Cornell 6 Union 0 postgame (12/2/06)

[Rosey]

[quote imafrshmn]If the band was in G or H, they would perhaps be heard throughout the rink.  But as they are the ones who do a lot of the taunting, expecially before a game, I would hate to see them leave A.[/quote]
Before the renovation, things could have gone back to the opposing goalie being at the H end for periods 1 and 3.  Probably a little harder to justify now that the opposing bench has such a disadvantage in the odd period.

Kyle

[Cactus12]

I always like to remind opposing players that they're not living up to their own team's legacy. For example... telling Mrazek that he's a disgrace and that Union never got blown away like this when Mayotte was around.

[Scersk '97]

This is the point where I start fondly reminiscing about goal celebrations that used to go on forever, with relatively slowly-chanted "sieves" that died out on their own (way past seven) and "it's all your faults" that only got going when people got tired of yelling "sieve."

Ah, the good ol' days when Lynah wasn't almost as regimented sounding as Yost...

[Liz '05]

[quote Cactus12]I always like to remind opposing players that they're not living up to their own team's legacy. For example... telling Mrazek that he's a disgrace and that Union never got blown away like this when Mayotte was around.[/quote]

I love it!  I'll have to remember to do that (perhaps in Florida?  hmm...I may need to study for those games)

[Rita]

[quote Liz '05][quote Cactus12]I always like to remind opposing players that they're not living up to their own team's legacy. For example... telling Mrazek that he's a disgrace and that Union never got blown away like this when Mayotte was around.[/quote]

I love it!  I'll have to remember to do that (perhaps in Florida?  hmm...I may need to study for those games) [/quote]


If the Maine goalie is having a bad night maybe something like: "If you keep playing like that the closest you will get to pro hockey is fetching coffee for Garth Snow".  

Former Maine goalies:
Garth Snow [NYI GM, likes to give big contracts to overrated (?) goalies]
Mike Dunham
Jimmy Howard

[calgARI '07]

[quote Rita]

Former Maine goalies:
Garth Snow [NYI GM, likes to give big contracts to overrated (?) goalies]
Mike Dunham
Jimmy Howard[/quote]

Snow has nothing to do with any of the contracts on the Islanders right now.  Owner Charles Wang was totally 100% behind the ludicrous Dipietro contract.  Both Wang and Snow's predecessor Mike Milbury were responsible for Yashin's ludicrous contract.

[JasonN95]

[quote Cactus12]I always like to remind opposing players that they're not living up to their own team's legacy. For example... telling Mrazek that he's a disgrace and that Union never got blown away like this when Mayotte was around.[/quote]

That reminds me of one of my favorite cheers.  A few years back at a game at Princeton a Cornell fan shouted out (I may be guilty of some paraphrasing): "Hey, Princeton, Hobey Baker called and said, 'Stop ruining my legacy!'"

[jtwcornell91]

[quote Liz '05][quote Cactus12]I always like to remind opposing players that they're not living up to their own team's legacy. For example... telling Mrazek that he's a disgrace and that Union never got blown away like this when Mayotte was around.[/quote]

I love it!  I'll have to remember to do that (perhaps in Florida?  hmm...I may need to study for those games) [/quote]

My favorite one of those was directed at Martin Kariya, possibly in Florida: "Hey Martin, you're so bad, you must be adopted!"

[CKinsland]

[quote Dafatone]...And believe it or not, you eventually start to feel a little bad for a terrible team if you tell them they're terrible all night.[/quote]

At one point, after a particularly bad turnover by Union, the guy behind me said, somewhat wistfully "Poor Union, they just can't do anything right".

Yeah, you do start to feel a little bad for the other team when they look so completely outmatched.  I guess it helps if you once played on a team that got totally wiped by somebody else.  

On Union's side, they are way young, only 2 seniors on the roster.  So, they  may well (and let's hope they do) improve over the season and into the future.

CK

[Beeeej]

[quote bandrews37][quote ebilmes][quote bandrews37][quote Trotsky]With the win, Schafer ties Dick Bertrand for most wins as a Cornell coach, if I'm right.  He's still one short, if the Daily Sun is right.  TDS might actually be right, because Schafer has been suspended for a game at least once.[/quote]
You're not right - Schafer is still one shy, as Bertrand has 230 and Schafer has 229.[/quote]

You've counted them personally?[/quote]
If I said yes, I in fact have, you wouldn't believe me anyway.[/quote]

It's still a fair thing to wonder:  On what basis do you say "you're not right"?  On most things statistical, I would trust Trotsky much farther than I would trust the Daily Sun or the Ithaca Journal.  Do you have a basis for saying Trotsky isn't right other than the fact that the newspapers appear to disagree with him?

[ACM]

[quote Beeeej]
It's still a fair thing to wonder:  On what basis do you say "you're not right"?  On most things statistical, I would trust Trotsky much farther than I would trust the Daily Sun or the Ithaca Journal.  Do you have a basis for saying Trotsky isn't right other than the fact that the newspapers appear to disagree with him?[/quote]

As I posted here, TBRW has a discrepancy between the individual game results and the overall record for the 1972-73 season. The suspensions are irrelevant; the head coach is credited with the game results whether he was behind the bench or not. Bertrand's total includes one game that Cornell won with Laing Kennedy running the team on a night when Bertrand was ill.

[Beeeej]

[quote ACM][quote Beeeej]
It's still a fair thing to wonder:  On what basis do you say "you're not right"?  On most things statistical, I would trust Trotsky much farther than I would trust the Daily Sun or the Ithaca Journal.  Do you have a basis for saying Trotsky isn't right other than the fact that the newspapers appear to disagree with him?[/quote]

As I posted here, TBRW has a discrepancy between the individual game results and the overall record for the 1972-73 season. The suspensions are irrelevant; the head coach is credited with the game results whether he was behind the bench or not. Bertrand's total includes one game that Cornell won with Laing Kennedy running the team on a night when Bertrand was ill.[/quote]

I may have glossed over your post because while it pointed out the locations of the errors, it didn't offer corrected numbers, so I would have had to do actual work to figure out what the corrected numbers should be.  :-)

So as soon as Trotsky fixes the overall record for 1972-73, he'll have it right, and Schafer is in fact still one win behind Bertrand.  Thanks!

[Trotsky]

::drunk::[quote Beeeej][quote ACM][quote Beeeej]
It's still a fair thing to wonder:  On what basis do you say "you're not right"?  On most things statistical, I would trust Trotsky much farther than I would trust the Daily Sun or the Ithaca Journal.  Do you have a basis for saying Trotsky isn't right other than the fact that the newspapers appear to disagree with him?[/quote]

As I posted here, TBRW has a discrepancy between the individual game results and the overall record for the 1972-73 season. The suspensions are irrelevant; the head coach is credited with the game results whether he was behind the bench or not. Bertrand's total includes one game that Cornell won with Laing Kennedy running the team on a night when Bertrand was ill.[/quote]

I may have glossed over your post because while it pointed out the locations of the errors, it didn't offer corrected numbers, so I would have had to do actual work to figure out what the corrected numbers should be.  :-)

So as soon as Trotsky fixes the overall record for 1972-73, he'll have it right, and Schafer is in fact still one win behind Bertrand.  Thanks![/quote]

Thank you, both.  It will de duly updated.

[BCrespi]

[quote CKinsland]

Yeah, you do start to feel a little bad for the other team when they look so completely outmatched.
CK[/quote]

Of course, having watched the perennially mediocre, at best, Skating Dutchmen win in Lynah in 05 and tie in 04 (not to mention the 3-0 beating in their building in 04) has removed any feelings of pity I might have for them.

[Rosey]

[quote BCrespi]Of course, having watched the perennially mediocre, at best, Skating Dutchmen win in Lynah in 05 and tie in 04 (not to mention the 3-0 beating in their building in 04) has removed any feelings of pity I might have for them.[/quote]
Going into the weekend, the game I was less concerned about was in fact RPI, for this very reason.  I just never know what to expect when Cornell plays Union: you'd think we should paste them to the ice every time, but it doesn't seem to go down that way except on rare instances like last weekend's drubbing.  I think this is the clearest on-going proof of the woofing gods' existence, the most recent one-offs being Wayne State and Minnesota vs. Holy Cross.

Cheers,
Kyle