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Quote from: scoop85 on February 09, 2026, 08:44:16 AMAs a quick aside, does anyone have a Rosetta Stone login handy? If I want to keep up on this site, as I think I need to learn Russian.

Nyet, comrade.

Quote from: stereax on February 04, 2026, 12:15:54 PMI think we should throw things on the ice every game if it ensures a sellout, LOL

We already do so with the newspapers. So clearly we need to throw more stuff!

Quote from: JasonN95 on February 03, 2026, 11:46:54 AMI'm sure I'm forgetting something but it sure feels that for the last 30 years Harvard, one of the stronger teams intra-conference-wise, has done nothing to elevate the conference's profile. For much of the late 90s/early 00s it was pretty much just Cornell tamping down "EZAC" jabs and Cornell has continued to represent well. More recently Q has also brought a lot of victories for the league and Yale and Union had their glorious runs to NCAA championships. Harvard, zilch.

In fairness, as much as it pains me to admit it, Harvard has a Frozen Four appearance more recent than us (2017). It's not a national championship this millennium like Q, Union, and Yale get to brag about, but it's not nothing either.

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Quote from: chimpfood on January 29, 2026, 06:41:53 PMCorrect me if I'm wrong but I only remember one "fuck you Harvard" chant. I agree that it was way too much during that playoff series a few years ago, and good ok Schaf for calling that out. But, plenty of our other chants use swear words too so I wouldn't be careful as a coach so as to not overstep and discourage chants when they are not excessive. It feels like sports have shifted into more and more of a soft environment recently, and I don't think we need that to continue. It's not just the chants too, over winter break my group was standing at the back of section B, making sure not to block anyone, and we got asked to sit down by the usher. Point is, you don't need to try to control every little thing that the crowd does, unless it gets truly excessive or repulsive.

There was an older woman in the back left of C a week or three ago during winter break who was upset that I (several rows in front of her way to the side above the tunnel) was standing up and kept signaling for me to sit down.

So I slouched a bit onto the rail but absolutely did not sit down.

Screw that.

But yeah if it came through on ESPN+... hahaha.

There were definitely two chants. One at the start, one at the end.

That is my one and only pet peeve-people who don't wait for stoppages in play to go up or down the stairs, or make a whole row stand up so they can get in or out

I'm all for the chants - it's tradition

"Fuck you Harvard" isn't really tradition, it's a crude and unoriginal chant that was never much of a thing until recently. I can sympathize with parents who don't want to take their kids to a game where half the arena is screaming the F-bomb. Not something I'm losing sleep over, but I get it. Agreed they shouldn't be policing the fans, but also this chant is kinda just lame. Also, Casey calling it out in an email that none of the students read is silly.

I agree that I'm not particularly offended by the content of the chant, but rather the lame lack of creativity.

As a parent who regularly brings my 12 year old daughter to games, I agree that I'm bothered more by the chant being dumb than vulgar. (Of course, I've also been blessed with a child who has never really parroted bad language around her. I realize other parents may not be so lucky with their own children.)

Quote from: RichH on January 29, 2026, 03:01:19 PMHot Truck started taking phone orders and was gone within two years.

Rituals matter.

More like 15 years (after 40+ years without a phone), but nonetheless I agree with your point.

Quote from: stereax on January 23, 2026, 04:38:19 PMWow.

December '98 is about four and a half years before I was born

Only on eLF.

Quote from: BearLover on January 06, 2026, 01:17:25 PM"Then you get the right people," Jones said. "And you know, some guys you lose might be for the right reasons. They might not be the person that fits into our culture, fits into our program. And that's a big part of the long history of Cornell. As you get the right people here, you get good people, hard-working people."

Casey throwing shade at Robertson and Pelletier. Nice!

Maybe, maybe not. I think Casey is too diplomatic to say anything other than, effectively, "I got the guys that I want on the team right now."  He'd never come out and complain, "Those guys who left early for the pros or the transfer portal? Eff 'em."

Quote from: Trotsky on December 10, 2025, 01:54:52 PMThe sport has its own beautiful grassroots traditions.  It doesn't need geegaws and gimmicks.  Just let it bloom.

Traditions mean nothing if you can't get new people in the door to help keep those traditions going.  So, maybe a few gimmicks make for a necessary evil.  Something less than what's happening currently, but not zero either.

Quote from: Trotsky on December 01, 2025, 11:26:46 AMThey could chance it coming back from Canton.  It's the second night with a month until the next game.

I know it's the North Country, but I would hope the team would be able to find a better dining option than Pizza Hut, irrespective of what happened two decades ago.

Quote from: Beeeej on December 01, 2025, 09:52:12 AMBy the second intermission he was dancing and singing along with the pep band directly behind and above us instead of cringing at how loud it was, and chanted "Let's Go Red" every chance he got. He was legit sad to leave and talked about hockeyball the whole way home. Warmed the f out of my heart, and gives us great hope for future good experiences at Lynah.

That's adorable. Please get him to Lynah as soon as you can!

Quote from: BearLover on September 29, 2025, 04:46:58 PMRemoving the .500 threshold is weird. Has that ever even been relevant?

As I recall, there was one season when Wisconsin made it into the NCAAs as an at-large with a sub-.500 record, to the complaint of many.  I want to say it was 2007-2008 (https://www.collegehockeynews.com/schedules/team/Wisconsin/58/20072008) but I'm not 100% certain.  I think the win percentage rule came about as a result of that originally.

Quote from: TrotskyCan I choose 20 in 2525?  I want to see how this ends but I don't want to live through it.

Bold of you to assume we'll last that long.

Quote from: TrotskyThis also means the AD encouraging the students and not getting in their way.  Don't overwhelm them with loud piped in garbage and ads and gimmickry.  This is Cornell.  The fans lead the rink, the band supports.

I think the ads are sadly unavoidable.  Nobody really likes them; we just learn to tolerate them.  And, personally, I agree with you.  But I can only really speak for myself.  I wonder if it's possible that the current students and maybe even some townies like myself genuinely like the "garbage" and gimmickry.  I really don't know.  All I know is that, while I could live without it, I do chuckle a bit every time they play the meme video with the pika scatting like Freddie Mercury.

Quote from: BearLover(But I'm not sure this really helps Cornell win a national title, which is what I care about the most.)

The more games Cornell gets to play at Lynah, the better.  Obviously there's no guarantee Cornell will be in the top 8 or top 4 to guarantee postseason home games, but the risk seems worth it if Cornell can even get a postseason berth.