2005-06 ECAC Composite Schedule

Courtesy of Ralph Baer, I have a pdf of the schedule, complete xcept for traveling partner games. It is at:

Among the fun facts:

+ Fish and Fowl is 2/18, the final home game of the RS.
+ The first game v Quinnipiac will be 12/3, the first game before break
+ The first league game after break will be at Quinnipiac on 1/13
+ The RS opens with 4 straight on the road (Yale, Brown, Harvard, Dartmouth). I don't recall ever beginning with a 4 game league road trip.
+ Adding that 4 of the final 6 are on the road, that means 9 of the 12 games in the "middle" will be at home.
+ North Country trip is 2/10-11; the weather oughta be great.
+ There's a very suspcious open weekend on 2/3-4 for both us and the Raiders. I'd bet that's where the 'Gate games are.

Isn't the Cornell-Colgate home-and-home pretty much always on the first weekend in February?

Anyone got any word on Cornell's nonconference schedule yet? Probably a home weekend series against Michigan State and of course the Florida College Classic, but anything else?

It's been getting later every year. It used to be around the midpoint; when it was split between Tuesdays it would even all be over before the midpoint. Now it's drifting out into games 15-16.

The end run is very interesting given the league strengths. Assuming the Gate guess is right, the stretch drive is:

2/3 Colgate (H/A)
2/4 Colgate (H/A)
2/11 SLU (A)
2/12 Clarkson (A)
2/17 Dartmouth (H)
2/18 Harvard (H)
2/24 RPI (A)
2/25 Union (A)

looks like the lynah east game does not conflict with the harvard-yale football game (at yale this coming year). in past years, poor schedule coordination has meant extra tickets for the faithful. no such luck this year.

also curious about the non-conference schedule. i wonder how many years it will be until we join the rest of the league and start booking higher quality opponents. this year, not including holiday tournaments, vermont played BU and UNH, harvard played BU, BC (plus the beanpot), and maine, slu played maine twice, msu, michigan, miami, umass lowell and unh, union played colo college, dmouth played unh, and yale played st cloud, wisconsin, bc and unh. i understand that most of these teams don't want to play at lynah, but this army/sacred heart/canisus crap is sad.

i have to say, the new travel partner pairings are incredibly inconvenient now for that weekend. i doubt i would make a trip to dartmouth, though i have in the past gone the shorter distance to brown. then again, i guess that means 2 weekends of hockey for those in the area.

-mike

Harvard-Dartmouth was an "original" pairing, 1985-91. Personally, I enjoyed it far more than Harvard-Brown.

[Q]Will Wrote:
Anyone got any word on Cornell's nonconference schedule yet? Probably a home weekend series against Michigan State and of course the Florida College Classic, but anything else?[/q]

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Oh yeah, I remember reading that before now. Niagara, hmm...well, if we're going to be playing a non-Big-Four team, it might as well be them.

There are discrepancies between those schedules -- i.e., 1/13.

[Q]Greg Berge Wrote:

+ The RS opens with 4 straight on the road (Yale, Brown, Harvard, Dartmouth). I don't recall ever beginning with a 4 game league road trip.
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Holy short attention span, Batman! It happened last year -- after Cornell hosted Western Michigan for a pair, they hit the road against Yale, Princeton, Clarkson, and St. Lawrence. If the previously-posted non-conf schedule is accurate, the Big Red will host Michigan State to start next season, before the four-game road trip.

LOL. OK, sure, but when was the last time previous to *that*?