First round vs Union

[andyw2100]

Not including playoff tickets in student season tickets and making them optional for townies has always hurt playoff attendance.

This season the students' season tickets DID include the playoff games. They did not have any option with respect to purchasing or not purchasing the playoff tickets. The student season tickets simply came with the playoff tickets (and without the Merrimack games which took place over their winter break.)

[BearLover]

Here are the numbers (from http://db.elynah.com ). 2010 is probably skewed since it's Harvard. Not including playoff tickets in student season tickets and making them optional for townies has always hurt playoff attendance.

2009 vs RPI
3813
3952
3812

2010 vs Harvard
4267*
4267*

2011 vs Quinnipiac
3978
4037
3813

2012 vs Dartmouth
3869
4267*

*sellout

So Friday saw at least ~350 fewer fans than every playoff game between 2009 and 2012, and it seemed a much smaller percentage of ticket owners for the playoff games actually attended this weekend than during those years.  Saturday didn't look any busier.  I didn't know that about the townies--that's dumb and they should fix it.  Playoff tickets were always included with my student season ticket package, though.

Those were some awesome games, though, including coming back from down 0-1 to beat RPI, sweeping Harvard, a J. Devin game 3 OT game-winning one-timer against Q, and beating D'mouth in 2nd OT on a Whitney wrister ::burnout::

[billhoward]

Wonder if any playoff series did not coincide either with start or end of spring break.

[billhoward]

No reason The Daily Sun can't knock on the officials' door and ask for an explanation. At the least they have a "officials refused to comment" to report. Build some pressure for the refs in amateur sports to explain.

[ithacat]

Here are the numbers (from http://db.elynah.com ). 2010 is probably skewed since it's Harvard. Not including playoff tickets in student season tickets and making them optional for townies has always hurt playoff attendance.

2009 vs RPI
3813
3952
3812

2010 vs Harvard
4267*
4267*

2011 vs Quinnipiac
3978
4037
3813

2012 vs Dartmouth
3869
4267*

*sellout

2014 vs Clarkson
3742
3952
3473

2015 vs Union
3624
3791

2016 vs Union
3484
3888

[Jim Hyla]

No reason The Daily Sun can't knock on the officials' door and ask for an explanation. At the least they have a "officials refused to comment" to report. Build some pressure for the refs in amateur sports to explain.

It wasn't the Sun, but Brandon Thomas always has a good write up on CornellBigRed.com. It was CU's gain and The IJ's loss, when he left them. Here's his reporting:

— but the officials went to video review and deemed a Union player had dislodged a frozen puck from the glove of Cornell goalie Mitch Gillam.

[BearLover]

Here are the numbers (from http://db.elynah.com ). 2010 is probably skewed since it's Harvard. Not including playoff tickets in student season tickets and making them optional for townies has always hurt playoff attendance.

2009 vs RPI
3813
3952
3812

2010 vs Harvard
4267*
4267*

2011 vs Quinnipiac
3978
4037
3813

2012 vs Dartmouth
3869
4267*

*sellout

2014 vs Clarkson
3742
3952
3473

2015 vs Union
3624
3791

2016 vs Union
3484
3888

Thanks, that's better than I thought (although ideally we'd sell out the biggest non-Harvard games of the year).  Seemed like more empty seats than normal, but glad to see we rebounded a bit from Friday's number.

[KeithK]

If you can't find box score here on eLynah you can check http://collegehockeystats.net/.  It has box scores going back at least a decade.  TBRW has boxes for longer but they don't include attendance.

[Trotsky]

If you can't find box score here on eLynah you can check http://collegehockeystats.net/.  It has box scores going back at least a decade.  TBRW has boxes for longer but they don't include attendance.

Which reminds me.  The years I am missing for boxes are 93, 94, 95.  Ayybody who digs them up wins... I dunno, my gratitude.

(87 is weak, too.   And 81.  Other than those I pretty much have everything since the Lynah opening.)

[Robb]

93, 94, and 95 are best memorialized with empty box scores.

[billhoward]

Which announcement could have been provided to the fans and also the broadcasters. What you see on TV for professional sports for referee explanations, you want to see at more levels. Especially since broadcast TV if not ILDN TV, gives you multiple replays and angles, so you want to know the thinking if say the overhead view shows the puck crossing the goal line and it's no goal.

[ACM]

If you can't find box score here on eLynah you can check http://collegehockeystats.net/.  It has box scores going back at least a decade.  TBRW has boxes for longer but they don't include attendance.

Which reminds me.  The years I am missing for boxes are 93, 94, 95.  Ayybody who digs them up wins... I dunno, my gratitude.

(87 is weak, too.   And 81.  Other than those I pretty much have everything since the Lynah opening.)

I have the scoresheets. What I don't have is the motivation to copy them.

[KeithK]

If you can't find box score here on eLynah you can check http://collegehockeystats.net/.  It has box scores going back at least a decade.  TBRW has boxes for longer but they don't include attendance.

Which reminds me.  The years I am missing for boxes are 93, 94, 95.  Ayybody who digs them up wins... I dunno, my gratitude.

(87 is weak, too.   And 81.  Other than those I pretty much have everything since the Lynah opening.)

I have the scoresheets. What I don't have is the motivation to copy them.

But... gratitude!!!

[RichH]

If you can't find box score here on eLynah you can check http://collegehockeystats.net/.  It has box scores going back at least a decade.  TBRW has boxes for longer but they don't include attendance.

Which reminds me.  The years I am missing for boxes are 93, 94, 95.  Ayybody who digs them up wins... I dunno, my gratitude.

(87 is weak, too.   And 81.  Other than those I pretty much have everything since the Lynah opening.)

It's a little bit of work, but the '95 season has what looks to be complete box scores in a very dusty corner of elynah.com. The skeletal remnants of KeithK's old CU Hockey website still exist and every so often I find myself looking there for a random datum from '95-'01 that I can't find on TBRW or any of the other creaky websites that provided me with morsels of late-90s college hockey stats and records.

It's annoying because many of the hyperlinks are still coded to point to the www.hockey.cornell.edu domain, so what you have to do is open a link in a new tab and replace the "www.hockey.cornell.edu" in the url with "www.elynah.com" and it should give you the document.

Here's the jumping-off point for the '94-'95 season, which is as far back as Keith's site had with respect to box scores: http://www.elynah.com/news/9495/schedule.html

 I tell you what, it's weird looking at the schedule and seeing so many opponents throwing up 6, 7, 8, and 9 goals against a Cornell team.   Oh, that last game of the '95 QF at Clarkson. The infamous "Everybody into the box!!" game by Harry 'The Arm' Ammian. CU had 4 guys (5 separate penalties) stuffed into the penalty box within a minute in the 2nd when the score was still 2-1. Also the home Harvard game featured a Harvard PPG on a Delay of Game fish-related penalty at the beginning of the 2nd. I'll still never forgive that idiot in Section D.

FWIW, here is Keith's site's front page: http://www.elynah.com/news/
But most of the historical stuff he compiled can be located here: http://www.elynah.com/news/History/

Do I get 1/3 gratitude?

[KeithK]

I could probably write a Perl script to update all of the files to point to elynah.com (well, the Age could run to do so).  I just haven't because I think you and I are the only people who ever go there. :-)