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Re: Cornell - Brown - 4 days ago

scoop85 He did that after an embarrassing loss at Army about 20 years ago Yup, he did it his first season as head coach (1995-96) after losing at Army 4-1, including having them run around Army's rink for a while still in their gear before letting them on the bus. He regretted it so much (because he had to suffer with the players' stench, too) that he swore he'd never do it again.

Re: Upcoming Weekend - 5 days ago

Jim Hyla USCHO article on how we're doing with our injury bug this year. "Those two wins came at cost, though" Man, if I'd known we could get our wins wholesale, I would've stopped paying retail years ago.

Re: Frozen Four Tickets - On sale Feb 14 - 6 days ago

FYI, "unofficial" Cornell alumni section (i.e., where a bunch of us who have priority numbers already bought seats) for this year is 118.

Re: 2019-02-02: #13 Cornell at RPI - 7 days ago

For what it's worth, I would happily spend the next ten years slightly dehydrated if it meant Cornell would win the 2019 NC. That was the question, right?

Re: Cornell - Brown - 8 days ago

kevdog8 Has Cornell ever called up a club player in the recent era? This year, Schafer has been forced to dress Song, Bramwell and Brakel (when he was here) at times but has preferred to roll 11 forwards or 5 D-men over giving those guys shifts. My guess is he dresses Song/Bramwell as needed and leaves them at the end of the bench again... Paging Damien Rocke...

Re: 2019-01-25: #12 Cornell at Colgate - 26 days ago

Beeeej Anybody else have no audio? I'm watching the anthem, but there's no sound. Never mind - the broadcasters came on after the anthem. Low gain, but turned it up and it's fine.

Re: 2019-01-25: #12 Cornell at Colgate - 26 days ago

Anybody else have no audio? I'm watching the anthem, but there's no sound.

Re: 2019-01-25: #12 Cornell at Colgate - 26 days ago

Trotsky First person who says RILF is banned. That's you, my friend. It's been nice.

Re: Conference Play - 4 weeks ago

Beeeej Harvard win over Colgate pushes us up to #9 before our game's even over. ...and our own result puts us in #8.

Re: Conference Play - 4 weeks ago

Harvard win over Colgate pushes us up to #9 before our game's even over.

Re: Gonna Fly Now/Gary Glitter - 4 weeks ago

LGR14 What's up with the band this year playing Gonna Fly Now before the teams get back on the ice, such that Gary Glitter starts early and fans are telling the Sieve he sucks before he's even on the ice? The old timing worked forever - not sure why they felt the need to change it. I wasn't privy to the conversation, but my impression is they've been moving it up a little each of the last few

Re: Conference Play - 4 weeks ago

Beeeej For the record: After a few random mid-week games, Cornell is #13 in the PWR going into tonight's action. After the win over Hahvahd, as other results come in we're bouncing around #10-11.

Re: Conference Play - 4 weeks ago

Beeeej That's it for OOC play this season, and after all the results are in from last night we're holding at #14 in the PWR, the very definition of the NCAA bubble in recent years. Shockingly, that still leaves us as the second-highest ECAC team in those rankings, and we've already gone 0-1-1 against #6 Quinnipiac with no opportunity to improve that unless we meet again in the playoffs. The team

CHN on Cam Donaldson - 4 weeks ago

Conference Play - 5 weeks ago

That's it for OOC play this season, and after all the results are in from last night we're holding at #14 in the PWR, the very definition of the NCAA bubble in recent years. Shockingly, that still leaves us as the second-highest ECAC team in those rankings, and we've already gone 0-1-1 against #6 Quinnipiac with no opportunity to improve that unless we meet again in the playoffs. The team is most

Re: 2019-01-11: #17 Cornell vs #13 Arizona State - 5 weeks ago

Scersk '97 They're a fast-skating, counter punching team. Let them shoot and they'll probably score some. We don't seem to be into letting other teams shoot this year, which is fine with me. One wonders if Schafer had a chat with Casey. I commented last night that it's been a long time since I've seen a Cornell team with the intensity required to want to block close-in shots with their bo

Re: Arizona State - 5 weeks ago

cufan Just curious as to who is footing the bill for ASU's extensive travel budget? Playing ranked teams around the countr appears to be paying off this year - just look at their record. Makes we wonder why we do not beef up our schedule a little. Maybe you lose a game or three but the team gets exposed to to flight competition. Just a thought. Coach Schafer generally insists that any

Re: 2019-01-05: Cornell 2 Quinnipiac 2 (ot) - 6 weeks ago

Swampy Jim Hyla Dryden was a major exception and our first drafted player. Was he really our first drafted player, or just the first to be drafted and actually play in the NHL? (I'm not questioning what you're saying. I just seem to recall that around the late sixties and through the seventies is was common for players to be drafted but never even get a cup of coffee in the pros.) First

Re: Bye bye Bliss - 6 weeks ago

RichH Jeff Hopkins '82 Seems a shame, but I suppose the team had moved on. Good luck to him, wherever he ends up. This is a weird and disturbing twist to what seems like a saga: UMass is adding Ryan Bliss to the roster. Former NTDP defenseman who left Cornell in 2016. Played on Team USA's Youth Olympic team with Eichel, Ryan MacInnis, Nick Schmaltz, Shane Gersich & others in 2012.

Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 2 months ago

Swampy CAS Donahue is an excellent coach. Look how Cornell has fared after his departure. Bill Courtney went 60-113 during his 6 unsuccessful years. Brian Earl is 24-41 so far. Absolutely. Even with the team he had, you don't get the likes of Dick Vitale saying, "Cornell put on a clinic against Wisconsin" without excellent coaching. His coaching and his philosophy of how the team

Re: 2018-12-01 Cornell at Harvard - 2 months ago

upprdeck getting any kind of support for espn issues is always a problem.. i used to have some direct support phone numbers back when getting TV to work was always an issue.. wish they still worked.. On the plus side, after waiting 32 minutes on hold, I finally got through to a live person who put me on another brief hold, then returned and told me ESPN+ was down. (!!) We should wait until the

Re: 2018-12-01 Cornell at Harvard - 2 months ago

Finally got @ESPNFanSupport - who is in a different department from ESPN+ and claimed not to be able to help - to pick up a &#$%ing phone and contact ESPN+, who is now aware of the problem and working toward a resolution.

Re: Cornell-Harvard at MSG - 2 months ago

BearLover Beeeej BearLover We limited the chances of a good offensive team by keeping them to the outside, getting in passing/shooting lanes, etc. Harvard had few Grade-A chances. They cycled better along the wall, they undressed us passing around our net and setting up trailers, we gave up eight two-on-one rushes then screwed up even the standard last-ditch two-on-one defense on two of them,

Re: 2018-12-01 Cornell at Harvard - 2 months ago

Cornell takes a 2-1 lead into the second intermission. We've apparently missed two Cornell PP goals, which is awesome, but hey, how about this great ESPN+ service?

Re: 2018-12-01 Cornell at Harvard - 2 months ago

Larry72 Same here. Firs period was fine except for having to listen to their announcers. Did you know we got the newspaper-reading thing from the hit film "Mystery, Alaska"? Nope, I didn't know that, either.

Re: 2018-12-01 Cornell at Harvard - 2 months ago

Tweeted at @ESPNFANSUPPORT; we'll see what happens, if anything. Also tried the "Chat" option on ESPN's customer service page but it's been several minutes and hasn't connected me to an agent. This was the service that's much, much better than ILDN, right?

Re: 2018-12-01 Cornell at Harvard - 2 months ago

Just tried Yale @ Clarkson and Colgate @ Dartmouth; also not loading. Something must be pretty f'd up at ESPN right now.

Re: 2018-12-01 Cornell at Harvard - 2 months ago

Anybody else lose the ESPN+ feed? I can't get it back.

Re: Cornell-Harvard at MSG - 2 months ago

BearLover We limited the chances of a good offensive team by keeping them to the outside, getting in passing/shooting lanes, etc. Harvard had few Grade-A chances. They cycled better along the wall, they undressed us passing around our net and setting up trailers, we gave up eight two-on-one rushes then screwed up even the standard last-ditch two-on-one defense on two of them, we constantly pas

Re: Cornell-Harvard at MSG - 2 months ago

BearLover There wasn't much difference between the Princeton game and this one, IMO. In both we played well on defense, showed little cohesion on offense, and Galajda was solid in net. The difference last night was that Harvard is more talented and Cornell made two inexcusable mental errors. I would like to see our success the past two seasons translate to an uptick in recruiting, especially