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Re: Greatest Game? - 3 years ago
I think that Brown comeback (the "Live at Lynah" game) was the most fun, although the game was not terribly significant, and Brown ended up blowing a lot of leads that year. I think the best overall package in terms of excitement, importance, and quality of game was the 1996 ECAC Championship win over Hahvahd. (Note that I saw the 1997, 2003 and 2005 title games on TV, so they don't qby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Opponent news 20-21 - 3 years ago
scoop85 ugarte Clarkson - Colgate is on ESPN+. Just watched Clarkson score too go up 4-1. Game was delayed almost two hours because Colgate’s Zamboni broke down; they had to borrow one from Hamilton College, Since Hamilton College is not actually in Hamilton, NY, it must have taken a while to drive the Zamboniice resurfacing machine over.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: "Beartown" quote - 3 years ago
I'm disappointed that "Beartown" didn't turn out to be a reality show about big hairy gay men.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Attention hockey fans . . . - 3 years ago
George64 David Harding Several years ago we were driving outside Toronto and our GPS sent us onto am all-electronic tool road. Back home in Illinois a couple of months later we got a bill in the mail. Same happened to me — I recall it was a very hefty fee. I’ve been very careful ever since when driving near Toronto. This is a particularly sinister situation, since it's actually a for-profiby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Ed Marinaro's son headed to Cornell as football recruit - 3 years ago
scoop85 That's some legacy to follow. Good luck to the young man! "It's Coffey. With a 'y'. Not like what youse drink."by jtwcornell91 - Other Sports
Re: RIT Cancels 2020-2021 Hockey Season - 3 years ago
marty margolism I am pretty confident Union will be cancelling shortly. A four team ECAC this season? With Colgate's "We're just as good as an Ivy" mentality, I'm thinking they'll fold. Union is harder to predict. Bennett is a close second to Peckernall. The Ivies asked Colgate to cancel their season, but Colgate turned them down.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: RIT Cancels 2020-2021 Hockey Season - 3 years ago
ursusminor marty margolism I am pretty confident Union will be cancelling shortly. A four team ECAC this season? With Colgate's "We're just as good as an Ivy" mentality, I'm thinking they'll fold. Union is harder to predict. Bennett is a close second to Peckernall. Union will follow RPI's lead. They always do. There has been an unsubstantiated post on the USCHO board that Union hby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: RIT Cancels 2020-2021 Hockey Season - 3 years ago
upprdeck RIt is now re-thinking the cancellation and starting back up after a huge number of people around the team were upset.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: RIT Cancels 2020-2021 Hockey Season - 3 years ago
upprdeck to play you have to commit to testing. Rit was going some.. I dont think another 100 a week to play hockey was gonna break them RIT has been doing a lot of wastewater testing, which presumably makes the process more efficient by effectively pooling a lot of "tests", but I suspect the strategy breaks down as you get more and more positive results.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: We'll never know.how the faithful would have greeted this UND frosh POS - 3 years ago
Trotsky Jesus fuck, how did you find a demon CD? That thing is scary. It's a ceramic dalmatian for our times.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Justin Krueger now with Lausanne HC - 3 years ago
jtwcornell91 So I just learned (via a facebook farewell message from the team) that Justin Krueger's time with SC Bern is at an end. Apparently they announced back November that they wouldn't be renewing his contract after this season. Apparently he's still a free agent. Here's a recent article (in German) "Papa Ralph helps SCB Defenseman Krueger on the job hunt". Some highlights:by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Alumni in the Pros 2020-2021 - 3 years ago
It's a new season (at least on the calendar) so we should have a new thread.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
RIT Cancels 2020-2021 Hockey Season - 3 years ago
We just raised the COVID alert level from Yellow to Orange, but it's not clear if this is a result of that, or the Liberty League cancelling winter sports.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: We'll never know.how the faithful would have greeted this UND frosh POS - 3 years ago
abmarks osorojo To what degree of certainty do we know this person bullied anyone? In the absence of any game or even a scrimmage USCHO demoted Cornell Men's Varsity Hockey from its first-place ranking to its sixth-place ranking?! This rather dilutes faith in any reports, judgments, or rankings produced and released by USCHO. horrid trolling attempt sir. But it does give us an excuse for thisby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Cornell 2020-21 plans - 3 years ago
upprdeck The goal was to get them home before the weather got bad in the cold states and now with 3 weeks left they might make it. I thought the goal was to avoid having kids go home for Thanksgiving and come back again with a bunch of new infections. At some point they have to go home at the end of the semester, but at least you can avoid an extra roundtrip in November/December.by jtwcornell91 - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Cornell in the Movies - 3 years ago
Trotsky upprdeck There is a reference to Cornell in the new Netflix series Queens Gambit . A book the main char picks up on some mathematical theory shows Cornell on the cover for the writer. I was going to go back and see if its a real book. MONOMIAL REPRESENTATIONS AND SYMMETRIC PRESENTATIONS BY ALICE HARMON, PH.D. Some Group Theory shit. It's s'posed to be good for you.by jtwcornell91 - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: 2020-21 Season *Officially* Delayed - 3 years ago
abmarks Jim Hyla abmarks French Rage upprdeck I see Atlantic Hockey might start as soon as Nov 13 now But when do real teams start? It tells about the time in which we're living that the only mention of fans was after they said that all NCHC games will be on NCHC.tv. Other than that, we don't matter. That begs a question I've been meaning to ask, since I can't figure out any obvby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Future Frozen Four Sites Announced - 3 years ago
Trotsky French Rage Oh Vegas is fine in small doses. We enjoyed the hockey weekend, just enough time to see the craziness but not get annoyed with it. I'd be more than happy to have a couple more hockey tournaments there and a FF on/near the West Coast is awesome too. We have friends who have lived in Vegas for a decade. They've never been to the Strip. It is a vacuum cleaner to suck the waby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: ECAC Schedule - 3 years ago
Jim Hyla #2 This is exactly the reason why these tests should only be used by researchers. 10% false positive & 1% false negative is exactly the wrong way for a test like this to result. The worst that a false negative would do is make you continue to act safely. A false positive however might get you to act unsafely, and that's bad for you and all of us. Wouldn't a false positive make somby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Green Signs with TB - 3 years ago
billhoward jtwcornell91 Jim Hyla Even doing a "whole" season in Canada would be very difficult. FWIW, the DEL (Germany) just announced that they're going to play a full season, but starting two months later and ending one month later than usual. But everything is still in doubt, and the clubs don't want to play with the attendance restrictions they're probably going to have to dealby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: ECAC Schedule - 3 years ago
Chris '03 No Harvard until an ECAC final if this is correct. The ECAC is planning on a 20-game schedule. Teams will be broken into a New England division (Princeton, Yale, Brown, Harvard, Dartmouth and QU) and a New York division (Cornell, Clarkson, Colgate, RPI, Union, SLU). 4 games vs. each division opponent. NO games vs. other division.— Mike McMahon (@MikeMcMahonCHN) September 25, 2by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Green Signs with TB - 3 years ago
Jim Hyla Even doing a "whole" season in Canada would be very difficult. FWIW, the DEL (Germany) just announced that they're going to play a full season, but starting two months later and ending one month later than usual. But everything is still in doubt, and the clubs don't want to play with the attendance restrictions they're probably going to have to deal with. Switzerland has aby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Columbia bandied about - 3 years ago
billhoward David Harding Columbia marching band disbands. The band admitted to “sexual misconduct, assault, theft, racism and injury to individuals and the Columbia community as a whole.” You mean the Ivy marching band whose halftime announcer is unintelligible except for brief periods of discernable talk which makes no sense ... whose scramble formations are the result of being too lazy to stanby jtwcornell91 - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Morgan Barron Tribute Video - 3 years ago
French Rage lol. It's like the way this forum gets into weird discussions most summers, but now we've got the endless summer. September 1993 has finally ended, and now it's going to be April 2020 for the next who-knows-how-long.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: We made the Washington Post - 3 years ago
Beeeej Plus, I'm not sure they would've lost money if they'd gone to online-only instruction, so "cash flow" seems misplaced to me. You think they would've refunded anyone's tuition or a portion thereof? I've read that Universities are worried about the loss of housing/dining/activities fees if instruction is all online, although I don't know if those operations make or lose money onby jtwcornell91 - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Rules Changes? - 3 years ago
osorojo I can't wait for the new, three-man college basketball season to reopen. Wait! is 3-on-3 college basketball only in case of ties after regulation play expires? Anyway, expectations are that swarms of new spectators who never cared for 5-on-5 basketball will flock to games due to the possibility they could watch some 3-on-3. Rumor has it the NBA is considering going to a game of HORSE toby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Rules Changes? - 3 years ago
jkahn For purposes of the Pairwise, i.e. the criteria that selects the NCAA Tournament field, these overtime games will count as 55 percent of a win. So for us purists/ math geeks, etc. at least they have very much minimized the value of the 3 vs. 3 and shootout, since a tie is 50% of a win and they've only added an extra 5% at stake for the gimmicky conclusion. It's basically the equivalent ofby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Rules Changes? - 3 years ago
Trotsky We just had 7-inning double header games in the majors. This is the darkest timeline. I don't mind 7-inning games, since they were standard in the adult amateur leagues I watched in my adolescence. I always had the feeling that a 9-inning game dragged on, but maybe that was my teenage attention span. Much weirder were the 7+9 inning double headers they had in college summer ball in Cby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Morgan Barron Tribute Video - 3 years ago
Jeff Hopkins '82 jtwcornell91 Swampy Really a shame. Our country's inept initial handling of the virus brought the most successful season in recent memory to an untimely end. Then, the continued ineptness made the 2020-1 season highly unlikely. It turned a toss up into a no-brainer. In the end he had only one choice that made sense. The premature end of last season was inevitable, regardless ofby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Cornell 2020-21 plans - 3 years ago
Trotsky I spent a year in the Ag school and nobody's letting me poke around their animals especially since the court order. Cue the "animal husbandry" jokes.by jtwcornell91 - John Spencer Is Dead