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Re: Jimmy Devellano, Friday March 1 - 22 years ago
Here's some bad news posted on USCHO by Jayson Moy: "Underhill not dressed for the game, only goalie out there is LeNeveu, Underhill went down hard in the warmup."by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: Off topic: Lacrosse - 22 years ago
Schimoler was a freshman in 1986 when Doug Dadswell was hockey All-America, but I don't think we could claim Paul was "best" that year. The September press release at the link below says lacrosse games will be broadcast on WTKO, but I haven't seen any mention of a web link yet for Saturday. I do remember listening to last year's Princeton game on the web.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: Off topic: Lacrosse - 22 years ago
Best I can do is Cornell in '67 and '68: Butch Hilliard in lacrosse and Ken Dryden in hockey were both 1st team All-Americans. Princeton's Trevor Tierney (coach's son) was the top lacrosse goalie last year, but I don't think Stathos quite made it.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: Off topic: Lacrosse - 22 years ago
And this year's Princeton game is at Princeton, too. zg88 (and anyone else *really* interested in lacrosse), if you aren't familiar with "The Swami," you might want to check out this link for lots of info on this week's games: If you follow all the way down to his comments/prediction on the CU-GU game, he gives a link to "listen" to the game. But the link goes to WVBby Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: Cornell in SI - 22 years ago
Glad you found us, Mark. Yep, I'd love to see a rematch in Worcester--although, to be honest, I just want to see Cornell in Worcester, period. Great year for BU after a tough one last year. Congrats.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: Off topic: Lacrosse - 22 years ago
Incidentally, this will be the second game of a lacrosse doubleheader. First game at 1pm--Princeton at Johns Hopkins.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: Clarkson fight clip @ eLynah - 22 years ago
Can't disagree with anything Rich said. On the hockeycam, you really couldn't see clearly enough to tell just how it happened. Only clue I can add was Tufford's comment (color guy on the radio and former Cornell forward from late '60s) that O'Flaherty was "throwing butt-ends into Palahicky's jaw." But I sure couldn't see well enough to confirm or deny, and Rich was in the front row oby Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: Hughes salute - 22 years ago
Yikes, what a great article. Greg's *really* gonna love it. Rich, thanks for letting us know about the MSG salute.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: Clarkson fight clip @ eLynah - 22 years ago
Age, Mike mentioned on coaches corner that, because the "official" tape of the game ran out before the celebrated fight, he had gotten a tape from "a fan" to review. Was that fan, by any chance, you? It was clear on the live broadcast that Scuderi shot it intentionally into the bench area. All he needed to do was keep it on his stick for two seconds and the game would havby Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: National Anthem Traditions - 22 years ago
Yep. What I'd heard (I think) was that you didn't applaud a recording but it was OK to applaud a live performance (where you were applauding the performers, but not the anthem itself). But I might be remembering that wrong and your version could very well be right. (Now didn't that help a lot?)by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: College Hockey All-Star Game - 22 years ago
I think that's what I was trying to say, Jim. It's a little like the "Two tooters who tooted the flute" rhyme I learned as a little kid.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Off topic: Lacrosse - 22 years ago
Cornell opens its season this coming Saturday, 4pm, against Georgetown at Johns Hopkins's Homewood Field in Baltimore. Both teams have top ten aspirations so it should be a good opener with NCAA tournament implications. The Big Red lost a game-conditions scrimmage to Hopkins 12-11 last Saturday in Baltimore. Hopkins is picked at #3 in pre-season polls.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: Tourney bids only to champions - 22 years ago
Now--as long as we're rewriting the rules--if we can ban air horns, sirens, train whistles, bells, and the like...I'll third the motion. This business about wondering whether a team that you beat--or lost to--in October or November will finish as a TUC or not on the last day of the conference tournaments so it will affect your PWR one way or the other in March...whew...is just ridiculous.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Inclusion - 22 years ago
It's happening in nearly every area, not just sports, Keith. Take the annoying and seemingly ubiquitous bumper sticker: "My child was student-of-the-week at Elmer Fudd Middle School." Well...whoop-de-do! Will that go on his/her application to Harvard? In ten years we'll have "student-of-the-day," I regret to say. We used to have an "outstanding player" awardby Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: College Hockey All-Star Game - 22 years ago
There was once a New England restaurant called "The Yankee Drover Inn." I guess the drover drove the droves, or something like that.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: NCAA - 22 years ago
Forgive me, apple, but I think that sometimes you take things here too seriously.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: Retired Numbers - 22 years ago
I remember reading on the old Round Table that Clarkson lined up by the numbers. Anyone notice Saturday night?by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
RichS at his best - 22 years ago
Typical cheapshot from a master. RichS reads an anonymous one sentence posting on USCHO and immediately it's gospel. If RichS wants to believe it, then it must be true. He's probably repeated it on at least ten different fora already as a way to purge his grief over Saturday night's loss. Why don't you tell us, RichS, why you give all of us the third degree for daring to attack Willie Mitchelby Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: Titles - 22 years ago
To me it's interesting that in no other sport (at least that I'm aware of) has the NCAA given two automatic tournament bids to a league or conference, as they did with hockey for eight or nine years. There was a time--in the deep, dark age of my youth--when only one team from a league could be invited. This made for interesting post-season tournaments--for example, only the ACC basketball touby Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: Cornell VS Clarkson , Saturday Feb 23rd - 22 years ago
No, you're the dodo who can't read. We put six pucks in the net. The ref that all of you on the Round Table claim stole the game from you took one of them away from us. Weren't you there to see it?by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: Titles - 22 years ago
I think you can say that for 40 years there has been an unambiguous top seed for the ECAC tournament. I think calling anyone a "regular season champion" prior to the divorce just makes no sense, given the uneven scheduling. What I can't say is when the ECAC began recognizing the top seed as a "regular season champion."by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: PWR - L16 - 22 years ago
My big issue is that the conference tournament games count no more in the PWR and head-to-head "bubble" comparisons than regular season games (last 16) against those same teams. I'm with Keith: if you can't get past the quarterfinals, then stay home. Seems to me BU was upset in the first round (Merrimack?) a few years ago, but they went to the dance anyway. Of course, Keith, if theby Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: Titles - 22 years ago
It would be interesting to find out just when the term "regular season champion" came into being in the ECAC. I'm sure it didn't exist prior to the Hockey East divorce. There was no balanced schedule until after that occurred, so there'd be no way to declare a "champion." Teams played differing numbers of games against a different mix of ECAC opponents, and, in the '60s andby Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: Poapst's penalty at RPI - 22 years ago
Right. RPI scored the winning goal in OT 1.2 seconds after Poapst's dumb, flagrant penalty--taken in the last minute of a tied game--expired. Surely the penalty had no effect on the score. In 1.2 seconds any of the speedy Clarkson players could move from the penalty box to his proper position on the ice--unless, of course, he was clutched and grabbed on the way by the mean old opposition.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: Cornell VS Clarkson , Saturday Feb 23rd - 22 years ago
"It just rings hollow when some of you folks trash Clarkson players and coaches for what you find to be classless behavior when you really ought to direct your ire at the clear offenders in your own house first. I'll make that statement about anyone's arena." OK. Then when will we see your comments on the Round Table about the crap that goes on at Cheel and the now infamous penis manby Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: cornell's olympic showing (pat-pat) - 22 years ago
I believe he did complete it during summers.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: cornell's olympic showing (pat-pat) - 22 years ago
Tough to get a degree from Cornell when you're still a junior.by Al DeFlorio - Hockey
Re: Cornell VS Clarkson , Saturday Feb 23rd - 22 years ago
Brava, Anne! You've got it exactly right. The refereeing--good, bad, or indifferent--did not affect the outcome of the game. And blaming a loss on the referee--or the ice conditions, or a leaky roof, or the long lines at the rest rooms--is whining. This was a good hockey game. Clarkson played well. Cornell played better than I had thought they might--given the clinching of top seed the niby Al DeFlorio - Hockey