NCAA regionals in Springfield

[jkahn]

Unfortunately for us students a lot of people may have Prelims the Thursday before spring break - I imagine some will try to come on Saturday tho if we advance

Time to repost this 55 year-old solution.  I do disown any responsibility if it doesn't work:
The Saturday night before the '69 ECAC's was the last regular season game of the year. I get to the game early as always, and I'm informed by a friend sitting two rows in front of me that the professor that day (it was a Tues.-Thurs.-Sat. class) had announced a prelim for ECAC Saturday (I hadn't gone to class that day). I go see the professor during the week and explain that I need to take a make-up because I'm going to Boston for the ECAC hockey tournament. He says that's not a good reason and I try my best to explain my passion and commitment to Cornell hockey. He explains that it's not a good enough reason and I say something like "I'm sorry you feel that way" and start to walk out. He says, "You've got to decide what's more important" and I turn and say "I have, I'm going to Boston." He says, in a tone of exasperation, "All right, I'll give you a make-up."
Sometimes, telling the truth works. Of course, I was crazy enough that I would have gone to Boston and risked flunking the course. Also, I knew that the manager of the hockey team was in my class and would somehow wind up getting a make-up (it turned out that Ned called on his behalf). When I got to the make-up, which was the Thursday after the ECACs, there were four of us (don't know the excuses of the other two-don't think they were hockey related). The make-up was very interesting, as he gave an oral exam, starting with one of us doing proofs on the blackboard, then having the second continue, back to the first who was then dismissed, then he called up the third (me), back to the second, etc. - he could really see how we could think, and when someone got stuck he could then ask a prompting question to see how quickly you picked it up.

Also, Dunc, perhaps you can offer to take the test early.
And for any of you who might have been math majors, it was Professor Michael Morley.

[upprdeck]

yea classes matter.  but so does the special stuff that being a student is about.

in the bigger picture a test will never be remembered for most kids. winning this will

[upprdeck]

cornell is a small dog
rit is a big dog

mtech bigger dog
quin small dog

[Iceberg]

Whether Seger is healthy or not for Thursday will be huge as there's only one guy in the tournament who has won more faceoffs, and he's not in this regional. Maine has the very talented Nadeau brothers so the more possession Cornell has, the better. All things considered, this isn't the worst placement given what we've seen the committee do for certain other teams (e.g. BU)

[sah67]

Anyone have more to share about Maine's strengths/weaknesses/style? I haven't seen them play this season and know only about the Nadeau brothers, who, while not twins, have nearly identical scoring stats (cute!)

[Trotsky]

They have annoying fans and one endlessly repeated monotonous cheer.

They're Michigan.

[upprdeck]

talented and sloppy the 4-5 times i watched them.

[arugula]

If that analysis holds than we can take advantage.

[jtwcornell91]

I missed the first two periods of the famous "Providence Game" because I had a Chem 208 prelim.  A bunch of us asked the prof to move it, but he refused.

The TA's were also pissed they had to be there.

FTR, I aced the exam.

When RIT went to the Frozen Four, their semifinal happened to land during a prelim I had on the calendar for an afternoon class I was teaching.  I let anyone who wanted take it early.  And I had someone proctor the exam for me.

[fastforward]

Unfortunately it's up to the individual professor and sadly not all are being cooperative

[chimpfood]

I've watched a decent bit of Maine this season and they seem to do really well at home and not great away from it. They play with a ton of energy and have a solid goalie, though he hasn't been amazing as of late.

[sah67]

A few of the Maine posters on USCHO seem to be concerned about us being a bad stylistic matchup for them, but they're also resigned to the same tired old tropes about Cornell being a team of "big slow goons who can't skate and only clutch/grab/obstruct their way to 1-0 or 2-1 wins"(paraphrased).

I'm not even convinced we have a discernible "style" this year: we've had different strengths and weaknesses at different points in the season (other than the PP mediocrity...that's been pretty consistent.)

[Dafatone]

A few of the Maine posters on USCHO seem to be concerned about us being a bad stylistic matchup for them, but they're also resigned to the same tired old tropes about Cornell being a team of "big slow goons who can't skate and only clutch/grab/obstruct their way to 1-0 or 2-1 wins"(paraphrased).

I'm not even convinced we have a discernible "style" this year: we've had different strengths and weaknesses at different points in the season (other than the PP mediocrity...that's been pretty consistent.)

For the last few years, I think we've transitioned from the clutch and grab stereotype (which really hasn't been true for a while anyway) to a team that plays a defensively responsible style while having a lot of offensive talent. We have the defensive discipline to play well against other offense-first teams, but we struggle against the sorts of clutch and grab teams that we get accused of being.

[sah67]

but we struggle against the sorts of clutch and grab teams that we get accused of being.

Definitely this. It's been the first season in a while where I really noticed us struggling badly against aggressive forechecks, and our players (especially our D) frequently getting muscled around in our zone and coughing up pucks due to the opponents' physical play.That used to be us!

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

but we struggle against the sorts of clutch and grab teams that we get accused of being.

Definitely this. It's been the first season in a while where I really noticed us struggling badly against aggressive forechecks, and our players (especially our D) frequently getting muscled around in our zone and coughing up pucks due to the opponents' physical play.That used to be us!

I've noticed a lot of teams in general using a two man forecheck.  That's when we have trouble.