Opponent and other news and results of interest 2024-2025

[Trotsky]

General admission might help.

It would break up the "rentier" problem where certain unnamed groups essentially rope off sections of the building for themselves.  This was I suppose excusable back in the days when those groups also brought their A game to participation, but like everything else it degenerated into a racket and now you get large dead areas where either they don't even show or spend the game on their iPacifiers, or play endless elaborate in-joke masturbation with each other.

The place for mutual masturbation is not Lynah, people.  It is West Campus.  

Offer also available at Risley.  Bring your own sword.

[BearLover]

Clarkson scores with 27 seconds left to go up 3-2

And Harvard still sucks!

Very bad outcome. It means Cornell gets Quinnipiac if tonight's results repeat themselves tomorrow.

Doesn't matter.  Gotta face them sometime.

No. We didn't have to face them last season because they lost in the semis.

Yeah I know but cmon this year if you want to completely obliterate all the demons what better way than Mike sending Rand home on a stretcher?

It's not a normal year.  This season is haunted by ghosts, and there are only two endings: either Mike et al. pull off The Miracle to exceed Ned, or we fall short.  So let's hasten unto the day.  Win tomorrow night and CRY HAVOC!

I want to win the ECAC and make the NCAA tournament in Mike's final year, not have Mike's career ended by Rand Pecknold.

As do I.

So let's stab the fucker in the face, as we did with Bill Cleary.

Never lose again.

This is obviously not worth engaging, but

Cornell is probably going to lose to Quinnipiac

That would be just about the saddest ending to Mike's career possible

Winning the ECAC on a miracle run would be just about the happiest ending possible regardless of whether we have to beat Quinnipiac on the way

Ergo, it would be completely nuts to want to play Quinnipiac next round

you sound like you are in the locker room at lake placid talking back to herb brooks

If herb brooks had 16,000 posts on a college hockey internet forum.

[Snowball]

Dear BL:

Aren't you happy about how fantastically well the team played last night?

Asking for a friend. XO

[jtwcornell91]

Lynah isnt Lynah already.

No place to really put it on campus and if it goes off campus it becomes even less of a thing.

if they had the money leave it. see if some scheme can redo the concrete and the seating.  reduce capacity about 10-15% if that works and remove 2 rows.

the problem being the townie side still sells pretty well.

SU just went thru this same issue but Lynah is even tighter.

The last renovation made a couple of related things worse: capacity now exceeds demand (although if the prices hadn't doubled in the last 20 years, that might be different), so you don't get a packed house (and can't be confident about selling extra tickets).  Plus, adding the extra rows (and boxes) up to the old outer wall means that moving between sections now means going out of the rink area and back in, where before you could still see the ice from behind the last row.

Does anyone have numbers on how often the attendance has exceeded the previous capacity of 3836?

[VIEWfromK]

Does the fact that all of the games are televised play some role in diminished attendance?

[marty]

Does the fact that all of the games are televised play some role in diminished attendance?

I'd say yes because the need to travel to see away games is gone.

[Trotsky]

Does the fact that all of the games are televised play some role in diminished attendance?

Certainly.

[Trotsky]

Does the fact that all of the games are televised play some role in diminished attendance?

I'd say yes because the need to travel to see away games is gone.

Though we could always hear them and hockey is great on the radio if you have a good PBP person.

[marty]

Shout out to Northeastern for taking it to BC yesterday.  Also Notre Dame loses to number 2 ranked MSU by a 1-0 score in Jeff Jackson's final game as head coach.

[upprdeck]

the reno did not have to mean the boxes had to end in a wall.  that was a design idea that was dumb.

[marty]

the reno did not have to mean the boxes had to end in a wall.  that was a design idea that was dumb.

It was dumb but don't those walls hold up the building?

[upprdeck]

sure but that doesnt mean they have to be solid walls.

[Weder]

This has definitely come up before, but is the deal with Lynah that they can't really renovate the seating area too much more without having to make massive changes to bring it into compliance with modern building codes?

[Give My Regards]

Dunno how interesting this is, and it's probably been covered somewhere else, but Minnesota State became the first team to clinch an NCAA bid (the CCHA auto-bid) last night.

The CCHA championship game isn't until Friday, but MSU's opponent in that game will be St. Thomas, which as part of their transition from D-III to D-I is ineligible for the D-I tournament until next year.  So, win or lose, the bid goes to MSU.

[Jim Hyla]

sure but that doesnt mean they have to be solid walls.

But if you've ever been in the new Lynah, or looked at pictures, you'll see that the extra seats, boxes or on the student side (such as where the band goes), occupy the old area that we used to be able to walk in. So those seats end up being higher than floor level. Even with open walls you couldn't see much, if anything, other than the backs of fans heads.