Upcoming Season

[Jim Hyla]

Here's the Sun's take on the schedule.

[nshapiro]

When we were visiting college campuses with my kids, we always picked up the campus paper to check out the quality of the writing. I don't know if my son would be at Cornell now if this article is a representative sample.  Hopefully it is just the sports section that is illiterate.  I might blame the editor, but there is little evidence that there was an editor.

[CU2007]

When we were visiting college campuses with my kids, we always picked up the campus paper to check out the quality of the writing. I don't know if my son would be at Cornell now if this article is a representative sample.  Hopefully it is just the sports section that is illiterate.  I might blame the editor, but there is little evidence that there was an editor.

It's been bad for years. It's really just very clear that the writers, try as they might, simply aren't familiar with hockey terminology nor the ins-and-outs of the game. Goalies "blocking" shots, forwards "hitting" the puck into the net. I'm sure they're doing their best with whats available at the sun, but its verylikely they don't have a big hockey fan on staff - at least not every year.

[billhoward]

There have also been some superb in-depth stories by The Sun including this spring the piece on the selection of the new basketball coach. How Cornell Basketball Hired Brian Earl

Now that The sun is three-times-a-week in print, we can hope there'll be more real time sports coverage, in particular the game story posting an hour or two after the game rather than waiting until the print edition comes out.

[Dafatone]

When we were visiting college campuses with my kids, we always picked up the campus paper to check out the quality of the writing. I don't know if my son would be at Cornell now if this article is a representative sample.  Hopefully it is just the sports section that is illiterate.  I might blame the editor, but there is little evidence that there was an editor.

It's been bad for years. It's really just very clear that the writers, try as they might, simply aren't familiar with hockey terminology nor the ins-and-outs of the game. Goalies "blocking" shots, forwards "hitting" the puck into the net. I'm sure they're doing their best with whats available at the sun, but its verylikely they don't have a big hockey fan on staff - at least not every year.

The Sun that I remember (04-07) is better than the newspaper at the school I'm at now, which is the flagship state university of a very, very sparsely populated state.

It's worse than the newspaper at Colorado University, but I don't think that one is anywhere near student-run.

Given that the Sun has very little non-student involvement (I think), it's not a bad product.  Or it wasn't a decade ago.

[dag14]

The only non-student involvement at The Sun are the front office staff who take care of routine stuff like sending invoices for advertising, the people who layout/format the paper to be printed, and the five "adults" who comprise half the board of directors.  Since the board provides institutional memory as well as oversight of the corporation, it makes sense to involve people who won't disappear after 4 years.  And the Board does not interfere in editorial decisions.  Although as an individual board member, I expressed my disgust whenever the Business Manager convinced the other student editors/managers to run full-pages ads on the back page rather than sports.

[nshapiro]

Since there are now articles that are never in print editions, are they not subject to typical proofreading one would expect?

[Trotsky]

TBRW Predictions.  We report, you decide.

Bottom line:

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 1. Quinnipiac
 2. Yale
 3. Harvard
 4. Clarkson
 5. St. Lawrence
 6. Dartmouth
 7. Union
 [color=#d61616]8. Cornell[/color]
 9. RPI
10. Colgate
11. Brown
12. Princeton


[dbilmes]

Looks like we get another trip to beautiful Hamden for the ECAC playoffs!

[KeithK]

Do you have data on how well your predict method has matched the real results?  Data based on your current incarnation of the prediction method would be best, as opposed to what you were using in any particular year (which means I can't just data mine your posts and do it myself :-)).

[Trotsky]

Do you have data on how well your predict method has matched the real results?  Data based on your current incarnation of the prediction method would be best, as opposed to what you were using in any particular year (which means I can't just data mine your posts and do it myself :-)).

Here's what you didn't ask for.

For what you did ask for, I'll do that eventually (unless you want to  ).  An advantage of the latest system is it's a lot easier than the old incarnations.

I agree the apples to apples is to use the same algorithm for all the data.

[Scersk '97]

TBRW Predictions.  We report, you decide.

Bottom line:

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 1. Quinnipiac
 2. Yale
 3. Harvard
 4. Clarkson
 5. St. Lawrence
 6. Dartmouth
 7. Union
 [color=#d61616]8. Cornell[/color]
 9. RPI
10. Colgate
11. Brown
12. Princeton


Given that your 3 of your predicted top 4 lost a significant amount of goaltending to graduation and early departure, one hopes that the performance of those teams and, thus, your predictor will encourage you to add goaltending back in for future years...

[Trotsky]

Given that your 3 of your predicted top 4 lost a significant amount of goaltending to graduation and early departure, one hopes that the performance of those teams and, thus, your predictor will encourage you to add goaltending back in for future years...

I've got a few months til the pucks drops.  One day I may be idle enough to run the numbers according to the 2015 formula.

[Jim Hyla]

Nine Current Men's Hockey Players Attend NHL Prospect Camps. The news here is that they had 4 free agents go to camps (Including Kubiak going to 2 different team camps), in addition to the drafted players.

[Jim Hyla]

Weidner New Men's Hockey Captain; Kubiak, McCarron Alternates

Men's Hockey Season Tickets On Sale Now