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General Category => Hockey => Topic started by: Trotsky on February 24, 2018, 11:20:39 AM

Title: So Much Winning
Post by: Trotsky on February 24, 2018, 11:20:39 AM
In addition to the RS title (http://www.tbrw.info/?/ecac_History/ecac_RS_Champs_Icon.html), we should also stop a moment and appreciate the second undefeated Ivy season since Ned (http://www.tbrw.info/?/cornell_History/cornell_Ivy_Records_All_Seasons.html).
Title: Re: So Much Winning
Post by: scoop85 on February 24, 2018, 11:31:56 AM
If we win or tie tonight we'll have gone unbeaten on the road in league play
Title: Re: So Much Winning
Post by: upprdeck on February 24, 2018, 12:17:48 PM
really just he bad effort the first RPI game from about a good as season as anyone could have dreamed.
Title: Re: So Much Winning
Post by: ugarte on February 24, 2018, 12:25:04 PM
Quote from: TrotskyIn addition to the RS title (http://www.tbrw.info/?/ecac_History/ecac_RS_Champs_Icon.html), we should also stop a moment and appreciate the second undefeated Ivy season since Ned (http://www.tbrw.info/?/cornell_History/cornell_Ivy_Records_All_Seasons.html).
and so close in the yale game to a totally unblemished ivy slate.
Title: Re: So Much Winning
Post by: Trotsky on February 24, 2018, 01:16:31 PM
It really is an amazing year (http://www.tbrw.info/reports/rptCornell_Games_by_Year/rptCornell_Games_2018.pdf) so far. Hope they can keep it up.  They are right up there with the best teams in the country.
Title: Re: So Much Winning
Post by: Scersk '97 on February 24, 2018, 02:40:15 PM
Quote from: TrotskyIt really is an amazing year (http://www.tbrw.info/reports/rptCornell_Games_by_Year/rptCornell_Games_2018.pdf) so far. Hope they can keep it up.  They are right up there with the best teams in the country.

This year has been great. If we could only "disappear" Union, we'd also be back to league normality.

It feels like 2010 (if that team had played in a weak ECAC) with an admixture of 2002, although I'm (barely, infinitesimally) slightly less confident in our goaltending than I was during either of those two seasons. (Only because Galajda is a freshman.)

I think this team could go very deep. Whether they do or don't, I think next year will be gangbusters. (All we're missing at this point is a dominant power play.)
Title: Re: So Much Winning
Post by: Jim Hyla on February 24, 2018, 02:45:54 PM
Quote from: Scersk '97(All we're missing at this point is a dominant power play.)

All we're always missing, it seems, is a dominant power play.
Title: Re: So Much Winning
Post by: Al DeFlorio on February 24, 2018, 02:56:07 PM
Quote from: Scersk '97This year has been great. If we could only "disappear" Union, we'd also be back to league normality.
Can we disappear Quinnipiac instead?
Title: Re: So Much Winning
Post by: upprdeck on February 24, 2018, 03:00:18 PM
We really need that Sniper to have the power play take off..  PC Drouin type who hit that top corner spot spot from the face off dot..  Angello has the skills but is seldom on that area.
Title: Re: So Much Winning
Post by: Trotsky on February 24, 2018, 03:13:18 PM
Quote from: Al DeFlorio
Quote from: Scersk '97This year has been great. If we could only "disappear" Union, we'd also be back to league normality.
Can we disappear Quinnipiac instead?
Why not both?  Niagara/RIT are a natural rivalry.

Nia/RIT
Cor/Cgt
Clk/SLU
RPI/Prn
Yal/Brn
Drt/Hvd
Title: Re: So Much Winning
Post by: redliner on February 24, 2018, 03:38:54 PM
Quote from: Trotsky
Quote from: Al DeFlorio
Quote from: Scersk '97This year has been great. If we could only "disappear" Union, we'd also be back to league normality.
Can we disappear Quinnipiac instead?
Why not both?  Niagara/RIT are a natural rivalry.

Nia/RIT
Cor/Cgt
Clk/SLU
RPI/Prn
Yal/Brn
Drt/Hvd

I know this is a recency bias, but it would suck to lose a national champion from our conference. Union looks to be strong for the foreseeable future.
Title: Re: So Much Winning
Post by: Trotsky on February 24, 2018, 03:50:02 PM
Quote from: redliner
Quote from: Trotsky
Quote from: Al DeFlorio
Quote from: Scersk '97This year has been great. If we could only "disappear" Union, we'd also be back to league normality.
Can we disappear Quinnipiac instead?
Why not both?  Niagara/RIT are a natural rivalry.

Nia/RIT
Cor/Cgt
Clk/SLU
RPI/Prn
Yal/Brn
Drt/Hvd

I know this is a recency bias, but it would suck to lose a national champion from our conference. Union looks to be strong for the foreseeable future.

On the one hand, maybe.  On the other hand, fuck em.
Title: Re: So Much Winning
Post by: Jeff Hopkins '82 on February 24, 2018, 03:57:09 PM
Nah.  Keep Union.  Dump the Deer-ticks.
Title: Re: So Much Winning
Post by: Al DeFlorio on February 24, 2018, 04:06:24 PM
Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82Nah.  Keep Union.  Dump the Deer-ticks.
Union has academic creds.
Title: Re: So Much Winning
Post by: Trotsky on February 24, 2018, 04:15:57 PM
I'm not sure whether Union has good academics, but they don't pay their players in the same way that we don't pay our players.  Cough.
Title: Re: So Much Winning
Post by: Swampy on February 24, 2018, 04:35:26 PM
Quote from: TrotskyIt really is an amazing year (http://www.tbrw.info/reports/rptCornell_Games_by_Year/rptCornell_Games_2018.pdf) so far. Hope they can keep it up.  They are right up there with the other best teams in the country.

FYP
Title: Re: So Much Winning
Post by: Al DeFlorio on February 24, 2018, 05:53:51 PM
Quote from: TrotskyI'm not sure whether Union has good academics, but they don't pay their players in the same way that we don't pay our players.  Cough.
U accepts 37%; Q 76%.
Title: Re: So Much Winning
Post by: Trotsky on February 24, 2018, 06:46:47 PM
Oh, I know Q is a joke.  Just wondered about U.
Title: Re: So Much Winning
Post by: Larry72 on February 24, 2018, 06:52:12 PM
Union has a very good undergrad reputation with concentrations in the sciences and engineering.  Their grad school has an excellent MPA program among other things.
Title: Re: So Much Winning
Post by: Trotsky on February 24, 2018, 06:55:42 PM
Quote from: Larry72Union has a very good undergrad reputation with concentrations in the sciences and engineering.  Their grad school has an excellent MPA program among other things.

OK, then we don't kick them out for academics.  We kick them out for being annoying and having ugly sweaters.
Title: Re: So Much Winning
Post by: cbuckser on February 24, 2018, 07:13:45 PM
As I wrote last night:
https://twitter.com/cbuckser/status/967239066461745152
https://twitter.com/cbuckser/status/967239623717011456
Title: Re: So Much Winning
Post by: Trotsky on February 25, 2018, 06:40:22 AM
Quote from: cbuckserAs I wrote last night:
https://twitter.com/cbuckser/status/967239066461745152
https://twitter.com/cbuckser/status/967239623717011456
Here are (http://www.tbrw.info/?/cornell_History/cornell_RS_vs_PS.html) our RS v PS records which I have unaccountably only taken back to 1982 as of yet.
Title: Re: So Much Winning
Post by: Trotsky on February 25, 2018, 06:45:06 AM
Fun trivia about Schafer's tenure.  I went back and counted the number of years in which each team has failed to advance out of the First Round (or previously the Round of 5) during Mike's first 22 seasons.  Note Cornell has already advanced this year as well. 2 Cornell (1999 R5 at Princeton, 2015 1R at Union)
 5 Harvard
 5 Vermont + Quinnipiac
 6 St. Lawrence
 8 Clarkson
 8 Colgate
 8 Yale
 9 Dartmouth
10 RPI
12 Union
15 Brown
15 Princeton
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 9 average


"You don't know what you've got til it's gone."  We should appreciate just how fortunate we as fans have been.
Title: Re: So Much Winning
Post by: profudge on February 25, 2018, 08:34:31 AM
Agreed Larry,  Union has great academic programs - I know of several friends kids who have done undergrad at Union and gone on to be Veterinarians and MDs and college profs all highly respected in their careers.  They all speak highly of their educational experience there.