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Not sure if this has been posted but....

A USCHO post indicated Cornell will be playing in a 4-team tourney in Lake Placid over Chrsitmas with UMass, Clarkson and Arizona State.

There's an article on The Athletic (pay site) about the former Cornell forward opening up a Canadian-themed bar in Manhattan called The Canuck.

Interesting story:

After graduating from Cornell in 2002 with a degree in economics, Denis Ladouceur decided to delay getting one of those so-called real jobs for a bit. He had just wrapped up a four-year career at the Ivy League school in Ithaca, N.Y., as a scrappy forward who could score a few goals but wasn't ever going to reach the NHL. He figured he'd like to see and live in Europe for the life experience. After an opportunity in France fell through, and following one season in the ECHL, Ladouceur ended up with the London Racers of the UK's Elite Ice Hockey League.

London was everything Ladouceur hoped it would be, even though "you're not making any money, and you still need a summer job."

"But it was an extremely fun experience," he says.

The only problem was the British Columbia native and his teammates, most of whom were also Canadians, missed home. In London, there weren't many options to fill that void, but they found one: a little pub in Covent Garden called Maple Leaf. They routinely hopped on the tube for the hour-long ride to gather there to watch hockey and down a few Labatt Blues.

It stuck with Ladouceur, and when he finally did hang up his skates to join the rat race in Manhattan, working in finance and investment management while also completing a master's degree in business at Columbia, the idea for a similar bar never strayed far from his mind. Even in a city as immense as New York, he figured the opportunity was there to open something truly unique.

"I had always wanted and always dreamt about a Canadian hockey bar in the city. As soon as I moved here ... Where's the Canadian hockey bar? There isn't one," he says. "It was just something I had talked about and thought this city should have, literally since I moved here. It would get pushed aside for years because obviously finance is a much safer alternative — or, it can be."

Quote from: TrotskyThe Hockey Gods punish reverse woofing even more strongly than vanilla woofing.

Hockey Gods aint nuthin to fuck with.

The Hockey gods may be nuthin to F with, but like Adam, you completely misread the intention of my post.

Perhaps if I had typed "enjoy your ninth straight win on Saturday night en route to a 37-0 record and a third National title for the Big Red" you would have a beef.

IMHO it just adds up to a likely Cornell W on Saturday night, in what I hope will be a close, well-played game. I just don't think BU is ready to knock off the No. 2 team in the nation at this point. Guess we'll find out.

I reckon I should've saved myself the time and postage it took to send you the Ned Harkness article from a late 1970s issue of Hockey Magazine all those years ago...

Swing and a miss, Ad.

I was merely expressing my thoughts about the outcome of the game and it had zero to do with using "reverse psychology" in any way.

Of course I'd like to see BU put it all together, play a solid 60 minutes, and knock off a talented and unbeaten team. But at this point of the season for both schools, that doesn't seem likely. That's it.

Well, after last night's morale-boosting 4-0 setback against Sacred Heart in front of family and friends on home ice, BU heads to MSG with zero momentum and on the virtual Road to Perdition.

After all, this is a team that has scored the same number of goals (43) as their opponents, but has only managed to win 4 of 14 games. But when the defense gives up as many scoring chances as it does every game, it makes more sense.

I'd feel a whole lot better if BU could sneak Clayton Keller (would-be senior), Brady Tkachuk (would-be junior), Joel Farrabee (would-be sophomore), Dante Fabbro (would-be senior) and Jake Oettinger (would-be senior) into the lineup against Schafer's Marauders, but that won't be happening.

I just hope the Terriers decide to show up, because I know the Big Red certainly will. I also hope this doesn't turn into another similar disaster from many moons ago (31st anniversary approaching on 12/10!) when Cornell, powered by the likes of Rob Levasseur, Trent Andison and Casey Jones, put eight up on the board in an 8-2 thrashing of the Terriers at Boston Gahden. The Gahden, of all places! Never mind that BU came back to beat the Big Red 19 days later in the Syracuse Invitational, the damage had already been done. And I'd never get back those two wasted tanks of gas.

I've been to the first six RHH games but will be sitting this one out.

Enjoy the game -- I'm quite sure you folks will. Either 4-1 or 6-2 for the Ithaca squad.

Given Cornell's improved offensive output, coupled with BU's overall youth and somewhat shaky defense early in the season, looks like it adds up to a 4-1 Cornell win from here.

BU is providing a live stream of the game through Terrier TV. Go to the MIH section of the BU athletics web site and find it linked in the RHH preview. Not sure how this would compare with anything being done by the ILN broadcast.

Hopefully Team Inconsistent will at least make the Big Red break a sweat.

I would say pressure from the team that takes him and the available cash will likely end his stay on Comm. Ave.

BU will be a much better and balanced offensive team (albeit still young overall) than the one that played the Big Red at MSG in 2013. But if Cornell holds the Terriers to 11 shots again I will buy everybody on this board a beer. ;-)

Do you guys think Harvard will be Frozen Four material next year, or will they continue their postseason flops?

Not sure if this has been shared yet:

http://www.thehockeynews.com/blog/thn-road-trip-tough-to-beat-the-crowd-at-cornell/#more-2201

Looking forward to BU-CU Part IV at MSG. Terriers have been dealing with the inconsistency of a roster that is top-heavy with freshmen and sophomores, so this may be the year for the Big Red to earn their first W in RHH.

Not hockey, but a pretty impressive honor:

http://insidesportsillustrated.com/2013/05/22/kyle-dake-and-loren-shealy-named-sports-illustrated-college-athletes-of-the-year/

I realize the result was to the liking of Cornell fans, but I thought some of you might like to watch these 1972 BU-Cornell highlights, which I had never seen before. I'm not sure who produced them, perhaps the NCAA?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsRcmOB6LoY


Any word on the Cornell-Michigan game at MSG next season?

With all the good news surrounding BU these days (I'm just waiting for Millan to leave the team over Christmas to take a Morman mission in the South Pacific), I read this story on a former solid Big Red player and wanted to pass ot along, in case nobody saw it. Didn't realize he had to go through so many disappointments before his career took off:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/michael_farber/12/13/matt.moulson.islanders/index.html?sct=nhl_wr_a3

Good luck the rest of the season...the Terriers will sure as hell need it.

Just got confirmation from a fellow BU fan that Red Hot Hockey III is a go for 2011-12 at MSG.

Haven't been here for a while, so sorry if this has alreayd been discussed, but I've heard from a reliable source that Cornell-BU at MSG is a "go" for the 2009-10 season, I'm assuming over Thanksgiving again, but am not exactly sure of the time frame.

Personally, I'd rather see Agganis-Lynah matchups for the next few years, if only because I don't know if MSG Round 2 can match everything that surrounded last year's game, especially the crowd size. But having the same two teams playing again in a major market game is no small feat.

I imagine the details will start trickling in during the spring, and no later than over the summer.

Congrats on your solid season so far...hell how about the Terriers and Red meeting in DC this year to settle the best-of-3, with Game 1 going to Cornell in '67 and Game 2 to BU in '72.

Good luck down the stretch.

Thought some Big red fans might like to read through this again (or for that matter, the first time) from 1967:

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/edb/reader.html?magID=SI&issueDate=19670102&mode=reader_vault

You have to flip through to page 44 for the story.

Good luck in Albany...and what the hell, BU and Cornell played in front over 18,000 in NYC in November, let's do it all over again for all the marbles in Denver in a few weeks! It will be the deciding Game 3 of the NCAA title series that started in 1967. ;-)