Cornell v Union

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Atlantik?

A Møøse once bit my sister.

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[BearLover]

Goodbye ncaa

Holy crap—you realize if we win the ECACs we'll get a bid, right? I know it sucks right now but we have a team good enough to win the league.

It is true that we can still get into the NCAAs if we win the ECAC, yes. It is also true that Colgate, Dartmouth, and the rest of our league can do the same. Cornell is not special in this regard. We have the second best team in the league, but the reality is that winning the ECAC is a long shot. It cannot be more than 20%. The angry people on this forum are well aware we could, in theory, win the ECAC. We are unhappy anyway because we pissed away an at-large bid over the past two weekends.

The concept of the complainers being fair-weather fans is nonsense. If we sit through every game, every excruciating disappointment, how are we fair-weather fans? There are a couple of wild posters on here who seem to think Cornell losing is a moral failure or something. Most of us here don't see things that way, but are disappointed all the same. A promising season has fallen to pieces. Now the entire year comes down to a tiny sample size of weighted coin flips, same as it does for every team who needs to win their conference tournament to make it to the NCAAs.

[ugarte]

Goodbye ncaa

Holy crap—you realize if we win the ECACs we'll get a bid, right? I know it sucks right now but we have a team good enough to win the league.

It is true that we can still get into the NCAAs if we win the ECAC, yes. It is also true that Colgate, Dartmouth, and the rest of our league can do the same. Cornell is not special in this regard. We have the second best team in the league, but the reality is that winning the ECAC is a long shot. It cannot be more than 20%. The angry people on this forum are well aware we could, in theory, win the ECAC. We are unhappy anyway because we pissed away an at-large bid over the past two weekends.

The concept of the complainers being fair-weather fans is nonsense. If we sit through every game, every excruciating disappointment, how are we fair-weather fans? There are a couple of wild posters on here who seem to think Cornell losing is a moral failure or something. Most of us here don't see things that way, but are disappointed all the same. A promising season has fallen to pieces. Now the entire year comes down to a tiny sample size of weighted coin flips, same as it does for every team who needs to win their conference tournament to make it to the NCAAs.

Even if your focus is ECAC > NCAA, we didn't finish first in the conference and haven't won the ECAC tournament since 2010.¹ Do the people who think we're haters not see the value of a back up plan so we get more Cornell hockey? Every game matters for its own sake, for its value in the ECAC standings (and seeding) AND for progress towards the NCAAs - even if you consider that a mere trinket (a feeling, I am sure, not shared by Ken Dryden). When the conference is having a down year, it feels like we're much better than most of our conference peers, and we STILL keep going to fucking overtime or losing... guh.

1. NB: Trotsky - my first choice to confirm this would have been TBRW but... (let me know if it's an issue on my end)

[Trotsky]

#ugarte: Thank you, I'm already learning a lot.  Can you tell me what OS/Browser combo you are running?

I do not get the error; if anybody else does please PM me here.  I've occasionally gotten it in the past looking at sites and I always figure, "welp, midget porn."

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Worked for me in 2 different browsers.

[BearLover]

If Schafer challenges the Clarkson tying goal for a hand pass and it gets overturned, we'd be favorites for an at-large bid. Or if we beat Union, of course.

[upprdeck]

IF cornell only wins Union or Clarkson the PWR doesn't change much. Winning both would jump them to 12th

[BearLover]

IF cornell only wins Union or Clarkson the PWR doesn't change much. Winning both would jump them to 12th

The point is that Cornell would be the *favorite* to receive an at-large bid by the end of the season, not that they would receive one if the season ended today. Most of the teams ahead of them will likely lose one or more times before the end of their conference tournaments.

[ugarte]

nvm

[upprdeck]

Best case if Cornell wins the 2 playoff games and everything thing goes right they can get to 12th.  

More likely they win 2 and can scrape into 14th if several things go right.

if they win 3 and close to Q at least they have path in hand to know by then what can happen.

[ugarte]

#ugarte: Thank you, I'm already learning a lot.  Can you tell me what OS/Browser combo you are running?

I do not get the error; if anybody else does please PM me here.  I've occasionally gotten it in the past looking at sites and I always figure, "welp, midget porn."

1. it's working for me now
2. whenever i tried to send you my specs by PM or reply, i got a Phorum Phailure error which makes me think it reads all the numbers as spam
3. the cornell.edu address on your contact page forwards to an old work email and bounces

PM if you want to send another address to get the specs on my laptop/browser

[RichH]

#ugarte: Thank you, I'm already learning a lot.  Can you tell me what OS/Browser combo you are running?

I do not get the error; if anybody else does please PM me here.  I've occasionally gotten it in the past looking at sites and I always figure, "welp, midget porn."

1. it's working for me now
2. whenever i tried to send you my specs by PM or reply, i got a Phorum Phailure error which makes me think it reads all the numbers as spam
3. the cornell.edu address on your contact page forwards to an old work email and bounces

PM if you want to send another address to get the specs on my laptop/browser

I'd just like to point out that our common fandom relies on two sites that were designed more or less when html frames (and Jason Elliott) were pretty great.

It's a bit endearing at this point. :-)

[Scersk '97]

I'd just like to point out that our common fandom relies on two sites that were designed more or less when html frames (and Jason Elliott) were pretty great.

It's a bit endearing at this point. :-)

I can think of another site that is a similarly endearing time capsule of Internet 1.0...

Indeed, someone (never me) should create a Webring of such sites.

Also, I dearly miss collegehockeystats.net.

[Trotsky]

I dearly miss collegehockeystats.net.

F yes.

Still the only site that did stats right.

[ugarte]

Our Knights are Awesome! Simply Awesome!