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Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 3 days ago
Trotsky RobbKeeps Cornell in the running to get to 10 first. This. Damn... Nice run by Michigan, winning in 51,52,53,55,56. Scoured the list to see who bumped them off in 54. Shocked to see it was RPI!by abmarks - Hockey
Re: 2024 Awards - 7 days ago
nshapiro billhoward Al DeFlorio Shane named to All-CHN second team: Looks like the Boston phone directory. Do they still print directories? Nine of the 18 are Boston players (um, BU and BC, not Harvard, not Northeastern). All skaters (except all-rookie) are freshmen or sophomores. Ian Shane is the only junior (or senior). All-CHN First Team F Macklin Celebrini, Fr., Boston University F Cutby abmarks - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 12 days ago
BearLover pjd8 jtwcornell91 Trotsky I knew about the 5th year. But I thought it had to do time lost to COVID. Not counting time played during COVID is seriously weird to me. I may just have mentally blocked it out as absurd, like MLB extra innings a d professional allowed in the Olympics. I did not know that either, but then I've paid less attention to college hockey in the past few years.by abmarks - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 12 days ago
Trotsky I did not know that. Yikes. Due respect man, but how the F did you not know that?* Meme posts and crank aside, you're pretty knowledgeable and lucid (most of the time). *Possible exception if your browser extension that blocks you from seeing any bearlover posts just broke down, and this is the first time the 5th year rant got throughby abmarks - Hockey
Re: ECAC Early and Grad Departures 2024 - 12 days ago
Couple of related items from the athletic. From an article listing the top potential free agents. Broken down into categories by potential impact in NHL. In the category of "Long shot to play games" 27. Dalton Bancroft, RW, Cornell-ECAC Bancroft is a strong-skating winger with a decent-sized frame. He was a point-per-game player as a sophomore this season in college. He hasby abmarks - Hockey
Re: NCAA QF - Denver - 12 days ago
Trotsky DLOne bad penalty and one shitty call while playing a side stuffed with talent is probably all that separates any quality team on any given year from taking the crown. I would add one puck bounce. So many games are decided by fluke events. Great teams can only put themselves into position where those events cut their leads rather than costing them their leads. This!!! Winning aby abmarks - Hockey
Re: NCAA QF - Denver - 17 days ago
RichH But those memories are often washed out and faded deeply by the heartbreak and gut-punches that all happened a day or two later. But we had good times there for the regional stay. Frustrating that the feeling is always so fleeting. This quote needs to be held at the ready for these eventual situations: Next time we finally win a QF game and then lose the Semi. Except the heartbreak andby abmarks - Hockey
Re: NCAA QF - Denver - 17 days ago
BearLover Dafatone BearLover I guess I’m just kind of tired of it. “The future is bright.” “This freshman class is gonna be really special.” “Cornell will be the favorite in the ECAC next season.” That’s all well and good but at some point you actually have to win. It took a crazy series of events for us to end up in the NCAA quarterfinals with a great chance to win, but we DID end up there, andby abmarks - Hockey
Re: NCAA QF - Denver - 18 days ago
ugarte scoop85 On the DU goal the puck skittered past a couple of our guys near the blue line and their guy got off a great wrister. I still liked our game.i agree with RichH that it took us a few minutes to get going but we had the better of that period. we are ruining their structure on offense and they don't seem comfortable with the pressure we're putting on their defense. lot of hockey to plby abmarks - Hockey
Re: NCAA QF - Denver - 18 days ago
RichH What’s up, Robertson?? Wrong cleats. Gotta put in the longer ones between periodsby abmarks - Hockey
Re: NCAA QF - Denver - 18 days ago
Yes!! My dog hates me now. Left the room when jumped.off the couch and screamed "yes!!"by abmarks - Hockey
Re: NCAA QF - Denver - 18 days ago
ER The announcers just came through now Anyone else think the pbp man sounds a bit like Joe buck?by abmarks - Hockey
Re: NCAA QF - Denver - 18 days ago
ESPN Plus has no pbp announcers right now on their feed. Espn2 does.by abmarks - Hockey
Re: NCAA regionals in Springfield - 18 days ago
BearLover Can this please just happen one time. That’s all I ask. I don’t care what it takes. Nooooo..you only get one "one time" request per tournament! Can't waste it here! (Bearlover obv Not a poker player)by abmarks - Hockey
Re: NCAA Tournament 2024 - 20 days ago
Anyone know how long they leave between end of game 1 and start of our game? It's for to be at least 40 minutes minimum, but is it an hour usually?by abmarks - Hockey
Re: Lake Placid-2024 - 21 days ago
Jeff Hopkins '82 Al DeFlorio Nice TV station recap of the championship: The announcer called him Ca-stang-a. They don't have Italians in Burlington? They certainly do lol. I grew up in the Burlington area. In my high school we had some actual italians from italy; the father worked for rossignol and had moved over here on temporary assignment while i ws in HS. Three brothers: Franco,by abmarks - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2024 and Beyond - 22 days ago
Jeff Hopkins '82 upprdeck We didn't need to win the conf title to get in with PWR if we don't blow any one of about 6 other games, ^^This^^ nope. it's the other way around. let's get cause and effect in proper order. Which is to say that bearlover's good takes arrive highly correlated with full eclipses. I actually agree with him. -cause: We punted 6 games. -Effect: therefore had toby abmarks - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 22 days ago
for all this talk of smaller rinks wanting regionals more, if memory serves, there's been decent to excellent ticket historically for regionals in Manchester, Providence and Worcester, all of which are well north of the 5k seat mark. Granted attendance would vary depending upon how many of the local schools are playing there, but those have to be better venue choices than 3k-5k seat rinks, andby abmarks - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 22 days ago
Trotsky jtwcornell91Now that they're doing the regionals on Thursday-Saturday and Friday-Sunday, couldn't one site bid to host both regionals?This is actually brilliant. Only downsides I can imagine would be finding enough practice facilities for 8 teams plus enough hotel blocksby abmarks - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 22 days ago
Swampy Iceberg I find it crazy that the committee or whoever is responsible couldn't find another site in the midwestern US. There has to be a ton of better arenas willing to do this event at a tolerable cost. I think it has to do with who the host(s) is (are). In this case, the Midwest Regional is hosted by Lindenwood University and the St. Louis Sports Commission. What's even more surprisiby abmarks - Hockey
Re: ECAC Final - St. Lawrence?! - 25 days ago
Is there an internet radio stream of the game today? If so, where do I find that on the web?by abmarks - Hockey
Re: ECAC Semifinal - Dartmouth - 25 days ago
Pghas Dafatone I'm struggling to remember the last game I watched with such bad camera work. Never. It’s awful. Try watching the video from Gutterson. Makes to this seem Oscar worthyby abmarks - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2024 and Beyond - 5 weeks ago
ithacat Henry has a line of 53-48-54-102 Don't know how to read that. Is that 53games, 48g, 54asst, 102 points?by abmarks - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 5 weeks ago
Another salvo in the facility wars. $320 Million renovation for Maine's Alfond arena and facilitiesby abmarks - Hockey
Re: Cornell v Union - 6 weeks ago
Glad ESPN doesn't seem to have the replay available...this way I don't have to watch itby abmarks - Hockey
Re: MLAX: @Denver 2/24 - 7 weeks ago
Swampy upprdeck it would be nice if Athletics actually said thats its a pay link on the schedule page. if you just take a quick look you woudnt know and some may jump in sat expecting to watch and not pay the $9. So, we have different ethoses at work: Andrew Dickson White: "Truth for truth's sake." Lazy, Underpaid Intern: "The minimum effort needed." Aspiring Corporateby abmarks - Other Sports
Re: 2023-2024 Predictions - 8 weeks ago
BearLover ugarte BL annoys me less than a lot of people on here even when i disagree with him. He's got strong opinions and way too much of the Need To Argue Pedantically about the same issues like he's got a calendar tickler, but the structure of eLF has too many windows for people to be throwing stones around. I clearly suffer from too much Need To Argue Pedantically about stuff, which I acknowby abmarks - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 2 months ago
Trotsky scoop85 dbilmes If we think our freshmen are good, BC has an all-freshman line which has combined for 38 goals this season. If we had 3 1st rounders on a line they’d have the same type of productionAnd they'd leave after 2 years. If you can reload with 3.more every two years, who cares?by abmarks - Hockey
Re: Cornell 3 Quinnipiac 2 (ot) - 2 months ago
VIEWfromK ... The Big Red finally wore them down around the midway point of the third. Penney and Devlin both had some crushing hits. There hadn’t been much physicality early on so it was nice to get that part of their game going in time to turn the tide. That opened up the ice for them to find their offensive game. Just read some Schafer quotes in chn roundup "We started gettingby abmarks - Hockey
Re: Cornell vs Quinnipiac, 1/20 - 2 months ago
Trotsky scoop85 BearLover Trotsky BearLover Trotsky arugulaGrady wouldn’t have mentioned it. That would require paying attention. Jason perhaps. Not Grady. Grady is an excellent announcer. Your comment was bad and you should feel bad. Unfortunately, Grady spends too many words on random tangents and not enough on the game itself. He needs to track the action better. I love him. I will granby abmarks - Hockey