#13 Cornell at Brown, Feb 24

[Trotsky]

Final third period SOG, 19-1.

[Trotsky]

I think these announcers have been very entertaining, as well as complimentary toward Cornell.

They were quite good.  Nice to see the level of announcing improving across the league.  We may not even have any middle functioning alcoholics left.

[Iceberg]

Two things - it's a big failure on the league's part that there is such confusion over the Ivy League standings - even amongst devoted fans like this page. Amateurish

Caron is a great goalie. Type of goalie a good team could lose in the ECAC quarters 2-1(OT) in game 1 and 1-0 in game 3. Masks a truly awful Brown team

Indeed. One could tell it was a frustrating game for him because he was basically doing all he could.

As for the refs, they weren't particularly great. Missed a few things that should've been Brown penalties very early in the game

[upprdeck]

puzzling how the refs missed that call on the max hit..  but since they missed so many others I guess you can just assume they spent part of the game with their eyes closed.

[George64]

Like between periods, I watched the Brown women's water polo team on their trip to Australia. Like it must have been a really cool trip. Like they literally saw koalas. Like they were totally cool, the koalas, that is. Like they took a really awesome boat ride, the women, not the koalas. Like it doesn't say much for Brown. Like it was really annoying. Like I finally had to press the mute button.

[Trotsky]

Yale comes from behind to beat Gate; watch out.

[BearLover]

Clearly a dominant performance. Too bad Cornell couldn't get a win last weekend, couldn't hang on another few seconds vs BU. Now they're teetering on the edge despite being a very good team.

[upprdeck]

yup.. just either of those games last week we we stay pretty close to top 10 in in PWR.. now we need to play well the next 3(hopefully) and see where we are.

Minn st and Ohame losing tonight would help us.  omaha down 5-1 and hopefully get swept.

[Trotsky]

Ivy Standings from the official site:

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Hvd 9-1-0 .900
Cor 7-2-0 .833
Prn 5-5-0 .550
Drt 3-6-1 .350
Yal 2-7-0 .278
Brn 2-7-1 .250


Let's pretend, for a moment, that it is correct (god knows if it is).  Let's start with the obvious, Hvd at .900.  That means winning in overtime is credited at a full win.

So now we go to Cornell.  The ECAC's 3-point system would give us 22/27 = .815 , so that isn't it.  How about getting 1 for an overtime loss in a 2-point system?  That would be 15/18 = .833.  AHA!!!

So let's say the rule is: 2 points for a win in regulation or overtime, 0 for a loss in regulation, 1 for a loss in overtime (thus generating a 3-point game), and no idea for a shootout win or loss.

Results:

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Hvd 9-1-0 .900 18/20 .900 (3 OT W)
Cor 7-2-0 .833 15/18 .833 (1 OT L)
Prn 5-5-0 .550 11/20 .550 (1 OT L)
Drt 3-6-1 .350  7/20 .350 (1 SH W)
Yal 2-7-0 .278  5/18 .278 (1 OT L)
Brn 2-7-1 .250  5/20 .250 (1 SH L)


So we know a shootout is just 1 point either way, and the mystery is solved.

The Ivy League point system is:

2 points for a win in regulation or overtime
1 for a loss in overtime
1 for reaching the shootout, result unimportant
0 for a loss in regulation


Cornell cannot win even a share of the Ivy title.

[Trotsky]

While the absence of red is disappointing this season, if we win tomorrow there will have been just 2 seasons in the last 17 in which we had a better ECAC record, and just 6 in the last 43 seasons.

[Dafatone]

Someone recently commented that the home/away weightings aren't severe enough because of how big home ice is.

I think they're too severe. Losing at home is brutal. Minnesota State just tumbled from about .5420 or so to .5365 because they lost to Michigan Tech. Went from #12 to #15 in the pairwise. And Tech is good! They're #11.

The good news is we are now #12.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

yup.. just either of those games last week we we stay pretty close to top 10 in in PWR.. now we need to play well the next 3(hopefully) and see where we are.

Minn St and Omaha losing tonight would help us.  Omaha down 5-1 and hopefully get swept.

Minn St. lost and Omaha is down 6-2 with 5 mins left.  We're back up to #12.

But we need to keep winning to stay off the bubble.

[billhoward]

I think these announcers have been very entertaining, as well as complimentary toward Cornell.

As is our due, at least in this game.

Did Cornell win a coin-flip and get to be the home band with choice of when they tooted about? Brown band, like Brown fans, almost invisible. Brown hockey players deserve credit for playing in a place that has no atmosphere, no presence. At one end there are windows covered by shades.

But did I hear Meehan now has a beergarden? Just in time for the hundredth anniversary of the beer hall putsch.

Nice game. We dominated. Well, by the third period we did.

On to New Haven.

[Iceberg]

Yeah, there was a whole area for beer at the end where Shane was located for two periods. The Brown band was passive but there was a decent showing of students in the crowd, although most seemed to be athletes themselves. Meehan would be a good place if it were filled but it's just so spacious that it looks bad if there aren't enough people

[Trotsky]

Just in time for the hundredth anniversary of the beer hall putsch.

Don't give the dumbfucks any ideas.  They already held the beer belly putsch.