Cornell 6 at RPI 1 post game

[cth95]

UVM has Thuderstix sometimes too, but I can't remember if they give out 1 or 2.  I went to a game a couple of months ago because someone gave me a ticket, but I don't think they had any that time.  They were giving them out at the last Cornell game I went to at Gutterson.

FWIW: I never opened mine.

[TimV]

They had placed them on the seats, there were two on the seats I saw.

Uninflated.

The RIP fans had to blow them up, which was difficult because they don't blow, they just....::whistle::

[cth95]

At UVM they hand Thunderstix out to everyone as they enter the building.  That is the only reason I had one (or two, whichever it was).  They also occasionally handed out things like a Smuggler's Notch one-day lift ticket.  I would have definitely used that if I had time that year.  I still have a UVM puck from another give-away day.  Now that I think of it, they pretty much always hand out something.

[pfibiger]

[quote calgARI '07][quote reilly83]Jason Weinstein's 3 stars of the game:

3. Romano
2. Bitz
1. Greening[/quote]

Greening was the best player all weekend.  Gallagher and Krantz were my other stars.  Thought Salmela was an excellent addition to the lineup and a huge upgrade on the powerplay.[/quote]

I thought that Milo played a great game against RPI and the Romano/Milo duo generated a couple of amazing chances aside from the Milo goal.

[Dpperk29]

[quote Jim Hyla][quote marty]Does anyone have an idea as to why thundersticks are allowed in the rink?  Noisemakers are not allowed and yet RIP has passed these damn sticks twice now in the past few years.::cuss::

They totally covered the Cornell cheers from my seat and really PO'd me once again.[/quote]

For the same reason that Clarkson's, and others, band plays while the game is playing. No one seems to care enough to enforce it. When I mentioned it to their band last year, I was not so politely told to butt off. Someone needs to talk to the ECAC heads and get them set straight. (and we can't play a cowbell in an NCAA game)[/quote]

you're still grumpy about that? get over it Jim, it's our rink.

[RichH]

[quote BigRedBrouhaha]From what I've heard through rumors and the like, I thought that RPI gives out one thunderstick (which is not considered a noisemaker) then sells individual thundersticks inside. This way they get around the restriction.

Has anyone else heard this, Or mi talking out of my ass here??[/quote]

Yeah, that's exactly what happened for the 2003 version of the "hey, pretty please show up to this one game and be real fans" game (the suckers in Troy like to call it the "Freakout").  Their bribe...I mean, "gift" was a single Thunderstick, and they sold others for $1 inside.  There's probably some added caution about what gets approved as a hand-out since the NCAA noisemaker rule came about from this particular fabricated event.  See the intro paragraph and the 2003 gift here:
http://www.augenblick.org/rpi/h_brf.html

Saturday night, a pair of lamestix were placed limp on every damn seat except in the visitors sections.  Most of the noise during play were the little kids (Troylets?) expending energy and whacking each other with them.    They were also used to try to drown out our cheers.  But basically, it's pretty sad when you have to rely on a toy to make noise at a freaking hockey game.  Clapping and shouting apparently is too complex to handle for the regulars at Houston.

[Jim Hyla]

[quote Dpperk29][quote Jim Hyla][quote marty]Does anyone have an idea as to why thundersticks are allowed in the rink?  Noisemakers are not allowed and yet RIP has passed these damn sticks twice now in the past few years.::cuss::

They totally covered the Cornell cheers from my seat and really PO'd me once again.[/quote]

For the same reason that Clarkson's, and others, band plays while the game is playing. No one seems to care enough to enforce it. When I mentioned it to their band last year, I was not so politely told to butt off. Someone needs to talk to the ECAC heads and get them set straight. (and we can't play a cowbell in an NCAA game)[/quote]

you're still grumpy about that? get over it Jim, it's our rink.[/quote]

Unfortunately, it's that kind of thought that give alot of people bad ideas about Clk. A rule is a rule. If the band is not supposed to play during the play of the game, then it's not supposed to, irrespective of whether it's your rink or not.

The funniest thing I ever saw about the band was when Ref Pierre Belanger (sp?) got tired of it and went crashing into the glass right in front of the Clk band. They stopped.


If a ref would announce there will be a penalty if it happens again, that would be the end of it. We'd all like to do what ever we want to, but we can't. At Cornell we've learned that we can be given a penalty if we throw objects on the ice after the first period starts. Many fans on this forum complain about it, but it's the rule and we have to live by it.

What bothers me, and others, is the we can do what we want, it's our rink attitude. And, no as long as we have to abide by the rules, and our band does, and does it well (all you have to do is watch the conductor as he is watching to see when play starts), I won't get over it as you say.

And yes this is a plug for our pep band, I'm proud of them. Keep up the good work.

[RichH]

[quote TShen][quote oceanst41]Does anyone else feel like Davenport had a quiet 28 saves. I was sure Cornell outshot RPI.[/quote]

According to USCHO, the SOG was 29-23 RPI.  RPI outshot Cornell in the 3rd 16-4.  It surely didn't look that way in the webcast.[/quote]

It's my impression that the scorekeeper at Houston is typically pretty generous.

One thing on RPI's play...it's a good thing they didn't have many accurate shooters.  One thing about sitting in the visitors' bleacher sections (probably the only good thing)...you get some good looks at the targets the forwards are trying to pick.  There were several times Davenport happened to leave some really wide open corners to shoot at.  Most of them went horribly wide, thankfully.  It's possible he could have gotten over for the saves, but I thought, from the angle I was viewing, a sharper-shooting opponent could've picked a few of the corners.  Otherwise, decent play and they played well with a lead, unlike Friday.

[Jacob '06]

Apprently D3 basketball refs in southern california (some of the worst basketball refs around) know about the noisemaker rules. Got told we couldn't use a cowbell during a game last night. I guess it is a lot easier for a ref to tell the crowd stuff at a basketball game though.

[JasonN95]

[quote Dpperk29]
you're still grumpy about that? get over it Jim, it's our rink.[/quote]

Oh, is that how it works? Any chance you could explain that to Rich S? I think that would do away with about 98% of his posts here. :-P

[ajec1]

[quote JasonN95][quote Dpperk29]
you're still grumpy about that? get over it Jim, it's our rink.[/quote]

Oh, is that how it works? Any chance you could explain that to Rich S? I think that would do away with about 98% of his posts here. :-P[/quote]

Hmm, seems a storm might be a-brewin'.

Honestly, I could complain until I was blue in the face about the drumming while in play (poor man's Cleveland Indian fans?), however, there appears to be nothing anyone can do about it (short of Schafer...if he complains to the ref it would be taken care of). You can get away with stuff if you live on the frontier apparently.

[Trotsky]

[quote RichH]It's my impression that the scorekeeper at Houston is typically pretty generous.[/quote]

It was legendarily so, in the 80's, both for assists (a goal on which an opposing player accidentally passed the puck to an RPI skater who went the length of the ice and beat the goalie still got two assists) and shots (50 at Houston = 35 anywhere else).  To be fair, both practices extended to both teams, so I don't think it was intended to blatantly pad the home skaters' stats (see Maine and Vermont as prime culprits), but was just the eccentric opinion of an off-ice official who saw the game a bit differently than all his peers.

It's hard to believe that guy is still there 20-25 years later.  Maybe he passed the Masonic Handshake on to his successor, or maybe you just saw a weird night.

[Beeeej]

[quote Trotsky][quote RichH]It's my impression that the scorekeeper at Houston is typically pretty generous.[/quote]

It was legendarily so, in the 80's, both for assists (a goal on which an opposing player accidentally passed the puck to an RPI skater who went the length of the ice and beat the goalie still got two assists) and shots (50 at Houston = 35 anywhere else).  To be fair, both practices extended to both teams, so I don't think it was intended to blatantly pad the home skaters' stats (see Maine and Vermont as prime culprits), but was just the eccentric opinion of an off-ice official who saw the game a bit differently than all his peers.

It's hard to believe that guy is still there 20-25 years later.  Maybe he passed the Masonic Handshake on to his successor, or maybe you just saw a weird night.[/quote]

20-25 years is a blip compared to the longevity of some of the characters still lurking around Cornell hockey.

[ursusminor]

Just curious, how does the quality of the broadcast that RPI produced compare to Cornell's? I am not interested in the relative costs, the announcers' voices or knowledge of the game, or whether the broadcast was too RPI-centric, just video and audio quality, dropouts, loss of signal, camera angles and techniques, etc.

I have never seen Cornell's broadcast, and thus can't compare them. I do think that RPI's broadcast suffered from people standing in front of a camera on several occasions. I don't care for the perspective from the ice-level camera. I also thought that it didn't seem like the camera was focused well.

BTW, there was a short survey which was supposed to be filled out before starting the feed. I assume that it could be ignored, but I will have to start beating the bushes to find out how many RPI fans and how many Cornell fans were watching.

[cth95]

[quote ursusminor]Just curious, how does the quality of the broadcast that RPI produced compare to Cornell's? [/quote]

The quality was ok for a free feed, but definitely more grainy than the Cornell CSTV feed.  It looked a little like an artsy view or the beginning of a fade-out, except that it stayed the same.  I couldn't really see the numbers or colors well.  I didn't realize I could access your feed until the 3rd period, so I can't speak for the whole game, but I don't think I had one freeze-up.  The motion was actually very smooth.

I agree on the ice-level camera.  It was an interesting angle, but you can't see much from there.

[quote ursusminor]BTW, there was a short survey which was supposed to be filled out before starting the feed. I assume that it could be ignored, but I will have to start beating the bushes to find out how many RPI fans and how many Cornell fans were watching.[/quote]

I checked the box for rooting for Cornell.  I will be curious to see what the end results are as well.