Out Of Town Scores

Providence 5 Boston U 4 in OT
UMass 4 Maine 2
UNH 4 UMass-Lowell 4

Minnesota scores 3 in the third to win 5-4 over UM-Duluth

Wisconsin 1, St. Cloud 1
MSU-Mankato 2, North Dakota 1




Also:

Michigan Tech 2, Denver 2 (2nd)


ZD

Harvard 4 - Dartmouth 1

Boucher the sieve strikes again - after playing solidly last weekend, he let in a couple early that weren't his fault and then let in some atrocious ones late, while looking shaky throughout most of the game. With tomorrow being Senior Night though, he'd be starting even if he had given up 10 tonight.

Though to be fair, the offense didn't give him much support. It wasn't that the O was anemic either, they just were never in the right place to grab the numerous rebounds Grumet-Morris gave up. If it bounced to the left, they were on the right, if it was floating in the slot, they were all in the low slot, and so on.

I ****ing hate Harvard with a passion. I think we're still paying whatever deity we ticked off with the 7-0 win over them 2 years ago, which was the first time we had shut them out since 1923 - a span of 78 years.

At least the rent-a-cops decided to not be anal tonight. When Harvard pulled away late and the obscenities started flying from the student section, security just turned a deaf ear to it for once.

On the plus side, the Harvard win assured us of a share (at least) of the Ivy Title. It also moved Dartmouth out of the final first round bye (i know, i know - for know), thus making it harder for them to make it to Albany for a possible meeting with Cornell. I don't know about anyone else, but I really wouldn't want to play Dartmouth in a single elimination situation on neutral ice.

Note that as of today's results, a tournament where all favorites win would yield the following draw. Not using JTW's standings which factor in tie breakers correctly: [slack.net] because it hasn't updated yet, so I might have somebody out of order (using USCHO which might not do it right).

FIRST ROUND

Dartmouth > Princeton
Union > RPI
Clarkson > St. Lawrence
Vermont > Colgate

QF

Cornell > Vermont
Harvard > Clarkson
Yale > Union
Brown > Dartmouth

SF

Cornell > Brown
Harvard > Yale

F

Cornell > Harvard


Pretty amazing draw, actually, as it features nearly every one of the fiercest rivalries in the conference: Clarkson-SLU, Union-RPI, Harvard-Yale, and Harvard-Cornell. Also, every non-champion Ivy would be eliminated by another Ivy: Princeton (by Dartmouth), Dartmouth (by Brown), Brown (by Cornell), Yale (by Harvard), and Harvard (by Cornell), thus achieving the theoretical max for intra-Ivy matchups in the tournament (and with a Brown-Yale consy to boot).

On the bright side though, Union lost to Colgate. So if things break tomorrow like they should (Dartmouth over Brown, Cornell over Union) - Dartmouth will be back in a tie for fourth with Brown, two points ahead of Union, and with the tiebreaker in hand over Brown (Dartmouth will have the better record vs. top 4).

Of course Dartmouth's road woes are well-known. They should handle RPI regardless, but a loss to Union could still be killer.

Greg:

Union would be #5, Dartmouth #6, Colgate #8, and UVM #9 as of today after tiebreakers.

Ah, well. That makes it all much less fun. )

That didn't last:

Denver 7, Michigan Tech 2


ZD

By the way, PC's winner over BU was a shorthanded goal with :45 left in overtime.

Doh.


ZD