Albany Regional (3/27/26 and 3/29/26)

[jtwcornell91]

The "Screw BU" song turns into "Let's Go Blue".

Actually that's probably the original version.  I believe BU then adopted it as "Go BU", to which we responded "Screw BU".  Although, TBH, the BU version may have come first and Michigan adopted it.

We added the "XXX, too" at the ECAC tournament at the Boston Garden in 1981.

I have no idea about the history lol, I just know it as the Screw BU song.

(My BU friend, referring to this chant: You're obsessed with us for some reason and we don't even think about you more than every other year.)

Before we started playing them at MSG, they didn't even think about us that often.

Well, except for the two-game series we played at Walter Brown and Lynah in November of 2001 and 2002 when Schafer was building the Frozen Four team.  Those were awesome.

[Trotsky]

Sauerkraut in Europe has more flavor to it.  I would not say it is less sour, I would say the sourness also has all sorts of hues to it which makes it more interesting.

American sauerkraut just tastes like pickled socks.

[underskill]

The "Screw BU" song turns into "Let's Go Blue".

Actually that's probably the original version.  I believe BU then adopted it as "Go BU", to which we responded "Screw BU".  Although, TBH, the BU version may have come first and Michigan adopted it.

We added the "XXX, too" at the ECAC tournament at the Boston Garden in 1981.

I have no idea about the history lol, I just know it as the Screw BU song.

(My BU friend, referring to this chant: You're obsessed with us for some reason and we don't even think about you more than every other year.)

Before we started playing them at MSG, they didn't even think about us that often.

Well, except for the two-game series we played at Walter Brown and Lynah in November of 2001 and 2002 when Schafer was building the Frozen Four team.  Those were awesome.

Outside of the Screw BU cheer I'd venture the same on Cornell's end unless you were a fan pre-Hockey East.

[Jim Hyla]

The "Screw BU" song turns into "Let's Go Blue".

Actually that's probably the original version.  I believe BU then adopted it as "Go BU", to which we responded "Screw BU".  Although, TBH, the BU version may have come first and Michigan adopted it.

We added the "XXX, too" at the ECAC tournament at the Boston Garden in 1981.

I have no idea about the history lol, I just know it as the Screw BU song.

(My BU friend, referring to this chant: You're obsessed with us for some reason and we don't even think about you more than every other year.)

I think your friend has this incorrect. We use the BU cheer to remember the past, but really to poke at the current team we're facing. I doubt any fan, but a few of us, thinks anything about BU when the cheer goes up.

I like to think of it as Screw BU (You left us) and whomever we are now playing.

[stereax]

The "Screw BU" song turns into "Let's Go Blue".

Actually that's probably the original version.  I believe BU then adopted it as "Go BU", to which we responded "Screw BU".  Although, TBH, the BU version may have come first and Michigan adopted it.

We added the "XXX, too" at the ECAC tournament at the Boston Garden in 1981.

I have no idea about the history lol, I just know it as the Screw BU song.

(My BU friend, referring to this chant: You're obsessed with us for some reason and we don't even think about you more than every other year.)

I think your friend has this incorrect. We use the BU cheer to remember the past, but really to poke at the current team we're facing. I doubt any fan, but a few of us, thinks anything about BU when the cheer goes up.

I like to think of it as Screw BU (You left us) and whomever we are now playing.

That's what I tried to explain to him, but... 😅

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

The "Screw BU" song turns into "Let's Go Blue".

Actually that's probably the original version.  I believe BU then adopted it as "Go BU", to which we responded "Screw BU".  Although, TBH, the BU version may have come first and Michigan adopted it.

We added the "XXX, too" at the ECAC tournament at the Boston Garden in 1981.

I was at that tournament.  We beat Colgate in the semis, lost to Providence in the championship game. Fun trip to Boston and the Gahden.

Oops, I misspoke.  It was the 1980 tournament.  What inspired it was the fact that we upset BU in Boston in the (one-game) quarters.  So when we played Providence in the semis it became "Screw BU. Providence, too". When we played Dartmouth in the finals, it became "Screw BU. Providence, too. Dartmouth, too."  After winning that we played Northern Michigan in the NCAA tourney.  So we made it "Screw BU. Providence, too. Dartmouth, too. And NMU."

Unfortunately, the streak ended against NMU.  So we dropped back to "Screw BU. Dartmouth, too." for the consy. And that's the version that stuck.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

"Don't blink!  Don't even blink!  Blink and you're dead!"

Love the reference to the timey-wimey guy.

[George64]

I think your friend has this incorrect. We use the BU cheer to remember the past, but really to poke at the current team we're facing. I doubt any fan, but a few of us, thinks anything about BU when the cheer goes up.

I like to think of it as Screw BU (You left us) and whomever we are now playing.

As one of the "few of us" — Among other great games against BU, I'll always remember listening to the double-overtime 3-3 tie against BU in the Christmas Tournament in 1966.  As I assume most current eLynah posters weren't yet born, those were real twenty minute overtime periods, not the faux-hockey overtimes played today. I was in grad school back in Ithaca and listened on WHCU, Sam Woodside (I think) did the play-by-play from the Boston Arena. Ned and Kelly (?) decided that 100 minutes of hockey was enough, so Cornell and BU were declared co-champions.

[abmarks]

I definitely do take solace in the fact that Robertson has been disappointing this season at Michigan. The fact he went to a team with twice as much offensive talent and quarterbacked PP1 (after their former top defenseman got hurt ten games into the season), yet somehow put up worse numbers than his freshman year at Cornell, is pretty funny. He gets little to no hype from scouts (he actually got far more hype two years ago). There will be no NHL career for Ben Robertson. I certainly hope getting to the NHL wasn't his reasoning for transferring, because from that perspective it was a clear failure.

I've only found 2 articles that discuss why he went to Michigan.

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2025/11/26_Robertsons-Rare-Move-Brings.php

"A big factor in his decision was cost. Ivy League schools do not offer full-time athletic scholarships, so he felt that it was a lot to ask for his parents to pay for another full season of school. Meanwhile, the tuition kept increasing. "

No mention about getting to the NHL there.

https://mgoblue.com/news/2025/11/19/ice-hockey-scholar-stories-robertson-prepared-for-moment-making-seamless-transition-to-u-m

"Off the ice, Robertson is an economics major and would like to pursue a career in business after playing professional hockey. His parents have always preached the importance of academics, and Robertson believes that the value in earning a Michigan degree will only benefit him down the road."

Nor here.  And fair to say he will be able to play some level of pro hockey.

[BearLover]

I definitely do take solace in the fact that Robertson has been disappointing this season at Michigan. The fact he went to a team with twice as much offensive talent and quarterbacked PP1 (after their former top defenseman got hurt ten games into the season), yet somehow put up worse numbers than his freshman year at Cornell, is pretty funny. He gets little to no hype from scouts (he actually got far more hype two years ago). There will be no NHL career for Ben Robertson. I certainly hope getting to the NHL wasn't his reasoning for transferring, because from that perspective it was a clear failure.

I've only found 2 articles that discuss why he went to Michigan.

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2025/11/26_Robertsons-Rare-Move-Brings.php

"A big factor in his decision was cost. Ivy League schools do not offer full-time athletic scholarships, so he felt that it was a lot to ask for his parents to pay for another full season of school. Meanwhile, the tuition kept increasing. "

No mention about getting to the NHL there.

https://mgoblue.com/news/2025/11/19/ice-hockey-scholar-stories-robertson-prepared-for-moment-making-seamless-transition-to-u-m

"Off the ice, Robertson is an economics major and would like to pursue a career in business after playing professional hockey. His parents have always preached the importance of academics, and Robertson believes that the value in earning a Michigan degree will only benefit him down the road."

Nor here.  And fair to say he will be able to play some level of pro hockey.

I can't tell if you're being intentionally obtuse or if you're actually unaware of the most common reason a player would transfer from the ECAC/CCHA/AH to the Big 10/NCHC/HE.

[abmarks]

I definitely do take solace in the fact that Robertson has been disappointing this season at Michigan. The fact he went to a team with twice as much offensive talent and quarterbacked PP1 (after their former top defenseman got hurt ten games into the season), yet somehow put up worse numbers than his freshman year at Cornell, is pretty funny. He gets little to no hype from scouts (he actually got far more hype two years ago). There will be no NHL career for Ben Robertson. I certainly hope getting to the NHL wasn't his reasoning for transferring, because from that perspective it was a clear failure.

I've only found 2 articles that discuss why he went to Michigan.

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2025/11/26_Robertsons-Rare-Move-Brings.php

"A big factor in his decision was cost. Ivy League schools do not offer full-time athletic scholarships, so he felt that it was a lot to ask for his parents to pay for another full season of school. Meanwhile, the tuition kept increasing. "

No mention about getting to the NHL there.

https://mgoblue.com/news/2025/11/19/ice-hockey-scholar-stories-robertson-prepared-for-moment-making-seamless-transition-to-u-m

"Off the ice, Robertson is an economics major and would like to pursue a career in business after playing professional hockey. His parents have always preached the importance of academics, and Robertson believes that the value in earning a Michigan degree will only benefit him down the road."

Nor here.  And fair to say he will be able to play some level of pro hockey.

I can't tell if you're being intentionally obtuse or if you're actually unaware of the most common reason a player would transfer from the ECAC/CCHA/AH to the Big 10/NCHC/HE.

Hardly.  I simply posted the only reporting out there that quotes Robertson.  He definitely mentioned cost, and must have mentioned oro hockey.  But he was definitely not quoted as saying he thought it was a better way to get to the show.  It's certainly possible that he thinks it's a better path to the NHL, but he either didn't say it, or the writers didn't decide to include it if that's the case

You on the other hand are again (for the bazillionth time) assuming things and ascribing notices to players based solely on your world view, and not what's actually known.

[BearLover]

I definitely do take solace in the fact that Robertson has been disappointing this season at Michigan. The fact he went to a team with twice as much offensive talent and quarterbacked PP1 (after their former top defenseman got hurt ten games into the season), yet somehow put up worse numbers than his freshman year at Cornell, is pretty funny. He gets little to no hype from scouts (he actually got far more hype two years ago). There will be no NHL career for Ben Robertson. I certainly hope getting to the NHL wasn't his reasoning for transferring, because from that perspective it was a clear failure.

I've only found 2 articles that discuss why he went to Michigan.

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2025/11/26_Robertsons-Rare-Move-Brings.php

"A big factor in his decision was cost. Ivy League schools do not offer full-time athletic scholarships, so he felt that it was a lot to ask for his parents to pay for another full season of school. Meanwhile, the tuition kept increasing. "

No mention about getting to the NHL there.

https://mgoblue.com/news/2025/11/19/ice-hockey-scholar-stories-robertson-prepared-for-moment-making-seamless-transition-to-u-m

"Off the ice, Robertson is an economics major and would like to pursue a career in business after playing professional hockey. His parents have always preached the importance of academics, and Robertson believes that the value in earning a Michigan degree will only benefit him down the road."

Nor here.  And fair to say he will be able to play some level of pro hockey.

I can't tell if you're being intentionally obtuse or if you're actually unaware of the most common reason a player would transfer from the ECAC/CCHA/AH to the Big 10/NCHC/HE.

Hardly.  I simply posted the only reporting out there that quotes Robertson.  He definitely mentioned cost, and must have mentioned oro hockey.  But he was definitely not quoted as saying he thought it was a better way to get to the show.  It's certainly possible that he thinks it's a better path to the NHL, but he either didn't say it, or the writers didn't decide to include it if that's the case

You on the other hand are again (for the bazillionth time) assuming things and ascribing notices to players based solely on your world view, and not what's actually known.

Where did I assume anything or "abscribe notice" to him? Quoting myself: "I certainly hope getting to the NHL wasn't his reasoning for transferring, because from that perspective it was a clear failure." For the record, I think it is overwhelmingly likely that Robertson wants to play pro hockey and that one of the reasons for the transfer was that playing in a tougher league will give him a better shot. Many on this very forum (not including myself) speculated that very thing at the time of the transfer, as did Jane McNally.

[stereax]

Final bit of travelogue for y'all:

Train ride! Really pleasant actually. I wish there was a rail service in Ithaca. I like trains.










Transferred over to the mall before my bus, had some time and wandered around playing Pokemon Go (got my medal for 2000 unique stops!) and... yeah I spent another $100 on hobby packs of 25-26 series 2. No, I didn't hit a Schaefer YG. But it was still a fun time. Destiny is really really nice and I enjoy wandering around a real mall from time to time.




Epilogue: had a doctor's appointment in Cortland (gross, ew) so I swung out here on the buses. Gotta be back in a few weeks too, extra gross and ew. But I'm currently sitting in Doug's Fish Fry because I was hungry and holy shit this was the best meal I've had all weekend bar NONE. If this place were in Ithaca... well idk if Cornell students would appreciate a dinky little fish fry place, but I sure as hell do! If you're in the area, absolutely come here.



In either case, thanks everyone for humoring my annoying posts over the weekend 💜 I love sharing my travels with people, but I'm not keen on classical social media most of the time. And, I mean, I can't think of anyone at the law school who'd care about my yammering, haha. Hopefully y'all enjoyed this little virtual visit to the Capital Region!

[Beeeej]

Final bit of travelogue for y'all:

Epilogue: had a doctor's appointment in Cortland (gross, ew) so I swung out here on the buses. Gotta be back in a few weeks too, extra gross and ew. But I'm currently sitting in Doug's Fish Fry because I was hungry and holy shit this was the best meal I've had all weekend bar NONE. If this place were in Ithaca... well idk if Cornell students would appreciate a dinky little fish fry place, but I sure as hell do! If you're in the area, absolutely come here.

I desperately miss Doug's Fish Fry. They have a truck for events that sometimes pops up in Ithaca. Bed-Stuy Fish Fry is pretty close, and they just opened a third location that's way too close to our apartment in downtown Brooklyn for my own good. 

[Larry72]

Final bit of travelogue for y'all:

Epilogue: had a doctor's appointment in Cortland (gross, ew) so I swung out here on the buses. Gotta be back in a few weeks too, extra gross and ew. But I'm currently sitting in Doug's Fish Fry because I was hungry and holy shit this was the best meal I've had all weekend bar NONE. If this place were in Ithaca... well idk if Cornell students would appreciate a dinky little fish fry place, but I sure as hell do! If you're in the area, absolutely come here.

I desperately miss Doug's Fish Fry. They have a truck for events that sometimes pops up in Ithaca. Bed-Stuy Fish Fry is pretty close, and they just opened a third location that's way too close to our apartment in downtown Brooklyn for my own good. 

Doug's is a regular stop for us for takeout when they come to Ithaca. They are here quite regularly in the summer. They also have a nice location in Skaneateles. 

Nice travelogue! Been along time since we traveled in upstate NY by train. The last passenger train serving Ithaca ended service in 1961. I used to travel from Syracuse to Albany by train occasionally in the 1970s.