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Re: If you could choose... - 22 years ago
No question. With an ECAC regular season title, I would take the Frozen Four this year. And I don't care if our NCAA wins are convincing. (Unless one of them is against one of the scrub conferences.) The choice is complicated because winning the ECAC and losing in the first round would suck. If I didn't know the tournament results and was given a choice between taking our chances in the NCAA tby ugarte - Hockey
Re: Own Horn - 22 years ago
The team goes to the tournament, not the school. The team is a group of players, and those players are a "they".by ugarte - Hockey
Re: 2/11/02 - 22 years ago
Harvard probably got a #14 from the same person who voted us #1 to throw the ECAC a bone. And it is certainly no worse than 9 votes for Mercyhurst. Mercyhurst is 1-6 out of conference, and that record includes only one game against HE (Northeastern), no games against the WCHA or CCHA and includes a pair of losses to Findlay as well as a loss to RPI and two losses to Clarkson in which they wereby ugarte - Hockey
Re: Polls - 22 years ago
If you were spelling aproximate you would have written "approximate", but, appropriately enough, you were close. And I have no idea why you are writing about custard.by ugarte - Hockey
Re: Volume - 22 years ago
Tell me about it. I think that Age should be happy. There is much more volume here than in the waning days of CHDF.by ugarte - Hockey
Re: Music - 22 years ago
Alright, I'm curious. What do you call him? I promise not to be offended.by ugarte - Hockey
Re: Last years' Sacred Heart Loss . . . - 22 years ago
I don't care if people think it is censorship: Let us never speak of that game again.by ugarte - Hockey
Re: 1980 Hockey Team - 22 years ago
The 1960 team is undervalued compared to the 1980 team. I don't think the 1960 team deserves to be relegated in that way, but I think the most important factor is being left out: how familiar the audience was with Tretiak, KLM, etc. From my too-young-to-remember-1980-very-well-either eyes, the N.A. audience "knew" the 1980 Soviet team better than the 1960 audience "knew" tby ugarte - Hockey
Re: Travel partners in a 14 team ECAC - 22 years ago
This is an interesting question that the Penn author didn't think about. Quinnipiac looks like it is trying to increase its profile in a lot of ways. Their basketball team made the NCAAs last year and their political surveys are nationally recognized. I also heard (when I paid a lot more attention to these things) that the law school was making a pitch to "steal" faculty from higherby ugarte - Hockey
Offtopic: Big Red Hoops - 22 years ago
Cornell 63, Harvard 62 Finally, the Big Red pulls off a league win - and against a first division team (and Harvard to boot!). I am rooting for Yale to break the stranglehold the P schools have had on the Ivy title.by ugarte - Hockey
Re: Penn wants in- Wouldn't it be great... - 22 years ago
there are plenty of coaches available . . . Take, for instance, 1997 NHL Coach of the Year Ted Nolan, who has been looking for a job since he left the Buffalo Sabres after winning that award. While I think another Ivy hockey team would be great, is this guy serious? Maybe Scotty Bowman is tired of the Red Wings. . .by ugarte - Hockey
Re: LeNeveu #1 in the nation - 22 years ago
That Cornell has two goalies in the top 5 is spectacular, but I think that Ryan Miller is still the most impressive goalie in college hockey. He has 7 shutouts, and over 1800 minutes played. Neither of the Cornell goalies has half that, and Cam McCormick has around 1100. Two great goalies gives Cornell an advantage because we can keep our goalies rested, but I think the best individual achieveby ugarte - Hockey
Re: No deal at all, Robb! - 22 years ago
I don't think that the posters here have generally taken anyone's "side", since the posters here criticize Al when we think he is out of line. The sandbox is clearly labelled for the two of you. The people here are not so thin-skinned that we are really bothered by what you said. What bothers us is that your posts were so clearly designed and intended to provoke (at least) Al.by ugarte - Hockey
Re: Offtopic: Olympics - 22 years ago
I'm not sure why Dana Antal isn't on the ivyleaguesports.com list, but Cornell has her on theirs.by ugarte - Hockey
Re: Offtopic: Olympics - 22 years ago
Dana Antal is playing for the Canadian team, as is Joe Nieuwendyk. Once again we are subjected to the nonsense of NBC's "plausibly live", and I have to avoid seeing the results of Cornell senior Hannah Hardaway in the freestyle skiing until they show it tonight (the event started at 11AM EST).by ugarte - Hockey
Re: Where was SuperMom? - 22 years ago
I appreciate the parents who go to the games. I brought a friend to Yale for a Big Red game a few years back and was criticizing one of the Cornell players (I don't remember who anymore). My friend half-jokingly told me to tone it down, because "his Mom might be here." I told her it was unlikely because all of our players are Canadian, so I didn't figure they followed the team much.by ugarte - Hockey
Re: Cornell vs Princeton (Friday) - 22 years ago
The C-train rolls on. Hope I can listen tonight. Hold that #1 spot, Lenny!by ugarte - Hockey
Re: Daily Sun - 22 years ago
Bravo, Charles. I'm glad you entered the fray to defend yourself and the (unfairly) maligned Sun. College papers, by and large, aren't very good. They are run by dedicated, hardworking kids. (Why many big city newspapers are such godawful trash is a different question.) College columnists, by and large, write as if they were 21 or younger. They have a moral and intellectual clarity that canby ugarte - Hockey
Re: goalies - 22 years ago
Maybe Tim Danehey summed it up too much. How does he figure the math? (Not that I don't believe you, just curious.)by ugarte - Hockey
Re: Question about Chris Higgins - 22 years ago
In young star college news, Julia Stiles and Anna Paquin both go to Columbia.by ugarte - Hockey
Re: Penalty Killing - 22 years ago
Al made the point I was trying to make, but better. Thanks for the pickup. no longer needed.by ugarte - Hockey
Re: Penalty Killing - 22 years ago
Because it's bad math. The math isn't wrong in one sense: RPI has a higher percentage of good outcomes per special teams opportunity than we do. The statistic is deceptive because they are given "credit" for the extra penalty kills that they get because they are a man down more often than we are, (though they only kill 50% of those "extra" penalties) and it outweighs (onby ugarte - Hockey
Re: Letter to Harvard Coach - 22 years ago
If the 2005 Hobey Baker winner is in section K with his parents, will what you say or what you do cause them to not want to come to Cornell? If the answer is yes, please refrain, for the good of Cornell hockey. (I get to use that one right away!) That is a bit over the top. There are a lot of reasons crowded arenas should not scream out "@!#$" in unison. Mostly, it is just evidencby ugarte - Hockey
Re: TSN - 22 years ago
reshman Dave LeNeveu, whom many (including the Central Scouting Service) believe could be the best Cornell netminder to go pro since Brian Hayward Wow.by ugarte - Hockey
Re: Twins, Part II - 22 years ago
What they need is a third brother and some horn-rimmed glasses. . .by ugarte - Hockey
Re: 2/4/02 Polls - 22 years ago
I can't figure out why the usatoday website doesn't have all of the first place votes, but the total votes work out to 19 voters voting for places 1 -15, so the chart above is probably correct. (19 voters *(15+14+13+12 . . .) = 2280, which is what you get if you add all of the weighted votes.)by ugarte - Hockey
Re: 2/4/02 Polls - 22 years ago
Josh wrote: Well, we never have, so it's safe to assume we didn't that year either. Actually, we won (shared) the Ivy title in 1971, 1988 and 1990. I was one of the first half dozen or so on the field after the gun sounded on the 1990 game against Penn. And was overtaken by the crowd by roughly the 10 yard line (or was it the 3? There is a reason why I watched instead of played). If you only mby ugarte - Hockey
Re: 2/4/02 Polls - 22 years ago
I think that whoever voted Cornell #1 was just looking at the standings, and figured that any first place team with a winning streak deserves a parenthetical after their vote total. I (and probably all of you) don't think our out of conference performance warrants it. I am always suspicious of the polls because it always seems pretty clear that the voters have a very regional focus (not bias, pby ugarte - Hockey