Red Hot Hockey "Presale"

[Trotsky]

Good luck to your wife, Jim.  May she feel better in a hurry.

[Jim Hyla]

Good luck to your wife, Jim.  May she feel better in a hurry.

Thanks

In ER as I write, waiting for a bed. Looks like a relatively small stroke in occipital lobe. Just need to see if they can find a reason. Fortunately no motor function problems.

Modern medicine can sometimes work. Saw her internist at 1, MRI at 3 and then they rolled her down the halls to the ER. Problem is with too many Covid admissions there are no open beds. She may spend the night in the ER getting all her tests and if all goes well tomorrow, she could end up going home without ever getting a real hospital bed.

Some people just don't realize what not getting immunized means to everyone else.

[CU2007]

Interestingly it appears the game will be carried on ESPN+.  I thought I had read that only games in ECAC arenas would be shown, which MSG obviously is not.

[George64]

Interestingly it appears the game will be carried on ESPN+.  I thought I had read that only games in ECAC arenas would be shown, which MSG obviously is not.

Yes!  Received this email this morning.

George, cheer on Big Red TOMORROW!
The tradition of Red Hot Hockey between the Cornell Big Red and the Boston University Terriers continues TOMORROW, November 27, at 8:00 p.m. EST.
 
Help us cheer on Big Red:
•   Whether you'll be cheering from the stands or the couch, suit up in your best Big Red gear.
•   Share your spirit with our Red Hot Snapchat lens. Try it on and share with your Cornell family!
•   Let us know if we'll see you in person at Madison Square Garden!
•   Watching from home? Catch the game on ESPN+! Red Hot Hockey will show up in the "Watch" tab on espn.com. (Psst! Don't have ESPN+? Signing up isn't free, but it's quick and easy at plus.espn.com)
•   Don't forget to #yellcornell on social media!
 
GO BIG RED!
Cornell University, Division of Alumni Affairs and Development
130 E. Seneca Street, Suite 400
Ithaca, New York 14850-4353
http://alumni.cornell.edu

[Iceberg]

Interestingly it appears the game will be carried on ESPN+.  I thought I had read that only games in ECAC arenas would be shown, which MSG obviously is not.

Yeah, I'm surprised. Usually the MSG network has the game. But even in recent years, I'd just watch the BU feed which was typically free. No need to do that with ESPN+ showing it now, though

[Rita]

Interestingly it appears the game will be carried on ESPN+.  I thought I had read that only games in ECAC arenas would be shown, which MSG obviously is not.

::banana::::banana::::banana::

[Trotsky]

Don't forget to #yellcornell on social media!

Cringe.

Somebody please replace whoever's mistress came up with that so we can move on and/or back to a better tag line.  Jesus fuck it is embarrassing.

[dbilmes]

My son told me that tickets were available for $25 through MSG.

[Rita]

Don't forget to #yellcornell on social media!

Cringe.

Somebody please replace whoever's mistress came up with that so we can move on and/or back to a better tag line.  Jesus fuck it is embarrassing.

what was wrong with "Let's Go Red"?

[ugarte]

Don't forget to #yellcornell on social media!

Cringe.

Somebody please replace whoever's mistress came up with that so we can move on and/or back to a better tag line.  Jesus fuck it is embarrassing.

what was wrong with "Let's Go Red"?

It's from Davy! And let's go red might be used by other schools, mucking up the hashtag.

[Scersk '97]

It's from Davy! And let's go red might be used by other schools, mucking up the hashtag.

It's not. It's from "My Old Cornell" or "Carnelian and White." Indeed, "Carnelian and White" is from 1906, whereas MYOC is from 1917, so the earliest reference is from the seldom performed (except by the band, lyric-less) football song.

As one of the stalwart group of bandies that takes it upon themselves to learn the lyrics to the non-sung songs or non-sung portions of the sung songs, I can say that most view the lyrics for "Carnelian and White" as something of a joke. There are a great many other phrases from Cornell songs that I would prefer, as long as it's not the even more laughable, particularly given the current context, "Here we are, here we are again!"

I've always liked "victory makes history," from "Fight for Cornell." There are others. We have a bunch of great college songs, and I wish more of them were wider known.

[billhoward]

Box score does not show the attendance for 2021. It felt like 10,000-plus out of 18,006 for hockey. The $25 tickets we got in the corner were listed online as a "Boston" section. The two rows in front of us were all-Cornell and everybody needed to get up and leave to pee or get another beer while the game was in play. But okay, they did make it to the game.

It seemed as if the BU band had 75+ people, they played a lot, and they played YMCA. I assume BU sent two buses on the university's nickel.

The MSG scoreboard was urging us to download a wrapper or frame for, ah, TikTok?, which may have been a promo for MSG not Yell Cornell.

If 10,000 was what was the butts-in-the-seats turnout, that seems enough to keep giving Cornell that Thanksgving Saturday slot for hockey. Don't know if 2021 attendance reflected lingering concerns about lots of people jammed in the building and healthy safety/concerns or just the challenge keeping the excitement in a series that dates to 2007.  

BU looked better than a 4-9-2 team. Schafer said after the game that Joe Howe seemed a little off in goal early on.

"I thought he was a little shaky in the first," Schafer said. "Then I thought he kind of settled in ... It was good to see a young guy like that, on this big stage, settle down."

It was impressive that midway through the second, BU was so rattled by Cornell's offensive pressrure they called their timeout. I don't recall it being afte a BU icing (?).

Cornell Daily Sun story: https://cornellbigred.com/news/2021/11/28/mens-ice-hockey-10-mens-hockey-outlasts-bu-for-red-hot-hockey-title.aspx

Cornell PR story: https://cornellbigred.com/news/2021/11/28/mens-ice-hockey-10-mens-hockey-outlasts-bu-for-red-hot-hockey-title.aspx

[Iceberg]

On the Internet feed, they had the BU AD talking during the 1st intermission and he mentioned the possibility of doing a series at Lynah one year, Agganis the next year, and MSG the third year. I didn't hear the whole discussion to know if it was definitely going to happen, but it wouldn't be a bad idea as long as the home games were not the Thanksgiving weekend (maybe that first weekend of the season before conference play for Cornell).

[billhoward]

At some point, alumni with less of their undergraduate passion for hockey would be happier with MSG hockey that isn't every year (whether BU for RHH or Penn State, Harvard, etcetera in off years). Cornell-BU every three years might be okay. It hurts that Cornell-Columbia is now the final football game so when it's played in NYC, there are two promoted events in mid-late November trying to draw Cornellians.

[CAS]

Given the state of Cornell football, I doubt that many alums would attend a season-ending game on a cold November day at Columbia.  I'd keep the annual Thanksgiving weekend hockey game at MSG.