BU paper on 11/24 BU-Cornell game at MSG

[Mark]

This just ran today:

http://media.www.dailyfreepress.com/media/storage/paper87/news/2007/10/18/HockeySupplement/Red-Hot.Hockey-3041195.shtml

[Josh '99]

[quote Mark]This just ran today:

http://media.www.dailyfreepress.com/media/storage/paper87/news/2007/10/18/HockeySupplement/Red-Hot.Hockey-3041195.shtml[/quote]

The event, dubbed Red Hot Hockey, will take place Nov. 24 at New York City's Madison Square Garden, marking BU's first appearance at the World's Most Famous Arena since 1977.

"Red Hot Hockey"?  Yech.  Is it too late to return my ticket so I don't have to be associated with something with a name that atrocious?

[Al DeFlorio]

What is with all this hype over Madison Square Garden?  It has to be one of the worst venues anywhere for watching a hockey game.  It's one of the ugliest buildings ever erected.  And to build it they destroyed an architectural icon:  Pennsylvania Station.  Stanford White's Madison Square Garden this mess is not.

[evilnaturedrobot]

you're right on all accounts, but the power of the garden is in the name, not the building itself.  The fact that it's 'the garden' holds a lot of weight, and I've never heard a profesional stadium louder than MSG for a playoff game.  Hopefully they'll move along witht he proposal for MSG V and 'the garden' will actually be a nice facility.

[TimV]

If they're better than the 300 level seats I bought IN JULY:-D.

[Josh '99]

[quote Al DeFlorio]What is with all this hype over Madison Square Garden?  It has to be one of the worst venues anywhere for watching a hockey game.  It's one of the ugliest buildings ever erected.  And to build it they destroyed an architectural icon:  Pennsylvania Station.  Stanford White's Madison Square Garden this mess is not.[/quote]Regarding the exterior architecture and tearing down the old Penn Station, you're right.  As far as a place to watch a game, it's as good as anywhere of comparable size and certainly the best of the three venues in the NYC area.

[nyc94]

[quote Josh '99]certainly the best of the three venues in the NYC area.[/quote]

Consider the competition - which should see the bar raised when "the Rock" opens next weekend.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj--newarkarena1018oct18,0,7275827.story

[evilnaturedrobot]

'the rock' could be carved out of chrystal, it will still feel barren when the devils draw 13,000 for a playoff game.

[Jim Hyla]

BU's '72 championship came five years after the Big Red edged the Terriers, 4-3, in what Parker -- who played on the 1967 squad -- termed an upset victory in the ECAC title game at the Boston Garden. Cornell went on to beat BU in the NCAA tournament and cap a sparkling 27-1-1 season.

Yeah, and when we beat them 4-1 in the NCAA finals, that was an upset too. That was after we tied them 3-3 in their own Christmas Tournament, played in the homer rink, the old Boston Arena. That is, each time we played them we were more decisive, but of course they were upsets. Maybe seeing Dryden made it seem that way.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote Jim Hyla]

BU's '72 championship came five years after the Big Red edged the Terriers, 4-3, in what Parker -- who played on the 1967 squad -- termed an upset victory in the ECAC title game at the Boston Garden. Cornell went on to beat BU in the NCAA tournament and cap a sparkling 27-1-1 season.

Yeah, and when we beat them 4-1 in the NCAA finals, that was an upset too. That was after we tied them 3-3 in their own Christmas Tournament, played in the homer rink, the old Boston Arena. That is, each time we played them we were more decisive, but of course they were upsets. Maybe seeing Dryden made it seem that way.[/quote]
I suppose if you go strictly by the seedings in 1967 it was an "upset" for #2-seed Cornell (18-1-1) to beat #1-seed BU (19-0-1) in the ECAC finals.:-|

Parker's teams were 0-5-1 against Cornell when he was playing for BU, and 0-4 in ECAC and NCAA tournament play.  Scores: 8-1 (1966 ECAC semi); 3-3 (2OT, 1966 Boston Arena Christmas Tournament); 4-3 (1967 ECAC championship); 4-1 (1967 NCAA championship); 3-2 (1967-8 regular season at BU); and 7-2 (1968 ECAC semi). Cumulative score in tournament games: 23-7, Cornell.  All games played in Boston except the 1967 NCAA championship in Syracuse.

[Townie]

[quote Al DeFlorio]Parker's teams were 0-5-1 against Cornell when he was playing for BU, and 0-4 in ECAC and NCAA tournament play.  Scores: 8-1 (1966 ECAC semi); 3-3 (2OT, 1966 Boston Arena Christmas Tournament); 4-3 (1967 ECAC championship); 4-1 (1967 NCAA championship); 3-2 (1967-8 regular season at BU); and 7-2 (1968 ECAC semi). Cumulative score in tournament games: 23-7, Cornell.  All games played in Boston except the 1967 NCAA championship in Syracuse.[/quote]

Just curious Al...how did you assemble this info??

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote Townie][quote Al DeFlorio]Parker's teams were 0-5-1 against Cornell when he was playing for BU, and 0-4 in ECAC and NCAA tournament play.  Scores: 8-1 (1966 ECAC semi); 3-3 (2OT, 1966 Boston Arena Christmas Tournament); 4-3 (1967 ECAC championship); 4-1 (1967 NCAA championship); 3-2 (1967-8 regular season at BU); and 7-2 (1968 ECAC semi). Cumulative score in tournament games: 23-7, Cornell.  All games played in Boston except the 1967 NCAA championship in Syracuse.[/quote]

Just curious Al...how did you assemble this info??[/quote]
2006-7 Cornell Hockey media guide.

Parker graduated in 1968.  Assumed he played the prior three seasons.  We know he played in 1966-7.  I managed to see several of those games.  The 1966-7 BU team was very, very impressive.

[ugarte]

[quote Al DeFlorio][quote Jim Hyla]

BU's '72 championship came five years after the Big Red edged the Terriers, 4-3, in what Parker -- who played on the 1967 squad -- termed an upset victory in the ECAC title game at the Boston Garden. Cornell went on to beat BU in the NCAA tournament and cap a sparkling 27-1-1 season.

Yeah, and when we beat them 4-1 in the NCAA finals, that was an upset too. That was after we tied them 3-3 in their own Christmas Tournament, played in the homer rink, the old Boston Arena. That is, each time we played them we were more decisive, but of course they were upsets. Maybe seeing Dryden made it seem that way.[/quote]
I suppose if you go strictly by the seedings in 1967 it was an "upset" for #2-seed Cornell (18-1-1) to beat #1-seed BU (19-0-1) in the ECAC finals.:-|[/quote]
No need to get all touchy because Parker likes to hold on to his illusions - even the BU writer inserted an eye-roll into the report.

[Swampy]

[quote Josh '99][quote Mark]This just ran today:

http://media.www.dailyfreepress.com/media/storage/paper87/news/2007/10/18/HockeySupplement/Red-Hot.Hockey-3041195.shtml[/quote]

The event, dubbed Red Hot Hockey, will take place Nov. 24 at New York City's Madison Square Garden, marking BU's first appearance at the World's Most Famous Arena since 1977.

"Red Hot Hockey"?  Yech.  Is it too late to return my ticket so I don't have to be associated with something with a name that atrocious?[/quote]

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