Red Hot Hockey (Screw BU!)

[LynahFaithful]

It's never too early to start a thread for this!  How will things go this year?  

Points worth noting:

1 - Jack Eichel goes to the NHL.  This is definitely a benefit to us, and I doubt BU will have someone to replace him, but definitely stay alert.  

2 - Cornell graduated some pretty good talent which hopefully will be filled by rising players and the incoming class.  On the other end, BU only had three seniors this past season so there's not much being changed.  I think this point goes in favor of BU

3 - BU is coming off of being a runner-up at the national championship.  

4 - Schafer will be "returning to old ways" so hopefully that will accelerate more offensive power this season for Cornell.  

Overall,I believe these points favor BU, but I feel it will be a bit rocky for them at first with the loss of Jack Eichel.  Hopefully Cornell will be stimulated from last year's sub-standard season and the rising classes will fill the talent lost to get things going!  

Any other points worth noting?  What do you all think?

[RichH]

At that point, BU will have played about twice as many games as Cornell. I'd like to think that we would be in-stride after 8 games, however.

BU has a Tuesday night game vs. Bentley after a home series vs. Michigan and Cornell has a full week of rest after playing on the road at Yale/Brown.

[Jim Hyla]

Reasonable place to post this USCHO article on Travis Roy.

At least the NCAA has helped him.  

What has made the biggest difference is that Boston University was part of the NCAA's catastrophic insurance policy. As a result, Travis' long-term, around-the-clock care is covered, which is far from the norm for quadriplegics.

"I do have 24-7 home care year round," he says. "So I can do what I want and when I want with the help of that care. That's been a major relief.

"It's not my mom and my dad that's getting me up and ready for the day or my sister or my friends. That's what most people with this condition have to deal with. It becomes very [overwhelming] for family and friends.

"And if it's not family and friends doing it, it's limited hours [of care] through the state and Medicare and Medicaid. Home care is not a pretty business, quite frankly."

Read more: http://www.uscho.com/2015/10/20/travis-20-years-later-brokenhearted-about-hockey-roy-battles-frustrations-but-holds-onto-optimism/#ixzz3p6ShGqNy

[billhoward]

Not sure how Cornell's ticket allocation is going, but as a BU parent/friend we just got offered seats in row 4 (corner) for $70 via a BU blast e-mail.

[andyw2100]

Not sure how Cornell's ticket allocation is going, but as a BU parent/friend we just got offered seats in row 4 (corner) for $70 via a BU blast e-mail.

Looking at the pricing and seating chart here:

http://cornellbigredtickets.universitytickets.com/user_pages/event.asp?id=1180&cid=49

it looks as if Cornell may have offered similar seats for $77 at one time.

[ursusminor]

Article in Newsday.

[scoop85]

Article in Newsday.

Written by Neil Best '82 (known as Neil Fidelman while at Cornell)

[ugarte]

Article in Newsday.

OK, fine. Fire Schafer.

[Jim Hyla]

Article in Newsday.

OK, fine. Fire Schafer.

Funny how, since the season started, those threads haven't been very active.

Unfortunately the rest of your post doesn't show, so don't anybody get the wrong idea.

[Iceberg]

Of course Madison Square Garden has been a name in use well before Conn Smythe ever conceived the idea of Maple Leaf Gardens in the 1920-30's. Anyone who pays enough attention to the NHL won't make that kind of error.

[Jim Hyla]

Of course Madison Square Garden has been a name in use well before Conn Smythe ever conceived the idea of Maple Leaf Gardens in the 1920-30's. Anyone who pays enough attention to the NHL won't make that kind of error.

Meaning Coach Schafer doesn't pay enough attention to the NHL?

[Al DeFlorio]

Of course Madison Square Garden has been a name in use well before Conn Smythe ever conceived the idea of Maple Leaf Gardens in the 1920-30's. Anyone who pays enough attention to the NHL won't make that kind of error.

Maybe the nittiest of nitpicks.

[upprdeck]

there have been multiple Madison square gardens, i think even multiple ones at the same time if i remember history not all at the same location and were there not also multiple arenas in the same building at one time?

[Greenberg '97]

there have been multiple Madison square gardens, i think even multiple ones at the same time if i remember history not all at the same location and were there not also multiple arenas in the same building at one time?

There are multiple Madison Square Gardens right now.  How do you know the Big Red players don't cavort here before or after games?

[Trotsky]

there have been multiple Madison square gardens, i think even multiple ones at the same time if i remember history not all at the same location and were there not also multiple arenas in the same building at one time?

There are multiple Madison Square Gardens right now.  How do you know the Big Red players don't cavort here before or after games?

Because they're at the libraries and museums, of course.