Sasha Pokulok signs with the Capitals

[RichS]

On the ice, he was a very valuable player, notwithstanding his propensity to take penalties.

But how did his senior year end academically?

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote RichS]But how did his senior year end academically?[/quote]
Who gives a shit anymore?  

Why don't you go back to your boring Round Table and continue your brain-dead discussion about academics with Petal?  Let me tell you something:  I worked for the #1 technology company there was and we didn't give one healthy shit about Clarkson.  Your bullshit about what high-tech companies think of your third tier school is typical of you:  pure nonsense.

[Beeeej]

[quote Tom Lento]Back then, the eLynah Forum was maintained by Kyle Rose (he's a GENIUS - just ask him! - Hi Kyle!) and was called the Cornell Hockey Discussion Forum, Clarkson had a substantially stronger hockey team than Cornell, and I don't think anyone was particularly concerned about any Cornell players leaving early.  Those concerns didn't come about during Schafer's tenure until the class of 2004 came in - and even then there weren't any serious concerns about Cornell players leaving early until LeNeveu's amazing sophomore season.[/quote]

LeNeveu was not the first Schafer-era player to leave early for the pros; Jean-Marc Pelletier was, in 1997.  So even in 1999 and 2000, for a Cornellian to make the argument that such a thing only happens at a "hockey factory" would require an extremely short memory.

I don't assert that it's impossible such a thing happened, I just choose not to take RichS's word for it.

Beeeej

[RichS]

[quote Al DeFlorio][quote RichS]But how did his senior year end academically?[/quote]
Who gives a shit anymore?  

Why don't you go back to your boring Round Table and continue your brain-dead discussion about academics with Petal?  Let me tell you something:  I worked for the #1 technology company there was and we didn't give one healthy shit about Clarkson.  Your bullshit about what high-tech companies think of your third tier school is typical of you:  pure nonsense.[/quote]

Al, thanks for the hysterical laugh you gave me.  But you really should calm down though.   Your anger and bitterness is getting the best of you. ::screwy::

Even for you, who has had an ax to grind for Clarkson for as long as I've read your "brain-dead" posts, the above is pretty harsh and tasteless as well as being grossly inaccurate.  So much so that it's hilarious and can't be taken seriously.

But it's entirely predictable since most of what you've had to say over the years about Clarkson in any area has been "pure nonsense."

The fact is that Clarkson has an outstanding reputation among companies in the engineering, science AND high tech fields.  One can ask anyone who isn't named Al D and who doesn't wear the old glasses you have.  Or consult corporate recruiters.

Your claim that your former employer didn't care about Clarkson doesn't impress me a bit.  How it could be "the #1 technology company there was" is hard to imagine.  How did they tolerate someone so cynical, antagonistic, and full of vitriol?

The claim would be believed only by one who buys everything you've been peddling about your having been associated with only "#1s"...everything about cornell, the institution,  it's hockey program and all cornell athletes both on and off the playing fields, all of whom were brilliant scholars, etc, and your twisted opinions of Engineering and Science institutions.  Sorry, no sale.

Pettit?  He's relevant as a well-publicized example throughout the college hockey world in '71 of an exception to all the blather you've been spouting for years.  What was that sterling GPA he achieved just before his very timely demise as a senior?

[Will]

Is it college hockey season yet?

[Rosey]

[quote Tom Lento]Kyle Rose (he's a GENIUS - just ask him! - Hi Kyle!)[/quote]
Alas, I fear it is no longer true.  All that beer, all those brain cells...

Kyle

[ugarte]

[quote Beeeej]LeNeveu was not the first Schafer-era player to leave early for the pros; Jean-Marc Pelletier was, in 1997.  [/quote]Not to mention the pre-Schafer early departures of Manderville and Ratushny.

[Beeeej]

[quote ugarte][quote Beeeej]LeNeveu was not the first Schafer-era player to leave early for the pros; Jean-Marc Pelletier was, in 1997.  [/quote]Not to mention the pre-Schafer early departures of Manderville and Ratushny.[/quote]

...and Duffus.

Beeeej

[nr53]

Did you really have to go back over 30 years to find a good example of this? ::screwy::

[marty]

[quote RichS]

Al, thanks for the hysterical laugh you gave me.  But you really should calm down though.   Your anger and bitterness is getting the best of you. ::screwy::

Even for you, who has had an ax to grind for Clarkson for as long as I've read your "brain-dead" posts, the above is pretty harsh and tasteless as well as being grossly inaccurate.  So much so that it's hilarious and can't be taken seriously.

But it's entirely predictable since most of what you've had to say over the years about Clarkson in any area has been "pure nonsense."

The fact is that Clarkson has an outstanding reputation among companies in the engineering, science AND high tech fields.  One can ask anyone who isn't named Al D and who doesn't wear the old glasses you have.  Or consult corporate recruiters.

Your claim that your former employer didn't care about Clarkson doesn't impress me a bit.  How it could be "the #1 technology company there was" is hard to imagine.  How did they tolerate someone so cynical, antagonistic, and full of vitriol?

The claim would be believed only by one who buys everything you've been peddling about your having been associated with only "#1s"...everything about cornell, the institution,  it's hockey program and all cornell athletes both on and off the playing fields, all of whom were brilliant scholars, etc, and your twisted opinions of Engineering and Science institutions.  Sorry, no sale.

Pettit?  He's relevant as a well-publicized example throughout the college hockey world in '71 of an exception to all the blather you've been spouting for years.  What was that sterling GPA he achieved just before his very timely demise as a senior?[/quote]

Could someone who has taken abnormal psychology please give us a diagnosis here? ::nut::

Perhaps caused by too much incense during Hokehankisd?

[Tom Lento]

[quote Beeeej][quote Tom Lento]I don't think anyone was particularly concerned about any Cornell players leaving early.  Those concerns didn't come about during Schafer's tenure until the class of 2004 came in - and even then there weren't any serious concerns about Cornell players leaving early until LeNeveu's amazing sophomore season.[/quote]

LeNeveu was not the first Schafer-era player to leave early for the pros; Jean-Marc Pelletier was, in 1997.  So even in 1999 and 2000, for a Cornellian to make the argument that such a thing only happens at a "hockey factory" would require an extremely short memory.

I don't assert that it's impossible such a thing happened, I just choose not to take RichS's word for it.
[/quote]

I forgot about JMP, and certainly anyone asserting that early departures only happen at hockey factories would be totally wrong.  However, I stand by my original assessment that hardly anybody was concerned about Schafer's players leaving early at that time.  JMP's departure was fairly surprising, and attributed more to a lack of PT than him being an all-world netminder.  Remember, Jason Elliott was still the starting goaltender that year.

Calling Clarkson a hockey factory when two players leave early isn't necessarily a matter of suggesting that early departures only happen at hockey factories.  In fact, in my post, I never directly connected the two (see the final paragraph), although apparently RichS did.

I'd almost go so far as to say it's likely that somebody, somewhere on the old CHDF called Clarkson a hockey factory, but if it did happen I give it nearly even odds that the person was joking, and even odds that it was an isolated incident involving a couple of bitter fans.

I'm also not willing to take RichS's word for it, since I always thought the typical Cornell fan had a healthy respect for Clarkson.

[CUontheslopes]

I have to say I agree. Clarkson is a third tier engineering school at best and for anything outside of engineering it might as well be a good community college.  It's certainly not on the par of even an RPI.  

Reminds me of one of my favorite cheers:

<- IVY LEAGUE... SAFETY SCHOOL->

And just so you don't think I'm unfairly picking on Clarkson - there are certainly a lot of schools out there below third tier, but to call Clarkson anything but an upstate safety school in the middle of God-forsaken nowhere would be a lie.  Someone's going to have to show me the person who listed Clarkson as their first choice (if they did you can bet there was a community college or two on that list of other schools).

On the ice, I have a healthy respect for Clarkson and we all remember 3 years ago.  Clarkson can't be dismissed on the ice, but off it, not an academic force with which to be reckoned.

[cth95]

What are you smoking?  Clarkson and a community college on the same list?  I would really like to know what rankings or reviews gave you that idea.

[jtwcornell91]

I intended to go to Clarkson if I couldn't afford Cornell or MIT.  In fact I expected I'd be going there until Cornell came through with a generous financial aid offer.  I suppose that means my ranking of the schools I applied to was

1. Cornell
2. MIT
3. Clarkson
4. RPI
5. SUNY Binghamton

Clarkson and RPI both strike me as good regional tech/science schools, sort of like Harvey Mudd is in California.

[marty]

[quote cth95]What are you smoking?  Clarkson and a community college on the same list?  I would really like to know what rankings or reviews gave you that idea.[/quote]

Yeah, they sure don't hold a candle to HVCC.  The grads there can transfer all their credits to "the Tute".  Surely that can't be said for those boys trying to come in from the cold.