Opponents News

[BearLover]

With Harvard, Union, and Cornell, as well as Clarkson, Yale, and Q, losing a massive amount of talent to graduation/early departures, I would imagine the ECAC will be relatively weak next year.  Harvard will still have Donato, Fox, and Madsen, so they look to be the favorite, but if the Red's D can stay healthy I don't think our opponents are going to score many goals. St. Lawrence will also likely be a popular top-four pick due to them returning the best goalie in the league.

[billhoward]

Red Berenson has retired at 77 from Michigan; he was head coach since 1984. The replacement is Mel Pearson, who was a Michigan assistant for 23 years then head coach at Michigan Tech the last six.

http://www.uscho.com/2017/04/24/former-michigan-assistant-mel-pearson-returns-to-succeed-red-berenson-as-wolverines-head-coach/

Had Ned Harkness stuck with Cornell that long, he would have been head coach through 1996. And then could have turned things over to Mike Schafer.

[BearLover]

Harvard has a clear and significant recruiting advantage over the rest of the ECAC: http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2017/04/24_USA-Hockey-Announces-2017-18.php

Still waiting for that rising tide to lift Cornell's boat...

[Al DeFlorio]

Still waiting for that rising tide to lift Cornell's boat...

You've told us this at least 500 times.  I think that's 499 times too many.

[marty]

Harvard has a clear and significant recruiting advantage over the rest of the ECAC: http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2017/04/24_USA-Hockey-Announces-2017-18.php

Still waiting for that rising tide to lift Cornell's boat...

The simplest solutions involve throwing Harvard out of ECACHL or we could leave. I think it would be easier for Cornell to leave and a la NCHC a new league would be formed. Since the goal is to crown Cornell as the defacto leader of this movement/group we at eLynah are faced with the task of picking the other schools. My nominations for those schools are the AAAA teams of Alaska, Alaska, AIC and Alabama, along with the alphabetically challenged Sacred Heart.

I propose the league be called the GOHIC. The Gorge Out Hockey Ice Conference. It would segue perfectly with the progressive idea concerning beer sales at NCAA events. I can hear the chant from the Lynah faithful as we cheer our team at the Albany Times Union Center league championship series.

Go, Go, Go Hic !!  ::drunk::

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

How 'bout this:  We leave, form a new conference with us, RPI, Miami, BU, Wisconsin, and Sacred Heart.

We could call it the Big, Red Hockey Conference (note the comma).  ::whistle::

[upprdeck]

maybe we should be more people to donate money so that the Hockey team had a recruiting budget so they could go get the kids they need?

[BearLover]

Still waiting for that rising tide to lift Cornell's boat...

You've told us this at least 500 times.  I think that's 499 times too many.

One time for every time someone on here has said the opposite.  ::bang::

[RichH]

Still waiting for that rising tide to lift Cornell's boat...

When you're on the open water, you can't really tell that your boat is up.

I'll make a guess that Cornell would not have received its at-large bid without having strong teams in our conference. All of our OOC opponents finished with a record below .500, and we went 5-2 in those games. The highest-ranked team we played on our OOC schedule finished at #30. **They did not make the tournament because of OOC opponents.**  They made the tournament because they were able to play 15 games vs. teams in the top 25, ALL IN-LEAGUE, and they came out of it with a winning record in those games. That's why the at-large bid was in play at all, and if they were in a AHA-level league, they're on the outside of the at-large bubble.

That has always been my argument, and I don't understand how this isn't apparent to you, even after a season like this.

[BearLover]

Still waiting for that rising tide to lift Cornell's boat...

When you're on the open water, you can't really tell that your boat is up.

I'll make a guess that Cornell would not have received its at-large bid without having strong teams in our conference. All of our OOC opponents finished with a record below .500, and we went 5-2 in those games. The highest-ranked team we played on our OOC schedule finished at #30. **They did not make the tournament because of OOC opponents.**  They made the tournament because they were able to play 15 games vs. teams in the top 25, ALL IN-LEAGUE, and they came out of it with a winning record in those games. That's why the at-large bid was in play at all, and if they were in a AHA-level league, they're on the outside of the at-large bubble.

That has always been my argument, and I don't understand how this isn't apparent to you, even after a season like this.

Our league wasn't particularly great this year--we had three of the worst teams in the country.  Going like 20-7-4 overall was what got us into the tournament, not going slightly over .500 vs. the top-25.  But that's beside the point, because all of this is priced into the PWR--the same PWR that put us into the NCAAs in, for instance, 2002 and 2006, when our conference stunk (also see in 1996/1997, where we probably never could have won our tournament had we been forced to face the Harvards and Yales of today).  My point remains that Cornell wins the ECAC less, makes the NCAA less, and gets the same or worse recruits than it did when the ECAC stunk.  We got crushed in our NCAA game--a worse performance in the tournament than we ever had when the conference was bad.  OTOH, we're coming off a good year and the future looks relatively bright.  Anyway, it's my fault for bringing this up again.  **]

[Trotsky]

A step up from raping kids, anyway.  Baby steps.

[billhoward]

A step up from raping kids, anyway.  Baby steps.

Special kind of Penn State skills competition for distance and accuracy. I'm seeing a special Nittany Lion punchline - Ugarte, work with me here - that pulls a multiple pun on 'golden showers'

[Swampy]

A step up from raping kids, anyway.  Baby steps.

Special kind of Penn State skills competition for distance and accuracy. I'm seeing a special Nittany Lion punchline - Ugarte, work with me here - that pulls a multiple pun on 'golden showers'

Sounds like the work of the left-handed Klodover Mohel.

[ursusminor]

No one has posted this recent item about what happened in Schenectady.::whistle::

[Trotsky]

I'm sure there will be absolutely no reference to this incident at Lynah.