Tough To Beat

[Greg Berge]

As a recalcitrant traditionalist, I hope they add LeNeveu as the third person to the "Tough to Beat" table in the program.

As for rewriting the record book:

http://www.spiritone.com/~kepler/records/records_ix.htm

[Al DeFlorio]

Great stats, Greg.  

Toward aiding your never-ending quest for perfection, I'll point out that your "ECAC:  Best GFA in Conference Play" table says BU played 89 games in 1974. ::help::

And anyone needing to understand where the "Screw BU" bit came from only has to look at this table:  http://www.spiritone.com/~kepler/records/ecac_pct.html

[Greg Berge]

Thanks -- it's corrected.

Another view of the BU-Cornell rivarly here: http://www.spiritone.com/~kepler/ecac/ecacF4Icon.html

Between 1965 and 1979, either Cornell or BU was the #1 ECAC seed 11 times in 15 seasons.  In the four other seasons, the better of the two teams finished 2nd twice and 3rd twice.

Even more impressively, in 10 of those 15 seasons, Cornell and BU both finished in the league's top 3.  And over that interval they each won 5 ECAC titles.  That's a rivalry!

[David Harding 72]

This morning I worked a college fair at a school known onlyt for its academic excellence.  It was busy enough that I didn't have much chance to aborb the environment.  At one point a student asked how Corenll was in athletics, especially hockey.  I filled him in on this year's team's prowess.  He said he liked playing hockey and should he contact the coach?  I said, yes, he should, but to remember that most of the players at this level have a year or two of junior A experience under their belts before starting college.  I then touted the intramural program.

Why am I posting in this thread?  A few minutes later the fellow behind me said hello.  He was from BU and had attended the Frozen Four.  I expressed regret that BU hadn't made it farther.  He commented that in the first round games he thought Cornell had played the best over all.

[Greg Berge]

You never know how those ad hoc fliers on players will go.  About 15 years ago I worked at a publishing company with a woman who had a little brother who was "just totally awesome" at Everett High.  She asked whether I knew the Cornell coach well enough to introduce him and I said I knew the Cornell assistant coach's email address well enough to forward notice that the kid was interested in an Ivy school   They actually scouted him later that year.  I have no idea whether there was ever any serious interest epxressed either by the boy or our coaching staff, but the kid went on to a very successful D-III career (Bill Mastrangello).  Anyway, it never hurts to forward interest.