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Re: New Bracketology: We Get Hosed - 19 years ago
A Canisius tournament win and, hence, extra TUC for us could turn out to be a pyhrric victory once removed. If you use the DIY script to calculate the potential PWR, having all the favorites yet win the series that have been extended to three games, using a 3-2-1 bonus, and including Quinnipiac as an extra TUC, we end up #6 and Michigan gets shipped out to Minnesota. If Canisius wins, we'reby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Cornell 5 Clarkson 0 postgame thread - 19 years ago
Tub(a) Wrote: Thanks for the correction. The awful parts of last season (e.g. NEARLY THE ENTIRE THING) just seem to blend together sometimes. You are spoiled. I don't care how "unsuccessful" it was: 2004 was not a bad season. Bad seasons don't involve winning Christmas tournaments, five game winning streaks towards the end of the season, and the #2 seed in the playoffs. Maybeby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Cornell 5 Clarkson 0 postgame thread - 19 years ago
RichS Wrote: And make no mistake, I know that Roll does not like this stuff. To a great degree I think it will decline once he has all his own recruits playing for him. Exactly my feeling. I don't want to go back and dig up the stats, but his teams were relatively clean at Oswego. Under his successor, Ed Gosek, the penalty numbers have started to creep back up.by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: QF1: Clarkson 0 @ Cornell 0, 1st - 19 years ago
No matter how bad that trumpet sounds, that takes cojones. SHORTHANNNNDED!by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Crowd at lynah this weekend - 19 years ago
How about old-timey self-referentiality: "YOUR KNIGHTS ARE AW... FUL!" Ah, the old Roundtable... good times.by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Cornell vs. Clarkson in the Late 60s - 19 years ago
Al DeFlorio Wrote: From 1964 through 1967, we alternated home-and-away with Clarkson, playing Clarkson in the North Country the years we played SLU at Lynah. In 1968 the only regular-season meeting was in the NYC holiday tournament. Clarkson may also have been the fourth team in some of those other NYC tournaments, but the two teams did not play each other. In 1969 and 1970 there were no reby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Cornell vs. Clarkson in the Late 60s - 19 years ago
Thanks for the thoughts so far. Keep 'em comin'. In general, I try to forget losses. I really can't remember many outside of the playoffs. (I still have nightmares of LSSU's Aldredge darting from the penalty box to corral a gift breakaway puck and put it home.) Save one. A 7-5 barnstormer at Gutterson in 1997 where the heretofore offensively anemic Red came surging back from a large firby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Cornell vs. Clarkson in the Late 60s - 19 years ago
Perhaps this isn't the best time to bring this subject up, considering that it will probably lead to another flame war, but I was wondering why there was a large gap in scheduled meetings between Cornell and Clarkson during the late 60s, when the two, undoubtedly, were amongst the best teams in the East. Between November 29th, 1966 (Dryden's "that damn bell at Clarkson" comment) andby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: How To Be a Good Fan - 19 years ago
Robb Wrote: Cool List: Spontaneous and creative cheers Addition: Passing out a cheer sheet with creative cheers to counteract the ubiquity of " sucks!" If Clarkson's cheer sheet is lame, then show them up. Everyone knows that good taunting, like good comedy, requires equal parts preparation and spontaneity.by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Why are there no defense cheers? - 19 years ago
During the "Power Kill" season of '96, we would sarcastically yell: "Oh no, not another power play! AAAAAAAHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" I think a whole crowd laughing can be very offputting. I actually like "Two minutes wasted! Clap, etc." Lots of "s"s and "t"s = good for cheering.by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Link to Full Almamater - 19 years ago
The consumptive was Jennie McGraw, daughter of John McGraw, the Dryden lumber baron who donated the money for McGraw Hall. Jennie, a friend of Andrew Dickson White, donated the Chimes in 1868. She died of tuberculosis in 1880. Her death, however, came *after* the composition of the Alma Mater, lyrics by Weeks '72 and music (a well-known tune, "Annie Lisle" "by" Smith '74. (by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: NCAA regionals: Cornell-UNH @ Amherts (Bracketology column) - 19 years ago
ninian '72 Wrote: Ohio State plays a more defense-oriented game and will probably do a better job matching Cornell's strengths. (The) Ohio State is also one of the few clubs that can match us in special teams. Combined Special Teams: Totals PCT 1 Cornell 167/285 58.6 2 Ohio State 285/506 56.3 3 Colgateby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Link to Full Almamater - 19 years ago
One could almost imagine the fifth verse performed as a slow diminuendo to a sudden fortissimo on "Hail, all hail, Cornell!" Excellent analysis, John, especially the link to Annie Lisle, that cheery song about an ill-fated consumptive. Musicologist approved!by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: 1983 Harvard game question - 19 years ago
Hillel Hoffmann Wrote: Norton and Levasseur were physical and picked up loads of PIMs, so there was a superficial resemblance to the Olds-Schafer enforcer role. But I just can't put them in the same lineage as John and Mike. Yeah, I guess you're right. I was only 12, it was my first season, and any hitting was bound to make an impression. What you say about enforcers is right on: we're looby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: 1983 Harvard game question - 19 years ago
Hillel Hoffmann Wrote: Olds was the best. He and Schafer are part of a lineage of enforcers in the post-Ned period. It goes something like this: Stokes > Olds > Schafer ... and then a spiritual gap. Oh, I don't know--Norton and Levasseur, though certainly not one-dimensional "enforcers," certainly picked up the slack after Schafer's graduation. I'd give the edge to Norton, siby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Lynah remodel - keeping up with the Joneses - 19 years ago
ninian '72 Wrote: Yup, I lived a year on North Campus before I got out. Got a car as soon as I could, to free myself at least on weekends and evenings. In defense of the Music Building, Eero Saarinen seems to have designed it from the inside out. The layout of rehearsal and performance space, studios, and practice and classroom space serves the needs of their large enrollment awfully welby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Lynah remodel - keeping up with the Joneses - 19 years ago
See those two "outbuildings?" See that red and white vertical "feature?" They aren't replicated on the other side of the "building"...by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Lynah remodel - keeping up with the Joneses - 19 years ago
ninian '72 Wrote: In Ann Arbor they built a North Campus where they moved a number of the professional schools when they ran out of room on the main campus. Harvard is currently developing a large plot of land they own in Alston with the same long-range plan in mind. Maybe Cornell should consider this alternative, before the current campus is completely filled in. Yup, professional schoby Scersk '97 - Hockey
I Love Joe Bertagna - 19 years ago
Did anyone else catch this? Check out the question from "Joe B." in Boston: I don't care that he was a Harvard goalie. I don't mind that he wrote a book called "Crimson in Triumph." His columns always impress me, and his heart seems to be in the right place. Another artifact of how foolish the former ECAC structure was:by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: 2004-05 Cornell hat tricks - 19 years ago
And the most unlikely player on that list? Geoff Lopatka, hands down. I will always remember the picture from the Sun of Lopatka, post overtime game-winner, skating away from the goal crouched, as if playing a guitar with his stick. He had a nasty wrister that he would unleash after using a defenseman as a screen. He scored his shortie at Placid against Harvard in '96 using it, as I remembeby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Cornell RS Worst Case Scenario Finish - 19 years ago
Quoting yourself is something best done by someone else, but here we go, from the post-Yale thread: Scersk '97 Wrote: And, because I'm an obsessive, I've been cranking away at the possibilities for the next few games, using estimates based on the current KRACH. (Likely to win 9 of 10 with Clarkson, RPI, and Union and 4 of 5 with SLU.) Just to avoid jinxing I'll say that it never goes aby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Cornell at Yale Post Game Thread - 19 years ago
And, because I'm an obsessive, I've been cranking away at the possibilities for the next few games, using estimates based on the current KRACH. (Likely to win 9 of 10 with Clarkson, RPI, and Union and 4 of 5 with SLU.) Just to avoid jinxing I'll say that it never goes according to the numbers and they have to play them on the ice and every game is difficult in the ECAC(HL) and yada yada. Fby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: PWR Rank vs. KRACH Rank - 19 years ago
Yep, better make sure that my "simplistic" comparison is hyper-accurate.by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: PWR Rating is a JOKE - 19 years ago
Oh, yeah... duh. I guess I'd hope for CC, then. For me, the great victory in seeding will be to somehow avoid Denver and Wisconsin. Actually, I'll edit myself again. I'd rather avoid CC and Wisconsin and play Denver. We're very good at holding teams off 5x5, but I want to avoid the teams that have similarly good special teams to ours.by Scersk '97 - Hockey
PWR Rank vs. KRACH Rank - 19 years ago
Oh, and since I mentioned it in the other thread, I'll post my simplistic comparison of the two ranking schemes at this moment. For the record, I'm a huge believer in KRACH as a more accurate representation of team strength. So I feel, for example, that Wisconsin being undervalued in PWR is really going to screw someone in the tournament: As of 2/12/05 4:50 PM CST: PWRby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: PWR Rating is a JOKE - 19 years ago
jmh30 Wrote: You can say what you want about the way Minnesota has been playing lately (and hell, I'll do the same), but come tournament time I still don't want to play them on their (200x100, incidentally) home ice. Neither would I be all too excited about playing them at the Mullins Center, where the dimensions are (a very strange) 200x95. Unfortunately, I think that if we end up beinby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: Beanpaht (pawt) - 19 years ago
To get pedantic about it, look at this map from the (still in development) Phonological Atlas of the United States: As you can see, a distinct circle around Providence indicates the unheralded Rhode Island accent, wonderfully represented on the Family Guy. Rhode Islanders tend towards the "aw" sound while Bostonians of the non-Southie variety seem to sound more like Mainers. Thby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Lines - 19 years ago
This topic was being discussed in the discussion of Ari's column, but I thought I would start a new topic to "center" discussion on this one issue. I think Schafer et al. are still flummoxed as to what the lines should be. I made myself a little chart. From the beginning of the season through the first Michigan State Game, the lines were rock solid: Moulson--Scott--Hynes Knoepfby Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: RIT to go D-I - 19 years ago
Exactly. Lake Placid is inaccessible by train.by Scersk '97 - Hockey
Re: RIT to go D-I - 19 years ago
Have we compared the attendance numbers for Albany and Lake Placid somewhere? To my mind, transportation links are paramount. Lake Placid was difficult to reach by car or bus, expensive to reach by air, and impossible to reach by rail. Hartford, Springfield, and Albany, at least, can be reached by all major modes of transportation. (I'm sorry, balloonists, but I don't care about the lacby Scersk '97 - Hockey