McKee "Hobey Hat Trick"

[duffs4]

McKee makes the "Hobey Hat Trick" with two Colorado College players.  

http://www.insidecollegehockey.com/7Archives/goto/goto_0329.htm

[READ THE OTHER THREADS!]

Read the two other threads that have already posted it.  You would think "duffs4" that somebody would've already posted this about 2 minutes after it came out, because the eLynah faithful are always looking for new information to post.

[duffs4]

Sorry I missed this one, I'm too excited: http://elf.elynah.com/read.php?1,64142

Go McKee!

[Will]

We're all excited. :-)

[msphi81]

Anyone know the details of the Hobey award process?  Are all three finalists introduced?  Are any Cornell fans in the area going to Columbus to cheer for McKee?  Lets go RED!!!!

[Beeeej]

If they still do it the way they did it in 2003 (and we have no reason to suspect otherwise), they'll have all three Hat Trick Finalists on stage, introduce each of them, show a short film about all three, and then announce the winner.  I'm sure most, if not all, Cornellians who make the trip to Columbus will also be there on Friday for the announcement and to cheer Dave on.

Beeeej

[Trotsky]

I'm not sure Cornellians are invited to the Hat Trick Awards, after John publicly exposed the committee's ignorance of their own selection system two years ago. ;-)

[ben03]

could we possibly get a recap of that for those who were not there in person?

[Trotsky]

A brief recap of a 20 minute-long ass-whuppin':

John presented an authoritative, wells-spoken summary of many issues and gripes fully vetted on USCHO over the prior two months.

The Committee responded with "deer in the headlights," slack-jawed expressions of utter incomprehension.

The audience of several hundred fans tittered.

[DeltaOne81]

Was it really 20 minutes?

Well, the main issue he talked about was how Cornell, as the #1 overall, needing to play a WCHA team instead of the AHA/CHA (or was it MAAC still?) team. But this only occurred because enough of the other #1s and #4s were WCHA.

However, the only reason the WCHA teams were the #4s, was become one of them lost the comparison to Dartmouth, a team not in the tournament. Had the committee used only the 16 teams in the tournament for seeding, they could have pushed SCSU (I think) up to #3 and Harvard to a #4. That would have allowed one of the upper WCHA teams to play Harvard, leaving a MAAC/CHA team for us.

"Deer in the headlights" is an appropriate description.

Did John air any other issues as well?

[Trotsky]

[Q]DeltaOne81 Wrote:
Was it really 20 minutes?[/q]

It felt like 2 hours; I'm guessing 20 minutes.  There were numerous iterations, to the point that the members started to cringe whenever anybody wearing red got to the mic.

It wasn't just that they couldn't answer a question here or there.  They didn't understand a thing that was said.  The spokesman eventually muttered some platitudes, but in sum it was a Special Ed performance by people who ostensibly understand and control the process.  In the words of Sin City, "Yeesh."

[jtwcornell91]

To be fair to all of us, I hadn't planned on going up there ahead of time, so I didn't construct the most lucid exposition of my question.  But I'd hoped that if they spend as much time staring at the comparisons as some of us did, they'd know what I was talking about.

Unfortunately, my question got confused with Steve Turner's more visceral one.

[msphi81]

Returning to the subject topic "McKee Hobey Hat Trick"---Does anyone know the details of the Hobey award process? Are all three finalists introduced? Are any Cornell fans in the area going to Columbus to cheer for McKee? Lets go RED!!!!

[Beeeej]

I'm reasonably sure I answered that question the first time you asked it.

Beeeej

[cth95]

     I was at the 2003 awards rooting for Lenny, and I remember it exactly like Beeej said.  If you are going, get there early so you can get a seat in the same room.  Otherwise you will be in the same building as the award, but watching it on TV like someone 1000 miles away.  After the award is presented there should be a chance to talk to the guys, get autographs if you want, etc.  In '03 the whole team was there, so I was able to talk to and congratulate the players and Schafer a little bit (and told Lenny we really appreciated him and were hoping he would come back although it has certainly worked out ok).  I doubt that will be the case this time since they are not playing.