2003-4 Schedule

[rhovorka]

[Q]Sure, right after we petition the Ivy League to give us 30 games. [/Q]
D'oh! I didn't bother to count.  Nevermind.

[DeltaOne81]

Well, I'd like to see the Ivy League up it to 30 anyway. Having a 1 game weekend seems kinda silly. So long as you're playing, play two. Like one more game's gonna make such a big difference.

[Greg Berge]

Good: No off week after the games start up again in January.  I always hated that late off week -- find of like a false Spring.

Good: Colgate pair listed as Fri/Sat, where it will hopefully stay.

Good: overall NC slate.

Great: 16 RS home games = 55% of the season.  Just 11 road games (39%).

Bad: again no WCHA opponent.

[Section A]

Kinda cool that we're playing the US Under-18 Team again. I remember last year, when the little, little kids played during the intermission (actually - I think there are video clips of this over there in the archive), and they left the ice to a loud "Lit-tle Kids! Lit-tle Kids!" cheer.

And the same cheer greeted the Under 18ers when they returned to the ice for the second period.

[ursusminor]

I assume that the ordering of part of the conference schedule is backwards. That is, I doubt that Cornell will play RPI, Dartmouth, Clarkson, and Princeton both times on Friday, and their travel partners both times on Saturday. It looks like the pairs were just entered alphabetically except for Brown/Harvard.

[Will]

Yeah, let's hope Bowling Green has a good year next year.  I want to see a challenging non-conference schedule that the Big Red can overcome.

[CowbellGuy]

It's entirely possible that it's correct as is. You typically just get each configuration 2 out of 4 years, but I've never seen any indication that they try to make the two series inverted.

[KeithK]

I'm a little disappointed that Bowling Green is on the schedule next year.  BGSU was good once upon a time, but they've been mired at the bottom of the CCHA for a number of years now (11th place today) and probably will not be good next year.  This may well mean we have to go there in '04.

Starting off with a pair against WMU could be tough, since they will have played a month by then.  But a good test I guess.

No complaints about Mercyhurst.  It's good to support the new kids on the block and we did pick up one of the best in the league.

Looks like we're not playing a Canadian exhibtion next year?  That would be weird.  I suppose that one might fit on Fri. 10/24 though.

[cquinn]

What's the Ivy rule for start date on "real" games?  I always thought it was Nov 1, but maybe it's "the weekend of Nov 1?"

Injuries are my only worry when we play the US Under-18 Team or any Canadian team.  We always seem to lose somebody for at least a few weeks.

[jtwcornell91]

Christine Quinn '94 wrote:

What's the Ivy rule for start date on "real" games?  I always thought it was Nov 1, but maybe it's "the weekend of Nov 1?"

I thought the rule was actually on when practices can start (mid-October) and it's just that no one wants to play for keeps until they've been underway for a couple of weeks.

[Jeff]

Thanks for the info!  Colgate never releases this info at least until the current season is over.  Doesn't help me with our nonconference game games, but at least I know when the ECAC games are!

[ursusminor]

CowbellGuy,

It could be correct as stands, but history shows that very rarely are both pairs of games in the same order. Furthermore, although the games with RPI are on the same weekends on the RPI schedule which I received in confidence about a month ago, both RPI-Cornell games are listed there on Saturday, not Friday, because that schedule also lists the pairs in alphabetical order, and Cornell follows Colgate.

It ain't worth arguing about. :-)