Opponents and Others 2023-24

[Trotsky]

Keeps Cornell in the running to get to 10 first.  

This. ::cheer::

Damn... Nice run by Michigan, winning in 51,52,53,55,56.

Scoured the list to see who bumped them off in 54. Shocked to see it was  RPI!

It was Ned Harkness.

[Scersk '97]

I didn't even last 3 minutes trying to be impartial.  I hate BC.

BC West vs. BC East as far as I'm concerned. Both teams' fans suck and are reviled by their respective conferences. And what school doesn't bring their own band to the FF?!

A pox on both their houses.

[upprdeck]

Denver was lucky to win the first 3 games and then played a really nice final game to win it all.

[BearLover]

Denver was lucky to win the first 3 games and then played a really nice final game to win it all.

They were pretty lucky to win the final too. To win the NCAA tournament, extremely good luck is basically a prerequisite.

[Trotsky]

Both teams' fans suck and are reviled by their respective conferences.

You know who else's fans are hated in their conference?

I've always liked Denver.  For me the ideal F4 would be us, Denver, BU, and Wisco.

[Trotsky]

BC West vs. BC East as far as I'm concerned.

BC West is Minny.

[RichH]

Both teams' fans suck and are reviled by their respective conferences.

You know who else's fans are hated in their conference?

I've always liked Denver.  For me the ideal F4 would be us, Denver, BU, and Wisco.

That's a lot of red.

[Trotsky]

Both teams' fans suck and are reviled by their respective conferences.

You know who else's fans are hated in their conference?

I've always liked Denver.  For me the ideal F4 would be us, Denver, BU, and Wisco.

That's a lot of red.

Good.

[ursusminor]

Keeps Cornell in the running to get to 10 first.  

This. ::cheer::

Damn... Nice run by Michigan, winning in 51,52,53,55,56.

Scoured the list to see who bumped them off in 54. Shocked to see it was  RPI!

It was Ned Harkness.

The RPI win over Michigan was in the semis. RPI defeated Minnesota in OT in the finals.

[Scersk '97]

Both teams' fans suck and are reviled by their respective conferences.

You know who else's fans are hated in their conference?

I've always liked Denver.  For me the ideal F4 would be us, Denver, BU, and Wisco.

Eh, I don't think we're hated overly much, for the same reasons I can't hate the Minnesota fans: there are just enough doomsayers and Eeyores that it keeps the fan base quasi-humble, and they've got a good band.

As far as your group goes, I'll take it. If I have to pick amongst the "blue bloods," I'd swap in UND for Denver.

In a perfect world of unreality, I'd swap in Michigan Tech.

(And I'd never swap in any of our ECAC brethren. A loss to one of them would be just crushing.)

[Trotsky]

The perfect scenario is Cornell > Harvard / Clarkson > SLU / Cornell > Clarkson.

[BearLover]

Laughing at teams like BC/BU/NoDak/Quinnipiac losing just doesn't hit the same when they've won national championships recently. (BU fans might try to claim 15 years is a long time, but to a Cornell fan it's definitely not.) At the same time, each brutal loss by Cornell feels extra crushing because it's been so long since we've won at hockey or lacrosse ("our sports," as scoop85 puts it). I'd shrug off our loss to Denver this year in hockey or today's lax loss to ND much more easily if we had actually won it all recently.  But that hasn't happened since the 70s. I know others on this forum have been enduring heartbreaking losses for longer than I have, but it's starting to wear on me too.

[billhoward]

Just like when Kraws went there [Saint Lawrence], there are few opportunities for 5th year goalies on the skids.

Just as Bogey and Bergman always had Paris, Bwen Kraws will always have Lake Placid and that 3-0 shutout of Quinnipiac. It improved his standing as he headed to the pros.

At the Cornell-at-St. Lawrence game, I sat in the top row of a section that included SLU partisans. Kraws pere was standing at the concourse rail right behind us. A woman I know said he was intense. I would say he was a mainstream hockey parent. Cornell fans owe one to Kraws (goalie) for standing on his head in Lake Placid in that shutout of Quinnipiac. I don't know we could've beaten Q in the final. The Saints made it a moot point.

[marty]

I didn't even last 3 minutes trying to be impartial.  I hate BC.

BC West vs. BC East as far as I'm concerned. Both teams' fans suck and are reviled by their respective conferences. And what school doesn't bring their own band to the FF?!

A pox on both their houses.

I missed the band trivia.  Wasn't that a D. U. band?

[arugula]

Laughing at teams like BC/BU/NoDak/Quinnipiac losing just doesn't hit the same when they've won national championships recently. (BU fans might try to claim 15 years is a long time, but to a Cornell fan it's definitely not.) At the same time, each brutal loss by Cornell feels extra crushing because it's been so long since we've won at hockey or lacrosse ("our sports," as scoop85 puts it). I'd shrug off our loss to Denver this year in hockey or today's lax loss to ND much more easily if we had actually won it all recently.  But that hasn't happened since the 70s. I know others on this forum have been enduring heartbreaking losses for longer than I have, but it's starting to wear on me too.

This is what I was thinking after the Notre Dame loss yesterday.  How many crushing losses does Cornell get to suffer?  Otoh you have to be good to be in position to lose in crushing fashion.