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Re: Hughes salute - 22 years ago
I was remarking to my officemate's wife that it sounds like Hughes should always come in fourth in the short program so she can skate with no pressure in the finals.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Clarkson fight clip @ eLynah - 22 years ago
I'm glad to see that after a few days everyone's emotions have calmed down enough that we can discuss events reasonably. Rich, I think Ben's point about the right penalties being called despite not being able to see who the other Clarkson player was that from where he stood, two Clarkson players deserved to be DQed, although he couldn't say for sure which two. This is just the sort of thing theby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Shameless plug - 22 years ago
Can I ask you to add links for the ECAC finish in a nutshell and the ECAC playoff possibilities script to the answer about magic numbers (as examples in which they're used)? The links are and and I believe my CGI script is now sophisticated enough that those URLs will not change from year to year (i.e., they'll always point to the most recent season for which the stuff exists).by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Punches and Fights. . . - 22 years ago
I'm pretty sure the WCHA used to have a special penalty called "punching" which they could give out to avoid having to hand out fighting DQs. And I'm pretty sure I've also seen incidents in college games where players punched each other without drawing fighting penalties.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
National Anthem Traditions - 22 years ago
As long as we're on the subject, let me ask about a practice I've never seen anybody but myself observe. Way back when, in an elementary school assembly, they told us it was considered inappropriate to applaud after the national anthem. I don't think they explained it, but it makes a certain amount of sense in terms of the republic for which it stands being more important than the individual peby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: College Hockey All-Star Game - 22 years ago
There has also been an ECAC vs Hockey East All-Star game, but the "ECAC" and "HE" teams also included players from appropriately divided Division III schools, who often had a substantial impact on the outcome of the game. Note that participation in an all-star game ends an athlete's NCAA ability in any sport, which is why these events are always held at the end of the seasonby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Who's number 10 - 22 years ago
Actually, it would be better to face the team with the best RPIStr (10 parts winning pct and 3 parts opponents' winning pct), since that's the effective strength of schedule measure. But Union has the best RPIStr of the lot as well. Actually actually, the contribution to our SOS is not simply RPIStr, since the winning percentage is calculated with head-to-head games left out, so for instance Prby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Titles - 22 years ago
Sorta like designating the team that gets the top seed in the NCAAs the "NCAA Regular Season Champion"?by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Titles - 22 years ago
The RS champion can at least be unambiguously defined as the #1 seed in the playoffs, though, right?by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: 13 - 22 years ago
Actually, I'm fond of that tradition; just another little thing that makes Cornell hockey different. (Not to mention a bit of trivia for us cognoscenti to carry around.) I did completely fail to convince the Canadian hockey fan/player I had lunch with that there was anything good about the tradition of not having a #13, or any number 40 or higher. (He pointed out to my chagrin that Dryden woreby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Titles - 22 years ago
Although we do have a banner for every time we made the NCAA tournament.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Underhill - 22 years ago
My favorite memory of Matt's sense of humor was watching him explain the "GOALIE ... SIEVE ... SIEVE ... GOALIE ... GOALIE ... SIEVE!" cheer to the two Merrimack goalies when they were sitting in the stands at the SIT with him and Gartman because the benches were too small.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: DQ counts - 22 years ago
I think the confusion is because a three-game suspension is what results when a player gets two DQs in the same game (cf. Leeor Shtrom). It could also happen to Poapst if the ECAC decides to issue him one based on the Colgate game tapes.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Game DQ for Palahicky - 22 years ago
We would probably send it to the ECAC; that's what Colgate did about Poapst's elbow the night before.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Who - 22 years ago
Isn't Union also a dangerous pick, given our historical performance against them?by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Titles - 22 years ago
And watching on the webcam, everyone seemed a lot happier about winning the Ivy title than the ECAC RS. Presumably part of this is that the Ivy competition is over (aside from finding out whether we share it with Harvard) but the real ECAC title is yet to be won. (Although I thought Schafer's "I don't want this thing, get it away from me" reaction was a bit overboard, even if it doesby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
lighters - 22 years ago
I'm with Tom and Keith; I don't see it as mocking, but teasing. The first time I saw that I thought it was hilarious. (This as opposed to the mocking Alma lyrics, which are annoying and unfunny, but I suppose something of a tradition at this point, kind of like hotel and ag school jokes at football games.) Sorry, DeltaOne, but your pompous reaction is just the sort of thing that gives Clarksonby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Cornell VS Clarkson , Saturday Feb 23rd - 22 years ago
Felix Rodriguez wrote: I also hear there is some buzz on the previous game when a goonish Clarkson player elbowed a Colgate player into unconciousness. The Techer in question is Poapst, who was one of the Knights DQed last night; if he gets a DQ for the Colgate game, he'll be suspended for three games (one for the first DQ and two for the second).by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
What happened at the end of the game? - 22 years ago
The accounts on the Cornell and Clarkson radio broadcasts seem to have differed somewhat. Age, will the video of this be on the web soon? (I seem to recall some mention of archived webcam streams, but can't seem to find them.) One thing that was apparently mentioned on the Clarkson broadcast but not ours was someone in the crowd throwing a bottle (plastic, I assume) at someone Clarkson-relatedby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: numbers, formulations, predictions, and musings - 22 years ago
JY, those aren't quite the right playoff matchups in the scenario you describe. Clarkson won the season series from Harvard 1-0-1, so they would finish second on the head-to-head tiebreaker. And Princeton and Union split, but Princeton would win the top-five tiebreaker, 5 points to 4, so they'd be ninth place, which would make the matchups Uion@Cornell, Princeton@Clarkson, SLU@Harvard, RPI@Browby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Ivy - 22 years ago
Cornell finished the Ivy season 6-3-1, but more remarkably, the Big Red's record against the rest of the ECAC is 9-0-1 (it was perfect before last night's tie with SLU). Ivy teams currently occupy (after tiebreakers) 1st, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 8th, and 11th places. So much for the Ivies dragging down the rest of the ECAC.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Retired Numbers - 22 years ago
In general, retired numbers are very rare in college. (Makes sense, considering the turnover.) The only ones I know of are Travis Roy at BU and Bill Cleary at Harvard (and they only did that last year). Of course, Cornell does have one number out of circulation.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: CHAMPIONS! - 22 years ago
Greg Berge wrote: After all of last night's results, Cornell is tied for 9th in PWR with Michigan and UA-Fairbanks. They are behind both in RPI, so they are effectively 11th at the moment. More to the point, they lose the individual comparisons with both.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Cleary Cup - 22 years ago
Wonderful irony there, since Cornell also ended his head coaching career. Right up there with Clarkson winning the regular season in the first year after the CC rule was repealed but the last year before there was a trophy for the RS winner. It's a little disappointing to clinch it with a tie, and also as a result of other games played (so the Faithful missed out on chanting opportunities), butby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Tiebreakers - 22 years ago
Note that the ECAC and NFL multi-team tiebreakers do differ in one way, which is best illustrated by an example. Suppose A, B, C, and D are all tied for fourth and in the first tie-breaker, A and B are ahead of C and D, but even with each other. The ECAC tiebreaker system then breaks the A and B tie with the two-team tie-breaker to assign fourth and fifth place, and then has a go at C and D, whoby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
1999 - 22 years ago
Actually, that wild 1999 Clarkson-Princeton game was the semifinal. (I still have the chat transcript of the Princeton equalizer and Wille Mitchell's improbable gamewinner.) Tech beat SLU in the final. Princeton beat Clarkson in double OT in the 1998 ECAC title game. I've actually got a recap by Greg atby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: if we win.... - 22 years ago
Yeah, but the indecisiveness is useful when one needs to do things like retrieve posessions from the horse-brutality room.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Offtopic: Olympics - 22 years ago
Greg Berge wrote: NBC is doing a better job than I expected. That's certainly true. Given the way CBS loaded up TNT with the same sports-anemic human interest crap, I am impressed that the CNBC (and to some extent MSNBC) coverage has been mostly sports. Of course Jim the Host has been abysmal.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Good day for Cornell at the Olympics (spoilers) - 22 years ago
Gold medals for Dana Antal and Sarah Hughes. Of course I'm so oblivious to the mainstream coverage that I thought the figure skating final was tomorrow. So at the time I was watching my tape of curling from earlier in the day, which would have been more enjoyable if my satellite signal hadn't kept cutting out.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey