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I think I just figured out that "Sus Member" is short for sustaining member, and not "sus" like the kids use it these days.  My initial misconception was fostered by the fact that Trotsky was the one I noticed it on first.

Honestly, I'm still really grateful to have something that's on its own server and not in an algorithm-driven walled garden.

Quote from: TrotskyCan I choose 20 in 2525?  I want to see how this ends but I don't want to live through it.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206476/

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Quote from: stereaxGot an email blast from Coach Jones announcing the news.

Press release.

Here's Coach Jones's wording:

Now I've got some exciting news - In case you haven't heard, Mike Schafer will be inducted into the Cornell University Athletics Hall of Fame! Read the press release here. It's a huge honor for Mike and for the Men's Ice Hockey program. The Inductee Class of 2025 will celebrate on campus the weekend of November 21-22 while we are home versus Union and RPI.

One other key date to put on your calendars will be our Cornell Hockey reunion weekend which this year will be January 23/24 with Dartmouth and Harvard coming to town.  We will honor the '86 and '96 ECAC Championship teams that weekend.

So circle those dates

So no recognition at homecoming in two weeks?

Not for the Hall of Fame. They might do a different recognition at homecoming tho.

I was under the impression it was homecoming every year. Here's last year: https://cornellbigred.com/news/2024/7/29/general-cornell-athletics-elects-11-into-hall-of-fame-as-class-of-2024.aspx

Ah. Then no. This year it's November 22.

What?  Who the hell wants to come back to Ithaca in November?

Ithaca in November is pretty spectacular, actually.  Post grape-harvest and everyone is taking a breath. Leaves are at their crunchiest and the academic world is most studious.

QuoteThat weekend isn't even the Penn game any more either.

It should be, but Penn got too self-important and game-the-rankings to try to re-brand as the new Princeton or some-such and didn't want to associate with an Ag school anymore..  Eh, basically, fuck Penn.

You never know. My freshman year it snowed October 1st.

And May 1st, just to rub it in.

...and that's a bad thing?  First, it doesn't stick around if you think snow is horrifying on the extreme shoulders of the season. I have photos of trick-or-treating in the snow in my childhood, and I think I was walking past Kennedy Hall on May 10th during a brief snow squall one year.

Actually, now that I think about it, there were a bunch of November snows during my Thanksgiving/hockey/football trips back to Upstate NY.  But my memory of November as an undergrad is just chilly, dark and rainy.

I'll take 25 and snowy over 35 and rainy any time.

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Quote from: stereaxGot an email blast from Coach Jones announcing the news.

Press release.

Here's Coach Jones's wording:

Now I've got some exciting news - In case you haven't heard, Mike Schafer will be inducted into the Cornell University Athletics Hall of Fame! Read the press release here. It's a huge honor for Mike and for the Men's Ice Hockey program. The Inductee Class of 2025 will celebrate on campus the weekend of November 21-22 while we are home versus Union and RPI.

One other key date to put on your calendars will be our Cornell Hockey reunion weekend which this year will be January 23/24 with Dartmouth and Harvard coming to town.  We will honor the '86 and '96 ECAC Championship teams that weekend.

So circle those dates

So no recognition at homecoming in two weeks?

Not for the Hall of Fame. They might do a different recognition at homecoming tho.

I was under the impression it was homecoming every year. Here's last year: https://cornellbigred.com/news/2024/7/29/general-cornell-athletics-elects-11-into-hall-of-fame-as-class-of-2024.aspx

Ah. Then no. This year it's November 22.

What?  Who the hell wants to come back to Ithaca in November?  That weekend isn't even the Penn game any more either.

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2025/08/14_Gadowsky-Selected-Head-Coach.php
https://www.spenglercup.ch/en/team/spengler-cup/us-collegiate-selects

Some thoughts:

• Will this mean we actually get to watch the Spengler Cup on TV in the US for once?
• Do I have to root against them because Gadowsky is coaching?
• Another chance for people to mispronounce Davos (which usually only happens during the World Economic Forum)

Quote from: chimpfoodWest coast game against UCSB today, for anyone up for a late night

It's a showdown of my two almae matres!  (Or should that be almarum matrum since it's genitive?)

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Quote from: RichHWith the Four-Letter announcing their new standalone streaming service at something like $30/month, and the NFL taking 10% ownership, I'm on alert. It could mean nothing. But ESPN may not have a need to produce some ECA-whatever hockey content as they move even further down the "football/basketball are all that matter" road.

In the meantime, the new service includes ESPN+.

Fubo also announced that their packages (with ESPN also now include ESPN+ with no additional cost.

Has anyone read the fine print on this?  Does it mean we'll go back to not getting all the NCAA tournament games if we just have the regular ESPN+ bundle?

This is truly in an interesting mess.  Sling is being sued(?) by Disney for offering low cost day and weekend passes.  "You will buy a month and you will like it!"

Sling has to go up there with Napster as a company that went corporate and began offering a completely different product under the same name.  (Netflix as well, but they were always corporate.)

Quote from: RichHWith the Four-Letter announcing their new standalone streaming service at something like $30/month, and the NFL taking 10% ownership, I'm on alert. It could mean nothing. But ESPN may not have a need to produce some ECA-whatever hockey content as they move even further down the "football/basketball are all that matter" road.

In the meantime, the new service includes ESPN+.

Fubo also announced that their packages (with ESPN also now include ESPN+ with no additional cost.

Has anyone read the fine print on this?  Does it mean we'll go back to not getting all the NCAA tournament games if we just have the regular ESPN+ bundle?

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Quote from: TrotskyTIL there is international lacrosse.

Are the US and Canada dominant or has some tiny country made it their niche specialty?  

My money's on the Finns.  Stamina.

Edit: Um.

Edit edit: HOLY FUCK THIS IS GREAT!

The Haudenosaunee team is fuckin awesome. Heard they're trying to be allowed to play at the Olympics under their flag!

It seems like a stretch given that e.g., England, Scotland, and Wales have to play as Great Britain in sports where they otherwise play as separate nations, but I suppose the counterexample is that Puerto Rico has its own Olympic team.

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Quote from: stereaxThe Haudenosaunee team is fuckin awesome. Heard they're trying to be allowed to play at the Olympics under their flag!

If they secede I'm moving there; who's with me?  I'm sure they'll welcome a horde of pushy white people. What's the worst that could happen?

We went snowshoeing in Allegany State Park a couple of years ago.  On the way out we stopped for gas in the nearest town, Salamanca, which is actually on the Seneca (Onondowaga) reservation.  Since it was shortly after recreational marijuana legalization, the ubiquitous smoke shops had become weed shops.

Quote from: hypotenuseOne funny anecdote. At the first game at MSG on Thanksgiving weekend, maybe 10 or so years ago. The Garden had some guy on hand to sing the Star Spangled Banner. No one had bothered to tell him about our little tradition, and so when he got to rockets red glare, and the place erupted with RED, he literally stopped for several beats while he tried to figure out WTF. A highlight of the evening.

He's in good company.

Quote from: upprdeckWhere do they curtain off the arena?  You mean limit access to the upperdeck?

I think so.  I realized after posting that I had the hockey-vs-football playing surface sizes in the back of my head.  But I'm sure that when I went to the CU-SU game at the Dome in 2009, they had parts of the stands curtained off.

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Quote from: David HardingThe New York Times has a story Planning a college sports road trip? These are the 25 best stops worth making.  Lynah is not on the list.  #15 is Boston for the Beanpot.  I'm posting here for this:

QuoteNo. 17: Syracuse, N.Y.

March up from Marshall Street

A regular-season lacrosse game (men's lacrosse)

The Orange hold the sport's most national titles (10, though none since 2009), and JMA Wireless Dome (the former Carrier Dome) is considered the best atmosphere in college lacrosse. When the schedule comes out, check if Cornell or Johns Hopkins is coming to town.

The Carrier Dome is not the best atmosphere in lacrosse.

Yeah, that's a pretty crazy statement.  It's a football stadium, and they have to curtain off part of the arena for lacrosse.

Quote from: HeafDogPSA: Recommended viewing for those who are unaware of the UAF Nanooks intro video from 15 years ago (and perhaps also for those who haven't watched it in a while).

https://youtu.be/8THGqrjUDGI?si=9YCyV7Q8mI4B0nKL

I thought for sure someone had posted that the last time we played them, but I couldn't find the post.  Destroying the other old CCHA schools is a blast from the past.

The previous one was also good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5YjPteCPLo