2003-4 Schedule

The schedule according to the hockey office as of 2/6/03.
Everblades dates not certain yet (Christmas/New Years dates).
Home games in bold. All games at 7:00 except they don't know Florida yet.

Oct   18 Sat   Red/White
      25 Sat   Ex. US under 18
      31 Fri     Western Michigan
Nov    1 Sat   Western Michigan
       7 Fri     Princeton
       8 Sat    Yale
      14 Fri     Clarkson
      15 Sat    St. Lawrence
      21 Fri     Ohio State
      22 Sat    Bowling Green
      29 Sat    Mercyhurst
Dec    5 Fri     Harvard
       6 Sat    Brown
      ?          Florida Everblades
                  Notre Dame/Ohio State/Maine
Jan    9 Fri     Brown
      10 Sat    Harvard
      16 Fri     RPI
      17 Sat    Union
      23 Fri     Dartmouth
      24 Sat    Vermont
      30 Fri     Colgate
      31 Sat    Colgate
Feb    6 Fri      Dartmouth
       7 Sat    Vermont
      13 Fri     Princeton
      14 Sat    Yale
      20 Fri     RPI
      21 Sat    Union
      27 Fri     Clarkson
      28 Sat    St. Lawrence

Great home schedule.

And that's as good an editing job as I can do tonight.

But no BU, unfortunately.

I'm just glad to see that one of the Hahvahd games will be during semester break, so I can be there without major stress.

Beeeej

Wasn't the plan for the home-and-home with BU that we'd probably do two years on, one year off, rinse & repeat?

Beeeej

According to someone at BU, the series was supposed to continue going back and forth, but I guess that might not of happened.

The first oddity I noticed... no home conference games 'til December 5th? Wow.

and what a way to begin the home conference schedule too!

The OOC schedule doesn't seem nearly as strong as it is this year, but then again, perhaps that has something to do with Bowling Green + Mercyherst not exactly being BU + BU...

Jeffrey "Beeeej" Anbinder '94 wrote:

Wasn't the plan for the home-and-home with BU that we'd probably do two years on, one year off, rinse & repeat?

Four games every three years? I can live with that.

Plus we get to root against BU again next season.

I think we have a good mix in our OOC for next year. We throw a bone to the MAAC, and get some western teams on the schedule. Pretty cool to have NO road OOC games (Estero is neutral site, even though it plays like the road.)

Playing Mercyhurst is also likely to help our RPI because if they have a good season in the MAAC, they will masquerade as a strong opponent.

A couple things:

* Good move getting Bowling Green into town to fill out the weekend with the reciprocal OSU game.

* The Mercyhurst game is right after Thanksgiving break, which is fine. Not like the big BU home series we had this season. I'm wondering if we could find someone like UMass to fill in that weekend on Sunday. The lack of any Hockey East team (save the possibility of Maine in Estero) is striking.

* Interesting shuffling of the ECAC schedule. My gripe is the move of the Harvard-Brown weekends. For the past 10 years at least, the 2 weekends have been mid-November and early/mid-February, with the hosting duties flopping every other year. Although I'm not too attached to those weekends, I do dislike scheduling a Harvard-Brown weekend during winter break. Since they usually keep the same ECAC schedule in 2-year blocks (they just flip the home-away), this suggests that the Harvard game at Lynah in 2004-2005 will be right in the middle of winter break. Awful.

Rich Hovorka '96 wrote:

* The Mercyhurst game is right after Thanksgiving break, which is fine. Not like the big BU home series we had this season. I'm wondering if we could find someone like UMass to fill in that weekend on Sunday. The lack of any Hockey East team (save the possibility of Maine in Estero) is striking.

UMass would also be cool because we could hang with the fans we met in Florida, but it looks like our NC schedule is full.

* Interesting shuffling of the ECAC schedule. My gripe is the move of the Harvard-Brown weekends. For the past 10 years at least, the 2 weekends have been mid-November and early/mid-February, with the hosting duties flopping every other year. Although I'm not too attached to those weekends, I do dislike scheduling a Harvard-Brown weekend during winter break. Since they usually keep the same ECAC schedule in 2-year blocks (they just flip the home-away), this suggests that the Harvard game at Lynah in 2004-2005 will be right in the middle of winter break. Awful.

Crap, I didn't even see that Lynah East was happening over break; I was just looking at Fish'n'Fowl on that terrible last weekend before finals.

aweful for students, great for alums who want tickets

[Q] I'm wondering if we could find someone like UMass to fill in that weekend on Sunday. The lack of any Hockey East team (save the possibility of Maine in Estero) is striking. [/Q]
Sure, right after we petition the Ivy League to give us 30 games.

[Q]this suggests that the Harvard game at Lynah in 2004-2005 will be right in the middle of winter break. Awful.[/Q]
That would be awful, let's hope they're not that stupid (though this *is* the ECAC we're talking about - maybe the Athletics Dept will object).

Importantly, there are no home games during winter break, so buying season tickets will allow us to see all home games (unlike 2001-2002). Here's hoping Bowling Green has a great year next year!

[Q]Sure, right after we petition the Ivy League to give us 30 games. [/Q]
D'oh! I didn't bother to count. Nevermind.

Well, I'd like to see the Ivy League up it to 30 anyway. Having a 1 game weekend seems kinda silly. So long as you're playing, play two. Like one more game's gonna make such a big difference.

Good: No off week after the games start up again in January. I always hated that late off week -- find of like a false Spring.

Good: Colgate pair listed as Fri/Sat, where it will hopefully stay.

Good: overall NC slate.

Great: 16 RS home games = 55% of the season. Just 11 road games (39%).

Bad: again no WCHA opponent.

Kinda cool that we're playing the US Under-18 Team again. I remember last year, when the little, little kids played during the intermission (actually - I think there are video clips of this over there in the archive), and they left the ice to a loud "Lit-tle Kids! Lit-tle Kids!" cheer.

And the same cheer greeted the Under 18ers when they returned to the ice for the second period.

I assume that the ordering of part of the conference schedule is backwards. That is, I doubt that Cornell will play RPI, Dartmouth, Clarkson, and Princeton both times on Friday, and their travel partners both times on Saturday. It looks like the pairs were just entered alphabetically except for Brown/Harvard.

Yeah, let's hope Bowling Green has a good year next year. I want to see a challenging non-conference schedule that the Big Red can overcome.

It's entirely possible that it's correct as is. You typically just get each configuration 2 out of 4 years, but I've never seen any indication that they try to make the two series inverted.

I'm a little disappointed that Bowling Green is on the schedule next year. BGSU was good once upon a time, but they've been mired at the bottom of the CCHA for a number of years now (11th place today) and probably will not be good next year. This may well mean we have to go there in '04.

Starting off with a pair against WMU could be tough, since they will have played a month by then. But a good test I guess.

No complaints about Mercyhurst. It's good to support the new kids on the block and we did pick up one of the best in the league.

Looks like we're not playing a Canadian exhibtion next year? That would be weird. I suppose that one might fit on Fri. 10/24 though.

What's the Ivy rule for start date on "real" games? I always thought it was Nov 1, but maybe it's "the weekend of Nov 1?"

Injuries are my only worry when we play the US Under-18 Team or any Canadian team. We always seem to lose somebody for at least a few weeks.

Christine Quinn '94 wrote:

What's the Ivy rule for start date on "real" games? I always thought it was Nov 1, but maybe it's "the weekend of Nov 1?"

I thought the rule was actually on when practices can start (mid-October) and it's just that no one wants to play for keeps until they've been underway for a couple of weeks.

Thanks for the info! Colgate never releases this info at least until the current season is over. Doesn't help me with our nonconference game games, but at least I know when the ECAC games are!

CowbellGuy,

It could be correct as stands, but history shows that very rarely are both pairs of games in the same order. Furthermore, although the games with RPI are on the same weekends on the RPI schedule which I received in confidence about a month ago, both RPI-Cornell games are listed there on Saturday, not Friday, because that schedule also lists the pairs in alphabetical order, and Cornell follows Colgate.

It ain't worth arguing about.