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Quote from: stereax on April 01, 2026, 11:09:27 AMDOCTORS are gross and ew. Cortland was quite alright, at least the bit of it that I saw.

Gee, thanks

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Quote from: stereax on March 29, 2026, 05:53:34 PMThe "Screw BU" song turns into "Let's Go Blue".

Actually that's probably the original version.  I believe BU then adopted it as "Go BU", to which we responded "Screw BU".  Although, TBH, the BU version may have come first and Michigan adopted it.

We added the "XXX, too" at the ECAC tournament at the Boston Garden in 1981.

I have no idea about the history lol, I just know it as the Screw BU song.

(My BU friend, referring to this chant: You're obsessed with us for some reason and we don't even think about you more than every other year.)

I think your friend has this incorrect. We use the BU cheer to remember the past, but really to poke at the current team we're facing. I doubt any fan, but a few of us, thinks anything about BU when the cheer goes up.

I like to think of it as Screw BU (You left us) and whomever we are now playing.

Quote from: adamw on March 26, 2026, 09:30:14 PMDartmouth was pretty bad for most of that time.

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/reports/teamHistory/Dartmouth/19

4-team NCAA Tournament for 30+ years. The only way to make it was to reach the championship game of the ECAC Tournament. Unless you were 1978 BU.

Or the 1966 BU team that lost to us in the semis and got to go to the NCAAs instead of us.

Natyshak - O'Brien
MacFarlane - Castagna
Gage - O'Brien
Shippel - Kraft
Schafer - Walsh
Oates - Syer
Dadswell - Cournoyer
Nieuwendyk - Cournoyer

Many will have disputes with the last two, but when you get named as ECAC GOTY it's hard not to list him.

Sure we had a good back up, but does anyone think that we'd have gotten as far without him?

Quote from: Trotsky on March 28, 2026, 07:01:28 AMI'm kinda serious about renaming the award(s). ... The award namesakes may have grandkids born before you, and the percentage of fans who know them drops every year due to... waivers.

Dadswell -- I think you should change Freshman to First Year Player and then name it after the most obvious, most important first year player-Dryden. No one comes close. I don't think it matters that he played so long ago, everybody that will participate will obviously know him.

Love how he was First Team All-American, but only Second Team ECAC and Ivy.

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Quote from: adamw on March 25, 2026, 12:33:50 PMFYI heard today that Cornell got in Monday to give themselves extra time to acclimate. Not sure how much difference it will make - but at least they're doing all they can.

Flight tracking says they got in Tuesday night. (I wonder how many nonstop flights there have ever been from Ithaca to Loveland on any kind of plane.)
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/sy8625

I'm sorry - I meant Tuesday - which was a deal earlier than I was assuming. My mind is scrambled trying to keep track of what day it is - with different Regionals starting different days.

deal,day?--Scrambled mind-No editor

And by the way, different regionals, different days is not an excuse. That's been true for a while, now the day off, that's a different story.

We forgive you, if you just keep working!

grrr - yeah it's been that way - but now they start on Thursday instead of Friday - bleh

Yeah, you got me on that Thursday thing. I guess that qualifies as different days.

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Quote from: adamw on March 25, 2026, 12:33:50 PMFYI heard today that Cornell got in Monday to give themselves extra time to acclimate. Not sure how much difference it will make - but at least they're doing all they can.

Flight tracking says they got in Tuesday night. (I wonder how many nonstop flights there have ever been from Ithaca to Loveland on any kind of plane.)
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/sy8625

I'm sorry - I meant Tuesday - which was a deal earlier than I was assuming. My mind is scrambled trying to keep track of what day it is - with different Regionals starting different days.

deal,day?--Scrambled mind-No editor

And by the way, different regionals, different days is not an excuse. That's been true for a while, now the day off, that's a different story.

We forgive you, if you just keep working!

Quote from: George64 on March 24, 2026, 08:45:24 PMFun fact: Denver played an indirect role in Cornell's ascension to hockey greatness.  Ned Harkness was a good friend of Murray Armstrong, head coach at Denver.  The Ferguson twins, Doug and Dave, and younger brother Bobby, from Birsay, Saskatchewan, were interested in playing for Denver, but Armstrong thought they were too small and referred them to Ned.  The rest is history. 

Doug, 5-8 and 175, centered a line with Dave 5-8, 165, and Mike Doran, 5-7, 160.  Doug scored 91 goals in his three seasons and was a two-time All-American.  Dave was captain in his senior year, culminating in Cornell's penultimate NCAA Championship.  Cornell only played Denver twice in that three-year span, losing both games at Denver in the 1965-66 season, but that was 60 years ago.

Let's go Red!

Thanks George, I had forgotten that tidbit.

Unfortunately they also lost to them 4-3 in 1969 NCAA Finals, Dryden's last game in CU uniform.

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Quote from: Snowball on March 24, 2026, 12:35:28 AMI wish Ben Robinson all the best, definitely miss him, though I wouldn't give up XV for him. But honestly, can you blame him for transferring to Michigan? He was 5'11" at Cornell... and now he's magically 6'1"!

6'1"?! Soaking wet, maybe.

Didn't know that would make you taller.

How does that happen?

Too much water stretches the bones, perhaps?

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Quote from: chimpfood on March 23, 2026, 08:05:08 PMI hated this matchup at first but the more I look at the stats I think we have a chance. Sucks to be the away team but they really don't stand out in any aspect of the game. They have a good goalie but he's short (hopefully years of practice on Shane should help us with that). We're certainly not the favorites but I would expect this one to be close.

They don't seem to be as formidable or inevitable as they were in the earlier part of this decade. Maybe I'm wrong. They have losses to Lindenwood, Anchorage, and ASU. They've pretty much even with WMU and UND in that league (which is still very very good). The best thing they have mentally is that they've gotten to the mountaintop before.

Every team has losses to shitty teams, I think. WMU and UND are also top five teams in the country lol.

Notably though, their best two players - by a LONG shot - are dmen, Pohlkamp and Buckberger. My suspicion is you gotta figure out how to neutralize those two, and if you do, you'll do well.

The goalie sitch is also fun. They were starting their other freshman for much of the year and then switched to this one...

wasn't a switch - Quentin Miller got hurt. Hicks came on in relief and played 55 minutes and won the game. Has played every game since.

Come on Adam, you know English. It was a switch, you're just telling us the reason.

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Quote from: BearLover on March 22, 2026, 03:18:58 PMSo I am wondering if people here took similar issue to Islanders fans' reactions when John Tavares signed with Toronto.

Absolutely. F that pajama-wearing guy.

But I asked about others here taking issue with *the fans' response,* not with Tavares. For the record I agree with you. This is extremely normal sports fan behavior. My question is why others get so upset when I bring up rooting against Robertson and why that's any different from eg. an Islanders fan booing Tavares.

Number 1-He's just in college and
Number 2-I wouldn't even say that to a pro

I don't see any advantage in carrying on that hatred. It just eats away at you. When it happens, let everyone know that you don't like it and then get on with the rest of your life. Carrying those feelings certainly doesn't do anyone any good, you included.

For those interested I put link for tickets on the Loveland Thread.

As mentioned in the Selection Show Thread CU sent out an email about getting tickets. In the Buy ticket link it states "The Cornell block will be in Sections A, B, C and D." So you can get tickets in CU section by ordering thru CU Link.

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Quote from: CU2007 on March 22, 2026, 04:18:28 PMIt's pretty clear someone needs to get off their @ss and make sure there's a regional in Syracuse/rochester/elmira/ anywhere close with a decent rink and some hotels.

I mean there's one in Albany this year and they didn't put us there

I think he meant Cornell should figure out a way to host.

Beat you by 14 sec Marty.