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Re: Next year's schedule - 21 years ago
Jim Hyla '67 wrote: Actually, since we have membership to the R&R Hall of Fame, we will likely be there. Wow, Jim, you really are a man of many talents. I was planning to try to make it to that weekend's game(s) home or away. The major advantage to home would be that more of the rest of you would be there, and I'd already have tickets. Completely selfishly, I hope we also play Findlay thby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Internet Radio at Risk? - 22 years ago
The supposed reason for the high rates (at least it was was the reason for regulating internet radio different from over-the-air) was the fear that people will use their computers to make perfect digital copies and not bother buying CDs. Apparently people didn't forsee at the time that the sound quality of streaming internet broadcasts would render that concern irrelevant.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: OT: Commencement Speaker - 22 years ago
You could mention your CHA membership, which makes you a supporter of intercollegiate athletics at your alma mater.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
There she is ... our commencement speaker - 22 years ago
Well, it is supposed to be a scholarship program...by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Redeeming factors - 22 years ago
True enough. Even Brownsville has a good Mexican restaurant or two...by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: ECAC Reportedly Considering Moving Tournament to Albany - 22 years ago
Maybe we'll just have to party at Melissa's place...by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Internet Radio at Risk? - 22 years ago
I just saw mention on the LaxPower forum that internet broadcasters could be in financial trouble due to per-song royalties that the federal government may be about to impose as part of the 1998 Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Apparently this might impact more than just music programming, since the stations (especially internet-only ones) could be bankrupted by the retroactive fees. Reference Uby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Next year's schedule - 22 years ago
But Findlay and Columbus are only 105 miles apart, so they make reasonable travel partners.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Lake Placid Testimonials - 22 years ago
Anyone who cares has likely read them before, but for reference and the first section of this: Greg, do you have any odes to Placid on the web, outside of forum archives?by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Albany vs Placid - 22 years ago
Al DeFlorio wrote: By staying in Saratoga Springs you get "nice" (much nicer than LP, IMHO) as well as "convenient." So you'll stay in Saratoga Springs, Greg will stay in a Best Western in Albany, Melissa will stay at home, I'll stay at my Mom's in Kingston, and we'll lose the extra sense of community that Placid's immersion brings.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Small Time Image - 22 years ago
I feel exactly the opposite. The ECAC was getting squeezed out of Boston by Hockey Least, so rather than trying to compete with the other conferences on their terms, they forged their own path, embracing their small-town roots. The ECACs in Lake Placid were something different; moving to Albany would mean trying to be like the big boys and coming up short. The Academic League will never beat tby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: OT: Commencement Speaker - 22 years ago
Al DeFlorio wrote: Andrew Dickson White, along with Daniel Coit Gilman of Johns Hopkins and Charles William Eliot of Harvard, changed the face of American higher education in the latter half of the 19th century. ...and ironically also established the policy of not awarding honorary degrees.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Just one more question... - 22 years ago
So, reading that article and the one before on major penalties, it sounds like Greg's major penalty example also goes down as 0-for-1, even though the number of goals that could have been scored on the major is ill-defined. (And also that Toronto went 2-for-3 on their pivotal Game Six power play, not 2-for-4 as I originally thought.)by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: OT: Commencement Speaker - 22 years ago
This is, after all, standard operating procedure. There is a guest speaker (ours was David Drinkwater, in a wonderful you've-never-heard-of-him-but-he-means-a-lot-to-us move), but he/she speaks at a separate event and not the commencement itself. And does not get an honorary degree. Trivia question: name the only two people ever to receive honorary degrees from Cornell.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Albany vs Placid - 22 years ago
We've had this debate before, but I'd say "nice" is what Placid has going for it. "Convenient" is Albany's selling point.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Next year's schedule - 22 years ago
Actually, that's why it matters. Playing Findlay last year was a "nothing to lose, nothing to gain" game, since it didn't count. Playing them at the beginning of the season probably doesn't matter too much, although they're not likely to be as good as their winning percentage will imply, so they could provide a team with a relatively easy way to pad their winning percentage and boostby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Big East - 22 years ago
Out of curiosity, where the hell did the Big East come from? What do those schools have in common with each other aside from big time semi-pro sports programs? The idea of pooling that set of schools because they're a conference in other sports seems like saying that College Hockey America should form a basketball conference or that Notre Dame should play Alaska-Anchorage and Nebraska-Omaha inby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Warm-weather hockey - 22 years ago
Note that Rich, having lived in Southern California and had the opportunity to benefit from the proximity of three professional hockey teams, is more entitled than most to criticize the NHL's move South. I think most of us would say not that hockey should not be played in warm-weather cities, but that teams should not be moved from regions of the continent which have historically supported hockeby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: [NHL] I went to a hockey game... - 22 years ago
melissa '01 wrote: I think hockey should be played only in geographic regions capable of having snow come winter time. Hey, it snowed in Louisiana this past winter!by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Carolina - 22 years ago
Well, if Ottawa beats Toronto in Game Seven tomorrow, we get to watch Erik Cole play against Todd White. I'll let everyone decide for themselves if that's a good or bad thing.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Webcast - 22 years ago
There's a link to an audio broadcast on The link seems to be but I haven't tried it (no RA plugin for mozilla). The game is being televised live on Fox Sports New York.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Elite teams - 22 years ago
Neil Shapiro '83 wrote: And don't get me started on how they decide who an elite team is! They decide using the RPI, which is an improvement on the popularity contest they used in past years.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Lax v. Hockey fatigue - 22 years ago
Well, in the lacrosse tourney the games are played on consecutive weekends rather than consecutive days, so presumably the fatigue factor is not a big one, just the extra chance to get knocked out for the lower seeds. So actually, it's like the ECAC playoffs will be starting next year and like the NCAA hockey playoffs were circa 1990.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
vs Top 5 - 22 years ago
I'm thinking in retrospect that perhaps the criterion should be modified when one of the teams is undefeated, to look first at wins minus losses, then at winning percentage. So in Perl terms if (($a->pa = 0 and $a->pf > 0) or ($b->pa = 0 and $b->pf > 0) { ($b->pf - $b->pa) <=> ($a->pf - $b->pa) or $b->pct <=> $a->pct; } else { ($b-by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: [Lax] Designing a lacrosse-specific PWR - 22 years ago
Yes, the criteria themselves are poor, but weighing the two secondary criteria along with two of the primary ones, using winning percentage rather than total wins for analysis of top 5 games, and relegating schedule strength to tie-breaker status makes them at least non-stupid. The thing about using the hockey PWR is that people just say "that's a hockey system" and ask why we're tryinby jtwcornell91 - Hockey