clarkson @ cornell, ecachl second round chatter

[Liz '05]

[quote billhoward]Post-post-post. Do you guys have classes or anything? All we could do was stare out the window when a lecture got dull. I envy you. Except for the papers got coming due.[/quote]

Not I - hence the "'05" :-}

[Drew]

....Don't fall for it Rich, it is the ol'buzzer in the handshake gag.  :-}

[jtwcornell91]

[quote Liz '05][quote billhoward]Post-post-post. Do you guys have classes or anything? All we could do was stare out the window when a lecture got dull. I envy you. Except for the papers got coming due.[/quote]

Not I - hence the "'05" :-}[/quote]

So shouldn't you be out defending our freedoms or something? :-P

[atb9]

[quote Liz '05]I'm pretty confident we can continue to beat Q, and thus make it to Albany.  I'm not at all confident that we can beat Clarkson in a 2 of 3 series.  I'd like to win the ECACs.[/quote]

It seems somewhat silly to say this but if we can't beat Clarkson two-out-of-three, we don't deserve to win the ECACs.  :-P

However, I know what you are wishing for: path of least resistance.  Unfortunately, we are the three seed and not the one seed.

I still wish that the team could take care of some sorely unfinished business against RPI this weekend (one of many reasons why we aren't playing Yale or the Q)...

I find that I will often be the first one to say that a little pessimism is needed when some seem overly optimistic but I believe that in this situation, Clarkson shouldn't be the cause of heartburn.  The true cause of the heartburn is the reality of the playoffs and life.  Because this isn't a college hockey video game (hint, hint) with custom players and cheat codes, either team can win on any given night (even in Lynah) and two wins by the "evil-do-ers" means no Albany (honestly, how often do you yearn for Albany?).  Buck up!  We can beat Clarkson!  And--if the result is positive ;-)--their speed of play will better prepare us for the possibility of Albany and the NCAAs and the stronger teams that come with those competitions.  Of course we can wish for Niagara in the first round of the NCAA tournament, but because of prior results (for now, apparently only one), we will probably face a Colorado College or a Boston University and we need to be ready.

Anyone want to talk about Shawn Weller?  He's been a lot of fun to watch, especially when he bosses around the other Clarkson players... :-D If you are looking for an abundance of chant material on Weller, check out Glens Falls: http://www.cityofglensfalls.com/InGF/inglensfalls.htm  Think "Troy with a better hospital"

[fullofgas]

I guess he's as excited to meet you as you are to him!

[billhoward]

[quote jtwcornell91][quote Liz '05][quote billhoward]Post-post-post. Do you guys have classes or anything? All we could do was stare out the window when a lecture got dull. I envy you. Except for the papers got coming due.[/quote]
Not I - hence the "'05" :-}[/quote]
So shouldn't you be out defending our freedoms or something? :-P[/quote]
We've got a president and vice-president handling that quite nicely, wouldn't you say? Mister Cheney is defending the right to fire arms. President Bush is out supporting the world's biggest democracy and wondering why with one billion Indians he didn't see one lousy casino.

[Trotsky]

Back to the topic.  Quickly.  My feeling about "deserving to win" is the same as John Calvin's.  If you wake up in heaven, you deserved it.  In a sport where a 1/128th of a difference in the angle of a shot is the difference between going home or moving a step closer to the NCAA championship, the hell with deserving -- grab every sliver of a chance of improving the odds.

[Jacob 03]

Good to know that this:

[quote Trotsky][quote billhoward]Cornell is the 1927 Yankees of hockey fandom.[/quote]

Please never, ever use the words Cornell hockey and Yankees in the same sentence again...[/quote]

is off limits, but this:

[quote Trotsky]
Mike Schafer is the Chuck Norris of ECAC playoff coaches...[/quote]

is perfectly acceptable.

[jy3]

[quote billhoward] President Bush is out supporting the world's biggest democracy and wondering why with one billion Indians he didn't see one lousy casino.[/quote]

::laugh::

should be a great series. i agree that if there is one team I would not want to play  in the second round of the teams that didnt have buys it would be clarkson

[DeltaOne81]

[quote Jacob 03][quote Trotsky]
Mike Schafer is the Chuck Norris of ECAC playoff coaches...[/quote]

is perfectly acceptable.[/quote]

Mike Schafer does not get frostbite. Mike Schafer bites frost.

edited from: http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/

[oceanst41]

I think the best odds for Cornell winning in Albany rests on playing Clarkson this weekend (obviously since we have to win to move on I know). The point is rather than having an opponent Cornell knows it can and should beat like say QU, Cornell has a tough series instead. This series is by no means an afterthought on the way to Albany, so the team will be more mentally prepared than perhaps they have been against some weaker competition this year. That way they are more ready to face their next opponent in Albany if they get that opportunity.

I couldn't picture a better team to come into Lynah to get these guys up for the playoffs, other than maybe Harvard.

[Give My Regards]

Regular-season stats mean absolute jack once the playoffs start, but I feel a little better about the Big Red's chances in the q-finals after looking up this information on the Golden Knights:

This season, Clarkson's record on the road has been -- and there's no way to sugar-coat this -- horrendous.  The Knights went 3-13 away from home; only Brown, at 0-12-3 (1-14-3 now) was worse in the ECAC.  Probably as an extension of his team's road woes, likely starter David Leggio has been a very different goalie away from Cheel.

Home stats:  10-0-3, 1.81 GAA, 0.927 sv%

Away stats:  1-7, 3.96 GAA, 0.885(!) sv%  (In the one win, at Bowling Green, Leggio gave up 4 goals)

Now in Leggio's last away game, the season-ender at Harvard, he stopped 37 of 39 shots, so one probably can't read too much into all this.  Still, bringing a rotten road record into Lynah doesn't seem to bode well for the Knights...

(By contrast, Clarkson was 6-14 on the road in 2004-05 heading into the playoffs.  In 2003-04, they were 6-5-2.)

[Trotsky]

[quote Jacob 03]Good to know that this:

[quote Trotsky][quote billhoward]Cornell is the 1927 Yankees of hockey fandom.[/quote]

Please never, ever use the words Cornell hockey and Yankees in the same sentence again...[/quote]

is off limits, but this:

[quote Trotsky]
Mike Schafer is the Chuck Norris of ECAC playoff coaches...[/quote]

is perfectly acceptable.[/quote]

It's because there are many people alive who hate the Yankees.  While there have been people who hate Chuck Norris, that's what corn nuggets are made from.

[andyw2100]

[quote Drew]....Don't fall for it Rich, it is the ol'buzzer in the handshake gag.  :-}[/quote]

Nah. It's just the first date, after all that flirting last week.
                          Andy W.

[billhoward]

[quote fenwick]Regular-season stats mean absolute jack once the playoffs start, but I feel a little better about the Big Red's chances in the q-finals after looking up this information on the Golden Knights:

This season, Clarkson's record on the road has been -- and there's no way to sugar-coat this -- horrendous.  The Knights went 3-13 away from home; only Brown, at 0-12-3 (1-14-3 now) was worse in the ECAC.  Probably as an extension of his team's road woes, likely starter David Leggio has been a very different goalie away from Cheel.
Home stats:  10-0-3, 1.81 GAA, 0.927 sv%
Away stats:  1-7, 3.96 GAA, 0.885(!) sv%  (In the one win, at Bowling Green, Leggio gave up 4 goals)
Now in Leggio's last away game, the season-ender at Harvard, he stopped 37 of 39 shots, so one probably can't read too much into all this.  Still, bringing a rotten road record into Lynah doesn't seem to bode well for the Knights...
(By contrast, Clarkson was 6-14 on the road in 2004-05 heading into the playoffs.  In 2003-04, they were 6-5-2.)[/quote]
Maybe we could bring in a foghorn, train whistle or St. Lawrence Seaway freighter to make Leggio feel more at home. Or leave half the seats empty.