11/1 vs North Dakota

[BearLover]

People in Greek life are mostly pregaming/partying on Friday and Saturday nights. In my experience a high proportion of students who purchase season tickets are freshmen. Many of these students joins frats/sororities and don't buy season tickets in future seasons. If you're a girl who wants to get ready to go out or a guy whose frat is throwing a party that night, you can't really attend a game that night.

To be clear, none of the above describes my own experience at Cornell (or the experience of most on the forum, probably). But I do think that's part of what's going on. Unlike at a football or basketball school where social life during football/basketball season revolves around the school's biggest sport, at Cornell social life conflicts with the school's biggest sport (hockey).

[BearLover]

Berg hasn't played in 5 games. They beat BU 7-2 without him

Berg has played in 5 games. It says so on all the stats websites, such as this one:
https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=217242

Is your point that he left the BU game early with an injury?

[Dafatone]

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.

It's telling of just how good we've been lately that we just beat UND to open the season and even looked on par with them and nobody here is losing their shit.

[Chris '03]

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.

The university would not allow self driving by band members.

When I was a student we did split trips a few times to ensure coverage. I remember leaving a Princeton football game at halftime to make it back to campus for an exhibition hockey game even. But the band traveled with four buses then and one would take the pep band and leave the remaining three for the rest of football. I think the band runs only three buses now, which is among the complicating factors.

To anticipate the future wringing of hands, the last home football game conflicts with Lynah east this year so the students are not going to hockey. Alumni are planning to cover it.

[The Rancor]

oof. that video board is so distracting.

[andyw2100]

oof. that video board is so distracting.

Would also be nice if whomever is in charge of that could avoid playing their crap over the cowbell, which is that they did last night in period 3.

[imafrshmn]

It's telling of just how good we've been lately that we just beat UND to open the season and even looked on par with them and nobody here is losing their shit.

And Schafer, in his typical fashion, was all over them for their neutral zone turnovers in his postgame interview. Ah, love ya coach.

[Dafatone]

No penalty on the linesman for overly aggressive wrestling?

[BearLover]

What an atrocious period by the entire team.

[Chris '03]

What an atrocious period by the entire team.

Their lack of legs to start the season is showing. Getting beat and chasing the play all over the place. They had the benefit for TV timeouts last night but not tonight.

[BearLover]

What an atrocious period by the entire team.

Their lack of legs to start the season is showing. Getting beat and chasing the play all over the place. They had the benefit for TV timeouts last night but not tonight.

Nodak players are probably also just much faster on average. Also, Cornell can't handle the pressure while on the PP and Shane gave up way too juicy of a rebound on the third Nodak goal. If you want to stop Cornell from scoring on the PP, simply aggressively pursue the puck carrier. Been this way for years.

[Dafatone]

What an atrocious period by the entire team.

Their lack of legs to start the season is showing. Getting beat and chasing the play all over the place. They had the benefit for TV timeouts last night but not tonight.

Add in that I don't think we've seen Psenicka since early.

But hey, tie game!

[BearLover]

What an atrocious period by the entire team.

Their lack of legs to start the season is showing. Getting beat and chasing the play all over the place. They had the benefit for TV timeouts last night but not tonight.

Add in that I don't think we've seen Psenicka since early.

Jeeze, you're right

[BearLover]

What an atrocious period by the entire team.

Their lack of legs to start the season is showing. Getting beat and chasing the play all over the place. They had the benefit for TV timeouts last night but not tonight.

Add in that I don't think we've seen Psenicka since early.

Jeeze, you're right

Looks like O'Brien lining up on offense in place of Psenicka. I wish the announcers paid a bit closer attention

[Dafatone]

What an atrocious period by the entire team.

Their lack of legs to start the season is showing. Getting beat and chasing the play all over the place. They had the benefit for TV timeouts last night but not tonight.

Add in that I don't think we've seen Psenicka since early.

Jeeze, you're right

Looks like O'Brien lining up on offense in place of Psenicka. I wish the announcers paid a bit closer attention

I was driving and had the whcu stream going. They pointed it out.