'04 - '05 Schedule

[KeithK]

[Q]Tom Pasniewski 98 Wrote:

 That schedule would seem to be pretty accurate based on reports.  Also, with 28 games already in there, that would mean a first-round game against Yale or Princeton over Thanksgiving, exempt from the 29-game limit rule and allow Cornell a 30-game regular season schedule.[/q]

How would a game against Yale or Princeton be exempt from the 29 game limit?  The only exemption I ever remember seeing us take is the foreign tour exemption.  I didn't think the Ivies allowed any exceptions to their limit.

[Chris \'03]

So is the team going to go to the MSU/Wisconsin football game on the off day? It may be tough to get a hotel around east lansing that weekend...

Crazy Big Ten football throwing other sports out of whack.

[ninian '72]

Maybe MSU could be persuaded to set up their outdoor rink in Spartan Stadium :-D  :

http://www.detnews.com/2001/msu/0110/09/d11-312582.htm

[jkahn]

[Q]Chris '03 wrote:
It may be tough to get a hotel around east lansing that weekend... [/Q]
A quick search turned up a $71 AAA rate at the Marriott TownPlace Suites in East Lansing.  Book now before it's too late.
http://marriott.com/property/propertyPage.mi?marshaCode=LANTS

Note: the "LANTS" needs to be part of the link above, but doesn't seem to be treated as such.

[Rita Monde]

since my atlas is at home, anyone know off hand how far it is from lafayette IN to east lansing michigan?
would be nice to see 3, maybe 4 cornell games this year. i'll be at the everblades tourney again with my nephew, who btw, apparently says "sieve, sieve, sieve" when his red table hockey team (cornell) scores against the blue team.

thanks,
Rita

[KeithK]

[Q]Rita Monde Wrote:

 since my atlas is at home, anyone know off hand how far it is from lafayette IN to east lansing michigan?
[/q]
Who needs Atlases when you have the internet?  According to Mapquest it's 278 miles or 4:30 driving time (prob closer to 4 hours then).

[Jim Hyla]

Cut and pasted from my original in Nov..
The only "holes" are presumed exibition weekend of 10/22-23, Red/White the weekend before, and one last game over Thanksgiving (I'm voting for Al on that one.)

All at 7:00 except Everblades and the Mich St as listed

The   2004-2005   CU Schedule

Fri   Oct 22,04    Ex?
Sat   Oct 23,04    Ex?
Fri   Oct 29,04    Army
Sat   Oct 30,04    Sacred Heart
Fri   Nov 5,04    Harvard
Sat   Nov 5,04    Brown
Fri   Nov 12,04 @Mich St 7:05
Sun   Nov 13,04 @Mich St 2:05
Fri   Nov 19,04 @Vermont
Sat   Nov 20,04 @Dartmouth
Sat   Nov 27,04    OOC?
Fri   Dec 3,04    Yale
Sat   Dec 4,04    Princeton
Tue   Dec 28,04    Everblades vs SCSU/BC/Maine
Wed      Dec 29,04 Everblades vs SCSU/BC/Maine
Fri   Jan 7,05    @Brown
Sat   Jan 8,05    @Harvard
Fri   Jan 14,05    @Union
Sat   Jan 15,05    @RPI
Fri   Jan 21,05    Dartmouth
Sat   Jan 22,05    Vermont
Fri   Jan 28,05    Clarkson
Sat   Jan 29,05    St. Lawrence
Fri   Feb 4,05    @Colgate
Sat   Feb 5,05    Colgate
Fri   Feb 11,05    @Princeton
Sat   Feb 12,05    @Yale
Fri   Feb 18,05    RPI
Sat   Feb 19,05    Union
Fri   Feb 25,05    @St. Lawrence
Sat   Feb 26,05    @Clarkson
Fri   Mar 4,05    ECAC
Sat   Mar 5,05    ECAC
Fri   Mar 11,05    ECAC
Sat   Mar 12,05    ECAC
Fri   Mar 18,05    ECAC
Sat   Mar 19,05    ECAC
Fri   Mar 25,05    NCAA
Sun   Mar 27,05    NCAA
Thur   Apr 7,05    NCAA
Sat   Apr 9,05    NCAA

   OOC = Out of Conference

Here's hoping I did it right.

[Chris 02]

Are the Michigan State games a Friday/Sunday affair?  Is that to avoid some potential conflict with a Saturday night football game?

Maybe we can get a single game with another team from Hockey East over Thanksgiving as a SOS booster.

[Tom Pasniewski 98]

If it is to be a Hockey East team, the only team it can be is UMass-Lowell.

On Saturday, 11/27/04:

Boston College is playing Northeastern
Boston University is out at Colorado College
Maine is playing at Dartmouth
Massachusetts is out in Denver
And the 2nd Annual Dunkin Donuts Coffee Pot moves to Thanksgiving Weekend and will have Providence and Merrimack participating.

That leaves only Lowell.

[Will]

You forgot UNH is at Vermont.  If we do schedule a Thanksgiving weekend game, it will likely be another AH team a la Mercyhurst this past year.  Here is the composite schedule of all games that USCHO has listed thus far for Thanksgiving weekend (let's hope it formats correctly):

11/26/04 Robert Morris         at Rensselaer                   nc      7:00 ET Rensselaer/HSBC Holiday Hockey Tournament (Troy, NY)
11/26/04 Sacred Heart          vs Air Force                    nc      4:00 ET Rensselaer/HSBC Holiday Hockey Tournament (Troy, NY)
11/26/04 Brown                 at Clarkson                     ec      7:00 ET 
11/26/04 Merrimack             vs Union                        nc              Dunkin' Donuts Coffee Pot (Providence, RI)
11/26/04 Holy Cross            vs Providence                   nc              Dunkin' Donuts Coffee Pot (Providence, RI)
11/26/04 Harvard               at St. Lawrence                 ec      7:00 ET 
11/26/04 North Dakota          at Michigan Tech                wc      7:05 ET 
11/26/04 Minnesota-Duluth      at St. Cloud State              wc      7:05 CT 
11/26/04 Mercyhurst            at Colgate                      nc      7:00 ET 
11/26/04 Boston University     at Denver                       nc      7:35 MT 
11/26/04 Massachusetts         at Colorado College             nc      7:35 MT 
11/26/04 Lake Superior         at Northern Michigan            cc      7:35 ET 
11/27/04 Air Force/SHU         at Rensselaer                   nc 4:00/7:00 ET Rensselaer/HSBC Holiday Hockey Tournament (Troy, NY)
11/27/04 Robert Morris/RPI     vs Air Force                    nc 4:00/7:00 ET Rensselaer/HSBC Holiday Hockey Tournament (Troy, NY)
11/27/04 Robert Morris/RPI     vs Sacred Heart                 nc 4:00/7:00 ET Rensselaer/HSBC Holiday Hockey Tournament (Troy, NY)
11/27/04 Air Force/SHU         vs Robert Morris                nc 4:00/7:00 ET Rensselaer/HSBC Holiday Hockey Tournament (Troy, NY)
11/27/04 Harvard               at Clarkson                     ec      7:00 ET 
11/27/04 Holy Cross/Prov       vs Union                        nc              Dunkin' Donuts Coffee Pot (Providence, RI)
11/27/04 Holy Cross/Prov       vs Merrimack                    nc              Dunkin' Donuts Coffee Pot (Providence, RI)
11/27/04 Union/Merrimack       vs Holy Cross                   nc              Dunkin' Donuts Coffee Pot (Providence, RI)
11/27/04 Union/Merrimack       vs Providence                   nc              Dunkin' Donuts Coffee Pot (Providence, RI)
11/27/04 Maine                 at Dartmouth                    nc      7:00 ET 
11/27/04 New Hampshire         at Vermont                      nc      7:00 ET 
11/27/04 Brown                 at St. Lawrence                 ec      7:00 ET 
11/27/04 North Dakota          at Michigan Tech                wc      7:05 ET 
11/27/04 Minnesota-Duluth      at St. Cloud State              wc      7:05 CT 
11/27/04 Mercyhurst            at Colgate                      nc      7:00 ET 
11/27/04 Massachusetts         at Denver                       nc      7:05 MT 
11/27/04 Boston University     at Colorado College             nc      7:05 MT 
11/27/04 Northern Michigan     at Lake Superior                cc      7:05 ET 
11/27/04 Boston College        at Northeastern                 he      7:00 ET 

[Tom Pasniewski 98]

I noted UNH in my notes and then forgot to include them.  I forget UNH exists sometimes  Anyway, looks like Sacred Heart, Robert Morris and Mercyhurst are taken.  Could be Quinnipiac or Holy Cross but didn't someone mention somewhere and of course I'm too lazy to look it up that we were possibly playing in a Yale, Princeton, Niagara tournament over Thanksgiving and since none of those teams are listed as playing over Thanksgiving, this is still possible?

[ninian '72]

Check the following link at uscho for chatter about this tournament:

http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35556&perpage=15&pagenumber=5

[Tom Pasniewski 98]

Yep, that's what I thought.

[billhoward]

If this is the schedule, Cornell's challenge is pretty clear: to make the NCAAs it will have to win the ECACs (always possible) or get there based on RPI and quality wins. You can see from the schedule the opportunity for quality wins outside the ECAC amounts to about four: the two Michigan State games awful early in the season, and the two Everblades classic games with SCSU, Maine, and BC. Army and Sacred Heart are not going to be quality wins, and given last year's up and down history in the early season, there could be some non-quality non-wins.

[ninian '72]

Canisius added on 11/23 at home.  That's 29, folks:

http://www.uscho.com/schedules/team.php?gender=m&season=20042005&team=cor