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I'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?

The other thing I was wondering last night was if they thought there was a decent chance that redoing the ice (presumably without scraping) was going to help, when they realized it hadn't helped enough, why not just do that again, and again if necessary? For a long time it looked like they may just throw up their hands and not continue.

Quote from: scoop85 on November 02, 2025, 05:02:38 PMThe jokes write themselves

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/30/students-react-grading-report/

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Sophie Chumburidze '29 said the report felt dismissive of students' hard work and academic struggles.

"The whole entire day, I was crying," she said. "I skipped classes on Monday, and I was just sobbing in bed because I felt like I try so hard in my classes, and my grades aren't even the best."
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The above sounded like something you'd read in one of those April Fools articles that start out somewhat plausible, but get more and more ridiculous as the article continues.

Quote from: RichH on November 02, 2025, 11:04:53 AMI have the CHN app set to give me a "favorite team game alert" 1 hour before each game start.

Great idea! I just did the same. Thanks!

Quote from: VIEWfromK on November 02, 2025, 01:47:22 PMDid I miss something because I wasn't sure why on the UMASS goal there were six skaters in the celebration.  It wasn't a delayed penalty, was it?

It was.

Quote from: Iceberg on November 02, 2025, 10:18:04 AMAlso, there is another regular season game that starts before 7 (randomly the game at Brown later in the season) but nothing else at an oddly earlier time. I completely missed the first period because I thought this game was a 7 PM start.

I almost missed the start, and I had checked the Cornell site after the game on Friday night.

Earlier in the week I had noticed the 6:00 PM on the Cornell site. I didn't hear any mention of that during Friday's broadcast, so after the game I checked the Cornell site again. The main entry still said 6:00 PM, but the "Next Game" entry at the top of the page had the standard 7:00 PM time listed, so I figured the 6:00 PM in the other spot was just a mistake.

On a whim, at about 5:58 PM yesterday I looked again, and at that time the "Next Game" entry had been changed to 6:00 PM.

I rushed to get ESPN up. And had the "game will start soon" banner.

At that point I posted in the Friday night game thread, and then decided to also start a specific thread, hoping it may help some people who just didn't know.

Sorry, for your sake, that I hadn't figured it out earlier.

You would think that the announcers on Friday night might have thought to mention the odd start time for the next night at some point during the broadcast. Perhaps they did, and I just missed it.

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Quote from: Trotsky on November 01, 2025, 07:04:39 PMI assume it is CORN-why-eh, not corn-WHY-eh.

Can't say. But the guy pronouncing it corn-WHY-eh is the same guy that got Fegaras right last night, while the other guy was butchering it.

Are you sure?  I thought the color guy was right on Fegaras and the PBP guy was wrong.

I could definitely be wrong. Wouldn't be the first time.

Quote from: Trotsky on November 01, 2025, 07:04:39 PMI assume it is CORN-why-eh, not corn-WHY-eh.

Can't say. But the guy pronouncing it corn-WHY-eh is the same guy that got Fegaras right last night, while the other guy was butchering it.

This game is starting at 6:00 PM, not 7:00 PM.

ESPN broadcast has started. (6:04 PM.)

This game seems to be starting at 6:00 PM.

I checked yesterday and the main part of the Cornell schedule showed it as a 6:00 PM start, but the "next game" area showed it as 7:00 PM, so I assumed the 6:00 PM time was a mistake. Checking again just now (just before 6:00 PM) the Cornell site now has both times as 6:00 PM. ESPN has the "starting soon" banner up.

Edit: ESPN has the pregame now. (6:01 PM)

Quote from: VIEWfromK on November 01, 2025, 12:33:19 PMI too wish there had been a replay of the Charlie Major steal and chance.

The announcers said that the refs did review the play after the period ended, since it was the next stoppage, and that the no-goal call was correct.

Quote from: David Harding on October 31, 2025, 10:53:31 PMJane's take on the game

I too think McNally does a great job. But I believe she get this totally wrong:

"The lethal Massachusetts power play — ranking top-10 in the country and operating at a 26.9 percent clip — made no mistakes. A point shot by the Minutemen was deflected just over the shoulder of senior goaltender Remington Keopple to give Massachusetts an early 1-0 lead just 1:43 into the game."

I haven't gone back to watch the replay, but my recollection is that Koepple blocked the initial shot, leaving a rebound that was roofed over his shoulder from almost no angle.

Edit: Looks like I also didn't have it quite right, but more right than McNally. From the recap on the Cornell site:

"UMass (6-2-0) had set the tone from the opening faceoff, drawing a penalty just 13 seconds into the game. The Minutemen capitalized immediately when Larry Keenan's shot from the point deflected off junior defenseman Hoyt Stanley's left skate, allowing Lukáš Klečka to roof a backhanded shot at the left post at 1:43."

Quote from: scoop85 on October 31, 2025, 07:27:06 PMWhat do people thing about numbers on the front of our jerseys?

I don't like them. I strongly oppose anything that needlessly moves away from tradition. They're not on the home jerseys, so at least there's that.

On the note of disliking change, I was unhappy to see that we have changed the typeface for the nameplates and the numbers. I wonder what was behind the change.

I am amused that the announcers have at least twice talked about BU not liking to block shots.

Just saw this on Facebook...

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Quote from: ugarteI don't see us making the pass for their second goal once if the season was 200 games.

I guess I am less impressed with that pass than most.

Yes, it was absolutely beautiful. But it was also incredibly lucky. I think it was more of a "throw the puck in that direction and hope someone is there" kind of play than an actual intended pass. 49 out of 50 times it doesn't connect. The 1 in 50 that it does, they look like gods.

I think this is completely wrong. The lane was open, Mack threaded the needle to Major, Major threaded it back to Mack, Mack was rewarded with an extremely high likelihood scoring opportunity, which he buried. I don't see where luck comes in, at all. It didn't deflect off anybody, just perfect tape-to-tape passes and great finish.

I may not have included enough of the original quote. The "their" was MSU. ugarte and I were referring to the blind behind the back pass that resulted in MSU's second goal.

Apologies for the confusion I caused.