Hockey @ Princeton this Saturday

[billhoward]

Princeton has a big home basketball game that nite.  Hard to believe the rink will be full.  Maybe Bill Howard can address the situation with getting seats at Princeton...

The best-attended Princeton-Cornell game I ever saw had, maybe, 200 open seats in a rink of 2,000. That was when the Princeton team was doing well. Princeton is currently 11th in the ECAC at 1-8-3 although it is on a one-game winning streak.

If you cannot, by the start of the second period, find two open seats together no more than two rows back of the Cornell bench, you're not trying.

[billhoward]

We had some huge road crowds in the early 2000s. I remember being at Yale games where it seemed like at least half of the rink consisted of Cornell fans.

Cripe! It's hard to think of 15 years ago as being the good old days. Then I looked and the mirror and I saw a Do Not Resuscitate waiver staring back. My take on "If thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee." Even millennials are starting to look real old.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

We had some huge road crowds in the early 2000s. I remember being at Yale games where it seemed like at least half of the rink consisted of Cornell fans.

Cripe! It's hard to think of 15 years ago as being the good old days. Then I looked and the mirror and I saw a Do Not Resuscitate waiver staring back. My take on "If thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee." Even millennials are starting to look real old.

Yep, my nephew, who I remember holding when he was only 17 days old, just turned 20.  

Face it, Bill.  We're old.

[Jim Hyla]

We had some huge road crowds in the early 2000s. I remember being at Yale games where it seemed like at least half of the rink consisted of Cornell fans.

Cripe! It's hard to think of 15 years ago as being the good old days. Then I looked and the mirror and I saw a Do Not Resuscitate waiver staring back. My take on "If thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee." Even millennials are starting to look real old.

Yep, my nephew, who I remember holding when he was only 17 days old, just turned 20.  

Face it, Bill.  We're old.

You don't know old.::demented::

[CAS]

Princeton ticket office reports that there an extremely limited number of remaining tickets.

[osorojo]

This year Cornell skaters seem to have consistently played at the level of their opponents. This could be an exciting game.

[Trotsky]

This year Cornell skaters seem to have consistently played at the level of their opponents.

You can tell this from the .842 percentage.

[Trotsky]

Opponents' combined conference records, final six weekends:

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DH 14- 8-5 .611
QP  8-12-4 .417
GG 12- 6-6 .625
UR 11-16-2 .414
YB 10-14-0 .417
SK 11-15-0 .423


[osorojo]

Is that .842 a percentage of wins alone or wins and ties? I never did well in those classes with all the numbers but it seems Cornell failed to win (lost or tied) against lower-rated teams as frequently as they failed to win against top-fifteen teams.

[ugarte]

Is that .842 a percentage of wins alone or wins and ties? I never did well in those classes with all the numbers but it seems Cornell failed to win (lost or tied) against lower-rated teams as frequently as they failed to win against top-fifteen teams.

includes ties as half-win, half loss. 14-1-4 = 16-3.

[Trotsky]

Is that .842 a percentage of wins alone or wins and ties? I never did well in those classes with all the numbers but it seems Cornell failed to win (lost or tied) against lower-rated teams as frequently as they failed to win against top-fifteen teams.

(2w + t) / 2gp

_{or, (w + t/2) / gp}

My point is we're not really playing at the level of the opposition.  We're taking the points we need against unranked teams and then fighting tooth and nail against the ranked ones.

Union is the exception.

[Dafatone]

This year Cornell skaters seem to have consistently played at the level of their opponents. This could be an exciting game.

The teams we've tied are ranked 9, 15, 20, and 55 in the pairwise.

The team we lost to is ranked 22.

Basically, we have a bad tie to Union. Otherwise, we've had some tough games against tough teams, and we've beaten teams all across the spectrum (8, 10, 15, 19, as well as 53, 56, 59).

[Trotsky]

Record vs current PWR bands:
 

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 1- 9    1-0-1    Clk, Prv
10-19    5-0-1    OSU, NMUx2, MSUx2, Qpc
20-29    3-1-1    Hvdx2, Drtx2, BU
30-39    1-0-0    Yal
40-49    1-0-0    RPI
50+      3-0-1    Prn, Uni, Brn, SLU


To give you an idea, let's say we replicate over the final 10 games:
 

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 1- 9    2-0-1    Clkx2, Prv
10-19    6-0-1    OSU, NMUx2, MSUx2, Qpcx2
20-29    3-1-1    Hvdx2, Drtx2, BU
30-39    4-0-0    Yalx2, Cgtx2
40-49    2-0-0    RPIx2
50+      6-0-2    Prnx2, Unix2, Brnx2, SLUx2


That would be 23-1-5 overall, 18-1-3 ECAC.  Yeah, I'll take that.

[arugula]

It was wonderful walking up the old ramps to get into the Garden. I could feel my body get excited with each step.

I know this feeling from 85 and 86.  I've never been as thrilled to enter into any other barn.

I was also there those years.  Crazy loud atomosphere.  The timbers at the Garden truly swayed, which may have had something to do with shoddy construction too.  I recall the 1986 double ot semi-final game with Clarkson and being worried that the T would stop for the night.  My late roommate and I stood along with everyone else for basically the entire night, which in the Gahden sometimes meant banging your head on the overhang.

[Trotsky]

It was wonderful walking up the old ramps to get into the Garden. I could feel my body get excited with each step.

I know this feeling from 85 and 86.  I've never been as thrilled to enter into any other barn.

I was also there those years.  Crazy loud atomosphere.  The timbers at the Garden truly swayed, which may have had something to do with shoddy construction too.  I recall the 1986 double ot semi-final game with Clarkson and being worried that the T would stop for the night.  My late roommate and I stood along with everyone else for basically the entire night, which in the Gahden sometimes meant banging your head on the overhang.

I remember that in the corners at the top of the rink the seats were all over the place and the rows lost their integrity.  It was like the top of an ear of corn.  :-)

The 86 ECAC SF is still the most exciting game I've ever seen, and the greatest performance by a Cornell goalie I have been present for.