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Quote from: chimpfood on November 08, 2025, 09:16:20 PMAm I missing something or has Major not been on the ice?

Haven't seen or heard about him in a while

Major skated to the locker room during a tv timeout.  Didn't appear to be injured and the trainer did not accompany him.  I want to say it was early in the 2nd.  Did not see him for the rest of the game.

Maybe he ate at a Pizza Hut nearby?

My money's on Taco Bell.

Pizza Hut is a reference to a team meal gone bad in the north country before you were born.

Oh... if there's more to the story than "they had Pizza Hut and got sick" I'm all ears.

They had Pizza Hut and essentially half the team was incapacitated for the next game. It was ugly.

So... no, not much more.

What more there was was left in the bathrooms of Canton.  From what I understand, it was a very, very bad night for everyone, even if you weren't sick, as one can imagine.  But it goes down in roadtrip history like the Colgate trip where we forgot our uniforms and the Montreal Micron Tournament where the first night we lost 10 players either to DQs or Lou Reycroft going ballistic and healthy scratching his captains (IINM, one of them Mike Schafer).  The second night things, um, got out of hand.

Good God. That's a goal every 3 minutes on average.

But, for both teams.  Boring.

It looks like my recap is not online any more, but I once announced a club game in Utah where Weber State beat BYU 19-1, with multiple hat tricks.  (The Cornell connection is that Levi Clegg had two goals and two assists.)

Aside to Greg: is there a fixed URL per player?  I can generate reports, but those seem to be dynamic.

Quote from: Trotsky on November 07, 2025, 05:57:54 PMWill you people please shitcan DST already?  This is like the only thing AZ does right.

North of the 37th parallel, we like having the sun rise not too late in the winter and not too early in the summer.

I'm not sure which message to reply to, and I don't have time to wade into the discussion at the moment, except to remind Adam that we actually implemented a version of KRACH that automatically fit the home-ice advantage, which we called KASA.  ("KRACH Adjusted for Site Advantage", a backronym which Ken Butler helped us construct.)

Also, a previous debate on the eLF did lead to a paper entitled "Prediction and Evaluation in College Hockey Using the Bradley-Terry-Zermelo Model": https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04226

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Quote from: Weder on October 29, 2025, 11:18:20 AMKristin O'Neill, New York
Jamie Bourbonnais, New York
Micah Zandee-Hart, New York

I really wish the Sirens actually played in New York, not in Newark.

I wish they rebranded to New Jersey... we are not the same 

Alas, too much precedent with the Giants and the Jets.

On the other hand, hockey has the Devils.  But then there are already two other "New York" teams (one of which plays in Nassau County, which I guess is also New York City according to the International Cricket Council).

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Quote from: Sperris on November 04, 2025, 02:46:14 PMIf you are coming into town drop by the Cornell Club of Boston pregame (4:30-6:30 pm). It is over at the Hong Kong near Harvard Square, easy walk as a group to the game. https://www.cornellclub.org/events/2025/11/bigred-hockey-pregame-ds-dgd-55w345-esned-gppss It's been a great event every year 

Scorpion Bowls are mandatory.

I'd be pretty amazed if Scorpion Bowls survived the pandemic.

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Quote from: jtwcornell91 on September 22, 2025, 06:32:41 PMhttps://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)

It's not DAH-voes?  That's how I have it for 60 years.  I like I can hear the whole thing in Slovak, a series of monosyllables permeated by belches and curses on Ruthenians and Sorbs.   https://folklife.si.edu/images/blog/zapust-procession.jpg

It's Da-VOS, with the emphasis on the second syllable.  That's the pronunciation I learned when HCD came to play in Bern, watching the Spengler Cup on Swiss TV (with Ralph Krueger doing the color commentary), and taking the train there on a Eurail trip after I'd moved to Germany.

Quote from: jtwcornell91 on September 22, 2025, 06:32:41 PMhttps://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)

Apparently they streamed last year's on YouTube for countries without a TV deal:
https://www.spenglercup.ch/en/media/livestream (Looks like it was on TSN in Canada, but there was no US partner listed, so I guess the YouTube stream worked.)

Quote from: Trotsky on October 26, 2025, 06:03:08 PMI want U2U customization so I can block... oh... I dunno... Whelan can be a pill... 

Now I'm missing the ::uhoh:: smiley from the eLF.

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Quote from: upprdeck on October 25, 2025, 10:51:14 AMClarkson has beaten PSU/NDAK and also got dominated by a bad RIT team and lost to Canisius who also beat Colgate, but Colgate has tied BU and beaten Maine?  Canisius lost to LIU which is that teams only win.

Also since NPI has replaced the pairwise. What tweaks were made to make that different?

It's complicated

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/info/?d=npi

So this sounds like the "recursive RPI" that we were discussing on HOCKEY-L 20-odd years ago.  I didn't realize the NCAA was already doing something like this in other sports.

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Quote from: stereax on October 17, 2025, 09:37:46 PMHow are we looking, btw? (Not in Ithaca this weekend. Fun colonoscopy during fall break.)

The worst part is that prep drink.  That is truly vile, and I have had banana liqueur.

I'm pretty sure the worst part is what happens shortly after the prep drink.

Given the median age of posters on here, there are likely a lot of colonoscopy experiences to compare.

Quote from: billhoward on October 19, 2025, 12:08:24 PMThe West Stands were fabulous. Okay, that was fifty years ago, and it reminds me: Saying "you shoulda seen the '70s" to current students is like a Class of '25 (1925) grad telling me (Class of '74) in the Vietnam / 29-0 / Marinaro /first lax championship era how cool it was wearing raccoon coats (and celebrating national football championships) and drinking Bees Knees (gin, honey syrup, lemon juice) in the Crescent. The West Stands:

• • Held 4000 people.
  • Were enclosed, with steel under your feet and behind your legs, so they felt like real stands not what you had in HS. There started about 8 feet above ground level; you could see over the players; compare to Berman Field stands about half as high.
  • Were around 1947 to 2016, held mostly Cornell students, and were a suitable for launching plastic champagne corks between quarters.
  • Were useful at graduation when there are capacity issues.
  See this Cornell Daily Sun 2016 article on the demise of the West Stands: https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2016/03/west-schoellkopf-stands-torn-down-due-to-underuse-disrepair
  
  I have hopes that at some point Cornell moves the playing surface closer to the Crescent (remove the old running track no longer used for competitions) and builds in the space between the garage/press box and the field:
  
  • Maybe a grassy knoll like some schools have for lazing at the game, catching sun, etcetera.
  • Or better, a thin building slides in there, maybe for athletic administration, with an open but covered top level that holds 500 for, say, early season lacrosse, or sprint football. Thus making Teagle Hall available to be reconfigured with a 50-meter swimming pool.
  
  The terrace seating used for lacrosse late in the season was great for getting close to the action, taking photos up close, getting a beer or wine legally, or — this happened also — lets parents and boisterous alums yell at the refs up-close.
  

It was all downhill after they built the Theory Center (Rhodes Hall) and blocked the views of the Valley from the Crescent (which I only sat in for Graduations and 4ths of July, but still...).[/list]

Quote from: BearLover on October 15, 2025, 09:37:49 AMIs there something that can be done about the recent influx of spam posts? Seems the moderators are manually deleting these posts but the issue persists. Maybe new members would be subject to some kind of approval process or be required to answer a couple of simple college hockey-related questions?

Moderators can delete posts, but only administrators (which may just be Age) can ban/block users.  I assume there are administrative solutions, but I don't know what they are or if Age has time to implement them.

Quote from: stereax on October 10, 2025, 09:17:21 PMBU has dropped a touchdown on Colgate, 6-2 win. I'm already preparing to be blown out at MSG, lol.

Did you know Colgate's goalie is called Dyck?

Please imagine the insults I am concocting in my head.

Please let us be up by a 1-2 goals in the closing minutes of the game.  The chant writes itself.

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Quote from: chimpfood on October 09, 2025, 09:16:29 PMAnd UNH beat Michigan state. Ferris also leads Western Michigan 2-1 in the third.

Ferris???

Some of us still have vivid memories of losing to Ferris in the regional finals in 2012 after our gorgeous OT upset of Michigan the night before. It was beautiful but excruciating defensive hockey, like watching the same team on both sides. I had to watch from a hotel restaurant in Miami (no, the other one) where I was traveling for work. And after Ferris won 2-1, they ended up facing Union in the Frozen Four semis, an admittedly strong Union team yet one against whom we'd gone 1-0-1 that year.

So many missed opportunities...!

Also, Ferris is in the WCCHA, and Western is in the NCHC, so conference virtue says we should be happy about this.

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82 on October 03, 2025, 05:45:48 PM

Quote from: ursusminor on October 03, 2025, 04:06:00 PMMy recollection from before I retired, now almost 15 years ago, is that SUS are explosive underwater sound sources. They are used for studying the sea floor among other things. As I theoretic researcher, I never used them, which is good because I probably would have blown myself up even though they are small.

And my recollection is that SUS is a Japanese designation for "Steel - United States".  It's how they designate a standard ANSI grade steel.