Yale game postponed

dbilmes · January 11, 2022, 10:27:45 AM

Due to Covid protocols within Yale program.

Weder · January 11, 2022, 11:38:15 AM

Has the league said what happens if a game can't be rescheduled?

upprdeck · January 11, 2022, 11:44:35 AM

i wonder if PWR wise playing a road game against a bad team and winning is better than not playing at all? There has to be some benefit to winning games.

Jim Hyla · January 11, 2022, 12:55:45 PM

Canceled my hotel in Providence. Not driving out for a single game against Brown. This year looks like the fewest road trips in I don't know how long.

Jim Hyla · January 11, 2022, 12:58:07 PM

Quote from: dbilmesDue to Covid protocols within Yale program.

This is interesting, Sunday?

QuoteECAC Hockey and the affected programs are continuing to explore alternative possibilities for contesting the game at a different point of the weekend.

upprdeck · January 11, 2022, 02:07:58 PM

some school have moved games to tues.. i suppose you could move yale to a tues and then move a following weekend to sat-sun or something?

RichH · January 14, 2022, 10:09:21 AM

Quote from: upprdecksome school have moved games to tues.. i suppose you could move yale to a tues and then move a following weekend to sat-sun or something?

Now the Yale game is on for Saturday, and the Brown game is postponed. It's hard to keep up with this.

https://cornellbigred.com/news/2022/1/14/womens-squash-mens-hockey-to-play-saturday-at-yale-game-at-brown-postponed.aspx

Give My Regards · January 14, 2022, 10:14:26 AM

This is all starting to remind me of an old Peanuts cartoon in which Lucy reveals her strategy for winning a baseball game: "Tell the other team we will play them at a certain place, but that won't be the real place. Then, when we go to the real place and they don't show up, we win by forfeit."

upprdeck · January 14, 2022, 10:21:11 AM

Colgate gonna have a fun trip back home given the current forecast.. Cornell has a chance to now get out of Dodge before it hits.

dbilmes · January 14, 2022, 11:32:56 AM

Quote from: Jim HylaCanceled my hotel in Providence. Not driving out for a single game against Brown. This year looks like the fewest road trips in I don't know how long.

Good thing you cancelled your Providence hotel since Cornell won't be playing there this weekend! There are plenty of rooms in New Haven, but Yale isn't allowing spectators who aren't part of the Yale community.

Trotsky · January 14, 2022, 04:58:33 PM

Quote from: Give My RegardsThis is all starting to remind me of an old Peanuts cartoon in which Lucy reveals her strategy for winning a baseball game: "Tell the other team we will play them at a certain place, but that won't be the real place. Then, when we go to the real place and they don't show up, we win by forfeit."

This is also how Republicans do elections.

Trotsky · January 14, 2022, 06:11:20 PM

I don't understand the chronology on this at all.

It appears:

1. Yale postpones 11/14 Cornell
2. Brown postpones both 11/14 Colgate and 11/15 Cornell
3. Yale schedules 11/15 Cornell

But something is missing. Either Yale also postponed its 11/15 Colgate but then changed its mind, or when Colgate learned 11/15 Brown was canceled they said fuck it and pulled out of the whole weekend. And thus Cornell was able to take the now available 11/15 Yale slot.

None of that really makes sense though.

upprdeck · January 14, 2022, 08:46:14 PM

Yale pulled out. i would think Cornell had to change plans last min as did colgate.. Colgate was not prepared to play Yale and needed to move around anyway and perhaps colgate/cornell talked and with the game moving to sat Colg wanted to play the 2nd game vs yale to have time to prep as well take advantage of Yale playing a 2nd game.

Cornell might have wanted to travel back on Sunday and not Sunday night?

Maybe Colgate was always gonna leave Sunday after the Yale game so now they had a Hotel already to go and could show up Sat and prep and leave after the game Sunday. Cornell might have cancelled for Fri and then cancelled for Sat and then had to refind hotels and doing on a sat was easier?

Trotsky · January 14, 2022, 10:26:51 PM

All possible. I was thinking Colgate is a shorter trip so maybe they did Cornell a solid and gave them the early date. But at least here Sunday night is supposed to be a killer snowstorm, so I think Colgate is going to get stranded anyway.

Swampy · January 14, 2022, 11:26:20 PM

This all sounds quite weird. Yale postpones Friday's game ostensibly because of Covid, but not Saturday's game. Then Brown cancels games on both nights even though (at least up until then) Brown had kept both nights' games on the schedule. But now that Brown no longer is in the picture, Yale reschedules the games formerly known as Friday's and Saturday's to Saturday and Sunday, Covid not withstanding.

Maybe we'll have an open date coupled with when we play at Brown. If so, I suggest we see if we can fit Michigan in as the opponent on the complementary date. Where's AdamW when we need him?

BTW, a recent USCHO podcast predicted that college schedules are going to resemble NHL schedules this spring, with games both on weekdays and weekends. Imagine what will happen if there aren't two weekends with open dates, and Brown has to fit in both Colgate and Cornell for games midweek.