ELynah Forum

Quote from: RichH on November 16, 2025, 05:53:28 PM

Quote from: Trotsky on November 16, 2025, 11:44:39 AM

Quote from: andyw2100 on November 16, 2025, 10:00:21 AMI'm wondering why there needs to be any vinyl that can cause problems if the ice winds up too thin. Why not just go old school and just use paint or dye or whatever it is that used to be used before the vinyl?

For that matter, why not remove all the derp from the ice except the lines, circles, and dots.

Also bring back the perforated red line (for those of us with B&W TVs). I have very very minor sadness to see there's a solid line now, bucking nearly a century of odd but fun trivia.

FWIW I noticed for the first time that Dartmouth had only green on white advertising on their boards. Red and white only at Lynah wouldn't be bad- but blank would be better.

Overall, a great effort this weekend. I like the plucky, exciting transition game, and the speed. First and second period the Big Red had a relentless fore-check which I loved to see. They gave Yale no quarter.
Stanley hoisting the Yale player with the broken skate blade up by his jersey was hilarious- and that first Yale goal really seemed to piss off Cornell. The third period- as noted by everyone, just wasn't a complete effort, but wasn't terrible either. I'll take any 4 point weekend, even if it's now 6 points.

Quote from: imafrshmn on November 16, 2025, 03:30:57 AMEver since they brought in the new generation laser-guided Olympia ice resurfacer, they thought they could get away with having a thinner ice layer, which ideally improves its performance if proper refrigeration temperatures can be maintained. But the thinner ice means less margin for error: the paint layer is not as protected from scraping off and the decals are closer to the surface, raising the risk of breakages. But hey, we got to enjoy some redneck improvisation: who knew that fire extinguishers could be so useful? The mild embarrassment this caused our corporate administrators can only be a good thing.

There was a great Mythbusters episode about ways to chill beer the fastest, and fire extinguisher was the winner. Science.

WHO CARES maybe he had a tummy ache or he had a migraine? Maybe he starts on Friday. We'll have to see because we are only 4 games in. It's not a cover-up.

Quote from: BearLover on November 11, 2025, 01:44:21 AM

Quote from: The Rancor on November 11, 2025, 12:10:25 AMWow.

I should have also mentioned that a lot of the time I'm trolling but somehow taken seriously.

You need a better hobby.

Wow.

LGR!!!!

Cornball showing some good stuff, and definitely a vocal goaltender!

Quote from: pjd8 on November 07, 2025, 08:07:10 PM

Quote from: sah67 on November 07, 2025, 08:04:40 PMCastagna ties it up on a tap-in after a nifty give and go with Stanley! 1-1.

It was quick, sharp passing that made that goal happen. Our improved passing is going to serve us well this year.

I've noticed the uptick in passing quality so far this season, too.

Interesting to think of how many years, as players and coaches, that Casey Jones and Ted Donato have faced off against each other. Rivals from '87!

Surely, they'll stop with Czechoslovakia.

Quote from: Jim Hyla on November 06, 2025, 10:14:33 AM

Quote from: BearLover on November 04, 2025, 04:49:11 PM

Quote from: Trotsky on November 04, 2025, 04:32:36 PM

Quote from: ugarte on November 04, 2025, 04:27:26 PMIn this case i'm with BL. "We don't know his reasons" is something for church. the rest of us base our opinions on what we can see

OK, but what do we see?  Only a single fact.  We know nothing behind it.  So if the coaching staff is at fault for losing guys then it is equally to their credit when we steal guys.  Thus, they are doing fine.

Now, I see no universe in which it is reasonable to assume the coaching staff is responsible for any of these changes of player heart, but even if we posit that then our staff is still doing fine.

"Coaching staff makes one mistake" does not equate to "coaching staff sucks."

There is ALWAYS the risk of a change of player heart when you don't bring guys to campus. Ergo, you bring guys to campus when they're ready to contribute to your team, else you might lose them to a change of heart, change in family economics, whatever. We had an opportunity to bring this guy to campus, and we didn't. One can reasonably blame the coaching staff for misevaluating Pelletier's readiness and not bringing him to campus. That's very different from blaming the coaching staff for the player experiencing a change of heart.

I haven't followed his recruiting closely, but you keep saying that we didn't bring him in. Do you know that for a fact? Could there have been some academic issues? Do we know that he wanted to come this year? As was said by someone, did he think it might have been good to wait a year and see what other prospects might open up? Might he have thought waiting might open more monetary opportunities?

I have multiple questions that I don't have answers to, so I don't make declarative statements. Maybe these have been answered and I missed them, but maybe we don't know who made the decision not to come, CU or the player.

Seems like he's taking his talents to the best available hockey school. CHN

Honestly who knows why, but a scholarship or some NIL to offset costs could be a big part of it. We'll never know.

Quote from: Trotsky on November 06, 2025, 03:12:33 AM

Quote from: ugarte on November 06, 2025, 12:15:31 AMThe point of KRACH (or NPI) for this discussion is to select teams to play in a postseason tournament. For that, I don't want something predictive. I want something that "ranks teams the best it can

You do a fine job capturing a much-abused nuance of statistics: the difference between predictive and descriptive statistics.  However, I cut you off before you got into sampling because sampling muddies the issue.  Descriptive stats are based on as much prior data as we can get.  Baseball Reference has every PA in every player's history.  The point is to describe with as much precision as possible the data set.  There is no pretense of predicting future results.  This is what Pete Alonso did.  The question of who Pete Alonso is shall be left to ontological philosophy.

Exactly as you said, the stats used to pick the NC$$ field capture what teams did to earn their place there.  There is no pretense in predicting who will win.  That is for the teams on the ice.

Why on earth would you want to know who wins the game before it's played? Why watch? Why even play? The whole point is not knowing and experiencing the triumph or heartbreak- or back in the day the cold satisfaction of a tie- and the drama of the game itself?

Basically no one threw out the old paint and the dining hall is gluten free, so you can't do Rocky Horror.  How stupid.

That camara angle was like video game view. In some ways more natural, like you'd see in the ice (only higher)

UMass is a really good team - I watched a couple games of theirs this season before the weekend and I'm glad we came away with a split. They're dangerous, and our young team kept up, for the most part. I'll take it.