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Re: Red Hot game thread and watch - Yesterday
Am I the only one freaking out at all of the crowd shots with no one wearing masks and everyone's mouth open?by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Yale Game Thread - 5 days ago
Trotsky 13 is my favorite integer so fuck y'all who are afraid of it. My family went on a river cruise for my 50th birthday, and the four of us booked a pair of adjacent cabins which were numbers 211 and 215. So apparently A-ROSA Flusskreuzfahrten are also triskadekaphobes.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Yale Game Thread - 5 days ago
Jim Hyla jtwcornell91 I was also going to complain about Malone wearing #13, but I see from looking at Greg's numerical roster that we're otherwise actually out of numbers between 2 and 29, with 25 out of circulation. Of course, he's a Junior, so I either didn't notice it in 2018-2019, or I did, and have forgotten getting annoyed back then. I assume he chose the number. 12 was available his frby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Yale Game Thread - 7 days ago
Dunc Trotsky Some nice saves by McDonald. Somebody kill a bandy every time they play Chelsea Dagger or Sweet Caroline. Fuck Chicago / Fuck Boston. I agree on Fuck Chicago, I puke every time I hear Chelseas Dagger But Go Bruins and Go Red Sox "Sweet Caroline" in Boston is fine, but it should not be played at a sporting event outside of New England. "Rose Tattoo"by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Yale Game Thread - 8 days ago
Trotsky Somebody kill a bandy every time they play Chelsea Dagger or Sweet Caroline. Fuck Chicago / Fuck Boston. I have trained my entire family to chant "Boston sucks" at the bom-bom-bom part of Sweet Caroline.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Yale Game Thread - 8 days ago
billhoward New cheer -- "Five point weeeekend!" Did they actually chant that? I was thinking it, but I'm impressed if the students were on the ball enough to do it.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Yale Game Thread - 8 days ago
LGR14 CU2007 Students. Sing the Gary glitter song after the band stops. It’s fantastic. Gonna keep beating this drum Not a student anymore, but the band started playing it earlier, so now they finish the two verses before the refs drop the puck. It sucks. Need to bring back Gonna Fly Now when the teams come out and transition into Glitter. Wait, we don't play Gonna Fly Now any more? I wby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Interesting news about Harvard admissions - 8 days ago
David Harding 50+ years ago a Harvard alumnus visited my high school to talk with anyone who showed up and I came away with a few good lines. Someone asked about study abroad and the rep said that Harvard doesn't support study abroad. "We bring the best scholars in the world to Harvard, so there is no reason to go anywhere else." I would suspect that hasn't been true for a while, sinby jtwcornell91 - Other Sports
Re: Womens hockey 21 - 10 days ago
Weder The NCAA tournament will expand to 11 teams (yes, 11) either this season or next season. I really wonder what they were thinking going with 11 and not 12. 11 apparently gives them the same fraction as the men of teams in the tournament (27%), but was there some sort of regulation that said they couldn't go over by one?by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Game thread - 13 days ago
Scersk '97 Really, everything is fantastic, including the interplay between play-by-play and color that already sounds like it's been going on for years. If you had told me in 2005 that we would have every Cornell hockey game streaming via ESPN on the internet, with Grady doing the play-by-play for the games at Lynah, you would have had to get out the smelling salts to revive me before gettingby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Game thread - 15 days ago
Trotsky Cop at Lynah When was the last time CU scored 8 goals in a game Prior to tonight: 8 3/9/18 9 3/9/18 10 11/20/99 11 2/21/79 12 2/4/78 13 1/14/78 14 11/25/75 15 11/25/75 16 1/27/68 17 1/27/68 18 1/27/68 19 1/27/68 After tonight: 8 11/13/21 9 11/13/21 10 11/13/21 11 11/13/21 12 2/4/78 13 1/14/78 14 11/25/75 15 11/25/75 16 1/27/68 17 1/27/68 18 1/27/68 1by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: No Shots On Goal Display At Lynah - 15 days ago
Scersk '97 DafatoneThere was an experience at Schoellkopf? Once upon a time, it was pretty pleasant, actually. The band was IMNSHO entertaining, there were cheerleaders, the team sometimes won. Heck, there were even stands on the west side of the field! Moving the students to Crescent was an admission of the beginning of the end, in retrospect. In my day, the students in the West Stands heldby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Dartmouth Game - 20 days ago
Rita Chris H82 Side note - did anyone else notice just how ugly Dartmouth's uniforms were? It seems we were playing against a bunch of guys in convict gear. Almost as ugly as the old Seattle Metropolitans jerseys from 100+ years ago (I'm sure the Kraken will wear something like that for a throwback night....) my brother is a die-hard fan of Celtic FC of the Scottish Premiership and Dartmouth'sby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Dartmouth Game - 20 days ago
Trotsky I am fine* with these stripes because they have a connection with history -- stripes were common in the early days of college hockey (rugby transplant maybe)? * Occasionally. And never in the pros where thirds are just another way to milk the suckers. This may be why I hate center stripes on hockey helmets so much (PSU, OSU, etc) since their only connection is to football.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Polls - Nov. 1 Cornell 15th - 25 days ago
Al DeFlorio Give My Regards billhoward Not clear if "input" means they actually vote. I strongly suspect that a lot of them don't. I suspect "input" means that someone, not necessarily the coach, but someone who is (or may not be) affiliated with the team and who has time for such things sends the vote in. Years ago, Cornell football got a first-place vote in a Div. I-AAby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: 3-on-3 overtime and the RPI & PWR - 26 days ago
Jim Hyla If you don't want to say undefeated, then come up with a different word, but don't change the meaning of the word for that season, when the powers can again change the giving of points for this season. Presumably the accurate phrase would be "perfect record". But you're right, "undefeated" typically also includes teams with ties, but in soccer three ties is equivalby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Alaska Post Mortem - 27 days ago
Scersk '97 scoop85 Thanks for your analysis of my analysis-always nice to get some thoughtful feedback. It's eLynah. We don't do memes. Much.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: 3-on-3 overtime and the RPI & PWR - 27 days ago
ursusminor upprdeck on the flip side since hockey is also a fan sport.. Talked with kids at multiple schools the last few days and they love the 3x3 and shootout. Most fans do and there are far more casual fans than hardcore. if you remove the PWR issues it is fun to watch for many people. I think that is the logic, namely that they are trying to please kids and those who are not hardcore fans.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: 3-on-3 overtime and the RPI & PWR - 27 days ago
Al DeFlorio marty Al DeFlorio marty jtwcornell91 In the name of eliminating ties, the NCAA has actually caused more games to be counted more or less as ties. This! Thank you. This happens when you lose sight of the forest. The only games where you can justify extreme measures to ensure a winner are tournament games. In regular season games, a tie, after playing real hockey for a reasonableby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Alaska Post Mortem - 27 days ago
upprdeck considering the layoff and Alaska had multiple games under their belt not sure it was a bad result.. Maybe in 3-4 weeks we are still struggling to score, but dont give up hope. We didnt generate a ton of odd man rushes, but still there were more than enough quality shots that were saved or missed the net. If we had won 4-2/3-1 in regulation would people feel better? We held them tby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Lynah now at full capacity - 27 days ago
Jim Hyla nshapiro Swampy jtwcornell91 ugarte love 3x3 sorry! (do not love 55% but would probably be fine if we could negotiate this to, say, 70%) I've just barely got used to the 3-2-1-0 point system in international/European hockey, but accepting an OT win as 55% of a win is a lot harder than 2/3 of a win. (I'd be reasonably happy with a 5-4-3-2-1-0 system where you lost a point for going toby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: 3-on-3 overtime and the RPI & PWR - 28 days ago
In the name of eliminating ties, the NCAA has actually caused more games to be counted more or less as ties.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Lynah now at full capacity - 29 days ago
ugarte love 3x3 sorry! (do not love 55% but would probably be fine if we could negotiate this to, say, 70%) I've just barely got used to the 3-2-1-0 point system in international/European hockey, but accepting an OT win as 55% of a win is a lot harder than 2/3 of a win. (I'd be reasonably happy with a 5-4-3-2-1-0 system where you lost a point for going to OT, and the shootout after a tie countby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Cornell Football 2021 - 29 days ago
Ken711 blackwidow Ken711 blackwidow Ken711 blackwidow Al DeFlorio No O, no D, special teams can't even return a kickoff to the 25. And why do players celebrate when catching a pass while trailing by 21 after 18 minutes of play? Can we start a campaign to get Archer fired? LOL, that campaign started years ago when it was obvious Archer was too inexperienced, without any head coaching or evenby jtwcornell91 - Other Sports
Re: Lynah now at full capacity - 29 days ago
marty Dafatone What does it count as for RPI? The pairwise is practically just RPI with the occasional wrinkle. Looks like a tie to me, or maybe the same 55% stuff. Good fodder for JTW's students, but not so much for my vintage brain.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Lynah now at full capacity - 29 days ago
ursusminor CU2007 scoop85 Jeff Hopkins '82 CU2007 Decent attendance. So does that count as a win or a tie for pairwise stuff? What was the score? None of the uscho or CHN pages are showing it. 3-2 in OT. Counts as .55% of a win in Pairwise Damn. And here I was thinking “well we escaped with the win and that’s all that matters” and then I guess we only sorta did but also kinda didn’t. .55by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Cornell Football 2021 - 30 days ago
margolism If the offense can only score more points than the defense gives up, I think we can have a successful program. I remember back in the Dan Fouts "Air Coryell" era, one wise commentator observing that the San Diego Chargers' defense was so bad that they only way they could win was by scoring more points than the other team.by jtwcornell91 - Other Sports
Re: Controversial call in Princeton vs Harvard football game - 4 weeks ago
Jeff Hopkins '82 marty jtwcornell91 RichH David Harding jtwcornell91 Scersk '97 Ken711 Doesn't look like Princeton will be so gracious and give the win back to Harvard. Harvard's 2-point conversion came in the "bottom of the inning" too, so Princeton's possible concession would be most rational. There would seem to be no "we would've played the rest of the game differently"by jtwcornell91 - Other Sports
Re: Controversial call in Princeton vs Harvard football game - 4 weeks ago
RichH David Harding jtwcornell91 Scersk '97 Ken711 Doesn't look like Princeton will be so gracious and give the win back to Harvard. Harvard's 2-point conversion came in the "bottom of the inning" too, so Princeton's possible concession would be most rational. There would seem to be no "we would've played the rest of the game differently" excuse. It took me a while to figuby jtwcornell91 - Other Sports
Re: Controversial call in Princeton vs Harvard football game - 4 weeks ago
Scersk '97 Ken711 Doesn't look like Princeton will be so gracious and give the win back to Harvard. Harvard's 2-point conversion came in the "bottom of the inning" too, so Princeton's possible concession would be most rational. There would seem to be no "we would've played the rest of the game differently" excuse. It took me a while to figure out what happened from the sumby jtwcornell91 - Other Sports