Cornell 3 Quinnipiac 2 (ot)

[BearLover]

The students don't come back now because they are all in Europe skiing. Welcome to the new Ivy League

Sounds similar to the old Ivy League.

[George64]

In our day we'd be sure to come back Friday when break ended to attend both of the weekend games. It was a sacrifice of course to spend the weekend at school with no schoolwork to worry about, but that was before Cornell apparently became a place where fun came to die.

And we spent the night at Barton Hall to buy session tickets the next morning.  In the years before they opened Barton, we began lining up outside Teagle at five a.m. in the bitter cold.  Just a bunch of pampered, over-privileged wusses today, too busy sipping craft cocktails in Collegetown.

[Iceberg]

Classes start tomorrow so I think this is a case of a lot of students just waiting until the last minute to return to campus. For all the folks like me who tried to get back from the break earlier, there were a great many who didn't and I'm sure that's still the case.


As far as rush week goes, it has changed a lot in the past one to two decades as Greek Life has been tagged with more restrictions. Up until a certain point in the Skorton years, rush week was a full week before classes, and so the campus would be very quiet and devoid of undergrads aside from the students who were participating in Greek Life events either as hosts or guests. For anyone who wasn't involved in Greek Life, there really wasn't anything to do. Usually, there would be hockey games on a weekend around that time but they definitely wouldn't be at full strength attendance or atmosphere.

[chimpfood]

I don't think this is because of different generations, it can be traced back pretty clearly to the pandemic. Crowds in the 19-20 season were great and having a year off and then limited capacity is likely what did it.

[BearLover]

St. Thomas is leading the CCHA? Huh.

2 leagues who wont likely get a top 16 team so need to find a way to get into the top 14.

even winning last night in Reg would have  moved us to 15.

Root for BU/BC/Maine to play well down the stretch and Mass/Prov/UNH to stumble a bit more.

Umass has 5 games vs those top 3
UNH has 6
Prov has 5

lose all of them and then stumble a bit to lower teams would be nice.

UNH lost to UConn today, so we're up to 15 now.

[Chris '03]

St. Thomas is leading the CCHA? Huh.

2 leagues who wont likely get a top 16 team so need to find a way to get into the top 14.

even winning last night in Reg would have  moved us to 15.

Root for BU/BC/Maine to play well down the stretch and Mass/Prov/UNH to stumble a bit more.

Umass has 5 games vs those top 3
UNH has 6
Prov has 5

lose all of them and then stumble a bit to lower teams would be nice.

UNH lost to UConn today, so we're up to 15 now.

Looks like uconn and unh played a women's men's doubleheader. Wish there was more (any?) of that in the ecac.

[upprdeck]

we need another good weekend and get some help from the teams 3-4 spots ahead of us.

our margin is gonna be small.

[Trotsky]

we need another good weekend and get some help from the teams 3-4 spots ahead of us.

our margin is gonna be small.

We need seven more good weekends.  But so what?

Some philosophy.  This Winter is a lesson that the NC$$s can't be the overdetermining goal.  Enjoy the games one at a time, and let PWR take care of itself.  This is, in microcosm, the human problem of worrying about the future and never savoring the present.

We just beat Quinnipiac!  Marinate in that.  Enjoy the fruits of fandom.

[George64]

we need another good weekend and get some help from the teams 3-4 spots ahead of us.

our margin is gonna be small.

We need seven more good weekends.  But so what?

Some philosophy.  This Winter is a lesson that the NC$$s can't be the overdetermining goal.  Enjoy the games one at a time, and let PWR take care of itself.  This is, in microcosm, the human problem of worrying about the future and never savoring the present.

We just beat Quinnipiac!  Marinate in that.  Enjoy the fruits of fandom.

Well said!

[Al DeFlorio]

we need another good weekend and get some help from the teams 3-4 spots ahead of us.

our margin is gonna be small.

We need seven more good weekends.  But so what?

Some philosophy.  This Winter is a lesson that the NC$$s can't be the overdetermining goal.  Enjoy the games one at a time, and let PWR take care of itself.  This is, in microcosm, the human problem of worrying about the future and never savoring the present.

We just beat Quinnipiac!  Marinate in that.  Enjoy the fruits of fandom.

Not only beat them, but held them scoreless 6 on 6 and on the kill.  With four freshmen d-men skating.  And five freshmen forwards.  Q was averaging 4+ per game, third (I think) in the country.  Stop kvetching.

[Trotsky]

At some point we will have five freshmen on the ice at the same time.  The last time I can remember that happening was around 1989 in Troy, and they scored on us in about 8 seconds.

[upprdeck]

At some point we will have five freshmen on the ice at the same time.  The last time I can remember that happening was around 1991 in Troy, and they scored on us in about 8 seconds.

I think the coaches said at one pt vs Mass?  we had 5 on and they had 4 5th yr guys on the ice.

[Trotsky]

At some point we will have five freshmen on the ice at the same time.  The last time I can remember that happening was around 1991 in Troy, and they scored on us in about 8 seconds.

I think the coaches said at one pt vs Mass?  we had 5 on and they had 4 5th yr guys on the ice.

LOL.  Wow.

I'm not sure how we'd have 3 freshman forwards out there at once -- must have been on a change.

I'll need to do some fancy querying to figure out when the last time we had a 3-point all freshman goal.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

At some point we will have five freshmen on the ice at the same time.  The last time I can remember that happening was around 1991 in Troy, and they scored on us in about 8 seconds.

I think the coaches said at one pt vs Mass?  we had 5 on and they had 4 5th yr guys on the ice.

LOL.  Wow.

I'm not sure how we'd have 3 freshman forwards out there at once -- must have been on a change.

I'll need to do some fancy querying to figure out when the last time we had a 3-point all freshman goal.

I thought there was some point in the Q game where we had 5 freshmen out there.

[Trotsky]

At some point we will have five freshmen on the ice at the same time.  The last time I can remember that happening was around 1991 in Troy, and they scored on us in about 8 seconds.

I think the coaches said at one pt vs Mass?  we had 5 on and they had 4 5th yr guys on the ice.

LOL.  Wow.

I'm not sure how we'd have 3 freshman forwards out there at once -- must have been on a change.

I'll need to do some fancy querying to figure out when the last time we had a 3-point all freshman goal.

I thought there was some point in the Q game where we had 5 freshmen out there.

I just realized the fourth line, at least in name, was all freshmen: Devlin, Catalano, Kraft.  So any time they aligned with the Mosko-Fegaras pairings, we had 5 freshmen out there.  I didn't notice but it must have happened, and fairly often, unless Schafer was explicitly avoiding it.  Grady at least never mentioned it.