2011 ECAC Post-season

[ithacat]

Colgate scores in the second OT and wins 2-1. So Cornell hosts Quinnipiac starting Friday. That's better than playing host to RPI. Hard to believe a team with as much talent as the Engineers couldn't make it to the ECAC round of 8.

Though careful what you wish for.  Quinnipiac destroyed the Brown team that beat us.

...and the last time Cornell was a #4 seed they lost to Quinny in two.

[Rita]

Rita gets her wish.  

ECAC needs to get these games put on Sirius/XM satellite radio so that fans who happen to be driving, like on Alligator Alley, can tune in and listen. :-).

[marty]

Here is the GWG

Gate wins!

I was sitting next to two of Colgate's three fans - hence the polite clapping heard in the background.  (Very nice folks by the way.  I will likely mail them my next years Colgate at RIP tickets as I will be in Schenectady that night!)::burnout::

[css228]

We also beat QPac twice this season, so way better than facing Brown IMHO

[Trotsky]

...and the last time Cornell was a #4 seed they lost to Quinny in two.

Indeed, in 2007.

[billhoward]

Colgate scores in the second OT and wins 2-1. So Cornell hosts Quinnipiac starting Friday. That's better than playing host to RPI. Hard to believe a team with as much talent as the Engineers couldn't make it to the ECAC round of 8.

Though careful what you wish for.  Quinnipiac destroyed the Brown team that beat us.

...and the last time Cornell was a #4 seed they lost to Quinny in two.

The next five days will be full of positioning and recollections of past playoff lapses, so someone can say Told You So if Cornell sweeps in 2 or loses in 2 (please, no) or whatever. This is a bridge-to-the-future year. I think Cinderella will be able ride the carriage until Friday in Atlantic City.

[css228]

Colgate scores in the second OT and wins 2-1. So Cornell hosts Quinnipiac starting Friday. That's better than playing host to RPI. Hard to believe a team with as much talent as the Engineers couldn't make it to the ECAC round of 8.

Though careful what you wish for.  Quinnipiac destroyed the Brown team that beat us.

...and the last time Cornell was a #4 seed they lost to Quinny in two.

The next five days will be full of positioning and recollections of past playoff lapses, so someone can say Told You So if Cornell sweeps in 2 or loses in 2 (please, no) or whatever. This is a bridge-to-the-future year. I think Cinderella will be able ride the carriage until Friday in Atlantic City.

Further if Colgate can pull of another crazy upset.

[Trotsky]

One final meeting with Yale before they graduate everybody would be a way for Cornell to have a Great Moment.  This season has already been a tremendous success, but to defeat their recent nemesis in AC would cap it.

But before dreaming of that, they will face a difficult QF.

[amerks127]

Here is the GWG

Gate wins!

I was sitting next to two of Colgate's three fans - hence the polite clapping heard in the background.  (Very nice folks by the way.  I will likely mail them my next years Colgate at RIP tickets as I will be in Schenectady that night!)::burnout::

RPI's postmortem.

http://www.withoutapeer.com/2011/03/dream.html

[billhoward]

Here is the GWG

Gate wins!

I was sitting next to two of Colgate's three fans - hence the polite clapping heard in the background.  (Very nice folks by the way.  I will likely mail them my next years Colgate at RIP tickets as I will be in Schenectady that night!)::burnout::

RPI's postmortem.

http://www.withoutapeer.com/2011/03/dream.html

Considering how maudlin (and run-in) WRPI was in their post-game, this was pretty good including a couple sedason recollections such as winning a game in OT while killing a 5-minute major, on a penalty shot. They were too heartbroken to note it broke a 1-1 tie against, ahem, Colgate, back in January. Postmortem shows they're real hockey fans, too, despite choosing the wrong college to attend.

[ursusminor]

Here is the GWG

Gate wins!

I was sitting next to two of Colgate's three fans - hence the polite clapping heard in the background.  (Very nice folks by the way.  I will likely mail them my next years Colgate at RIP tickets as I will be in Schenectady that night!)::burnout::

RPI's postmortem.

http://www.withoutapeer.com/2011/03/dream.html

Considering how maudlin (and run-in) WRPI was in their post-game, this was pretty good including a couple sedason recollections such as winning a game in OT while killing a 5-minute major, on a penalty shot. They were too heartbroken to note it broke a 1-1 tie against, ahem, Colgate, back in January. Postmortem shows they're real hockey fans, too, despite choosing the wrong college to attend.

A great many RPI students chose RPI precisely because it wasn't an Ivy League college. I, for one, would not have been admitted to Cornell or another Ivy even if I had considered applying, and I would have been most unhappy with the liberal art requirements there. Thankfully, my HS guidance council told my parents that I would not be admitted, because undoubtedly they would have preferred the added prestige. I had enough of the highly competitive liberal arts atmosphere in HS to last a lifetime.

Tom Reale, on the other hand, definitely knows how to write, although he seems to enjoy getting other RPI fans mad at him on USCHO even more.

[phillysportsfan]

Assuming you go to RPI for engineering, Cornell really doesnt have much of a liberal arts requirement, 6 liberal arts classes is it, AP credit can get you out of most of it, end up only having to take 2 econ classes. I guess it is worse here for other majors

[ursusminor]

Assuming you go to RPI for engineering, Cornell really doesnt have much of a liberal arts requirement, 6 liberal arts classes is it, AP credit can get you out of most of it, end up only having to take 2 econ classes. I guess it is worse here for other majors

The econ courses probably wouldn't have bothered me. At least the ones in HS and college that I took didn't require writing, however I was a math major which I assume isn't in Engineering.

[Beeeej]

I've confirmed, by the way... if our series goes to a game three, that game will be at 7pm on Sunday.

So I'll just hope we sweep.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

When I went to school, Cornell required 8 liberal electives for engineers - one per semester - plus two unrestriced electives senior year.  While I wasn't going to enjoy the writing aspect of them, some of them (Psych 101, US History 1945-1980, and of course wine-tasting) turned out to be some of the most interesting classes I took at Cornell.  OTOH, some of them (Econ 101 and 102) were dull and boring and simply served to complete the requirement.

You get out what you put in.