The Next Few Weeks

Take a look here at Whelan's handy-dandy summary of the rest of the season. (As if everyone doesn't already check it the morning after every game like I do...)

A few observations/predictions:

• We, Princeton, Quinnipiac, and Colgate have a tough road home. In fact, Colgate has the toughest of all, because they have to play us.
• Even though they will finish 10th or 11th, their worst result ever in the ECAC, Clarkson will not finish in last. They have a schedule filled with all the huckleberries, many of them at home, and SLU will be softening one of them up each weekend.
• It is a traditional five-team race for the four byes. SLU will come on very strong, notwithstanding their goose egg last night.
• A resurgent (and perhaps insurgent) Brown team will pluck the last home-ice slot in the first round from, appropriately, Harvard, who will be their opponent. I would strongly predict a Brown win in that series. Go away, Can'tabridgians.
• RPI would be a nightmare semi opponent for Yale. I hope that happens, for our sake.

Considering our road home, I will start to "believe" if we win out. Given that the tough games, including tonight's, are at home, winning out is within the realm of possibility. If not? Well... I'd be awfully glad to steal the last Albany championship.

(PS I was thinking of calling this thread "Gleaning Wisdom from Whelan's Nutshell" () but thought better of it.)

Scersk '97
Take a look here at Whelan's handy-dandy summary of the rest of the season. (As if everyone doesn't already check it the morning after every game like I do...)

A few observations/predictions:

• We, Princeton, Quinnipiac, and Colgate have a tough road home. In fact, Colgate has the toughest of all, because they have to play us.
• Even though they will finish 10th or 11th, their worst result ever in the ECAC, Clarkson will not finish in last. They have a schedule filled with all the huckleberries, many of them at home, and SLU will be softening one of them up each weekend.
• It is a traditional five-team race for the four byes. SLU will come on very strong, notwithstanding their goose egg last night.
• A resurgent (and perhaps insurgent) Brown team will pluck the last home-ice slot in the first round from, appropriately, Harvard, who will be their opponent. I would strongly predict a Brown win in that series. Go away, Can'tabridgians.
• RPI would be a nightmare semi opponent for Yale. I hope that happens, for our sake.

Considering our road home, I will start to "believe" if we win out. Given that the tough games, including tonight's, are at home, winning out is within the realm of possibility. If not? Well... I'd be awfully glad to steal the last Albany championship.

(PS I was thinking of calling this thread "Gleaning Wisdom from Whelan's Nutshell" () but thought better of it.)

Thanks for the analysis, but isn't that past the point of believing and into reality?

I guess that what I mean is this: should we win out, I will start to expect a long run on the national level rather than, as now, just hoping for it. And I would retain that expectation no matter what happens in Albany or otherwise.

Input annual "take care of the ECAC and the NCAA will take care of itself" screed here.