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For any Mike Iggulden fans out there, his AHL All-Star warmup jersey is up for auction here:
http://auctions.nhl.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/User?id=meiNHL&wl=12717464&type=A

Honestly, I think it's kinda random to be auctioning off an All-Star warmup jersey, but he is a former Cornellian that's doing well.

According to my brother, who's a grad student at QU, sections 113 to 116 are also usually pretty full of visiting fans.  There's not much left in 113, 114, or 115, though there a few seats scattered around.  

The new rink has real seats too, no more benches like most rinks have.

For those interested in attending the game at Quinnipiac on Feb 22, 2008, tickets are on sale through the QU box office or online  and going quickly.  I was able to get a pair, but they certainly aren't the best seats in the house (I'm in section 116).  

They are in the new rink this year, no more barn in Northford!

I agree.  The jersey cut isn't awful, but the whole solid color thing (lack of horizontal stripes) is pretty bad.  The vertical stripes are just weird, lets hope they don't go with vertical strips on the socks like they had in the Olympics!

They really need more contrasting colors though, without much white, it just looks bad.

It's also pretty bad that the Nike Swoosh is almost the same size as the C or A on the jerseys....(best visible in photo 5 in the gallery).

I don't follow CU Hockey nearly as closely as I used to, but I did get to the QU game this past weekend.  My thoughts?  Davenport did not play well.   In fact, he was outright awful.  Every shot, he was always looking behind him, like he knew the puck was going to get by.  Now, I know the lighting was dimmer, the ceiling was silver, but those are just excuses.  He needs more confidence.  He doesn't need to look behind him on EVERY save attempt.  If it gets by him once in a while, that's life, it's going to happen.  But don't expect it to happen on every shot.

Also, for someone who posted that CU was unquestionably the better team vs. QU, what game were you watching?  For the first period, yes, Cornell was a better team.  But for the last 40 mins, Cornell was outskated, outhit, and generally outplayed.  You can make excuses all day about the officiating, the rink, Cornell being tired...it doesn't matter.  On Saturday night, Cornell just got outplayed, and they lost. In previous years, I remember when we were the team outskating and outhitting teams, but that certainly wasn't the case against QU.  

I'm not saying the team is bad this year, but come on guys, we lost a game to a better team.  There is no need to sugar coat everything.

Yes, it's all GA at this rink.  My brother goes to Quinnipiac.  There won't be many QU students at this game, they have to be off campus for Thanksgiving break at some point on Saturday during the day.  So if we get a good CU turnout, we should be able to make this a home game ::dribble::!

Btw, my brother also told me that hockey games rarely sell out, so I'm guessing tickets are still available through the QU box office (I don't have the number handy) or online (http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?orgid=24577)

And yes, I will be there

What's wrong with the Red Sox?  And Jersey (ok, there is a LOT wrong with Jersey).  I guess I'm just doubly screwed, I'm a Sox fan LIVING in New Jersey (it's only temporary, thankfully!).  

I fully encourage supporting Red Sox bars in NYC, I'm tired of watching games in NYC with a bunch of drunken, idiotic Yankees fans.

Looks like it will be in the December 19th issue of SI also, I'll let you know when I get it in a couple days.

Here is the article (minus a graphic about Cornell goalies):

The raucous Lynah Faithful support Cornell's hockey team in 3,836-seat Lynah Rink with some timeworn traditions, including throwing fish on the ice and silently reading newspapers while opposing players are being introduced before games. More recently the Faithful have added a new rite: crooning Deep in the Heart of Texas to serenade a cowboy-boot-wearing Big Red star who loves okra, George W. Bush and hunting. (He owns eight guns.) "I just love it when that song comes," says David McKee, Cornell's junior goalie. "It makes me feel so at home."

McKee, from Irving, is one of the few born- and-bred Texans ever to play Division I hockey, and he's by far the most successful. Having started every game since arriving in Ithaca, N.Y., in the fall of 2003, McKee has gone 51-18-10 with a 1.68 goals-against average. Last season he led the Big Red to a 27-5-3 record and the NCAA quarterfinals, and was one of three finalists for the Hobey Baker Award, the Heisman of college hockey, after having the third-best GAA (1.24) and save percentage (.947) in college hockey history. He also had 10 shutouts, raising his career total to 15 and breaking the Cornell record held by Ken Dryden.

"David makes tough saves look easy and has the rare ability to win games by himself," says David McNab, assistant G.M. for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, one of several NHL teams that tried to lure McKee out of school last spring and sign him as a free agent. "He has a great future in pro hockey." If McKee does make it to the NHL, he would become the first lifelong Texan to play in the league. (Bruins defenseman Brian Leetch was born in Corpus Christi but moved to Connecticut as a toddler.)

McKee's path to hockey success was hardly conventional. He saw his first hockey game at age 10, when his father, Carl, took him to a Stars game in 1993, the team's first year in Dallas. McKee was entranced by Andy Moog, the Stars' goalie, and told his dad he wanted to become an NHL goaltender. A few days later Carl took David to an Irving rink where the Stars were sponsoring a youth league to drum up interest in hockey. "The coach [of the team he was assigned to] thought I was real bad," says McKee, who'd never been on skates before. "He told my dad I wouldn't make the team."

But because he was the club's only goalie, the coach relented. McKee has excelled at every level of hockey since. As fate would have it, he became a protégé of Moog's, adopting a hybrid butterfly-stand-up style from the 18-year NHL veteran, who coached McKee for seven summers at the Okanagan Hockey School in Calgary. "I love David's competitive spirit," says Moog, who's now a Stars assistant. "He just battles so hard to keep the puck out of the net."

Recruited by Cornell, Harvard and Yale, McKee chose the Big Red partly because of its tradition of producing great goalies (chart). But the academic pressures of the Ivy League have tested McKee, who suffers from dyslexia and attention deficit disorder. He hid his disability for his first semester, and it nearly proved disastrous as he earned a 1.6 GPA. Since then he has been assigned more tutors, is given extra time for tests and sits near the front in every class to avoid distractions. As a result his GPA has not gone below 2.8. McKee has even created a fund-raising program with an Ithaca charity -- the Racker Centers, which support people with learning disabilities -- that raises money for every save he makes. "I've never seen such a big change in a student in such a short time," says coach Mike Schaefer, whose team is ranked ninth in the nation with an 8-3-1 record.

"School still isn't easy, but I can do it," says McKee, a hotel administration major. "And that confidence is allowing me to focus on doing what we should've done last year -- win the national championship."

Wow, 1 day old and already crawling.  You'd better watch out :-)

Congrats.

You know, back in the late 90s (or early 2000s, I can't remember), Dave Matthews played at Cornell.  Everyone knew tickets would be tough to get (he played at Bailey).  Some people with inside information got news from the Cornell Concert folks that tickets would go onsale at a given date and time and location for ticket sales (the fieldhouse, btw).  No lineup information, no hokey announcements, nothing.  Primarily word of mouth.  This information was spread around about 5 days before tickets went on sale.  Some people lined up immediately, bringing tents, camping gear, and food.  There was no stampede, things were orderly.  Police didn't kick people out of line.  Die hard fans spent 4-5 days in line, most people spent about 24-36 hours.  At a completely random time, I think about 12 hours before tickets actually went onsale, people from the concert commission came around and gave out line numbers and sent everyone home.  They told us when to come back and buy tickets based on line number, and everyone did.  There were no riots, no stampedes, and nobody got hurt.  And cornell outdoor ed made a crapload of money from people renting tents, sleeping bags, tarps, and just about everything else.

Now maybe hockey fans are more rabid than Dave fans (since many people in line were smokin a lot of pot over those 5 days), but the system worked.  

A similar event happened for Adam Sandler tickets, though the most people waited for him was about 36 hours.  But still, it works.  

Here is the official announcement:

http://cornellbigred.collegesports.com/sports/m-hockey/spec-rel/092005aab.html

Good luck to everyone, I'm an alum and won't be part of the madness.

Is that where our donations went ;-) ?

I'm getting an MBA at NYU Stern right now, and you really have to work to get less than a B.  The one exception is any Finance class, but even then, only the bottom 15% of the class gets less than a B-.  For everything else, if you hand in papers and show up for exams, you will get a B.  If you answer questions on the exams and put a little effort into the papers, you'll get a B+.  If you suck up to the prof and devote your entire life to the class, you can get an A or A-.  

So yeah, grade inflation is alive and well in grad school, especially business schools.  Also, at least with business schools, employers often pay (mine is) and require a minimum GPA (usually a 3.0).  If a school gives less than that, they are risking losing $100k in revenue.  

I know one prof at NYU who asks who, at the beginning of the term, asks who is graduating.  Everyone that is graduating gets an A- automatically.  Gotta love it.  The place is called "B" school for a reason :-)

I've had Vonage for about 6 months, works great, as long as the Internet is up (too many random problems there to talk about).  I have the 24.99 plan, it's great.  If you do with Vonage, you should ask someone here that is a Vonage customer about referrals.  I think you'd get some service credit, and so do the existing customers (don't quote me on that one, I haven't really looked into it).  The best part about Vonage is the fees are WAY less than Verizon.  I have a home office line through Verizon (in addition to the Vonage line), and the two services are indistinguishable.