Historic Parity?

As the regular season winds to its conclusion, the results seem to confirm (at least to me, anyway) that there is more parity throughout college hockey -- not only in the ECAC -- than I can recall in my 25 years of following Cornell hockey. I have no doubt that on any given night that we can beat anybody, but can just as likely be beaten by virtually anyone else. I don't think I've ever felt such uncertainty going into every game in any prior season.

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As the regular season winds to its conclusion, the results seem to confirm (at least to me, anyway) that there is more parity throughout college hockey -- not only in the ECAC -- than I can recall in my 25 years of following Cornell hockey. I have no doubt that on any given night that we can beat anybody, but can just as likely be beaten by virtually anyone else. I don't think I've ever felt such uncertainty going into every game in any prior season.

Parity has been helped by Cornell finding ways to beat itself.

Yeah, but if you look at the entire league, I don't think the bottom teams have ever been so consistently competitive with the top tier teams in a given season. Brown took us to OT twice, we needed a last minute goal to beat Q-Pac on home ice, and Princeton shut us out. The other top teams have had similar results. A look at the other leagues has seen fairly similar scenarios.