rivals who crush us every year makes me a troll. The reality is that I'm one of the few recent graduates who is willing to push back against the ELynah hivemind and the arguments I've made on here have largely been borne out. I know a nuby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: 2018 ECAC Permutations - 6 years ago
adamw Tom LentoThat said, you can account for the variance against empirical reality by measuring it, adding uncertainty to the model (perhaps via weighting KRACH-predicted outcomes), and backtesting to validate. More generally, though, I think you can start simpler by seeing how far off of empirical reality the model predictions have been. If you're 95% accurate, why bother? If you're way offby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: 2018 ECAC Permutations - 6 years ago
Jim Hyla Tom Lento One way to think about this point is to compare it to models of the presidential election (NO POLITICS - this is about modeling decisions). In 2016 a lot of models had these hugely, almost impossibly confident predictions of a Clinton victory. Several reputable polling-based predictive models had less than a 5% chance of Trump winning, while 538 had a 10% chance of Trump winninby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: 2018 ECAC Permutations - 6 years ago
adamw Tom LentoBack to hockey, one could imagine the same thing happening with KRACH. If KRACH systematically over-states the odds that highly rated Team A will beat lower ranked Team B, you'll get over-confident predictions for any team with a sufficiently strong record relative to its competition. Assuming jfeath17's data is correct, that is precisely what appears to be happening. This is not aby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: 2018 ECAC Permutations - 6 years ago
BearLover Trotsky BearLover Trotsky It is basic human psychology to look at a mathematical model that produces a counter-intuitive event probability and think "that model must be wrong." It could be wrong, of course, but the "mustness" of the feeling inverts reality. When a well-developed algorithm conflicts with your assessment of likelihood it's indicating that your braiby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Cornell on TV 2017-18 - 6 years ago
BearLover ILDN sucks. Tonight the cameraman missed basically the entire first goal. With no replays, that was our one shot of seeing it. The overall image is still low-definition. And as others have mentioned, there's no reason why we can't get the pregame/postgame. In addition to the camerawork and the resolution of the Lynah feed, which might not get better with a different provider, I have tby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ St. Lawrence 2/10/18 - 6 years ago
abmarks Is this the most uninspired hockey ever or what? And how do we get called for too many men *twice* in a game? Yeah, Cornell clearly had too many men on the ice many, many times. The announcer was harping on it, but he wasn't wrong - Cornell was lucky to only get caught on 2 of them. This was a super sloppy game. It's like this wasn't even the same team that played Union just 8 dayby Tom Lento - Hockey
Re: Opponents News 2: Hockey's the Reason for the Season - 6 years ago
Trotsky Tom Lentothey're among the best on close possession metrics.Linky? Here or someplace else. If you sort by CF% in the "close" section you'll see Q in third. Even strength is probably a little more robust but it's the same basic story as far as Q is concerned. Fenwick shows the same general ranking. Fun fact: the ECAC has 6 of the bottom 7 teams in the NCAA in shooting pby Tom Lento - Hockey