11/1 vs North Dakota

[arugula]

Get off my lawn

[arugula]

Agreed.

Crowd has never been the same since the 70s. Can hear a pin drop at Lynah these days.

Get off my lawn.

[arugula]

Number 2 in the pairwise.....

Absolutely I just laughed out loud at this brewpub

As did I when I typed that.

[Scersk '97]

Time to accept that Cornell hockey is dead.

No one watches anymore, all on social media.

Even with Halloweekend and other activities, the surprising number of empty seats and tiny pep band is tough to see for a high caliber game and when ND traveled well.

Marching band is on the road, you doofuses.

That makes sense. Can I complain about football getting top billing over hockey for band?

"Back in my day," the pep band would've headed down to Princeton overnight and then left after halftime to make it back for the second period. "Kids these days!"

But whatever. I'm glad they pulled together whatever they could. Any game without piped-in music is a win.

[scoop85]

Agreed.

Crowd has never been the same since the 70s. Can hear a pin drop at Lynah these days.

While it's difficult to tell on a telecast, it seemed to me the place was lacking the type of energy you might expect for the opener against a top-flight opponent.

[BearLover]

Time to accept that Cornell hockey is dead.

No one watches anymore, all on social media.

Even with Halloweekend and other activities, the surprising number of empty seats and tiny pep band is tough to see for a high caliber game and when ND traveled well.

Marching band is on the road, you doofuses.

That makes sense. Can I complain about football getting top billing over hockey for band?

"Back in my day," the pep band would've headed down to Princeton overnight and then left after halftime to make it back for the second period. "Kids these days!"

But whatever. I'm glad they pulled together whatever they could. Any game without piped-in music is a win.

I think piped in music would have been preferable to silence (though far worse than band music). It's important to keep the casual fans coming back.

[Scersk '97]

Agreed.

Crowd has never been the same since the 70s. Can hear a pin drop at Lynah these days.

While it's difficult to tell on a telecast, it seemed to me the place was lacking the type of energy you might expect for the opener against a top-flight opponent.

Not sure the casual fan understands what a game in Lynah with NoDak means, sadly enough. And college students will make their own choices. I would've been pretty fired up for a game like this, but I'm not sure anyone outside that day-and-age's pep band--even other bandies--would've been similarly engaged. But everyone gets fired up for the Harvard game, and many used to get fired up for the Clarkson and Vermont games, because they were, along with Harvard, the class of the league at that time.

The Town sections were definitely full.

[VIEWfromK]

Even when Cornell got beat up the ice by the speed, they were still able to get back into the play.  The most obvious was Walsh diving to thwart the two on one.  O'Leary had one back check where he stripped someone at their blue line and took it the other way.  There was a strip in the third that I think involved a Mack chance but I don't remember the details. They had a nice approach early just getting shots toward the net without being too cute.  It wasn't until later where I saw a few unnecessary drop passes that went right to a defender.  Really nice start.  Shane probably their best player.

[Scersk '97]

I think piped in music would have been preferable to silence (though far worse than band music). It's important to keep the casual fans coming back.

We obviously agree, but I'll quibble: this notion of "the casual fans love" [whatever thing] is part of what peeves me about every sporting event these days. I think a lot of the dross prevents converting casual fans into serious fans, and I don't think anyone really gets that right now. So it's QU-style wall-to-wall "entertainment" everywhere.

[abmarks]

Time to accept that Cornell hockey is dead.

No one watches anymore, all on social media.

Even with Halloweekend and other activities, the surprising number of empty seats and tiny pep band is tough to see for a high caliber game and when ND traveled well.

Marching band is on the road, you doofuses.

That makes sense. Can I complain about football getting top billing over hockey for band?

"Back in my day," the pep band would've headed down to Princeton overnight and then left after halftime to make it back for the second period. "Kids these days!"

But whatever. I'm glad they pulled together whatever they could. Any game without piped-in music is a win.

For those wanting a more robust pep band on an away football weekend:

You'd need athletics to ask the marching band to  help make that happen in advance. Independent as it is, the brb reports to the athletic department.  Also, as said above, the vast majority of pep bandies are in the marching band.  And if you're in the marching band, you've made a commitment.

Performance wise, The marching band really needs to plan in advance when they know someone will not be able to perform a halftime show.   It's not just plug and play when it comes down to the choreography on field.

Simply speaking, each group of moving pieces is a rank.   There's a rank leader and asst rank leader.   When the rank shifts formation, the rank leader is responsible for leading that move, following the proper path and ending in the right place.  The player at the other end of the rank (iirc that'd.have been the asst rank leader) makes sure that the tail of the rank ends up properly positioned as well...and the players in between need to properly space between the front and back.

It's not a huge deal if you lose one of the players in the middle, but if a rank leader or asst rank leader isn't going to be there, it's not something you can easily substitute on the fly.  Whoever is next in line has to learn those cues and moves etc...and generally speaking, the next one line isn't having to learn that the move ends with the rank on the 41 yard line, 5 steps to the right of the hash, and aligned at 45 degrees to the tuna section.

That's a bit simplified, as there are exceptions, but while anyone knowing the music, or anyone who can sight read decently, could fill  in during  a pep band performance, it's at minimum a disruption, and possibly a major disruption, to take players away from a marching band halftime show.

Edited to remove crap at the end.

[chimpfood]

Students have plenty of work to do but the townie sections definitely were not full. There are so many factors that contribute to lower student turnout (parties, more stuff to do with better technology, playing schools that half the students have never heard of) but I think the most important is that nobody comes alone. I imagine that back in the days when most of you were students, people came to the hockey games to find friends,  now nobody comes without friends. This isn't just true true for hockey but for almost everything, think of parties where people pregame before and go together so they never have to be alone. I think it's terrible for society overall but it's definitely bad for the crowds at lynah.

[ugarte]

I wish the lunatics board would spend more energy on the hockey and less on the fact that the non-lunatics aren't lunatics.

As for the band, appreciate the insight @abmarks. I wonder if "play halftime and take off back to campus" is something a couple of vans of hockey-first pep bandies would be allowed to do if they wanted to (or if it would implicate school liability or something). But other than a yes or no on the permission question, I imply no judgment.

[ugarte]

Great highight package. Includes Walsh breaking up the 2on1 and saves from Shane and Hedquist.

[arugula]

Agreed.

Crowd has never been the same since the 70s. Can hear a pin drop at Lynah these days.

While it's difficult to tell on a telecast, it seemed to me the place was lacking the type of energy you might expect for the opener against a top-flight opponent.

Not sure the casual fan understands what a game in Lynah with NoDak means, sadly enough. And college students will make their own choices. I would've been pretty fired up for a game like this, but I'm not sure anyone outside that day-and-age's pep band--even other bandies--would've been similarly engaged. But everyone gets fired up for the Harvard game, and many used to get fired up for the Clarkson and Vermont games, because they were, along with Harvard, the class of the league at that time.

The Town sections were definitely full.

Exactly.  I'm talking to my daughter's friend, they had no clue the significance of North Dakota. Town side was good.

[arugula]

Agreed.

Crowd has never been the same since the 70s. Can hear a pin drop at Lynah these days.

While it's difficult to tell on a telecast, it seemed to me the place was lacking the type of energy you might expect for the opener against a top-flight opponent.

Not sure the casual fan understands what a game in Lynah with NoDak means, sadly enough. And college students will make their own choices. I would've been pretty fired up for a game like this, but I'm not sure anyone outside that day-and-age's pep band--even other bandies--would've been similarly engaged. But everyone gets fired up for the Harvard game, and many used to get fired up for the Clarkson and Vermont games, because they were, along with Harvard, the class of the league at that time.

The Town sections were definitely full.

Exactly.  I'm talking to my daughter's friend, they had no clue the significance of North Dakota. Town side was good.

Good but not full. We were in L and had our feet on the row in front.