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Re: Going cold turkey on eLynah: Mission Impossible? - 19 years ago
Right. Here's hoping for the lacrosse team kicks in its afterburners starting with the thorough trouncing of Yale. We shouldn't have lost to Army and we could have beaten NC with a few lucky bounces of the pu-- oops, wrong sport. Somehow it feels as if last year was the almost year for the lacrosse team and this year may wind up being almost the almost year. May we be proved wrong. I have thiby billhoward - Hockey
Going cold turkey on eLynah: Mission Impossible? - 19 years ago
For Cornell, the season is over. It's not coming back. There's six more months until any meaningful Cornell hockey is played. The smart thing to do would be to remove eLynah as the home page, remove it from the favorites list, and get on with life, in the process gaining five hours a week of productivity. But it's hard going cold turkey. Anybody else having trouble winding down?by billhoward - Hockey
Re: New Recruits - 19 years ago
We're saying the 25 young men of the Cornell hockey team all go dry from October through April of each year? It must be a cruel reminder for the defenseman who lines up behind Matt Moulson during a faceoff, looks up, and sees that cool and refreshing word on the back of Matt's jersey. And then to have a coach named ... At least the trainer isn't named Bud.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Don't overrate Mike Schafer - 19 years ago
Legends are made and lost based on the butterfly flapping its wings in Tokyo and the wind currents making the slapshot clang off the post and out of, not into, the net, for what would have been the tying goal. It's all so random that it's unfair to say a team or a coach is a success / failure based on the outcome of one game or one season. The 1990s book "Accidental Millionaires" tickedby billhoward - Hockey
Way to go, ECACHL - 19 years ago
Lost in all the lamenting the lack of any Hockey East teams in the Frozen Four, in fact the lack of anything besides the WCHA in the Frozen Four, is the amazing showing by the ECACHL. Harvard and Colgate went down in their opening games but they didn't embarrass themselves, and Cornell did what it's supposed to do the last couple years, which is at least get past the first round. For a momentby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Support Schafer and our team - 19 years ago
We're proud of the hockey team but Travis Lee didn't exactly embarrass Cornell this winter. SI's profile of him was great publicity for Cornell ("brainy engineer". And not that Cornell wrestling was chopped liver in the past, but you can see the impact the wrestling center had on wrestling.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: New Recruits - 19 years ago
Older players probably fit in better at Cornell because they're not bothered so much by the 21-year drinking age.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Whither Mike Schafer? - 19 years ago
Parker is amazing to have survived three decades in the pressure cooker at BU. When he was a young coach he always seemed on the verge of self-induced ulcers. Maybe the new place should be called Agganis Rink at the Tagamet Center. Does Hockey East fill the Garden now? You're right that the ECAC tourneys were incredible before the ECAC-HE breakup and you knew if you won the ECACs you were inby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Whither Mike Schafer? - 19 years ago
The effect of everyone knowing everyone else's salary is it leads to salary creep. Proabably it's gone overboard in the NBA, MLB, NHL and among the 25 top D1 basketball coaches. I think it's not going to hurt college hockey anytime soon. Schafer is one of America's ten best hockey coaches (five?) and he makes what? Peanuts compared to what one of the nation's ten best history profs makes. Proby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Congradulations on the Minnesota Referees win !!! - 19 years ago
Meow. (But you're right.) And they never explained if that was his sister or girlfriend sitting next to them.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Whither Mike Schafer? - 19 years ago
Mark Mazzolini at Harvard was making an estimated $100K last year when he decamped for the Green Bay Gamblers. The hockey coach's job at Cornell is endowed but you'd only be guessing at the salary from endowment. You could draw down 5% of a $2 million endowment and come up with $100K, but would that be for salary or salary and benefits? Or could the U feel comfortable drawing down 7%-8%?by billhoward - Hockey
Re: New Recruits - 19 years ago
calgARI '07 Wrote: I think that Hynes would benefit from being the primary offensive presence on his line. He needs more responsibility and accountability to produce. This isn't a knock on him at all, but I think he can be better utilized with added offensive responsibility.Was it so busy out in Minneapolis we forget to asign primary offensive responsibility for Sunday's game?by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Save Percentage Leaders - 19 years ago
Well, there are real statistics and then there are BS statistics that have to be simple so a) the announcers can announce them and b) the audience thinks they've heard something. I wish there was an alternate feed with a sabemetrician as second color man and when the announcer says Ohio State is 289-1-11 when scoring the first goal, the color geek explains what BS that is. Actually, that's noby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Save Percentage Leaders and other historic numbers - 19 years ago
A team going 20-0-2 when scoring first is a partially self-proving statement. If in the games you score first you win half by one goal and half by two or more, then the reason you won half the games is because you were up by one goal at the instant you scored the first goal - from that point onward both sides just traded goals, which would be a likely outcome of many, many games. True, you don'tby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Which loss was more painful? - 19 years ago
redGrinch Wrote:With that said, my expectations for next year are sky high......Just think: If LeNeveu hadn't departed early for the pros, McKee would this year be finishing his *freshman* year and we'd have his services through spring 2008. That would be one heck of a goalie rotation.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Congradulations on the Minnesota Referees win !!! - 19 years ago
atb9 Wrote: I didn't see it because the camera panned away when the puck was brought forward. At the time, I was so upset because I thought they were calling offsides and it looked like a top notch scoring chance. The camera then went back to show Gleed with his helmet up on the back of his head.The camera panned away because it hadn't showed the Minnesota goalie's parents in the last 90 secondby billhoward - Hockey
Re: TBRW Award Nominations - 19 years ago
Is there room for a Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda Award for the player who would have won one of the other awards if he hadn't been injured at leat a third of the season?by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Who to root for in 2005 Frozen Four - 19 years ago
Caruso's musical segment set OSU recruiting back a year and if it's true that stereoid abuse is causally linked to skin, er, irritations, he may be sitting next to Barry Bonds when Congress resumes hearings. He may be the exception proving the rule "any publicity is good if you spell the name right."by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Whither Mike Schafer? - 19 years ago
Let's hope Tim Taylor has a drink with Mike at the national coaches convention and they talk about how good life can be in a college program. You have to have a lot of respect for Taylor and what he's done at Yale. There's also the outside chance all big time sports, pro/college, will implode with the steroid scandal - see this weeks' "what have they done to our game" cover in SI -by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Whither Mike Schafer? - 19 years ago
If the NHL wants to think college coaches are not the answer, more's the better for the college game. Maybe they (NHL) should consider a more complex model that includes the perils of bringing in a new guy who didn't spend some time as an NHL assistant learning how the pro players are different from college players ... that one person can't fix a disfunctional team in a couple months ... and thatby billhoward - Hockey
Whither Mike Schafer? - 19 years ago
How content is Mike Schafer at Cornell? There's discussion on adjacent threads of whether it's McKee, Moulson or Iggulden who's Cornell's most valuable player. What about if the P in MVP stood for the most valuable person associated with Cornell hockey ... ? I think he's said in the past something to the effect of every coach having a dream of being an NHL coach, which could mean a) he'd like toby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Who to root for in 2005 Frozen Four - 19 years ago
I love the beauty of sports ... the plays ... the instant replays. That's what TV does well and HDTV does really well compared to being there in person. So I'm going to be watching from the best vantage point I can think of: the Barcalounger. Here's hoping for CSTV-HD in 2005-06. Okay, being there in person means you don't have to hear OSU goaltender Dave Caruso crooning out a country & wby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Attempting to retrieve the cowbell - 19 years ago
So what was the outcome? Did everyone who brought cowbells now have them back?by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Congradulations on the Minnesota Referees win !!! - 19 years ago
Sometimes refererees over-penalize big guys and Topher, ah, he plays big for his size maybe?by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Who to root for in 2005 Frozen Four - 19 years ago
It's possible to get excited about NCAA basketball Final Four despite Cornell's absence this year from the tournament (and last and ...). So why not hockey FF, too?by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Who to root for in 2005 Frozen Four - 19 years ago
And now we're in the same boat as Rich's team: On the outside looking in.by billhoward - Hockey
Who to root for in 2005 Frozen Four - 19 years ago
Who should we cheer for in the Frozen Four this year? The rooting priorities for sports generally are: 1. Cornell 2. Ivy (tie) 2. Upstate New York (tie except Upstate over Harvard) 4. ECACHL 5. East 6. Academically gifted and talented colleges Plus sometimes - Underdog - Team going the longest without winning the title - Team that just narrowly beat you - Team / school thatby billhoward - Hockey
Re: New Recruits - 19 years ago
What's your thinking: His jumping from Cornell to the Tute would help the GPA of both schools? <g> He wants to get an early head start on spring break each year? (Let the 2005-06 sniping begin. Where are the Clarkson faithful? The Lynah Faithful are now just about as gainfully without purpose as you are, other than griping about the rink size and officiating and seediing and ... )by billhoward - Hockey
Re: New Recruits - 19 years ago
What is the history of committed recruits for the year after (eg for the fall of 2006 right now) actually staying committed and showing up on campus?by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Save Percentage Leaders - 19 years ago
So McKee wins both GAA and save perecentage (if your numbers are accurate, then it's going to be a tie as rounded and reported, and it's a pretty weak barroom argument to see Mckee did win when you get to the fourth decimal places), Moulson gets his 100 points (that empty netter against Harvard he missed, I thought that was gonna cost him), Schafer stuck with 199 wins not 200, so it's mostly goodby billhoward - Hockey