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Quote from: BearLoverI'm not even convinced yet he's a great coach—I mean, he probably is a good coach, but what basis do we have? A slightly over .500 record in 12 years at Clarkson? Let's have a good season or two before we start talking about national championships.  

The college hockey landscape has completely changed the last few years. ASU just signed a kid straight out of the AHL. Casey is going to need to revamp how Cornell recruits if we want to compete nationally.

The sky continues to fall.

No. It wasn't falling under Schafer and there are no indications it will fall under Casey—just a lot of uncertainty.

You have a pretty impressive streak going. 150 straight forums posts that have added literally nothing to the conversation other than commentary on my posting style.

I think you missed the point on Al's post, as well as on Trotsky's.

Since Trotsky's is the oldest, let's start there.

In talking about national championships he was in no way referring to the coach's past or future performance.

His mention of National Championship was as an "aim", or if you prefer, a "goal", it was not a prediction.

So if you're going to criticize it, you are criticizing it as a goal.

Second, Al's mention of "The sky continues to fall" had nothing to do with the team's, or coach's performance.

Go back and read "Henny Penny", or if you prefer "Chicken Little".

The phrase "the sky is falling" refers to the chicken, or in this case the person (you) who always comes up with the negative in any situation.

So Al's use is referring to your constant posting about the negatives of situations, not about coach's performance.

Quote from: BearLoverI've lost the plot. Are we talking about whether AI can be conscious, whether it can discover novel ideas, whether it can replace humans in economically valuable tasks, whether it can create art? These are all different questions and I'm not really qualified to opine on them. Though, I don't really think the answer can be derived from abstract philosophy or by analyzing the limitations of current models.

How about all of the above.

Hopefully AI will be able to develop new revolutionary drugs that can be produced cheaply and therefore help all of humanity. I have some hope that will be true.

But I'll believe that it's close to humanity when I can carry on a conversation with it, we both go asleep and then we both come up with brand new thoughts about the subect in the morning.

Quote from: BearLoverTo the extent these things are true of AI, they are also true of humans. What we call human ingenuity, self awareness, or consciousness is really just us regurgitating data, similar to what an AI does.

What I see as problems with believing in AI, is that believers in AI seem to think that they understand how the brain thinks, thus thinking that dumping all knowledge into one machine will ultimately lead to thinking.

Personally I believe that we don't understand thinking and that it's a lot more than Xs & Os.

What it is, I have no idea, but I'm also pretty sure that others don't either.

Quote from: upprdeckI havent been able to get the WHCU signal  20 min from campus for years

Interestingly I've occasionally picked it up in Hamilton as I left the Colgate game. Unfortunately as I left toward Syracuse, I lost it.

The furthest away that I've listened to a WHCU broadcast was 1968 in Cambridge, MA for the NCAAs.

I've told this story before, but to do it again.

If my memory hasn't gone too far, my source in Ithaca was George64. I called him and he put his phone down so it would pick up the radio feed. I had my phone wired to my Stereo. So we broadcast it to a group at the apartment. Back then the phone charges for non-local calls, Long Distance for old timers, wasn't cheap. So I think we disconnected for intermission.

Today is so much nicer, but I still like radio. I have the radio frequency for each ECAC school's broadcast in my phone, so I could listen, particularly when leaving away games. That could be fun when we won.

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Quote from: fastforwardI'd rather be stuck in Jersey than at work

Lol... got a frickin' endoscopy in [checks calendar] about a week, so. Hopefully I get to head back up to Ithaca afterwards. I was supposed to be at home for "four days"... this was in May...

Hope everything went okay with your procedure

Still alive (sadly?). They still don't know what's wrong though. Such is life.

Glad to hear you're still with us. I enjoy your knowledge and insight. Hockey season usually cures things for me.
I'm hearing news of ice repairs taking place soon. Anyone got the 411?

I have always wondered why it seems like Cornell hockey has so few insiders. Looking at the RPI, Clarkson, etc threads around the internet it seems like these programs have multiple people in the know that are able to give important information to other fans in advance. Meanwhile we hear pretty much nothing aside from official releases from Cornell athletics despite having a much larger and more involved fanbase. Not a big deal really but I'm just curious why that is.

There are fans with this information. They just aren't posting it on this forum. Ironically the much larger fanbase might be the reason why: it's a more significant leak to reveal this intel to 200 rather than 20 people. (I don't have inside info, but there are certain fans up in Ithaca who do.)

I don't understand your post. Are you saying that there are Cornell fans with info that they relay to 200 people somewhere else? Or that other schools, RPI & Clarkson, have larger fanbase and that's why they get inside info and we don't?

And if you don't have inside info, how are you sure that other fans in Ithaca have the info? The only way to know for sure that others have info is to get it from them and that means you have it???

No trouble here,

Quote from: BearLoverHarvard picked up their first commitment from the CHL, Alex Huang of the QMJHL, '06 defenseman ranked #77 by NHL Central Scouting for this year's draft.

Unless of course the Trump administration is able to follow through with not allowing foreign students to attend Harvard.

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Quote from: Jim HylaI'd love to see (hear) someone do a Post report. It seemed like half of Richmond's goals were hitting the post and in.

The goalie is not supposed to save those.

A silly mm off and those bounce out.

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This isn't really true. A guy can shoot from 30 yards out and even if it goes in off the post, it should have been be stopped. Or, like we saw, a guy can shoot from a horrible angle off the post and in and that too should have been saved.

So basically you're saying that every shot should be stopped.

Then the logical extension of that is every goal against is the goalies fault.

I just don't buy that.

In lacrosse and hockey a very well placed shot goes in. If it's stopped, we bow to the goalie.

The goalie can't physically cover 100% of the goal 100% of the time. You just can't do that.

You play your angles and your percentages. If the shooter is able to pick that small spot that you can't cover, then it's a great shot.

You forget about it. Go on to the next play, realizing that if you play things correctly, you'll save X% of the shots.

But you can't save all of them.

And not everything is your fault.

I'd love to see (hear) someone do a Post report. It seemed like half of Richmond's goals were hitting the post and in.

The goalie is not supposed to save those.

A silly mm off and those bounce out.

So I don't think the save percentage was as bad as people were saying.

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Quote from: fastforwardIt makes me happy that everything is going into good hands!
What a fabulous transaction!

Agreed. Props to Trotsky for doing this. At some point I'll try to post my best Cornell hockey memorabilia.

I've received everything; not looked at it yet, but hopefully this summer I'll inventory this with mine and then post a list (somewhere?), so that if someone needs something they can ask.

As far as CU library, I'd like to work out digitizing the Intercollegiate Hockey Newsletter and have it online.

Then decide how to handle other things.

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Quote from: Jim HylaFor example, have CU make available online the "Intercollegiate Hockey Newsletter". I think it's really the best and easiest way to look up old, old (sort of like me) seasons.

I know that New Hampshire has the Charlie Holt Archives these days that I believe has all of these - but they're not online, alas. That would be great.

I'd also be interested in seeing those NCAA Guides - I have a few of them from the 50s and 60s - but would love to see more. Any idea when they were published through?

And perhaps most curious to see what Video/DVD games you have - if they're any that I don't have or ever seen. I've been dying to get my hands on the entire 1996 Regional in Albany - not just the Cornell game - but I've never been able to find it. Even saw a whole documentary Vermont did, and there was no footage of its game there either.

I'll see about listing everything once I put mine in order with Greg's.

Quote from: TrotskyIt's all yours, Jim.  PM me your mail address and up it all goes.  Only makes sense to turn two big piles into one huge one!

Thanks.

My first job is to inventory everything and put together a list. I'll bet that yours is better put together than mine.

Once inventoried, publish a list of items and if others have items, they could be added.

Then decide if some things would be best at CU.

For example, have CU make available online the "Intercollegiate Hockey Newsletter". I think it's really the best and easiest way to look up old, old (sort of like me) seasons.

At one time, long, long ago, I had my ultimate goal thought out.

Have  online listing of every CU game, with box scores and either copies of, or links to newspaper articles (Cornell Programs, the Sun and IJ to start with. Add Boston Globe and others as time goes on.)

I might have to pay CU students to work on that compilation?? Especially since CU is looking for ways to make up for a little money they recently had taken away.

Finally ultimately decide what to do with this once I die, I'm otherwise not planning on moving.

If anyone has other ideas (Not about my death), feel free to let me know.

Like Greg, I'm sure, I don't think we should lose our past.

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Quote from: SwampyYou can donate your collection to the Cornell Libraries and take a tax deduction, at least while der fuhrer allows tax deductions to universities not named Hillsdale College.

You should contact the University Archivist, Evan Earle (efe4@cornell.edu).  I'm pretty sure that Jim Hyla donated some hockey memorabilia a while back.

No not yet. I did contact him, but my wife's illness/death cramped my style.

That's why I said "I'm finally putting my stuff in some reasonable order."

Quote from: TrotskyI am moving.  And when you move, you make painful decisions.

I have Cornell hockey stuff.  A lot of it.  A LOT of it.  45 years of curation.

I would prefer it go to a happy home, but I am willing to drop a lighted match, close the door, and walk away.  It doesn't have to go home, but it can't stay here.

What I would most dearly desire, however:

To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high

So here is the offer.  You get it all, free and clear.  I will pay all shipping costs.  All you need do is take delivery and at least tell me it remains safe.  For this you get many, many, many, many years of:

Cornell programs
Cornell media guides
Cornell ticket stubs

ECAC tournament programs and t-shirts for Cornell years
ECAC media guides since 1982

NCAA tournament programs and t-shirts for Cornell years
NCAA Ice Hockey Guides since 1964

Print outs of box scores of almost every Cornell game since Lynah Rink was built

Miscellaneous books with tons of college hockey importance

All in very good condition.


Estimated retail value: well, $ billions, obviously.  Estimated shipping cost to me: I dunno, a lot, but I hope less than if I moved it again, at least psychically.

Cost to you: bupkis.

These are the chains I forged in life.  Who wants to own one of the greatest private Cornell hockey repositories ever assembled?

(Offer also open to Cornell itself, but those fuckers gotta pay shipping if they want it.)

I'll take anything that you want to get rid of. Certainly no matches, please!

And I'll pay half of the shipping. Only seems fair.

I'm finally putting my stuff in some reasonable order. So this would add to a "fun filled summer."

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Quote from: BearLoverI think there are 5 or 6 teams we could very easily lose to.

...except you could say the same thing about every other team in the tournament. There are no super teams this year. I, too, worry about the defense, but I try not to let that distract me from the enjoyment of watching the offense him.

The field is wide open this year. Cornell has as good a chance as any other team, and a better chance than most of them. That's all you can ask as a fan.

I agree. But we've been #1 in the country for like 8 straight weeks so it would be nice to be a clear favorite, rather than on the same level as six or so other teams. Or at least alone at the top with just Maryland. If our defense is healthy we can get there, but right now we are too reliant on our offense scoring 15+ goals.

Learn to enjoy the life you have, rather than constantly wishing it was better.

Good coaches assess what they have, emphasize the positives and work to minimize the negatives.

But never do they fixate on the negatives; that's a sure way to end up losing.

Fans should do the same thing, they'd be a lot happier if they did.

That's exactly what the broadcast crew did last night. They kept pointing out how good was our offense and showing why the extreme variety of the offense made it so good.  Yes at appropriate times they remarked upon defensive weaknesses, but they also said how much fun it was to watch Cornell.

I got worried each time it looked like Yale was coming back. But I doubt the team was worried. I don't think the offensive talent spent any time complaining about the defense. They knew that they had the talent to recover and went out to do that.

That strategy in life makes each day more enjoyable. (At least for me it does.)