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Re: Rules Changes? - 6 weeks ago
ursusminor osorojo How about a "Hockey Lite" League where the whole GAME is 3-on-3? Fans who who prefer watching scoring rather than playing would be thrilled, hockey teams (corporations) could reduce their employee overhead by at LEAST 40% and advertisers could tailor their ads to appeal to brain-dead consumers/hockey fans. Does anyone know what the fan reaction was when the NHL elimby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Rules Changes? - 6 weeks ago
Sudden death shoot outs, starting with a coin flip. First goal wins.by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Rules Changes? - 6 weeks ago
Scersk '97One hopes the ECAC would just call all games ties after 60 instead of validating this idiocy, but I know that's not realistic.I don't see why not. All they have to do is... do it. Granted, it would piss off the NC$$ to be shown to be asshats that directly but, frankly (1) they are asshats, and (2) everybody already knows, there is just the usual institutional gentlemen's agreement nby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Morgan Barron Tribute Video - 6 weeks ago
And it's cricket, so everybody involved in already dead.by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Rules Changes? - 7 weeks ago
The ECAC can still demur, right? This is a good opportunity to scrap overtime and have 60-min ties. The other conference don't matter. "The wogs begin at Conte."by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Cornell 2020-21 plans - 7 weeks ago
I spent a year in the Ag school and nobody's letting me poke around their animals especially since the court order.by Trotsky - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Morgan Barron Tribute Video - 7 weeks ago
SwampyThanks for giving us the privilege of cheering for you. And good luck in the NHL. In all seriousness, thank you if you read this Morgan (spoiler: he does not read this). We greatly appreciate all your hard work and we will always remember your outstanding Cornell career. Thank you for many, many great memories. Now go get hat tricks in numerous Rangers' 4-3 losses.by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Morgan Barron Tribute Video - 7 weeks 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 Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Rules Changes? - 7 weeks ago
We just had 7-inning double header games in the majors. This is the darkest timeline.by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Cornell 2020-21 plans - 7 weeks ago
French Rage Wow, it will be weird to see Colgate students test negative for things. We would also have accepted Brown* or Dartmouth. You magnificent bastard. *Brown's tests will be Pass/Fail.by Trotsky - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Morgan Barron Tribute Video - 7 weeks ago
TimV That background music, though...Suggestion:by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Morgan Barron article - 7 weeks ago
Congratulations Morgan please don't die for the DOW.by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Alumni News: 2019-20 - vintage games - 8 weeks ago
RichH Rita 1993.... I have fond memories of that spring. 11 straight losses. That's all I remember.Anne and I were at each of them. I was giving a noted Cornell hockey program figure a lift back to the hotel after the loss in Troy and we passed Brian walking down the side of the road, and he said, "you missed."by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Louis Agassiz - 8 weeks ago
tl; dr: 19th century dilettante made scientific discoveries in one field and had crackpot racist ideas in another field. His kid married the guy who founded the Boston Pops. cf. Shockley, W.by Trotsky - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Rules Changes? - 8 weeks ago
upprdeckno one is making the kids play This is exactly the wrong point. We are letting them play, which is wrong, because we are careless, weak, or stupid. Obviously they want to play, otherwise they wouldn't have had the drive to do the ten thousand things that got them to this level. Our responsibility is to be the adults who say, "you can't play." The sin is not coercion, iby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Rules Changes? - 2 months ago
martyIn the 3 on 3 do the players have to take their shots 6 feet from the crease? 6 foot separation when throwing checks. Manderville could have finally broken through to the net...by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Rules Changes? - 2 months ago
I'm going to side with TPTB just once: the handshake can go away until this is over. But of course the risk afforded by the handshake is EXACTLY why they shouldn't be playing at all. The lawsuit it going to be interesting when one of these guys gets really sick.by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Donate to charity for Cornell hockey in a "player's" name - 2 months ago
"Donate to charity for Cornell hockey," then. I thought it would be pretty obvious from the site itself.by Trotsky - Hockey
Donate to charity for Cornell hockey in a "player's" name - 2 months ago
48 hours to go. I know this has been posted elsewhere but I know many only check this forum. Scroll down and you have many choices to donate in someone's name. I have no idea whether they use the money for hookers and blow or waste it, but here's your chance to help!by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Fall sports 2020 cancelled - 2 months ago
I'm not even sure how Dartmouth can lose money. Are they comping the students their booze?by Trotsky - Other Sports
Re: Incoming Recruits - 2 months ago
That's a function of two variables: x -- how much of your college expenses does sports pay for, and y -- how much of the reason you're at school is sports? Your likelihood to defer / take a year off varies inversely with x and y. So, Johnny Jock at North Dumbfuck State is going to drink at home, rather than at his frat, for a year, while Arthur Auteur at St. Precious Arts Conservatory is goinby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Incoming Recruits - 2 months ago
redice Trotsky There's no opportunity cost since nobody else is playing. Except for Morgan Barron.... I'm concerned that, if the Rangers are playing and Cornell is not If the Rangers play Morgan leaves. This is true of every other college player who has the opportunity to jump. I'm going on the assumption (more of a hope) that nobody's going to play. That when the pro leagues make noisby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Cornell 2020-21 plans - 2 months ago
billhoward President of Lafayette Alison Byerly on SiriusXM PotusPressPool chaneel (124) said the same thing: students on campus, under the watchful eye of the college, will have a lower incidence of infected people than if they stayed home and studied online.I can see a lawsuit in 2025 over one of the frat boys who occasionally gets wedged in a chimney. Parent: "You should have protectedby Trotsky - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Season's Over 20-21 (Hopefully) - 2 months ago
abmarks Interesting nugget deep in the nytimes article: "and in a sign of how impactful the loss of a season may be on a broad swath of athletes, the Ivy League said it would consider granting a fifth year of eligibility for athletes — something it stood steadfastly against when spring sports were canceled."I think they should say you still only get 4 years but 20-21 isn't a year. Tby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Incoming Recruits - 2 months ago
I'm guessing there will be a blanket ruling that covers them all. At the very least there won't be any eligibility lost. We're in stasis. There's no opportunity cost since nobody else is playing.by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Season's Over 20-21 (Hopefully) - 2 months ago
Chris '03 Reports are no Ivy sports until at least 1/1/21.It's a start, let's make it 9/1/21. What was the source?by Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Season's Over 20-21 (Hopefully) - 2 months ago
upprdeck I think we have some mixed up perspectives on this. If the campus is safe enough for kids to be on campus then is it safe enough for kids to play sports. There is one mixed up perspective on this. Perhaps you fondly remember the days of crossing the quad struggling through body checks while throwing the Archaeology students into the sundial and digging for the puck in the cornersby Trotsky - Hockey
Re: Season's Over 20-21 (Hopefully) - 2 months ago
upprdeck maybe you need to ask the kids in the sports how they feel about it. i know coaches and players want to play for the most part.Why would anybody listen to doctors and public policy experts when we can ask a bunch of 22-year olds?by Trotsky - Hockey