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[quote jmh30][quote KeithK]Of course, there are some jerks who insist on sitting in the seat printed on their ticket even when they are surrounded by dozens of people who want to stand and there is a perfectly comparable sitting/unobstructed seat close by.  But unless you can get the ushers on your side, you're usually stuck capitulating to these people.[/quote]Those people often cheered for Vermont, so perhaps we'll see fewer of them in the future.[/quote]

-  Eh, I know we've had issues with Cornell "fans" at Albany or Placid before as well... But, certainly never having to hear a "NO CATS NO" cheer is well worth it!!!!

QuoteDeltaOne81If Schafer says something else this year (title or not), I don't think much we decide on here will make a difference

-  Yup, that's why, especially for Saturday, I'm just gonna head out whereever the team is, and that's not up to any of us... If the team is heading to Jillian's, that's where I'm drinkin'!!!!

Man, I miss Mudpuddles up in Placid... I remember one year, they let everybody in, but if you were underage they would take your ID and give you a bracelet...

Of course, it was easy enough to just go into a bathroom, yank off the bracelet, and go back for your license the next day, but hey, who's complainin'???

[quote jmh30]I don't really like hockey, I'm not sure if I'm gonna go.[/quote]

Well, in THAT case, I have an extra set of tickets if anybody wants 'em!!!!

Same way Dino's used to operate, no???  Restaurant during the day, bar at night...

Regardless, I would think that, at least for Saturday night, I'm gonna go drinkin' wherever the team is, and if that's Jillian's, cool.. If not, I'll follow 'em to wherever they're headed...

I certainly don't remember any issues there in '03, and unfortunately wasn't able to make Albany last year, so don't really know what happened there, but it did appear to be pretty much the only sizable place near the arena for a whole bunch of people to get together like we did in '03...

Oops... My fault... Guess I had forgotten why I stopped posting here...

Brian Cropper was the goalie of the 1969-1970 undefeated team...

I'll be there, with 4 others...  Just look for two face-painted freaks (no, I'm not one of them)....

Okay... I'll throw in my $0.02 here... I just got off the phone with the Box Office in Worcester... From what they told me, the Cornell Sections are 225/226... However, they can't sell tickets over the phone, so you have to either go to the box office or use ticketmaster...

Now, with ticketmaster online, I do not believe there is a way to specifiy what section you are in... So, I called the ticketmaster number, and they told me that the tickets are not available over the phone, and can only be purchased online... So, I went back to the website and was able to pick up 5 tickets for each day... For both days, I asked for the best available seats, and ended up with section 333 on Saturday and 207 on Sunday...

But, whatever... I doesn't really matter as long as I'm in the arena and watching Cornell HOCKEY!!!

Fair enough... As we proved on Saturday night, any team can beat/lose to any other team on any given night...

UNH is certainly beatable, as are we...  I just got my tix. for the weekend, so I'm now pretty psyched up and hoping we have lots of success in Worcester, then on to the Frozen Four...

I agree that Cornell should be capable of beating a team like UNH, but the logic just doesn't work there...

Yes, RPI beat UNH, but that means nothing... As someone on USCHO noted, using that same logic, UNH beat Dartmouth and Dartmouth beat Cornell twice...

I'm really looking forward to Sat/Sun, but just hope we don't overlook QC...

Here's one I found interesting...

Winning Percentage:

#1 - Mercyhurst - 0.865 - MAAC
#2 - Wayne State - 0.825 - CHA
#3 - Cornell - .818 - ECAC
#4 - UNH - 0.771 - Hockey East
#5 - Denver - .0768 - WCHA
#6 - Michigan - 0.750 - CCHA

So, looking at the winners of the 6 conferences, Cornell had the 3rd best winning percentage in the country, and, at the risk of sounding politically incorrect here, Cornell had the best winning percentage of teams in the four "major" conferences...

Perhaps even more impressive is her on the cover of this weeks' Sports Illustrated...

I may be wrong on #2... I know that before the Final Five, and the PIG, the #1 team got to choose which of the Friday games they wanted...  But, now that I'm looking at the ECAC home page, it appears I was incorrect on that point, so I apologize...

So, it appears that the # 1 seed actually does have less rest on Saturday (which is more fair overall, since it gives the PIG winner a bit more time to rest), but since it's only 3 hours, I never really considered it that big a deal...

As for face-offs, the home team (in both college and the NHL) gets to make the last line change before a face off... So, when the whistle stops play, the visiting team makes their changes, and then the home team can match-up with their own changes... This way, if we know we want a certain line against, say, the top scoring line of another team, we can ensure, for the most part, that we get that matchup...

I think there are 3 distinct advantages to being #1:

1)  We get to play on Friday afternoon against a team who had to play the night before - It doesn't matter who it is that comes out of the PIG, they're going to be a tired team, and that will give us an advantage... I can't think of any team that would PREFER playing Friday afternoon after playing Thursday night as opposed to playing Friday afternoon with almost a full week of rest.

2)  Assuming we make the finals, we will have more rest than the team we play... The # 1 team gets to choose which of the Semi-final games (Friday afternoon or Friday night) they get, and I can't remember the # 1 team ever choosing the later game... It may not be much, but it does give the # 1 team a few more hours of rest

3)  Line changes - # 1 team is the home team throughout, and gets to make the last line change before a face off, therefore they can always get the line combinations they want