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Re: [OT] What Is the Rarest Single-Game Feat in Sports? - 20 years ago
There is also the issue of separating the rare unaided from the rare aided - for example, holes-in-one are unaided whereas Damon's three hits were all made possible by hits and walks by his teammates and would be considered aided. There's a fine line there - was Lemeiux's penalty shot aided by an unusual ref call or an unusual (well, obviously) act by a player on the opposing team? Is thereby David Harding - Hockey
Re: (OT) Cornell football player killed in car accident - 20 years ago
Another traumatic loss. Coverage in the Ithac Journal.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: Dryden enters politics - 20 years ago
Dryden, 66, posted a 258-57-74 record with a 2.24 goals-against average and 74 shutouts in 397 NHL games, all with Montreal. Just thinking about politics will age you...by David Harding - Hockey
Re: Interesting article on ideas for new Lynah - 20 years ago
Thanks for the extra details. For the record, I think that the sentiment here is generally against "controlling the acoustics," unless that means concentrating the crowd noise onto the ice.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: cornell 04-05 recruiting class - 20 years ago
Wanna cause more trouble? Just ask what the Dust Bowl or the Octopus is. Now you're showing your sister's age. They landscaped the Dust Bowl while I was an undergrad. It was a more serious dust bowl before they built Noyes Center.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: Hockey trivia - 20 years ago
"We don't know why, but if you take the temperature difference to the 1.642 power,.." What he tried to say was that you couldn't have units in the exponent. You can take care of the wierd units when you raise them to an non-integer power, as in the heat transfer equation, with a constant that has inverse weird units. In the exponent you have to throw in a scale factor to canceby David Harding - Hockey
Re: NHL Hitman?? - 20 years ago
billhoward Wrote: Greg Berge Wrote: There are also rumors that the target was his estranged father, so if you're scoring at home that's: gay lover, agent, father, and counting. Conclusion: nobody knows nuttin'. Edited 1 times. Last edit at 04/25/04 07:56PM by Greg Berge. Oprah, you have your guest list. More like Jerry Springer.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: Nieuwy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - 20 years ago
PHILADELPHIA -- Toronto Maple Leafs center Mats Sundin returned to the lineup Sunday night, but Joe Nieuwendyk was inactive because of an undisclosed injury. Sundin missed four games with a knee injury. Hurt in Game 4 of Toronto's opening-round series against Ottawa, Sundin said Saturday he had made a "huge" improvement. Nieuwendyk was held scoreless in Game 1 of the second-roundby David Harding - Hockey
Re: ECAC Headline on USCHO - 20 years ago
Also of interest, buried in Adam's story on the changes in academic standards, is this about one-sport conferences: In other legislation, the Management Council permanently approved a ruling that permits a one-sport conference that has played together for two years to get an automatic NCAA bid. The WCHA and CHA, which did not have the requisite six all-sport Division I schools in their conferencby David Harding - Hockey
Re: Goalie Recruit - 20 years ago
Evan Salmela played for Green Bay two years ago, before moving the Chicago Freeze for last season.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: Prospect Updates - 20 years ago
Steve Kariya (Maine) - Most Valuable Player, 93-94; Leading Scorer, 94-95; Best Rookie, 94-95 (and no, I don't know how you can be Best Rookie the year *after* you're MVP) MVP for the year, then Best Rookie is strange. But remember that Ken Dryden was MVP of his first Stanley Cup playoffs, then rookie of the year the following year.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: "The Wayne Gretzky of lacrosse" - 20 years ago
Jeff Hopkins '82 Wrote: Sorry, Roy. Most NHLers usse the composite sticks. I think a lot of college players use them too. A co-worker of mine who coaches high school and midget hockey says you're even seeing them at that level. Why anyone else who doesn't make NHL kind of money would spend a few hundred bucks on a stick that will break so easily is beyond me, but you see them doing it.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: Years since last NCAA championship - 20 years ago
billhoward Wrote: With Denver's NCAA championship this year, now only Colorado College has suffered a worse championship drought than Cornell... That's just counting the schools that have ever won. What about the, admittedly small, number who have been playing for 50 years without any championships?by David Harding - Hockey
Uncle Ezra on hockey anniversaries - 20 years ago
Uncle Ezra responds to a suggestion on celebrating some hockey anniversaries:by David Harding - Hockey
Re: 1966 Sun Article - 20 years ago
I've edited my post to add the dates. 25 Feb 1966 and 17 March 1966 I wasn't paying enough attention to notice that they weren't linking to URL's but actually returning results from a lookup. I had done a search for 1966 articles incluing the words hockey and NCAA.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: OT: Goalie masks vs. catcher's masks - 20 years ago
I think you are refering to Boston Bruins goalie Gerry Cheevers Yes. Too late at night to dredge it up from my memory and too lazy to dig it up from the web.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: 1966 Sun Article - 20 years ago
Those Sun articles are great fun! Harking back to the discussion of goalies, I was interested by these two about the freshman team in the spring of 1966: 25 February 1966 The unbeaten freshman team was preparing to face Colgate again: “Just one month ago, the frosh walked all over the Red Raiders in Lynah, blanking them behind George Swan’s goaltending, 16-0. Ted Coviello racked upby David Harding - Hockey
Re: OT: Goalie masks vs. catcher's masks - 20 years ago
Remember that for a long, long time goalies didn't wear any mask. It was only when they realized that they could stop pucks with their masks and keep playing that they started to become popular. One of the early ones (who was it?) painted gash with stitches on his contoured mask at each spot he stopped a puck.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: OT: Names - 20 years ago
There are cycles and regional variations, or at least there used to be. Through elementary school there were four of us Davids in my class from second grade through fifth grade. For sixth grade we lost one of them, but two more moved in. On the other hand, half way across the country, my wife says she made it all the way through high school without meeting a David.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: Cornell lax player collapses - 20 years ago
A defibrillator is for the heart. When the heart muscles get mixed up and start firing randomly instead of synchronously, it's called fibrillation. A defibrillator applies a high voltage at a suitable frequency, trying to overpower the spontaneous firing and get things going together again. These used to required a well trained user, but recently defibrillators have become available that canby David Harding - Hockey
Re: Clarkson excessive penalties - 20 years ago
ben03 Wrote: billhoward Wrote: We've got a bunch of 6-foot-3 players coming in next year. I don't think the other team thinks it's so our defenders can see over our forechecking forwards. In fact, if it's true that a lot of big guys are coming, and if they make the team and see ice time, I'm sure we'll get a reputation as a dirtier team than this year regardless of the PIM. so ... yby David Harding - Hockey
Re: Game thread: Clarkson @ Cornell game 2 2004-03-13 - 20 years ago
I'm 700 miles away with a dead sound cardby David Harding - Hockey
Re: Underhill Starts - 20 years ago
Overall the Chicago press was encouraging. The "Daily Herald" headline was "Dream comes true for goalie Underhill" with a sub heading, "Rookie looks good in debut." For the Blackhawks, it was just another day in their tumultuous season. In losing 4-3 to Edmonton in overtime at the United Center on Sunday afternoon, the Hawks were forced to use a clubby David Harding - Hockey
Re: Favorite between-period entertainment? - 21 years ago
At a Jr A game this year they had a minivan circle the ice with its sun roof open. Fans tried to throw imitation pucks in. I'm not sure where the pucks came from or whether they were purchased or free. They must have been made of some rigid foam, because the misses didn't dent the hood or roof. Anyway, the pucks were numbered and anyone whose puck made it through the sun roof won an oil changby David Harding - Hockey
Re: moving on...Princeton (tickets, food) - 21 years ago
The Princeton web site says: *NOTE: PU vs. Cornell, 2/28 - Only standing room tickets available. This event is no longer available online. Tickets will be sold at the gate on the night of the event. .... Tickets are also available on the day of the game at a minimum of one hour before game time at the event venue. Same info in the travel guide...by David Harding - Hockey
Re: pepsi arena - 21 years ago
(25X24x23)/(3x2x1)=2300 combinations of three games over all. (4x3x2)/(3x2x1)=4 combinations of losses. So, the chance of seeing three losses is 4/2300 or 1/575.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: poor grades? - 21 years ago
The great physicist P.A.M. Dirac wrote a classic text on quantum mechanics. I'm told that his class lectures consisted of his reading from that book. Students would complain now and then, but his response was that he had put years of effort into refining the exposition of the subject in the book. To give them anything else would be to give them a second rate product.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: (OT) Famous Alums - 21 years ago
How about Pete Gogolak? First to effectively kick a football soccer style at the college and pro levels. First to jump from the AFL to the NHL, setting off the bidding war that led the merger of the two leagues.by David Harding - Hockey