Frozen Four

[Trotsky]

where at Cornell the same job is done by an associate vice president.

Seems about right.

[ACM]

... where at Cornell the same job is done by an associate vice president.

Not since 2009.

[Beeeej]

North Dakota as a kick to the NCAA for making them drop the mascot, because it will be 10 or 20 years before they drop the mascot.

They're never really dropping it.  It's their green barchetta.

I love how they talk about the "no name" and then pan the crowd and 100% of the fans are still wearing it.

I would've put the estimate at closer to 115%.

[Chuck Henderson]

I've never been bothered by BU's winning in recent times. They are/were a big rival but a good one. The relationship Arthur mentions also counts a little. UNO seems so irrelevant to Cornell in terms of recruiting that I don't care; holding our own against them this season is a slight plus if they win. UND wins so much that it doesn't change anything if they win again. I've never liked Providence.

Providence - mainly due to fondness for the battles we had with them from '78-81 and admiration for the style of hockey they played then, but not really anything they've done since.

While those Providence teams had some good players (Korn), I always thought they were the epitome of a clutch and grab team for that era.

[Dafatone]

Man was it nice to see UND lose.

I don't really care too much between BU and Providence.  I would have liked to see UNO win, but I wasn't exactly invested.

[Trotsky]

With an all-East final, this will be the first string of 4 consecutive East champions in history.

[billhoward]

Shades of 1973 NCAA semifinal in old Boston Garden: Cornell up by 3 in the third period on Wisconsin, Wisconsin chips away and gets it to 5-4 late. Where Jack Eichel last night sank the empty netter to keep ND from tying, Cornell gave up the tying goal and then lost 6-5 in OT. Saddest Cornell game I saw until Syracuse-Cornell lax in 2009.

[billhoward]

USCHO on more lip service to the NCAA being for and about students and student athletes. http://www.uscho.com/frozen-four/2015/04/09/in-the-td-garden-seats-student-representation-slight/#ixzz3WusAPM1l

BOSTON — There are 17,565 sellable seats for each hockey game at Boston's TD Garden. The Bruins tend to fill them all, and the NCAA was pleased to put a body on every cushion this weekend as well. Yet, with a capacity greater than the total undergraduate enrollment at any of the four participating schools, fewer than 400 of those 17,565 tickets — 2.3 percent — ever made their way to actual students.

[Trotsky]

Shades of 1973 NCAA semifinal in old Boston Garden: Cornell up by 3 in the third period on Wisconsin, Wisconsin chips away and gets it to 5-4 late. Where Jack Eichel last night sank the empty netter to keep ND from tying, Cornell gave up the tying goal and then lost 6-5 in OT. Saddest Cornell game I saw until Syracuse-Cornell lax in 2009.

This is the closest I can come up with to an analogy since 1981.  It was the second game of a best-of-two where the first game was tied in virtually identical fashion with the roles reversed.  The stakes, of course, were far lower.

[BMac]

The UNO-Providence game was merely ok, but made better by sitting right in front of the PC band.

BU-NoDak was a great game. My BU friends were super surprised at coming out strong in the first, then biting their nails for the third period. Exact opposite of every other BU game this year, where they've been flat in the first and strong in the third.

My first Frozen Four was a fun experience- wish I'd known to wear my Cornell jersey. Had a lot of fun playing hockey-school bingo in my head (finding one of every school). I even found the Harvard fan.

[billhoward]

My first Frozen Four was a fun experience- wish I'd known to wear my Cornell jersey. Had a lot of fun playing hockey-school bingo in my head (finding one of every school). I even found the Harvard fan.

Frozen Four is one place where it's nice, a gathering of all the hockey faithful, and you don't get harrassed for wearing your team's jersey.

Did you sense there were not many students from the four schools in the arena? The USCHO said very few tickets were allocated for students, though students could buy in through other means. On TV you could closeups of all-UND cheering section(s) or BU.

[BMac]

Yeah, the student sections were pretty thin. BU had a whole section on the balcony that looked about the same size as their section for the HEA semis, but smaller than what you'd see at Agganis.

UNO had a band and some cheerleaders. I heard that they brought three buses from Omaha full of students. $250 for travel, hotel and tickets. I can't imagine that ride back.

PC had really small representation. I did love their goal celebration: "Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!" Apparently it's some WWE thing.

NoDak travels welllll. I was impressed with their huge section down below. A TON of people, and real loud. Plus their band was impressively loud and mean. I... liked them? One funny observation: the adults below would start "Let's Go Sioux" cheers all the time; the band never ever said the word "Sioux." I wonder if they've been gagged. They really should just change it to the "Fighting Susans."

[Trotsky]

They really should just change it to the "Fighting Susans."

Wisco refers to them as "the Fighting Snot."

[Al DeFlorio]

With an all-East final, this will be the first string of 4 consecutive East champions in history.

And seven of the last eight.  Real progress from three of the first 22 (with two of those three Ned's).

[tominvb]

That 73 semi versus Wisconsin still sticks in my craw.  Up by 3 and Coach Bertrand leaves the first line in 6 plus minutes of the last 8.  Hate Bertrand - Hate Wisconsin.  Did enjoy beating them up in Jaxs a few years ago in the March Madness tournement.

Better Days are coming as they say.  Enjoy the summer folks.
Tom in Vero