ELynah Forum

The student season tickets did not sell out.

Of interest, ithacat is right in that the student ticket allotment did not sell out.  While I was picking up tickets today and ran into one of the ticket office gurus they said that they still had reams of student tickets that were not sold.  I was shocked and then tried to convince him that I was still a student...no such luck

On that note, last I talked to Gene about where I was on the list for season tickets, he said that at the current rate it would take me 125 years to get season tickets ::twitch::

OK, since I have acquired tickets to the CUx2 games I will throw in my picks:

SLU(t)s over Harvard 2-1
Dartmouth over Yale 2-0
'Gate over the deerticks 2-0
Big Red over Big Goons 2-1

My wife and I will be at both games.  As of last week there were lots of tickets left at Cornell.

Drew

Great game by Bitz tonight.  I thought he was the most dominating player on the ice.  Good to see Sasha back, although coach needs to somehow get it through the players heads not to grab the puck and hurtle it down the ice.  That is the third time (at least) that I have seen them take that penalty this year.  Thought McKee played great as well, especially in the third period where he made several key saves.  

I vaguely remembered that Gaudet was a headcase, but I really didn't remember him being quite that bad.  I thought the vein on his forehead was going to burst at least 50 times!!  

Good to see that Carefoot wasn't hurt too badly on that blocked shot in the second period and continued to play on. Hopefully he is able to play tomorrow without too much trouble.

Drew

In an effort to return this to a ECAC POTY discussion...Although it is realistic to think that a Cornell player may win; the fact of the matter is that no one on our team is deserving of the league award.  Moulson has been absent for long streches of games this year.  McKee, although playing strong lately, still has too low of a save percentage.  
I personally would vote for Burton or Trevelyan. I was also impressed with Goecckner-Zoeller (sorry I can't spell his name) on Princeton.  
I think McCutcheon deserves some talk for our team MVP this year, but so do about a half dozen of our players (including O'Byrne, whom I maligned in the early part of the year), but will agree has been playing some of the best hockey on the team for the better part of 3 months now.

Yes, it is on Ch. 26 for those of us who are TWC subscribers.

I wonder if we could convince Age to set up a new forum dedicated to allowing the Clarkson alums on this board (all 2 of you) and all the Cornell alums to get together and discuss the latin derivation and subliminal meaning of the word goon.  Then we can dissect each player over the last three decades and see which players fit the goon mode and the ones that don't.  Then we can tally it up and see who is the most goony.  Hell, maybe we can just stop the discussion now and nickname Clarkson the Goonies (Pretty sure Roll and Sean Astin were separated at birth).  And here I was thinking I as going to read a thread about the US Olympics...sheesh.

RichS-  I have been an avid Cornell hockey fan since '97 and I am sure that I do see things with my Cornell tinted glasses, much like you see things with your Clarkson glasses.  However, that does not negate the fact in every Clarkson game that I have ever been to, as the game nears a close, you begin to wonder which Clarkson player is going to go off the deep end and try to hurt an opposing player.  I am not alone in this opinion, all the people who sit around us (who have been going to games a heck of a lot longer than I have) feel the same way.  But, if the only way that Clarkson can win is to recruit a team full of Nickersons then so be it.  Now, I may hate Harvard hockey as much as the next Cornell fan, but at least they are a program that knows how to play with class (excpet for Welch).

Great game tonight.  I think that this was the best all around weekend the Sasha has had all year.  He shoed great poise is skating the puck out of the zone and controlling play in the defensive end.  The team as a whole played realy well together and all the freshman are really doing well.  I especially like how Kennedy played this weekend.  
That said, ever since I started waching Cornell hockey it amazes me what a terribly disciplined team Clarkson is.  They are the biggest bunch of goons I have ever seen play no matter who the coach is and who the players are.  The mantra seems to be for them to hurt the opposing players no matter what the score.  They are an embarressment for the league and I for one hope they never have success.

I don't know, I enjoyed the Jeopardy theme music.  Even the Princeton fans around us laughed when I yelled "What is Princeton sucks":-)

For those who need even more confirmation about the short handed non-goal by Cornell; we were on the goal line in Section O and the Q defenseman clearly batted the puck and stopped in from going into the net.  A great play by him.

I agree that Q outskated us pretty much the first 40 min., they were clearly quicker and outhustled us in the corners.  However, great character win for Cornell and hopefuly this will spur them on the Florida.  

I think the best d-men last night were Seminoff and O'Byrne whereas Topher and Sawada played the best up front.  

Decent game by CU; although they are still plagued by defensive lapses that that you think would have been corrected by now.   Princeton really is a terrible hockey team.  Sawada played one of the better games that he has played this year and Carefoot looked solid in his return from injury.  The rest of the team was decent and no one had a real terrible night.  Krantz seems to have righted the ship insofar that he is not making the same hideous mistakes he was making in the first few weeks.  

As for Section O, I am not sure who brought the Princeton ponchos but all the kids that were wearing them were from the North York Hockey team (and based on the opinion of the kids next to me, they did not care the least about Princeton).  By the end of the game several of them seemed very proud of their newly purchased Cornell hockey shirts:-)  

As much as I did not want to dignify this article with a response, I thought some might be interested in the following conversation I had at the game tonight with the father of one of the Princeton players.  He said that by far all the players on Princeton team (and Dartmouth for which his younger son plays for) believe that coming to Cornell to play every year is the best game of the year.  They believe this because we have the most vocal and exciting fans as well as the most knowledgeable and they wish that their fans anywhere remotely like ours.  He said that is younger son was in awe when he came here on a recruiting trip and just the fans alone were almost enough to sway him to come here.  If that isn't a true testament to how great our fans are then I don't know what is.   At least I will still read the Sun for Mr. Gnu:)