Selection Show

[adamw]

I listened to the USCHO special podcast about the brackets and Jim Connelly, who is a smart analyst and bracket guru, stated a few times that the committee put Penn St. in ALB because they travel better than Cornell. This surprised me. We showed great at Springfield, less so in Manchester, and we host that little game in MSG every year in front of 17k.

Maybe I'm looking at it through red tinted glasses, but I was hopeful for ALB, but losing to Princeton sealed our fate as far as making it easy for the committee to send us west.

Hopefully the boys will get on their front foot in CO. Take out the Pios. 

please for the love of good - listen to our podcast instead. I am just not going to comment any further on that first sentence because I need to go throw up.

To clarify just from a factual point of view only ... that is not the reason Penn State is in Albany over Cornell.  Just the fact that someone says that - tells you all you need to know about someone's supposed guru-ness. SMH.

[BearLover]

I listened to the USCHO special podcast about the brackets and Jim Connelly, who is a smart analyst and bracket guru, stated a few times that the committee put Penn St. in ALB because they travel better than Cornell. This surprised me. We showed great at Springfield, less so in Manchester, and we host that little game in MSG every year in front of 17k.

Maybe I'm looking at it through red tinted glasses, but I was hopeful for ALB, but losing to Princeton sealed our fate as far as making it easy for the committee to send us west.

Hopefully the boys will get on their front foot in CO. Take out the Pios. 

please for the love of good - listen to our podcast instead. I am just not going to comment any further on that first sentence because I need to go throw up.

I listened to the USCHO bracketology podcast that they produced following the games this past Saturday night, once all the teams were locked. While predicting the bracket, they said several things that were factually incorrect. They even said their bracket was extremely straightforward and followed typical bracket serpentine seeding, even though it deviated from such seeding in multiple instances. They said it was one of the easiest brackets to predict and that the final bracket would look very similar to theirs. When that didn't happen, I presume they tried to cover their butts by claiming things like that the committee believed PSU would bring more fans than Cornell. There is no evidence of this. Rather, the obvious explanation is that the regionals as constituted best uphold bracket integrity. They required moving the fewest teams around to avoid intra-conference matchups.

[billhoward]

Complaining about ESPN+? All I see is another person who wasn't around in the ILDN days...

ILDN was better than listening in on the radio on account of you could see the game (as long as you didn't trip on the HDMI cable from your laptop to the TV), but it still sucked compared to the video now. Which at Lynah still suffers from poor lighting, no cameras inside the goals, very little use of the cameras over the goals, not much of a reverse angle camera, filthy glass, failure the raise the main cameras 3 to 5 feet even if that means remote controlling them (a snap for anybody's who played a video game with joysticks).

[BearLover]

Complaining about ESPN+? All I see is another person who wasn't around in the ILDN days...

ILDN? The ILDN was in 4K compared to Redcast...

[adamw]

I listened to the USCHO special podcast about the brackets and Jim Connelly, who is a smart analyst and bracket guru, stated a few times that the committee put Penn St. in ALB because they travel better than Cornell. This surprised me. We showed great at Springfield, less so in Manchester, and we host that little game in MSG every year in front of 17k.

Maybe I'm looking at it through red tinted glasses, but I was hopeful for ALB, but losing to Princeton sealed our fate as far as making it easy for the committee to send us west.

Hopefully the boys will get on their front foot in CO. Take out the Pios. 

please for the love of good - listen to our podcast instead. I am just not going to comment any further on that first sentence because I need to go throw up.

I listened to the USCHO bracketology podcast that they produced following the games this past Saturday night, once all the teams were locked. While predicting the bracket, they said several things that were factually incorrect. They even said their bracket was extremely straightforward and followed typical bracket serpentine seeding, even though it deviated from such seeding in multiple instances. They said it was one of the easiest brackets to predict and that the final bracket would look very similar to theirs. When that didn't happen, I presume they tried to cover their butts by claiming things like that the committee believed PSU would bring more fans than Cornell. There is no evidence of this. Rather, the obvious explanation is that the regionals as constituted best uphold bracket integrity. They required moving the fewest teams around to avoid intra-conference matchups.

All of a sudden I love BL.

This is exactly what happened.

I usually talk to the Committee chair every year to get it straight from the horse's mouth, which is how I know the trends in how they're thinking, since it's like an organic beast that evolves in one direction or another, a little bit every year. I didn't do so this year for the first time in about 15 years or more, because it's the Harvard asst. AD, who is so milquetoast, the conversation is pointless.

[RichH]

Complaining about ESPN+? All I see is another person who wasn't around in the ILDN days...

ILDN was better than listening in on the radio on account of you could see the game (as long as you didn't trip on the HDMI cable from your laptop to the TV), but it still sucked compared to the video now. Which at Lynah still suffers from poor lighting, no cameras inside the goals, very little use of the cameras over the goals, not much of a reverse angle camera, filthy glass, failure the raise the main cameras 3 to 5 feet even if that means remote controlling them (a snap for anybody's who played a video game with joysticks).

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

[BearLover]

because it's the Harvard asst. AD

Huh, maybe Cornell *did* get screwed

[stereax]

because it's the Harvard asst. AD

Huh, maybe Cornell *did* get screwed

cornell always gets screwed. see: rule 1.

[fastforward]

I'm set for Denver but wondering if season ticket holders will have an option to buy Frozen Four tickets early WHEN they make it

[stereax]

I'm set for Denver but wondering if season ticket holders will have an option to but Frozen Four tickets early WHEN they make it

they better!!! i WILL figure out how the fuck to get to vegas in mid april and that's a threat.

[chimpfood]

I hated this matchup at first but the more I look at the stats I think we have a chance. Sucks to be the away team but they really don't stand out in any aspect of the game. They have a good goalie but he's short (hopefully years of practice on Shane should help us with that). We're certainly not the favorites but I would expect this one to be close.

[RichH]

I hated this matchup at first but the more I look at the stats I think we have a chance. Sucks to be the away team but they really don't stand out in any aspect of the game. They have a good goalie but he's short (hopefully years of practice on Shane should help us with that). We're certainly not the favorites but I would expect this one to be close.

They don't seem to be as formidable or inevitable as they were in the earlier part of this decade. Maybe I'm wrong. They have losses to Lindenwood, Anchorage, and ASU. They've pretty much even with WMU and UND in that league (which is still very very good). The best thing they have mentally is that they've gotten to the mountaintop before.

[stereax]

I hated this matchup at first but the more I look at the stats I think we have a chance. Sucks to be the away team but they really don't stand out in any aspect of the game. They have a good goalie but he's short (hopefully years of practice on Shane should help us with that). We're certainly not the favorites but I would expect this one to be close.

They don't seem to be as formidable or inevitable as they were in the earlier part of this decade. Maybe I'm wrong. They have losses to Lindenwood, Anchorage, and ASU. They've pretty much even with WMU and UND in that league (which is still very very good). The best thing they have mentally is that they've gotten to the mountaintop before.

Every team has losses to shitty teams, I think. WMU and UND are also top five teams in the country lol.

Notably though, their best two players - by a LONG shot - are dmen, Pohlkamp and Buckberger. My suspicion is you gotta figure out how to neutralize those two, and if you do, you'll do well.

The goalie sitch is also fun. They were starting their other freshman for much of the year and then switched to this one...

[adamw]

I hated this matchup at first but the more I look at the stats I think we have a chance. Sucks to be the away team but they really don't stand out in any aspect of the game. They have a good goalie but he's short (hopefully years of practice on Shane should help us with that). We're certainly not the favorites but I would expect this one to be close.

That goalie is 12-0-1 with a .960 save percentage playing nothing but the top competition in the country. so I would get excited at your own peril. He's tremendous. And Denver has the best D-pair in the country by a mile.

[adamw]

I hated this matchup at first but the more I look at the stats I think we have a chance. Sucks to be the away team but they really don't stand out in any aspect of the game. They have a good goalie but he's short (hopefully years of practice on Shane should help us with that). We're certainly not the favorites but I would expect this one to be close.

They don't seem to be as formidable or inevitable as they were in the earlier part of this decade. Maybe I'm wrong. They have losses to Lindenwood, Anchorage, and ASU. They've pretty much even with WMU and UND in that league (which is still very very good). The best thing they have mentally is that they've gotten to the mountaintop before.

Every team has losses to shitty teams, I think. WMU and UND are also top five teams in the country lol.

Notably though, their best two players - by a LONG shot - are dmen, Pohlkamp and Buckberger. My suspicion is you gotta figure out how to neutralize those two, and if you do, you'll do well.

The goalie sitch is also fun. They were starting their other freshman for much of the year and then switched to this one...

wasn't a switch - Quentin Miller got hurt. Hicks came on in relief and played 55 minutes and won the game. Has played every game since.