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Re: WTB Game-Worn Jersey - 22 years ago
REDhead wrote: The ones with the red ECAC patch are 1998-99 season Cool. That confirms that Mom had the right name sewed on my #20 home jersey.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: We - 22 years ago
Greg Berge wrote: It's really not at all subjective anymore. Going by the PWR and then the seeding logic recreated in programs like John Whelan's, the field and even the seedings have been nearly perfectly predicted the last few years. Of course, they have always found a way to surprise at least me. But not with respect to assignment of byes, which is the point here.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: LP weather - 22 years ago
Mark H. Anbinder wrote: I would much rather have 30 and snowing than 33 and raining, lemme tell ya. A man after my own heart! I've been saying that for years!by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Norton - 22 years ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Bob Norton is the Dick Vitale of College Hockey, and for that all college hockey fans should consider ourselves lucky!by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: LP-Accommodations, etc. - 22 years ago
Given the experience of 2000, I have to agree with Rich about North Country locals pulling for both teams. This weekend's fan alliances should be interesting, since Cornell fans hate both of our fellow Ivy participants...by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: ECAC Semis in NY/NJ - 22 years ago
Gee, I'm about 1000 miles from Lake Placid right now, and I'll be there. But then you know what I'm like...by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: We're a damn good ... - 22 years ago
Also remember that from (I think) 1995 to 2000, all regular season champions were automatically given tournament bids (not technically auto-bids, but the difference is irrelevant) thanks to the "Colorado College Rule". And from 1997 to 2000, anyone who won a RS and tournament title automatically got a bye.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Shagwell - 22 years ago
Hey don't knock the Shagster. He single-handedly educated HOCKEY-L about the multiple-overtime-games-don't-count-as-ties business a few years back when he was working for the NCAA.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: PWR after Saturday - 22 years ago
I think the confusion is between using RPI as a tiebreaker to decide an individual comparison and using RPI as a tiebreaker when ranking teams based on the number of comparisons won (after you've worked out who wins each comparison). When deciding who wins a comparison, RPI is definitely used as a tiebreaker if each team wins the same number of criteria. OTOH, when deciding how to rank teams baby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
"Tied" Pairwise Comparisons (or lack thereof) - 22 years ago
Everything we've heard from the NCAA is that there is no such thing as a tie in a pairiwise comparison. If each team wins the same number of criteria, the team with the higher RPI wins the PWC. End of story. I think this is even spelled out in the championships manual at BTW, you can see the breakdown of each comparison by criteria in a popup window by clicking on the losing team's abbreviatby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: LP-Accommodations, etc. - 22 years ago
BTW, people may want to check out the Hitchhiker's guide to Lake Placid at It's still just a compilation of my experiences, which I mention as a way to goad Greg to add his and Anne's.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Cornell presence at Thursday's game - 22 years ago
How many folks will be in Placid Thursday for the RPI-Dartmouth game? I plan to don all my Cornell paraphenalia and go sit with the RPI fans. Pre-game, some of us will be meeting at Mr. Mike's pizza on Main Street. (Best pizza I've had in Lake Placid.) We haven't fixed on a time, but since it's a 7:30 game, 5:30 should be plenty early. (I want to be there for the start of warmups in case Iby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Multiple overtime wins and losses do NOT count as ties - 22 years ago
Age, can we put this in the FAQ?by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Multiple overtime wins and losses do NOT count as ties - 22 years ago
Because this question comes up so often, I thought it was a good idea to put the answer in the subject line. And for that matter, let me shout so that everyone hears it: IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW MANY OVERTIMES THEY PLAY, OR HOW LONG THEY ARE; IF THE GAME IS DECIDED IN OVERTIME, IT IS A WIN FOR THE WINNING TEAM AND A LOSS FOR THE LOSING TEAM! If they go to a shootout, the game is considered a tieby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Teams Under Consideration - 22 years ago
In fact, a team with a losing record which receives an automatic bid by winning its conference tournament automatically becomes a Team Under Consideration for the purposes of the "record vs TUC" criterion.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Poll on Arthur - 22 years ago
"Dan's got 148 votes, and Casey's got 378,946..."by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: david francis - 22 years ago
JTW would have though Joe Momma would make a bigger deal about Davey scoring the "last lead" goal.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: stupid damn time warner - 22 years ago
Actually, from the sound of things, it was the feed from the rink that was messed up (wind does nasty things to digital satellite transmission) so I suspect anyone's NESN tape will be frelled. (I'll let you know when I get back to Brownsville how mine turned out.) If Age captured the feed he was getting for the LynahCam. it's likely to be a lot better.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
chances - 22 years ago
I think we all knew Yale was a scary first-round opponent, given the trouble we had with them earlier in the season. It is getting a little tiresome hearing teams that finished ten points behind us in the standings claim they're better than us. All in all, it was actually a good series: cleanly played (although not as cleanly as the scarcity of penalties called by D.Murphy might imply), the Yalby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Iggulden - 22 years ago
People were saying between games that Schafer wanted them to play more of a physical game tonight, so we assumed he was playing Hughes because he hit more.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Yale v. Cornell - 3/8/02 - 22 years ago
As a fan, I found the band standoff hilarious, BTW. (And in general, it was an entertaining change of pace to have two bands there, even though I was damn sick of the Yale fight song by the end of the night.) I could have sworn the two bands played Vengaboys' "Boom Boom Boom" together at one of the stoppages during the game, but the guy I asked from our band had no idea what I was talby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: #1 defense - 22 years ago
I thought the motivation was that a goalie was supposed to be distracted by having to look over his shoulder to see the clock, plus the West end gives the Zamboni-door bounce.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: At Large Bid to NCAAs? - 22 years ago
As I mentioned at dinner, I wasn't overly concerned with the jinx factor of assuming we wouldn't go 0-2; I'm pretty sure if that had happened, no one would have said "Damn, if only we had gone 1-2 like JTW assumed we would!"by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Sat.'s game in NYC. - 22 years ago
How does the Cornell Club not have satellite TV? What good is the damn thing if you can't at least gather there to watch Big Red sporting events?by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Undy - 22 years ago
Greg Berge wrote: Whoever we go with, I'm happy with us in net. Really? I'd have to think Underhill or Leneveu would do a better job than you, I, Age, BRA, Melissa, Al, Jim, etc.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
ECAC Awards - 22 years ago
This is an annual confusion between USCHO's predictions of the ECAC awards and the awards themselves. The actual awards are announced in Lake Placid, although they're based on the regular season only, so now is an appropriate time to start speculating about them.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: At Large Bid to NCAAs? - 22 years ago
Losing this weekend means we go 1-2 in the playoffs. If we sweep this weekend and either lose the final or lose in the semis and then win in the consolation game, we end up 3-1 in the playoffs. In principle losing in the semis is worse because the consolation opponent is likely to do less for our strength of schedule than the championship opponent.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Funky Playoff Format - 22 years ago
There's some evidence that coaches do check with the stats geeks to find out the implications of their games. E.g., Joe Marsh knowing in 1998 that SLU needed four points to have a realistic chance of making the playoffs and thus pulling the goalie in overtime.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Mission Statement - 22 years ago
How about "the Residential Houses will be part of a lame attempt to become a clone of Harvard"? (I'm still bitter that after ten years of trying, the administration finally found a plan that pissed off few enough people so they could set about dismantling the do-it-yourself college experience that made the Cornell of the late 20th century a great place to go to school.)by jtwcornell91 - Hockey