2019-12-06: Cornell 3 Harvard 1

[Trotsky]

Oh, BTW, the Slack chat worked great.  Thank you again to Phil!

[Killer]

CBR says #2 Men's Hockey Uses Quick Start To Down #12 Harvard, Move to 10-0

While the Sun reports that No. 2 Men's Hockey Earns 10th Straight Win With 3-1 Victory Over Harvard

USCHO highlights in their Friday Wrap-up: No. 1 Minnesota State, No. 2 Cornell keep rolling with Friday victories

GoCrimson laments that In Battle of ECAC Hockey's Top Teams, No. 9/12 Men's Ice Hockey Falls, 3-1 to No. 2/2 Cornell

Finally The Harvard Crimson tearfully posts that No. 2 Cornell Handles No. 12/9 Men's Hockey

If you look closely at the third picture in the Crimson article, you can see how totally engaged in the game the Harvard "fans" are.

[Tcl123]

.....thought I heard a reference to "65-70%" Red fans.

The Harvard video announcers (who were fine AFAIC) said whereas most years it's 60/40 Cornell fans, this year it was 70/30.

Thompson will be interesting.  A team on a roll can start to generate a lot of buzz.

I was actually going to state something along those lines. The game at Princeton is getting extremely scarce in regards to tickets. Last year, I was able to get a decent block of tix over a month out. Not so much now, or at least last time I checked.

[JasonN95]

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Thompson will be interesting.  A team on a roll can start to generate a lot of buzz.  Typically only a sliver of the fans who go to Bright go up to Hanover.  Maybe this year we'll see more.  I hope so.  It's actually a really fun trip, and Dartmouth is pretty.

I thought I'd "scout" Dartmouth last night by watching some of the replay of the Colgate v Dartmouth game. There was almost no crowd. CHN boxscore says 1300 but it didn't look like anything close to that showed up.

[Trotsky]

.....thought I heard a reference to "65-70%" Red fans.

The Harvard video announcers (who were fine AFAIC) said whereas most years it's 60/40 Cornell fans, this year it was 70/30.

Thompson will be interesting.  A team on a roll can start to generate a lot of buzz.

I was actually going to state something along those lines. The game at Princeton is getting extremely scarce in regards to tickets. Last year, I was able to get a decent block of tix over a month out. Not so much now, or at least last time I checked.

Good.  Let's turn every rink into Lynah.

[Jim Hyla]

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Thompson will be interesting.  A team on a roll can start to generate a lot of buzz.  Typically only a sliver of the fans who go to Bright go up to Hanover.  Maybe this year we'll see more.  I hope so.  It's actually a really fun trip, and Dartmouth is pretty.

I thought I'd "scout" Dartmouth last night by watching some of the replay of the Colgate v Dartmouth game. There was almost no crowd. CHN boxscore says 1300 but it didn't look like anything close to that showed up.

Judging by my conversations with fans last night I think the turnout will be small. I could never understand why we can't get a few Bostonians to travel to a couple of close games. Even Brown is poorly attended, but much better than Dartmouth.

As an aside I have to say that the rink staff never fail to amaze me. Last year it was when they asked for my Snickers while I was tossing them. This year started off very well. When I asked the parking staff about the band bus, they directed me right to it and then found a place for me to park behind the rink where the bus was.

However when I was handing out newspapers by the main entrance, one of the staff got annoyed that I was constantly yelling "newspapers" and asked me to stop. Too much for his tender ears, I guess.

[Iceberg]

To be fair, it's much less of a pain to get to Providence from Boston, especially without a vehicle, but still. In terms of road game attendance if you take out MSG and Harvard, the highest concentration of Cornell fans is probably at the games in Princeton because of the many alums in nearby cities and surrounding areas