'04 - '05 Schedule

[billhoward]

[Q]chris '06 Wrote:

 according to the tenative schedule, looks like army and sacred heart to open up the regular season[/q]

I trust Sacred Heart is a home game not away. Otherwise we'd have to leave for the game now and start asking directions. Not to be an old school snob, but Yale has been around long enough to know where it's located; SH's first generation of trees are only now fully grown.

You have to really *dig* around their sports site to find out where the school is located if you come in or Google in via the SH sports home page. In one place it says the Bishop of Bridgeport founded SH (okay, but it's not in Bridgeport, but that at least tips you off to Connecticut) ... another place says it's a suburban campus (well, yeah, that's all Connecticut, plus Hartford and Bridgeport) ... another place tells you about its satellite campuses but not the location of the main campus. So after getting sidetracked to the SH Butt Print Sports Shorts page (it's the school nickname printed on the back, not, ah, something the cheerleaders did to raise money) it's in Fairfield. (OK, if you go to sacredheart.edu directly it's at the bottom.)

Not to rag on SH, because there are a lot of blemished Web sites out there. Like the ECAC, the NCAA (try its hockey or lacrosse archives). And they all use way-too-small fonts. Microsoft promises that will be fixed (users can scale up fonts w/o messing up dialog boxes) with its Longhorn release of 2006. Actually, they've stopped saying 2006, which is never a good indicator.

BH

And once again I find myself wasting time here when I should just do useful work and wait six months for the season to start.

[Willy '06]

Don't hate on Fairfield. That's where I'm from.

[Tom Pasniewski 98]

Yep, can't miss the blue sign on 95 in Fairfield with all of Sacred Heart's sports teams, um, accomplishments.  Connecticut likes to do that.  Quinnipiac in Hamden on 91 and well, I guess they'll have to amend UConn's on 84 after tonight or wait till tomorrow night to see how the women do.  

Connecticut:  The state that ________ fans have to drive through after losing to the __________.  So as not to be biased, I'll leave it at insert Red Sox or Yankees into either blank.

[billhoward]

[Q]Tom Pasniewski 98 Wrote:

 Yep, can't miss the blue sign on 95 in Fairfield with all of Sacred Heart's sports teams, um, accomplishments.  Connecticut likes to do that.  Quinnipiac in Hamden on 91 and well, I guess they'll have to amend UConn's on 84 after tonight or wait till tomorrow night to see how the women do.  Connecticut:  The state that ________ fans have to drive through after losing to the __________.  So as not to be biased, I'll leave it at insert Red Sox or Yankees into either blank.[/q]

Better to spend the money on that than "Highway workers -- Give 'em a break" or "Drive with caution." And more likely than, "Hartford -- Home of the first civic center with a sunroof."

Better still to keep a bunch of signs around reading, "I-95 bridge out - again." Sheesh. Although NJ should talk -- we had a bridge over I-78 near Newark Airport burn down in the 1990s. Typical Jersey - a garbage dump under the bridge caught fire. Most of NJ's highway sign money is going toward creating Highway Safety Zone areas where speedings are doubled. It would be cheaper to post where the fines aren't doubled.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

[q]Connecticut: The state that ________ fans have to drive through after losing to the __________.[/q]

It could also be the state some Cornell fans have to drive through after losing to UHN (in Worcester).

Not that I'm bitter or anything   ::nut::

JH

[CowbellGuy]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:
And they all use way-too-small fonts. Microsoft promises that will be fixed (users can scale up fonts w/o messing up dialog boxes) with its Longhorn release of 2006.[/q]
Ah, but there's technology for this right now. Use a lower resolution! =P

[chris \'06]

i saw the schedule when i was meeting with gene nighman for some information on the line
those games appeared to be the first regular season home games, preceded by the red/white and exhibition
those games are followed by brown/harvard and then away at mich st and dartmouth/vermont
that's all i can remember, although he said they were looking for possibly one more OOC

[Chris \'03]

[q]those games are followed by brown/harvard and then away at mich st and dartmouth/vermont
that's all i can remember, although he said they were looking for possibly one more OOC[/q]

2 vs. MAAC, 2 in FL, and 2 @ MSU, plus 22 league games would leave one more spot.

[Big Red Colonel]

I'd be real disappointed if we are going to play Army and Sacred Heart and not play a Hockey East team or another pair with a CCHA team.  It wouldn't be such a big deal if we played the same number of games that schools outside of the Ivy League play (though I happen to believe nobody should begin playing until November 1st), but given our limited schedule and the current doormat status of the ECAC I'm not so sure this is a good idea.  There's no guarantee we'd win these games either - if we as fans are not thrilled about it, why would we expect the team to be thrilled about it?  No matter how well the team prepares I simply can't see them playing with the same energy level against Sacred Heart as they would against UNH.  

Now, if we were in some sort of preseason tournament with these teams included among some others I would not be upset at all; but that will never happen.

I'll stop whining now.  

On a brighter note, is anyone else planning on playing hookey on Thursday so they can watch the WCHA championship game?

Cheers,
Mike

[Chris 02]

We'll get some good ones in Florida.  With BC, St. Cloud, and Maine in Florida, those games will likely make or break our SOS.  

[KeithK]

How we do in Florida technically has no effect on our SoS or how RPI or PWR measure it.  It will affect our final ranking though :-D

[billhoward]

[Q]KeithK Wrote:

 How we do in Florida technically has no effect on our SoS or how RPI or PWR measure it.  It will affect our final ranking though  [/q]

Or is it that Florida (Everblades) tournament games count on RPI because they're real games ... with the exception of that if the game ends in a tie after one OT aqnd the winner is determined by a shootout, it goes down in the books as a tie for both teams in RPI rankings. Which means Cornell was fortunate to have won in OT not in the shootout this past year.

[Tom Pasniewski 98]

 ::laugh:: That's funny - the second WCHA championship game featuring all different teams.  Do you mean in person or on tv?  If you mean in person, then no.  If you mean on tv, then no :-P But I'll be at the evening game and hopefully the championship game if some nice fan from the evening losing team sells me their ticket for cheap.

[Big Red Colonel]

Have fun at the games.  I'll be playing hookey to watch at home.  It was cool being in Albany for the regionals two weeks ago - I heard about a dozen or so Cornell fans shout "Red!" during the anthem.  I'd love to hear your thoughts on Cornell fan presence as well as the overall atmosphere when you get back.

Cheers,
Mike

[Rita-Ann Monde]

well, it will be an adventureous road trip.. just be careful going over the bridges on I-95.