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Quote from: jtwcornell91The images are a bit of an extra clue, really, since "das Tor" means both "the gate" and "the goal" in the Fußball/Eishockey sense.  Only one of the three images is of what we'd call a gate, and the other two are of goals...

Obligatory make up German Cornell cheer: "Auf gehts Rote, schießt ein Tor, schießt ein Tor, schießt ein To-o-or!"

Obligatory NSFW WTF: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnTd32wJ6yk

This probably goes without saying, but:

Man, Germans are weird.

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Quote from: TrotskyWhere's Union?

Schenectady

We get to leave.

I was having a really hard time searching box scores for this picture, until I realized that we don't actually know that the Cornell player is scoring a goal in the image so it really can't be narrowed down from that.  Dartmouth has had a goalie on their roster wearing #1 each year since 2001-02.  The Cornell player seems to be wearing #20 but could it also be a #10 folded in such a way that it looks like a #20 in an action picture?  So we've got a Cornell skater wearing most likely #20 or possibly #10, a Dartmouth goalie wearing #10, a Dartmouth skater wearing what I can really only tell is a two-digit number, in a game at Thompson (Cornell wearing red, green seats with backs).  Does the Dartmouth jersey design give us any clue?  Contrary to how I normally feel, it's frustrating that Cornell jerseys are always the same in this case.

Edit to add:  This is off topic, but Duolingo is pretty cool.

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Quote from: DafatoneEveryone with the Sens says Greening's crazy fast, and while he certainly could skate around some defenders at Cornell, I didn't remember him being lightning fast.

Huh.  I'd have said he positioned himself well and was efficient, but fast?  News to me, too (at least when comparing NHL camp invitees who I'd imagine are insanely fast.)

He narrowly lost to Carl Hagelin (who is definitely very fast) in the Fastest Skater event at the All-Star Skills Competition a couple years ago.  It doesn't necessarily mean that A) he's equally fast with a puck (the event was just skating, not stickhandling), and B) he plays in a manner that utilizes that speed like Hagelin does.

Quote from: Ronald '09https://twitter.com/andystrickland/status/484730403769425920

Could be the end of his career. Pretty good run for a while.

Pains me to say it, but he ranked among the bottom handful of defensemen in the league this year in the advanced stats I'm finding, in addition to being singled out for looking slow in the playoffs.  I guess I could see an old-school GM taking a shot at him as a 6th/7th defenseman/tough guy, but you may be right about it being the end of the road for him.

Quote from: Kyle RoseIf I were a betting man, I'd wager the driver did not make the turn toward Seneca because he was going too fast at the bottom of the hill and feared a rollover. It's not clear how many pedestrians were on the east end of the Commons at the time, but under the circumstances the building may have been the best option.

Whoever is responsible for the maintenance and loading of the truck is where the fault here mainly lies, but Ithaca has a responsibility to configure its roads such that deaths are not a sliver of poor judgment away. I always assumed this philosophy is why there is, for instance, always a car parked directly in front of Chapter House: a runaway vehicle would be less likely to reach the bar with 4000# of metal blocking it.

The link that Scersk posted mentioned that the truck driver had to be interviewed through a translator, which at first suggested to me that maybe he wasn't able to read signs directing him to turn onto Seneca, but from a check on Google Street view (images as of last fall), there don't look to be any signs indicating that that's what he should have done.  Theoretically, if he were headed to Ithaca College, the sign would have directed him to head down State Street, but it's not clear where he was trying to get to I don't think.

Quote from: TrotskyGot it.  I plead senility.

That was what we had all assumed anyway.  :-}

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Quote from: billhowardRed Hot Hockey will be Saturday 11/29 (not Friday) according Cornell: http://www.cornellbigred.com/news/2014/2/19/MICE_0219145224.aspx?path=mhockey

That's what's printed on my tickets.

I think Bill was referencing what was presumably just a typo in Beeeej's post:

Quote from: BeeeejFrom Coach, a preview of what is now apparently official:

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Quote from: TrotskyI'm sure jtw would be willing top accompany the team to oversee streaming video.  **]

Are we sure JTW won't be rooting for the Swiss teams?  ::uhoh::

Can't hurt.  Things haven't worked out well lately with him rooting for us.

It's all John's fault!  It's all John's fault!  It's all John's fault!

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82We have plenty of people here in the Lehigh Valley who commute into NYC every day.  In fact, there are regular buses from the Bethlehem Park-and-Ride into Port Authority every day.

Bastards are driving up the housing prices here.

You should see what housing prices are like here.  ::cuss::

Quote from: TrotskyI'm sure jtw would be willing top accompany the team to oversee streaming video.  **]

Are we sure JTW won't be rooting for the Swiss teams?  ::uhoh::

Quote from: billhowardConsider the opposite, that people in big urban areas are the ones more used to lengthy commutes by car or mass transit. To live in the burbs outside Manhattan and get to work, it's an hour door to door, or more. In rural areas with less traffic, such as Ithaca, you can reach affordable-housing communities 10 minutes from town. Several Cornell coaches live in Lansing and that's 10-15 minutes from campus. Going another 15 minutes doesn't lower your housing costs appreciably. Skaneateles is more of a Syracuse suburb. I could a faculty spouse with a special skill (or desire not to wait tables) who has to drive to Elmira or Syracuse for work, but that's not that common. Commuting from Scranton to Elmira sounds like an outlier case.

That's a fair point, but you're talking about longer commutes in terms of time that are still much shorter in terms of distance than what I mentioned.

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Quote from: Josh '99My first job after graduating from Cornell was near Elmira; my manager commuted from Scranton every day, 120 miles each way.  Bought a Honda Civic just for his commute because it had really good gas mileage.  I think maybe people are just accustomed to longer commutes once you get outside the Boston-DC corridor and similarly urbanized areas around the country.

It's not that unusual for people in the NoVa area to commute 50 miles each way -- particularly if they come from central VA (think: Appalachia) and can drive 100 mph for the first 20 miles.

But 120 miles each way, every day?  Your manager was either a liar or an idiot.

Neither.  Older guy, owned his home in Scranton, job was a good fit for him after his previous employer (closer to home) closed their facility, but didn't want to relocate and uproot his wife or rent a small apartment to stay in during the week (I had coworkers who lived in Lock Haven who did that rather than move after Piper closed up shop there).  Bear in mind that gas was cheap in the late '90s (I remember paying in the ballpark of $1.20/gallon) so a 240 mile round trip commute if you're getting 30 MPG highway costs you less than $10/day or $200/month; less than even the crappy apartment I lived in that was more like $400/month.  (Leaving aside the other costs associated with the car for the sake of simplicity, which could of course tilt the balance.)  It's a lot of time on the road, but better than uprooting or only seeing your wife three days a week I guess.

Quote from: billhowardKerwick's bio says he lives in Skaneateles. Unless he has an Ithaca crash pad, that's 40 miles each way each day. He needs to be driving an all-wheel-drive diesel. Or a Tesla with a charger block in Ithaca, too.

My first job after graduating from Cornell was near Elmira; my manager commuted from Scranton every day, 120 miles each way.  Bought a Honda Civic just for his commute because it had really good gas mileage.  I think maybe people are just accustomed to longer commutes once you get outside the Boston-DC corridor and similarly urbanized areas around the country.

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Quote from: Jim HylaHere they are. I like them, especially the little tweaks toward offense and the warning track.

I generally do too, except for:

QuoteFaceoff Location – Offensive Scoring Opportunity: If the offensive team is attempting to score and the puck goes out of play — the faceoff will remain in the attacking zone.

This to me is counterintuitive, and I generally disagree with rules that are counterintuitive.  If an attacking player takes a slap shot from the blue line, and the shot is horrible and goes over the glass, the attacking player put the puck out of play and shouldn't be rewarded with an offensive zone faceoff.

Yeah, that is a bit odd. On the other hand it doesn't make much sense to punish an attacking team for setting up a good scoring opportunity off a deflection that happens to go up into the netting. I mean, these guys are good, but deflections are pretty hard to control. I'm guessing the deflection case is more common than the ridiculously poor pass/shot case at the college level, so in practice I suspect this will work out pretty well.

That's true, and I know the really bad shot right into the stands was an extreme example, but conceptually it's no different from a deflection that goes out of play without hitting a defending player.  It went out of play off the attacking team and the faceoff should be outside the zone, regardless of whether the attacking team was "attempting to score".  We no longer give defenders an benefit of the doubt regarding "intent" when assessing a delay of game penalty for shooting the puck out of play; you put the puck out of play, you get a penalty, your intent doesn't matter.  If an attacking player puts the puck out of play, why does it matter that his/her "intent" was "better"?