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Eddy Skazyk - 22 years ago
So, I finally made it up to Corpus Christi to see an Icerays game, this afternoon against the El Paso Buzzards. The Icerays play in the Central Hockey League, which was known last year as the Western Professional Hockey League. I never made it to a game last year when Geoff Bumstead '94 and Eddy Skazyk '96 were playing in Corpus. I had checked this year's roster and seen neither player listed,by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Playing to the level of the opposition - 22 years ago
The difference between this year's Cornell team and those of years past is that even when we haven't played our best game against the Princetons of the world, we've still managed to pull out the win. The biggest disappointment, result-wise, was probably the loss to Ohio State. (The biggest heartbreak was the loss to Harvard, of course.)by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Polls - 22 years ago
Well, I can guarantee that BC will not win the Beanpot this year, since the final is BU vs Northeastern. Note, FWIW, Cornell is #16 in KRACH and #14 in KPWR. (The #14 and #15 teams in KRACH have losing records.) Incidentally, Bemidji State has played a tougher schedule (as measured by both KRACH and RPI) than anyone in the ECAC.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Home Ice - 22 years ago
I haven't worked it out myself, but I hear tell (from those who are less mistake-prone than I) that we would have clinched already if RPI hadn't come back to beat Clarkson.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Off Topic: Is it just me? - 22 years ago
Actually I was thinking of Eurosport. The Olympics may be the only thing they do right. (And I think you have your Texan Faithful confused.)by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Off Topic: Is it just me? - 22 years ago
I heartily recommend watching the Olympics from another country. The coverage is better and it's easier to root for the Americans because you don't get 'em shoved down your throat.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: goalies - 22 years ago
Now if we added Mercyhurst, Niagara, Quinnipiac and UConn, and let 12 teams out of 16 in, there would be four four-team blocks. Of course it wouldn't be long before they tried to let all 16 teams in.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Ivy Title - 22 years ago
No, Dartmouth is 4-2-1, so if they win out they will be 7-2-1 and if we beat Yale and lose to Dartmouth we will be 6-3-1. (For that matter, Harvard is currently 5-3-1.)by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Where was SuperMom? - 22 years ago
Perhaps Princeton will come back to Lynah for the quintafinals and we'll see if SuperMom has as good a sense of humor as JR's mom.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Clinching - 22 years ago
It's relatively easy to demonstrate that a team hasn't clinched a playoff berth. Tim provided a specific example of a combination of results that would have put Cornell in 11th after the tiebreakers. Of course Cornell has clinched the playoffs now.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Music - 22 years ago
BTW, it will take some doing to top the Yale pep band's addition of "Uncle Fucka" (speaking of clever vulgarity) to their repertoire.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Take him away! - 22 years ago
"Rude boy, you have led me to believe that you was goin' out with this girl and she left you and married someone else. So you got drunk and smashed up your ex-girlfriend's property!"by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Music - 22 years ago
I've been thinking the Specials' "Message to You Rudy", properly arranged, would make a great pep band song (fun for the bones, and the winds could imitate the harmonica), although I suppose that would be dragging the band back to c.1980. Can't say I'd object to hearing the Power Puff theme ("So once again, the Game is Saved!"by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Boundless vulgarities! - 22 years ago
I've done college radio, so I know how to stay on the right side of decency when appropriate (our first season was out of the safe harbor). I just think that cleverness and vulgarity are neither completely correlated nor completely anti-correlated. And judging from the t-shirt some of the Clarkson contingent also share this view. (Actually I find the front of that shirt a lot more amusing thby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Boundless vulgarities! - 22 years ago
Rich Hovorka '96 wrote: Speaking of that upcoming game, I noticed on the Clarkson pep band website that they've made T-shirts for that roadtrip. [...] I have a feeling that they'll be changing the design, because that seems somewhat tame compared to past shirts I've seen from them. You mean like the one I bought that says "RPI SUCKS" on the front and "SLU Swallows" on the bby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Cartoons - 22 years ago
Well, they're both Craig McCracken/Genndy Tartakovsky shows...by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: claire danes - 22 years ago
Anne Hathaway (Princess Diaries) goes to Vassar, right?by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Clinching the playoffs - 22 years ago
Tim worked it out; there are combinations of results in which we lose a 10-way tie breaker for 2nd-11th place.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Grad students - 22 years ago
In my experience, undergrads also work in research groups and meet grad students that way. (Granted, none of them looked like Jodie Foster...)by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Clinching the playoffs - 22 years ago
Incidentally, the article states that we clinch the playoffs with a sweep this weekend. Actually, all we need is one point to clinch the postseason. (Tim Danehey summed it up best: since there are 132 total games in the ECAC season, the only way a team with 24 points can end up in 11th place is if the 12th place team has 0 points.)by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Gonna Fly Now - 22 years ago
I have to say I really like the change of pace of playing "Gonna Fly Now" to start the third (although it caught me off guard the first dozen or so times I heard it). Playing something different says "Okay, this is the last period, time to take it up a notch." When I announced for the U of Utah hockey club, we used to play the traditional fight song "A Utah Man" ovby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Saluting the crowd - 22 years ago
Actually, that article should be taken as a challenge by the current students. It always arrived late. It cheered only when prompted by the band or a cowbell. Similar in a lot of ways to a pro basketball crowd that is encouraged by an enormous scoreboard to "Make Some Noise!!!" It does, for fifteen seconds, then sits down again. Being there for the whole game and cheering without prby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Saluting the crowd - 22 years ago
Coincidentally, I was just looking at my photo of the stick salute after the streak-breaking win over Harvard that same weekend in 1995.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Frozen four - 22 years ago
And Vermont in 1996 was the last ECAC team not from New York State to make the Frozen Four.by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: test - 22 years ago
Woo woo! Buttercup rules! (I assume there are corresponding Blossum and Bubbles ones out there?)by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Super Mom - 22 years ago
What, no black-and-orange cast? When my mom broke her arm a few years back she got a Big Red cast. (I should scan that photo...)by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
Re: Other stupid Cornell movie trivia - 22 years ago
Didn't "The Sure Thing" feature exterior shots from a number of different colleges? I thought the whole idea was that it was supposed to start and end at some generic Ivy. Along the same lines, does anyone remember the short-lived "Class of '96" TV show? It was set at a fictional Ivy called Havenhurst College, and one game of viewers was to see which real Ivy it most closelby jtwcornell91 - Hockey
And speaking of Webster's - 22 years ago
The relevant definition of "profanity" is "profane language". The relevant definition of "profane" is "serving to debase or defile what is holy". "screw", "@!#$", "sucks", "@!#$" and "@!#$" are not profane words, merely vulgar. Examples of profanity are "God damn you" and "go to hell".by jtwcornell91 - Hockey
One-way rivalries - 22 years ago
But do they really care about Yale in hockey, any more than we care about Penn in, say, baseball?by jtwcornell91 - Hockey