10 Best College Hockey Teams of All Time
Posted by Chris 02
10 Best College Hockey Teams of All Time
Posted by: Chris 02 (---.jsc.nasa.gov)
Date: February 08, 2012 02:18PM
Someone's list of the 10 best college hockey teams of all time. Probably better for discussion during June or July.
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Re: 10 Best College Hockey Teams of All Time
Posted by: jtwcornell91 (Moderator)
Date: February 08, 2012 03:25PM
What, no picture of Ken Dryden to accompany it?
Re: 10 Best College Hockey Teams of All Time
Posted by: Aaron M. Griffin (---.mobility-up.psu.edu)
Date: February 08, 2012 03:30PM
jtwcornell91
What, no picture of Ken Dryden to accompany it?
Must not have been written by the same Emmy Award-winning crew that produced the Cornell-RPI game last Friday then.
...doubt I was the only one to catch that.
Re: 10 Best College Hockey Teams of All Time
Posted by: Al DeFlorio (---.hsd1.ma.comcast.net)
Date: February 08, 2012 03:52PM
BU's 1971 team should be on that list, certainly over teams with eleven losses.
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Re: 10 Best College Hockey Teams of All Time
Posted by: Ben (158.143.105.---)
Date: February 08, 2012 04:25PM
Ten demerits for linking to b/r, ten more for linking to a slideshow.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/08/2012 04:26PM by Ben.
Re: 10 Best College Hockey Teams of All Time
Posted by: RichH (---.northropgrumman.com)
Date: February 08, 2012 04:55PM
I loved reading about RPI's "amazing 30-win unbeaten streak" in 1985.
Re: 10 Best College Hockey Teams of All Time
Posted by: Josh '99 (---.nyc.biz.rr.com)
Date: February 08, 2012 04:59PM
Looks like they only wanted to pick one year's team for any given school (I don't think it'd just coincidentally have worked out that way otherwise), but I can't figure out why you'd pick their 2008-09 team (which was awfully lucky to win the championship) over one of their more dominant teams from the 1970s.Al DeFlorio
BU's 1971 team should be on that list, certainly over teams with eleven losses.
Re: 10 Best College Hockey Teams of All Time
Posted by: Al DeFlorio (---.hsd1.ma.comcast.net)
Date: February 08, 2012 05:09PM
Right.Josh '99
Looks like they only wanted to pick one year's team for any given school (I don't think it'd just coincidentally have worked out that way otherwise), but I can't figure out why you'd pick their 2008-09 team (which was awfully lucky to win the championship) over one of their more dominant teams from the 1970s.Al DeFlorio
BU's 1971 team should be on that list, certainly over teams with eleven losses.
That 1971 BU team was so dominant that they were sent to the NCAAs from the ECAC (chosen over ECAC runner-up Clarkson) even though they lost their ECAC semifinal game to Harvard (A Harvard team that, by the way, won that ECAC tournament as a going-away gift for their longtime coach, Cooney Weiland, who was retiring after the 1970-1971 season. Joe Cavanagh, an all-time great college hockey player, in my opinion, carried that Harvard team on his back to the championship.) Some Clarkson supporters still lose sleep over that decision, but there's no question it was the right one. No pairwise, of course, back then.
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Re: 10 Best College Hockey Teams of All Time
Posted by: Trotsky (---.hsd1.md.comcast.net)
Date: February 08, 2012 05:39PM
I'd say 1 for a slideshow and 99 for b/r. But sentiment seconded.Ben
Ten demerits for linking to b/r, ten more for linking to a slideshow.
Re: 10 Best College Hockey Teams of All Time
Posted by: Jeff Hopkins '82 (---.airproducts.com)
Date: February 09, 2012 07:49AM
My company blocks BleacherReport. Can somebody post the list without the slideshow?
Re: 10 Best College Hockey Teams of All Time
Posted by: Aaron M. Griffin (---.mobility-up.psu.edu)
Date: February 09, 2012 10:26AM
Jeff Hopkins '82
My company blocks BleacherReport. Can somebody post the list without the slideshow?
10. Minnesota ’78-79
9. BU ’08-09
8. Wisconsin ’89-90
7. Northern Michigan ’90-91
6. RPI ’84-85
5. Denver ’60-61
4. BC ’48-49
3. North Dakota ’86-87
2. Maine ’92-93
1. Cornell ’69-70
1. Cornell '69-70: Whenever a team goes undefeated in a season and wins a national title, they are bound to land high on a best-of-all-time list. After a tough 4-3 loss to Denver in the national championship in 1969, Cornell would rebound and become the first college hockey team to go undefeated, with a perfect record of 29-0 on the season. The team was coached by the great Ned Harkness, who holds the coaching record for all-time winning percentage. Harkness passed away in 2008. The team still remains the only undefeated team to win a national championship in college hockey history.
Sorry that I copied only the rationale for each team for Cornell '69-70.
Re: 10 Best College Hockey Teams of All Time
Posted by: billhoward (---.hsd1.nj.comcast.net)
Date: February 09, 2012 12:07PM
Especially if you're not trying to serve up ads. Then at least it's in the service of capitalism.Ben
Ten demerits for linking to b/r, ten more for linking to a slideshow.
Re: 10 Best College Hockey Teams of All Time
Posted by: Jeff Hopkins '82 (---.airproducts.com)
Date: February 09, 2012 02:43PM
Aaron M. Griffin
Jeff Hopkins '82
My company blocks BleacherReport. Can somebody post the list without the slideshow?
10. Minnesota ’78-79
9. BU ’08-09
8. Wisconsin ’89-90
7. Northern Michigan ’90-91
6. RPI ’84-85
5. Denver ’60-61
4. BC ’48-49
3. North Dakota ’86-87
2. Maine ’92-93
1. Cornell ’69-70
1. Cornell '69-70: Whenever a team goes undefeated in a season and wins a national title, they are bound to land high on a best-of-all-time list. After a tough 4-3 loss to Denver in the national championship in 1969, Cornell would rebound and become the first college hockey team to go undefeated, with a perfect record of 29-0 on the season. The team was coached by the great Ned Harkness, who holds the coaching record for all-time winning percentage. Harkness passed away in 2008. The team still remains the only undefeated team to win a national championship in college hockey history.
Sorry that I copied only the rationale for each team for Cornell '69-70.
Thanks, Aaron. That's pretty cool.
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