>         Better or worse than the one-point weekend last year?  It
> sounded and looked like more fun despite the outcome.
 
It was a LOT more fun.
 
In the first place, we didn't have to deal with Mike Noeth, about whom
nothing more (I'm giving him his due).
 
In the second place, we generated a lot of offense.  I know, it didn't
really show on the board -- 5 goals in two games is not a windfall.  But
there were many great chances, and in general the offense looks the best it
has in a month.
 
In the fifth ("three, sir") place, the NC is a festive place.  Finishing
the season against Clk-SLU is incomparably more interesting than those
clunkers against RPI-UVM from a few years back.
 
 
> Tymschychyn (who's important but not indispensible), Dailey and
> Burgoyne (who will both be missed) and Elliott, it makes next year's
 
Burgoyne is a junior.
 
Tymshychyn really is BADLY missed when he isn't playing (he's had injuries
and been off and on all year).
 
I agree with the major point, however: Burt's the real deal.  The hot seat
at Goaltender U. is in good hands (and there's a mixed metaphor...) for the
next three years, and I am quite relieved we aren't headed for the letdowns
we saw after the departures of Hayward, Dadswell, and Duffus in years gone
by.
 
 
 
>         I just hope Burt isn't getting too discouraged by his 1-4
> record.  I was glad to hear Elliott spoke well of him last weekend,
 
Several of us talked to Ian's Dad in Potsdam.  Ian is, of course, bummed
that we aren't winning, but from all accounts he's keeping a positive
attitude.  I mean, look at the guy's poise on the ice.  He tracks the puck
well, and he keeps his head during scrambles in front.  If we could
convince the officials to call it when the opposing forwards headhunt him,
that might be a nice change...
 
 
>         Ouch!  I guess a lot has changed since the three games I saw
> last fall, where the crowd was incredible.  (Although trying to stand
> in the back row of section O for the Princeton game was annoying.)
> I've been hearing about no-shows, and the occassional non-sellout, and
> I fear it's due to the disappointing and frustrating progress of the
> season.  Even Lynah has its fair-weather component, I guess.
 
Look, I don't want to make out Lynah isn't still a tough building.  It
still is.  The problem is that all that political bullshit where everybody
in the AD and hockey offices were scrambling over each other to suck the
thumbs and whatever else of the Terminally Impaled Upon a Frozen Pole of
Self-Important Outrage still hasn't been entirely forgotten by the students
(though the enforcement is history).  Nothing like paternalism AND betrayal
to really warm the cockles of Lynah's heart (note to the Morality Morons --
"cockles" isn't profane).
 
Don't worry too much about the students -- they're amazing, creative,
energetic.  They'll be back and better than ever.
 
 
> goes to Placid, there will be a play-in, since SLU would have to upset
> Yale and Vermont knock off Clarkson to prevent it.
 
And neither of those things is going to happen.  SLU would have been a
worthy opponent for Clarkson, and paradoxically, UVM could give Yale fits.
But the other way doesn't work -- the strengths of the top two seeds just
roll over their guests.  Cornell will bneed only pack the white duds if
they travel to Placid.
 
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