Cornell @ RPI, 2/13/26

[stereax]

Good news from McNally - both our centers are back!

Anyways, get the points and GTFO.

Ivy matchups, make them count.
So apparently I'm an idiot and can't read our schedule 😂

[Trotsky]

I know what I want for my birthday.



Well, and a win would be nice.

[dbilmes]

Does anyone have a recommendation for a pre-game meal in beautiful Troy?

[Trotsky]

Does anyone have a recommendation for a pre-game meal in beautiful Troy?

https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-plum-blossom-troy

[Iceberg]

Does anyone have a recommendation for a pre-game meal in beautiful Troy?

Downtown Troy actually had a great restaurant scene when I was there in the past. I don't think you can go wrong with too many places

[Troyfan]

Does anyone have a recommendation for a pre-game meal in beautiful Troy?

Verdiles for Italian but I hear the neighborhood has gotten sketchy.  Off Shore Pier in East Greenbush for seafood.  Knotty Pine for pizza, about a mile from the rink.

[marty]

Does anyone have a recommendation for a pre-game meal in beautiful Troy?

Verdiles for Italian but I hear the neighborhood has gotten sketchy.  Off Shore Pier in East Greenbush for seafood.  Knotty Pine for pizza, about a mile from the rink.

Verdiles if you like 1950's decor - not sure if the waiters have bought new outfits this year.  Knotty Pine is dead - replaced with an ethnic pizza fast food feeling joint.  The Pines on Hoosick Rd is run by the Knotty Pine family and I have only tried it 2 or 3 times.

Ali Baba if you like Turkish middle eastern plates.

[profudge]

Our family have eaten at Plum Blossom once or twice a year for about 18 years  -  really enjoy the  atmosphere and the food is better Chinese than anything I have had in the local area here (Binghamton - Ithaca).
Best of luck ...

[marty]

Our family have eaten at Plum Blossom once or twice a year for about 18 years  -  really enjoy the  atmosphere and the food is better Chinese than anything I have had in the local area here (Binghamton - Ithaca).
Best of luck ...

Plum Blossom is almost always a hit.  Not a Chinatown experience but the owners are always busting their butts to keep things running smoothly.  A nice couple who have transformed a crappy bar into a little palace of a restaurant.  The owner's hobby is architecture and the result is fine.

[Give My Regards]

This is the Big Red's first game on Friday the 13th since 1/13/2017, a 5-1 win at Princeton.

FWIW, years ago on HOCKEY-L I posted about Cornell's near-surreal record in Friday the 13th games in the Lynah era -- it was something like 9-1.  Of course, they then proceeded to lose four of their next five games played on that date, but they've rebounded a bit since then, and the record, if my math is correct, now stands at 15-5.

(And unless something catastrophic happens, the Big Red will have another one of these games on March 13th when the ECAC quarterfinal round begins)

[Iceberg]

This is the Big Red's first game on Friday the 13th since 1/13/2017, a 5-1 win at Princeton.

Yep, the game where freshman year Jeff Malott had a hat trick. He didn't have a goal up to that point in the season, too, and look at where he is now.

[Trotsky]

We are 16-5-0 in Friday the 13th games. We were 13-1-0 at one time.  The 9 years elapsed since the last is the longest interval since 1981:
 

Code Select Expand

02/13/1942    W    10    Union        1
03/13/1970    W     6    Harvard      5          ECAC SF
03/13/1981    W     4    Colgate      3          ECAC SF
01/13/1984    L     1    BC           3
02/13/1987    W     5    Dartmouth    4    ot
11/13/1987    W     6    Army         2
01/13/1989    W     3    RPI          2    ot
03/13/1992    W     4    Clarkson     3    2ot   ECAC SF
11/13/1992    W     5    Princeton    4
02/13/1998    W     3    Vermont      1
03/13/1998    W     5    RPI          4          ECAC 1R
11/13/1998    W     7    Harvard      2
02/13/2004    W     6    Princeton    1
01/13/2006    W     6    Quinnipiac   0
02/13/2009    L     4    Dartmouth    5    ot   
03/13/2009    L     0    RPI          1          ECAC QF
11/13/2009    L     2    Yale         4
01/13/2012    W     3    Quinnipiac   2
02/13/2015    L     2    Dartmouth    3
11/13/2015    W     5    Colgate      1
01/13/2017    W     5    Princeton    1

[Trotsky]

As Give My Regards said above, the first game of this year's ECAC QF will also be a Friday the 13th.

We have done this double just twice, sweeping in 98 and being swept in 09.

[Trotsky]

This is the Big Red's first game on Friday the 13th since 1/13/2017, a 5-1 win at Princeton.

Yep, the game where freshman year Jeff Malott had a hat trick. He didn't have a goal up to that point in the season, too, and look at where he is now.

http://www.tbrw.info/seasons/2017/box20170113.pdf

[marty]

Our family have eaten at Plum Blossom once or twice a year for about 18 years  -  really enjoy the  atmosphere and the food is better Chinese than anything I have had in the local area here (Binghamton - Ithaca).
Best of luck ...

Plum Blossom is almost always a hit.  Not a Chinatown experience but the owners are always busting their butts to keep things running smoothly.  A nice couple who have transformed a crappy bar into a little palace of a restaurant.  The owner's hobby is architecture and the result is fine.

Picked up take out this evening.