Hahvahd vs. Maine

[Josh '99]

I'm curious who people (that is to say, Cornell fans) will be rooting for in this game.  It'd be nice to see the ECAC teams do well, but personally I'm going to have a hard time rooting for Hahvahd after last Saturday's loss.  (Though maybe it'd be nice to see Cornell and Hahvahd both come out of the East regional just to stick it to all the arrogant Hockey East fans on USCHO.)  What thoughts are people having on this?

[CowbellGuy]

Anyone who can't conceive rooting for Harvard should spend about 5 minutes on the USCHO Forum and I guarantee you'll find a way to just go pro-ECAC.

[JordanCS]

Well, here's the deal.  I want CU to go further than Harvard in the tourny, so if CU wins the whole thing, it'd be fine to have harvard make it to the Semis so we can kill them there.  That said, I can not bring my self to cheer for the Crimson at any point, unless the Red are not in the picture.  

For the east teams in the Frozen Four, I'd like to see either Cornell-BU, or Cornell-HU, not Cornell-Maine.  We've already beaten BU this year, so we know it can be done, and I'm sure everyone would like some revenge against Harvard.   However, I don't really care who we play, as long as we stay in it.  I just want to beat Quin. on Saturday and go from there.  

Jordan

[FRED\'83]

MAINE BEAT Quinnipiac 9-0 IN NOV.
WHILE I'M SURE THEY HAVE IMPROVED SINCE THEN THE ? IS BY HOW MUCH! ALSO, Quinnipiac LOST EVERY NON-CONF. GAME (PROVIDENCE, NAIGARA, RIP, UNH AND MSU TWICE). BUT RIP (2OT) AND NIAGARA WERE 1 GOAL GAMES AND MSU DID NOT BLOW THEM AWAY.  WE SHOULD NOT TAKE THEM LIGHTLY. GO BEG RED!

[melissa \'01]

for Cornell to get to the FF tey are going to have to beat not only Quinnipiac but UNH. The second one is a TALL order. I don't particularly like harvard right now but i guess i'm gonna have to search for a way to root for them before this week-end. i'd like to see an ECAC team in the FF to shut up all the westerners and a lot of the HE elitists and sadly harvard might end up being our best chance.

[CowbellGuy]

UNH lost to RPI. 'nuff said. Cornell's more than capable of smothering irritating little HE players. Maine's on a big roll and they'll probably mop up with Harvard. Cornell-UNH (should Cornell win Sat) should be a good, close game.

[Craine]

I agree that Cornell should be capable of beating a team like UNH, but the logic just doesn't work there...

Yes, RPI beat UNH, but that means nothing... As someone on USCHO noted, using that same logic, UNH beat Dartmouth and Dartmouth beat Cornell twice...

I'm really looking forward to Sat/Sun, but just hope we don't overlook QC...

[CowbellGuy]

My point wasn't that RPI beat UNH so therefore we would beat UNH. My point was that if they could lose to RPI, they can be beaten. If I hear someone use the words play, paper, and ice in a sentence again I'm going to go postal. So I was avoiding it.

[Craine]

Fair enough... As we proved on Saturday night, any team can beat/lose to any other team on any given night...

UNH is certainly beatable, as are we...  I just got my tix. for the weekend, so I'm now pretty psyched up and hoping we have lots of success in Worcester, then on to the Frozen Four...

[melissa \'01]

good point Age.... but everyone is entitled to a bad nite. was sacred heart better than us last year?? ;-)

[melissa \'01]

ok. you have more than one good point Age( i should have finished reading the other posts first). UNH is beatable. just hope that the big red come out swinging this weekend. the HE guys do need to be taught a lesson and hopefully cornell will be the team to do it.

[CUlater \'89]

Of course they can be beaten, every team can be beaten in theory ::rolleyes::

Except, it turned out, the '69-'70 Cornell hockey team, natch.

[CowbellGuy]

Case in point: ::rolleyes::

Hockey East teams turn into fire-hardened steel during the 2nd half of the season after they have time to mesh and play other Hockey East teams. Harvard (and presumably Cornell) will learn the true Nature of the Force soon. They are pampered and protected fans of pampered and protected players in a pampered and protected (for the all important 2nd half of the season) conference named EZAC. And how many Beanpots (or even Beanpot games) has Harvard won recently?

[Josh '99]

Oh yeah, don't get me wrong.  Many of them are homeristic idiots.  I'll probably wind up rooting for Harvard...  it's just...  unnatural.

[Greg Berge]

It's funny how these things sometimes just take you over.  I remember being absolutely certain I was rooting for Minnesota in their final with Harvard in 1989, considering how they had been brutalizing us for years, until the first Harvard goal.  Then I realized I was more of an ECAC fan than a Harvard hater.

Of course, if I had to choose between one extra Cornell advance and any other ECAC team winning it all, I'd take the Big Red win in an instant.