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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
Re: ECAC 2024 Discussion Thread - 3 months ago
chimpfood BearLover chimpfood BearLover If the PWR is doing its job, i.e. accurately ranking teams, then how good or bad the ECAC is should not affect Cornell’s odds of an at-large bid. This is because, if the ECAC is bad, Cornell should have a better record in-conference (and vice versa). Obviously, holding constant Cornell’s odds of beating (for example) Union, we’d rather Union perform well ouby abmarks - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2024 and Beyond - 3 months ago
CU2007 abmarks Murray scored 4 goals in a bchl playoff game last year. Not bad. And then he scored 4 more goals in the very next game. Can we have this version of him, please? Whoops whoops?by abmarks - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2024 and Beyond - 3 months ago
Murray scored 4 goals in a bchl playoff game last year. Not bad. And then he scored 4 more goals in the very next game. Can we have this version of him, please?by abmarks - Hockey
Re: "When The Red Come Skating In" - 3 months ago
Trotsky abmarks HeafDog ... I've realized that I value uniqueness quite highly and am not too keen on the fact that most American fanbases more or less sound the same: there's the doorbell chant, there's trisyllabic chants, and, with some exceptions, not a great deal else. Hence, as my first effort (of possibly more songs; the reaction to this one so far has been very positive), Yet you deciby abmarks - Hockey
Re: "When The Red Come Skating In" - 3 months ago
HeafDog ... I've realized that I value uniqueness quite highly and am not too keen on the fact that most American fanbases more or less sound the same: there's the doorbell chant, there's trisyllabic chants, and, with some exceptions, not a great deal else. Hence, as my first effort (of possibly more songs; the reaction to this one so far has been very positive), Yet you decided on the oh soby abmarks - Hockey
Re: Odds of winning 2024 NCAAs - 4 months ago
Those odds don't look right. Both Bovada and. DraftKings list us at +3500 (36:1).by abmarks - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ Quinnipiac , 11/17/23 - 5 months ago
Trotsky Iceberg chimpfood Wow these quinnipiac announcers piss me off The one guy whom they have in the booth (the student player) this period is at least knowledgeable about goaltending but the PBP guy is somethingThat kid was shockingly good. He's a natural for the booth. Indeed. He's not just good between the pipes; he had the best pipes in the booth.by abmarks - Hockey
Re: Cornell football coach - 5 months ago
Trotsky Is that an affiliation of the nation's sleaziest federal grant welfare queens? Edit: Can't be; Stanford isn't there. Stanford is there. Right after Columbia on the list.by abmarks - Other Sports
Re: Fish N Fowl 11/11/23 - 5 months ago
ER A bunch of people still do the throwing of the newspaper before game play and they didn’t seem to mind that. Correct. But the fish are way harder to clean up and dangerous etc. Clearing newspapers has been mastered for speed and efficacy; guts n eyeballs not so much.by abmarks - Hockey
Re: 11/10 Dartmouth game thread - 5 months ago
Chris '03 Trotsky Seger pantsed Cooper Black. Hire that guy to man the main game camera for the stream.by abmarks - Hockey
Re: Cornell v Yale, 11/3/23 - 5 months ago
upprdeck I thought the major was more the big kid getting into a small kid, if he was 6-2 I don't think anything happens but he can't be reckless. Agree, tho I don't think it was a penalty at all after watching the replay a bunch of times. The elbow did connect with the head, but in no way did 26 try to hit the kid. He was skating back towards the blue line on the right side of the Offensby abmarks - Hockey
Re: Cornell v Yale, 11/3/23 - 5 months ago
RichH Are the Yalie announcers on ESPN+ having a competition to see how many inaccuracies the can sneak in? Between pronouncing Seger “See-Jer” and how Cornell’s head coach was a goaltender, it been hammering on my inner fact-checker. The one that got me was when "Costanza".for in alone and hit the pipe. (Which makes me even more certain I heard vanini inadvertently say Costanza lastby abmarks - Hockey
Re: University of Minnesota Duluth @ Cornell , 10/27/23 - 5 months ago
Trotsky scoop85 Trotsky Guys who I thought especially distinguished themselves tonight: O'Leary, Bancroft, Walsh, Shane, Castagna, Seger. When Grady says “Castagna” my brain instantly converts that to “Can’t stand ya” from the Seinfeld library cop episode.Mandatory: Seinfeld sucks. Grady reversed himself: during the exhibitions it rhymed with banana. Now it rhymes with campagna. I could sby abmarks - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - new Union rink? - 6 months ago
billhoward marty Dreams of a return to D3 sunk in the harbor like the Flying Dutchmen. Be about 3/4 mile away from Union's current Messa Rink. Be about the same size (seating); Messa is now 2225 seats. They can't play someplace else for two summers and the year in between, then return to Messa? Or does Union want to replace an athletic facility with an academic building, as Cornell is doing? Messby abmarks - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 7 months ago
billhoward ursusminor RPI has hired former BU Assistant Athletic Director Dr. Kristie Bowers as its new AD. She played soccer at Binghamton. BTW, RPI has an advertisement out for third paid assistant coaches for both its men's and women's hockey teams as the NCAA now allows. Is Cornell also getting additional ACs? Cornell's four-person men's hockey coaching staff (including HC and director ofby abmarks - Hockey
Re: St. Lawrence at Cornell 2023-02-18 - 8 months ago
billhoward Early 1980s I was at some quasi-sports, quasi-political event in Boston. Talked to Bobby Orr. He lists at 6-0 in NHL bios. I am 5-7. I looked him pretty much straight in the eyes. Orr made the most of whatever height he really was. Maybe 5-9 or 5-10. Ray's Lussier's 1970 final game, final goal photo for the Boston Record American is one of the most famous sports photos ever. I'mby abmarks - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2023 and beyond - 8 months ago
Weder This story says it was William Moore's grandfather who was a Cornell professor, and after some Googling it appears that it's Laurence Moore (emeritus prof. of American Studies). Same story also says "His mother, Vanusa, is originally from Brazil and owns two restaurants and a catering business. Moore’s father, Patrick, is a Cornell-educated finance broker who grew up in Ithaca, N.Yby abmarks - Hockey
Re: 2023 Frozen Four - 1 year ago
Jeff Hopkins '82 BearLover abmarks BearLover Trotsky BearLoverAgain, congrats to everyone here who was rooting for Rand/Q to win the national championship. Which includes Schafer. So. You were saying something? Source? Anyway, it doesn’t really matter what Schafer said publicly. Never in a million years is a coach going to admit that he was rooting against a member of his own league. Sourby abmarks - Hockey
Re: Ray Sawada - 1 year ago
Weder Ray was among a small number of players in men's team history of Asian descent. The others I can think of from recent years were Dustin Mowrey and Misha Song. Any others? Edit. Fail at reading op. You already mentioned songby abmarks - Hockey
Re: 2023 Frozen Four - 1 year ago
BearLover Trotsky BearLoverAgain, congrats to everyone here who was rooting for Rand/Q to win the national championship. Which includes Schafer. So. You were saying something? Source? Anyway, it doesn’t really matter what Schafer said publicly. Never in a million years is a coach going to admit that he was rooting against a member of his own league. Source for your take on Schafer's actuaby abmarks - Hockey
Re: Ray Sawada - 1 year ago
Beeeej Ray Sawada ‘08, who was co-captain of the Big Red his senior year and afterward played for the Dallas Stars, passed away last night at the age of 38 while playing hockey. He leaves behind a wife and two young girls. News reports I found said it was a heart attackby abmarks - Hockey
Re: Recruits 2023 and beyond - 1 year ago
scoop85 An update of our publicly listed recruits as they near the end of their seasons: Jacob Kraft, C, Cedar Rapids, USHL (20) — 51 GP, 15 G, 14 A Connor Arsenault, C, St. Andrews, CA Prep (17) — 44 GP, 13 G, 8 A Nick Wolfenberg, D, Okotoks, AJHL (19) — 38 GP, 6 G, 18 A; playoffs: 10 GP, 1 G, 0 A Hoyt Stanley, D, Victoria, BCHL (18) — 53 GP, 4 G, 34 A; playoffs: 4 GP, 0 G, 1 A Michael Sby abmarks - Hockey
Re: Who deserves 2023 D1 championship - 1 year ago
BearLover scoop85 Special delivery for Bearlover For inquiring minds, the history of the NCAA tournament demonstrates that having high NHL draft picks--or even many draft picks period--does not translate into NCAA hockey championships. As I’ve said many times, one way to win other than blue-chip talent is stacking your roster with fifth-years and transfers. I actually find the latter more, notby abmarks - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others, 2022-23 - 1 year ago
BearLover Teams across the country are announcing that seniors will be coming back for their graduate season. For example, Minnesota-Duluth just announced that three NHL draft pick seniors and key contributors will be returning for a fifth year. Meanwhile, a team like BC coming off of a disappointing season can recognize it is short a player on defense and pull a top fifth year player out of theby abmarks - Hockey
Re: New athletic director Nicki Moore - 1 year ago
upprdeck how you buy clothes for kids to play sports is not the same as how you get unis for college teams.. teams get a deal with the various vendors and as part of that deal they get a cut rate on the things they can buy. But with that rate comes a loss of control as well. There is no pay for it option in many cases.. Its why sometimes teams go years without an update in the uniforms thby abmarks - Other Sports
Re: New athletic director Nicki Moore - 1 year ago
dbilmes Here's another challenge for Cornell's first woman to serve as athletic director. Cornell is supposedly a progressive institution with a $9.8 billion endowment. Why should any members of our D1 women’s varsity sports teams have to train and live in school athletic apparel made for men? This is an absurd situation. Embarrassing.by abmarks - Other Sports