Cornell vs. Colorado College Pregame (NOT a game thread)

[andyw2100]

Game ends in a 6-6 tie. Now the shootout to determine who plays in the championship game tomorrow.

[billhoward]

Shootout 5 shots each

Princeton Score / Miss  / Miss / Score / Miss (post)

Maine Score / Score / Miss / Miss / Score

Maine wins shootout 3-2 and advances

Princeton WPRB announcer sounds not at all disappointed ("nothing to be ashamed of" he says) and signs off within 30 seconds. Make Hobey proud, indeed.

[andyw2100]

Maine wins the shootout 3-2 on the last shot.

[Rosey]

Maine wins. Yaay.

If Princeton were able to beat Maine in regulation, I'd be okay with that from a PWR perspective.  Since it went into the books as a tie at the end of OT, I'm glad Cornell has a chance to face the stronger Maine tomorrow, if they manage to beat CC tonight.

[billhoward]

Maine wins. Yaay.

If Princeton were able to beat Maine in regulation, I'd be okay with that from a PWR perspective.  Since it went into the books as a tie at the end of OT, I'm glad Cornell has a chance to face the stronger Maine tomorrow, if they manage to beat CC tonight.

Good call. Want to see the Ivy league and ECAC do well. But our PWR ratings come first. Now I wish Maine won in regulation.

[nyc94]

Maine wins. Yaay.

If Princeton were able to beat Maine in regulation, I'd be okay with that from a PWR perspective.  Since it went into the books as a tie at the end of OT, I'm glad Cornell has a chance to face the stronger Maine tomorrow, if they manage to beat CC tonight.

I saw it the other way (glass half empty?).  If Cornell lost tonight at least they could play Maine in the consolation and get some PWR help.  Beating CC would be reward enough for me and I'd settle for playing Princeton again.  Let's just win both.

[Robb]

The quality is decent: it looks like Redcast from past years, meaning that it's unwatchable full-screen because of the MPEG artifacts, but it is smooth and the audio is excellent.

What I love is how their website asserts that you need Windows and IE to watch, and refuses to let you in if you're using the wrong OS or browser: in reality, you don't need to be running that crap.  If you're using Linux and Firefox, make sure you have the user agent switcher extension, switch it to IE on b2tv's site, and then when you click on the link to watch the video choose some decent video player (I'm using mplayer) to view the stream.

I also discovered that if you click on the "reconnect" link in the confirmation email that they send you, then you can re-open the feed in an external viewer.  Seems that it's only the credit card transaction itself that has to be done through IE.

[sms257]

Is anyone having trouble logging into redcast or is there a send password link...maybe I don't know it after all

[sah67]

I've got a blue screen with the B2 logo at the moment.

EDIT: Nevermind, it's back, and I also didn't realize the first game ran late.

[sockralex]

Will there be sound?

[sah67]

Esposito playing with Gallagher and Greening tonight...Joe Devin with Riley Nash and Patrick Kennedy.

[billhoward]

Wondering the same about sound. Maybe ten bucks was a choice or audio or video. Hard to believe, people in Europe use the Web for real TV all the time with very few hassles.

Suppose we could call on the Cornell audiocast if you don't mind the goal coming 5 seconds before or after - oh, wait, there it is. Or at least the announcers wondering where the sound is. ... the Colorado College audiocast being simulcast?

[imafrshmn]

Audio is on.

[sah67]

"We gotta watch ourselves since we're on B2 tonight...don't want anyone in Alaska hearing me say (unitelligible) stinks." ::doh::

[upperdeck]

is the game being played in a play haze or just me?