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Re: Observations from the Frozen Four - 18 years ago
BeeeejScersk, I guess I just managed to miss you this time. I am as the wind: an unseen, unstoppable force. You may not have seen me, but I was always there... ...it's just that Friday I was feeling crappy and stayed in. What I learned this last weekend: Thursday: Amtrak employees continue to find new ways to be incompetent. Milwaukee's a cool town. I will wear any stupid hat thby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Can't get it out of my head - 18 years ago
RichHIn the end, I think it was a combination of the overall level of competition in the league rising ... and our own team in transition and trying to find itself as a seemingly new era dawns. My great frustration is not with our team, which I think remains ahead of the curve in the ECAC(HL) and NCAA, but with the other ECAC teams. You and I both have been tracking a seeming recruiting changby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Captains / Assistants For Next year?? - 18 years ago
RitaScersk '97In 1997-98, Knopp, at the time a junior, was co-captain with Jason Dailey, a senior. Thanks! I thought Kyle was also a captain his Junior year, thus making Topher a captain as a junior would not be unprecedented. Well... Bâby was a "singular" captain his junior year.by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Captains / Assistants For Next year?? - 18 years ago
In 1997-98, Knopp, at the time a junior, was co-captain with Jason Dailey, a senior.by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Captains / Assistants For Next year?? - 18 years ago
LowellFrankIt's been more or less the norm over the past few years, but I think one captain plus three assistants is a bit much. How about one of each? Two Cs (as was the case in '03)? Just El Capitan (hasn't been done since '96)? BeeeeeeeeejI would not mind seeing, and would not be surprised to see, Scott get the C as a junior. And to cover both angles, is it any surprise that two of our mostby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: C/LW/RW - 18 years ago
Scott, to my mind, was definitely brought in as a center, but has been converted to wing. Bitz was brought in as a winger and has been converted to center. Heisenberg has Scott listed as LC: and Bitz as RW: and Paolini as LC:by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Poll (yay) 3/27 - 18 years ago
KeithKNo, the fun of organized sports is the fun of organized sports. I can easily enjoy a game thoroughly at the end of a season when my team is well out of contention. (Case in point: I started watching Cornell hockey in the 92-93 season.) There's a joy in sports that's a lot bigger than whether you have a chance to finish first. Anyone who can't find something to play for once they're elimiby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Poll (yay) 3/27 - 18 years ago
It came about because Clarkson got screwed with an awful seed in the 1991 NCAA tournament. Even though they had turned a double, they had to face Wisconsin in the first round at Walker Arena in Potsdam and then Lake State (very powerful at the time) on the road in the second round. Frankly, I think they just ran out of gas at the Frozen Four, ending up getting crushed by a very good BU team.by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Poll (yay) 3/27 - 18 years ago
KeithKOK, I'll explain again. My philosophy is win and move on, lose and go home. Winning the league championship (however it's defined) means you won and have earned the right to move on. It doesn't prove that you're the best team, but that's not exactly the point. I prefer to define the championship such that it's more likely to pick the best team. Thus my preference for RS championship ovby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: [OT] Redemption is next door - 18 years ago
So, should I go back to the other thread and upbraid the other poster for upbraiding you?by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: [OT] Redemption is next door - 18 years ago
Oh, lay off the Swami... He may be a windbag, but his comments regarding Cornell seem to be motivated by a profound (dis)respect, something to which any hockey fan should be able to relate. Anyway, the drivelings of him, his con(cubines)federates, and the Big Boyz are much more entertaining than anything over on Laxpower, except maybe the circularity of the fictitious JHUxxyys.by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Cornell vs. Clarkson, Game 2 POSTGAME - 18 years ago
Jim HylaScersk '97On Roll: A few years ago, when they hired him, I thought Roll was going to do a great job at Clarkson. Now, I'm not so sure, It's just like Gaudet and Dartmouth: Yeah, I'm sure that Clarkson would be upset if they suddenly started finishing first in the league. After all,then they could start losing in the tourney again. I could never understand this he's not a gooby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Cornell vs. Clarkson, Game 2 POSTGAME - 18 years ago
On Hansen: Reasonably well-reffed games except for the quick whistles and a reluctance to call matching minors when appropriate. For the whistles, he's got to learn to let the puck have at least the chance to have hit the ice before whistling. On the goal called off in last night's game, he was screened and could not possibly have known whether Leggio had squeezed the puck. On the matchinby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: 2005-2006 PWR - playoffs edition! - 18 years ago
Just to point out the wacky nature of the PWR, and to return to a topic that someone broached a few weeks ago, I ran JTW's DIY PWR script and changed that MSU loss to a win. If that had happened, we would've been the #1 overall seed in the tournament at this point. What this type of behavior says about the PWR is clear; what this small difference between supremacy and struggle says about ourby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Best/Favorite Cheers - 18 years ago
Oh, there was a great amount of hate directed towards Vermont in the 1996 and 1997 seasons, both because of Tim Thomas's generally annoying arrogance and the Catamount fans' dogged representation of the underclass of ECAC hockey fandom. Their cowbell, married to the "Go, Cats, go!"; their pathetic amplified band; the beer guts and woodchuck behavior: everything brought the hate. Vermby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Cornell-Union Post Game Thread - 18 years ago
I'd like to say Princeton over Clarkson for the only upset of the first round, leaving Dartmouth the dubious pleasure of having to play Princeton in the quarters, and QU over RPI is tempting as well; however, QU and Princeton have both not played so well on the road, and, though Princeton and Clarkson look well matched at first glance, Clarkson's special teams are clearly superior. I agree thatby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ RPI postgame - 18 years ago
Well, only one team--you, Bruno--has nothing to play for Saturday night. Obviously, we're cheering for SLU, Clarkson, and RPI. Both Clarkson and RPI are cheering for us: 1) RPI, obviously, would like to pull ahead of Union. 2) Clarkson loses the three-way tie with RPI and Union but wins the two-way with Union no matter how the top 4 ends up. So, come on, somewhat-Yellowish Knights! Clby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ RPI postgame - 18 years ago
DeltaOne81Of course, I'd also rather play 6/7/8 in the 2nd round than a #5 Harvard or SLU. No matter how poorly we've done against 6/7/8 at the moment. That actually articulates why I feel the distribution of the top seeds doesn't matter that much this year. Yeah, it'd probably be good to avoid Harvard, but, the way things are going right now, any of those 5-8 teams could step up and make forby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ RPI postgame - 18 years ago
If you told me that we'd be missing 3 of our top 5 defensemen at the beginning of the weekend, I'd say that 2 points would be a good result. Well... Let's all stop worrying about the first-round bye. As has been established in other threads, we have a bye. What I have to wonder is did Schafer just say, "Well, we need to get healthy. We have a bye. I'm resting my injured--whatever hby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Dartmouth game - no access?? - 18 years ago
Is it just me? Am I too suspicious? Does anyone else think it's strange that we've had such trouble on weekends where there was a basketball broadcast at the same time? I can just see some boneheaded routing where the hockey feed takes some roundabout path to where the basketball feed is very well connected...by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Be nice to Harvard (at least be creative) - 18 years ago
And, anyway, last time I checked the penalty isn't a five-minute major. This crap gets spewed every year. People should just bring their fish, throw them at the right time, and have fun. And no need for the stupid stuffed animals this year--it just looks messy.by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Cornell at St. Lawrence post-game thread (2/11/06) - 18 years ago
SLUsers: "Long ride home! Long ride home!" Band: "You have to stay! You have to stay!" SLUsers: "Long ride home! Long ride home!" Band: "We'll be drunk! We'll be drunk!"by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Cornell at St. Lawrence post-game thread (2/11/06) - 18 years ago
jtwcornell91 Doesn't Southard have a story about this? Probably, but my Swiss-cheese-like mind is imitating a subpoenaed president's right now. I'm pretty sure we went through the alphabet on occasion, my favorite being "SLU(B)" just for the idiocy of it. The key, of course, is to just keep doing whatever you normally but in a more creative fashion--never let them stop you. Forby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: [sort of OT] Beanpot predictions - 18 years ago
Robb I was going to resent that, but then I wondered what you meant by "concerned." In my mind, I'm not concerned about it - sad as it may be, messing around with this stuff is fun for me, so it's purely for my own enjoyment... Plus I'm living in the desert and there's certainly nothing better to do! You know me better than myself. Exactly.by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: [sort of OT] Beanpot predictions - 18 years ago
Trotsky "The scripts" don't really help, active boy, because the season doesn't end when the Beanpot ends. What may help us this week isn't necessarily what's good in the long run. Well, that's the point, isn't it? What does it matter now when the calculations are so complex that it boggles the mind? Really, it comes down to faith/philosophy: would you rather we effect change inby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: [sort of OT] Beanpot predictions - 18 years ago
TrotskyIt would be nice if one of our resident experts told us who to root for, pairwise-wise. Go use the script yourself, lazy boy, if you're concerned with the actual numbers, but losses by Harvard and Northeastern kick us out of the top 4.by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Drummer of the band can help. - 18 years ago
CowbellGuy If section C does go back to the students, I'd love to see the band there, if only to help with the unity problems the crowd has developed. Ooooo... I don't know: depends on the acoustics. Is behind/across the ice from the home/visitor bench the best/worst place for the band to be? As a bandsman, I would miss the rail (ah, the secret goodness of the rail) and being nearer the oby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: illegal ticket sale on ebay - 18 years ago
krose Artificially deflating the market value means people are more likely not to think about the tickets sitting in their dorm rooms over break when people like me would be willing to---but are unable to, by law---pay a premium for them. This is exactly what happened to the Clarkson and SLU tickets this year: lots of seats wound up going unfilled because fraternity and sorority members not ableby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Guaranteed ECAC Title vs Guaranteed NCAA Advance - 18 years ago
I'm with Keith. The all-WCHA Frozen Four from last year, while probably exciting on the ice, was a big yawn as far as I was concerned. I really don't think the 5th-place WCHA team or, this year, the 5th-place CCHA team has any business playing for a national championship. Frankly, I'd rather see another Atlantic Hockey or CHA team in. Of course, what a clearly ECAC-type viewpoint. If we gby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Guaranteed ECAC Title vs Guaranteed NCAA Advance - 18 years ago
I am underwhelmed by any scenario in which we fail to win an ECAC championship. 4b starts to sound a bit attractive until I remember the absolutely crushing feeling of the semifinal loss in Buffalo. Without the ameliorative qualities of that championship afterglow, Thursday in Buffalo would have been rather black.by Scersk '97 - Hockey