Opponents and Others, 2021-22

There is now a 7 point gap between ECAC 4 and 5. Seems like we have a pretty good idea of the top 4 in the conference.

Trotsky
There is now a 7 point gap between ECAC 4 and 5. Seems like we have a pretty good idea of the top 4 in the conference.

Can't remember whether it was here or USCHO, but during the pre-season I chastised a Cornell fan for picking us 5th, saying it would be incredibly disappointing to finish behind anyone not named Q, H, or Ckn. Turning out to be correct - nice to hit one of these occasionally.

Quin has allowed 2 goals and shut out 6 of the 7 teams in the ECAC. Riding a 4 goal shutout streak.. Wonder what the ECAC record is for that? Dart/Prin/Colg on deck before our game

They have a goal Diff of +21 we have one of +18

upprdeck
Quin has allowed 2 goals and shut out 6 of the 7 teams in the ECAC. Riding a 4 goal shutout streak.. Wonder what the ECAC record is for that? Dart/Prin/Colg on deck before our game

NCAA record is 12

Robb

Trotsky
There is now a 7 point gap between ECAC 4 and 5. Seems like we have a pretty good idea of the top 4 in the conference.

Can't remember whether it was here or USCHO, but during the pre-season I chastised a Cornell fan for picking us 5th, saying it would be incredibly disappointing to finish behind anyone not named Q, H, or Ckn. Turning out to be correct - nice to hit one of these occasionally.

I think that may have been me. Or was that your point?

Trotsky

Robb

Trotsky
There is now a 7 point gap between ECAC 4 and 5. Seems like we have a pretty good idea of the top 4 in the conference.

Can't remember whether it was here or USCHO, but during the pre-season I chastised a Cornell fan for picking us 5th, saying it would be incredibly disappointing to finish behind anyone not named Q, H, or Ckn. Turning out to be correct - nice to hit one of these occasionally.

I think that may have been me. Or was that your point?

Honestly can’t remember. Did you or tbrw pick us 5th?

Robb

Trotsky

Robb

Trotsky
There is now a 7 point gap between ECAC 4 and 5. Seems like we have a pretty good idea of the top 4 in the conference.

Can't remember whether it was here or USCHO, but during the pre-season I chastised a Cornell fan for picking us 5th, saying it would be incredibly disappointing to finish behind anyone not named Q, H, or Ckn. Turning out to be correct - nice to hit one of these occasionally.

I think that may have been me. Or was that your point?

Honestly can’t remember. Did you or tbrw pick us 5th?

I think I said I would settle for fifth in a season of all question marks.

TBRW:
1. Hvd
2. Cor
3. Qpc
4. Clk

Kudos to the Dartmouth goalie last night, who made 47 saves. Q outshot Dartmouth 50-19, and didn't wrap up the 3-1 victory until it scored an empty-net goal.

Saturday night is going to be a clash of titans (or a trough of coughs).

attendance will be interesting this week.. many STH did not buy, Im sure many planning on buying one off tickets. But thats not a thing this next weekend of games. Might be a small townie side.

Trotsky
Saturday night is going to be a clash of titans (or a trough of coughs).

#1 vs #8 going by the new USCHO poll.

RichH

Trotsky
Saturday night is going to be a clash of titans (or a trough of coughs).

#1 vs #8 going by the new USCHO poll.

I really hope we are full strength. Queef looks good.

yeah.. I wonder what the issue is with the top 3 guys now.. two of them have been out for a couple weeks. even if they play might not be in the best of shape.

I posted this in the Polls thread, but it should have been here.

Princeton & Quinnipiac are playing tonight at 7:00 PM (1/18). Should be on ESPN+. Let's hope they go to quadruple OT.

Swampy
I posted this in the Polls thread, but it should have been here.

Princeton & Quinnipiac are playing tonight at 7:00 PM (1/18). Should be on ESPN+. Let's hope they go to quadruple OT.

Oh well Q cruises 9-0.

I guess at this point just scoring would be nice against them.

Interesting vote coming up at NCAA Convention over whether to allow Division III schools RIT and Union, which play Division I hockey, to give athletic scholarships for hockey[/url]. Union says it's having trouble keeping pace, and needs to be able to do so.
From the article on CHN.com:

With better coaching, better institutional support, and more open need-based aid for hockey players, Union's program was able to thrive in the 2010s, as evidenced by its two Frozen Four appearances and 2014 national championship.
But times are always changing, and college sports is catering more and more to the big schools, with things like the ability for schools to offer full cost of attendance scholarship packages, and so-called NIL (name, image and likeness) rights for players.
Union believed the ability to keep up was going to slip away without the boost that athletic scholarships will bring.

union needs to give scholarships because they can't expect players to come to albany without a scholarship when they have to give up good union jobs out by the tar sands and alimony and child support payments to keep up.

The NCAA remains apoplectic that small schools like Union / Clarkson should be in D1, ditto Hopkins in lacrosse. I believe there are NCAA rules that make it difficult for small schools (that aren't D1 now) to field just one or two D1 sports and play at the lower level in other sports. Instead, they now have to commit to at least a half-dozen D1 programs for men and for women both, and field D1 teams in each season, fall-winter-spring. Clarkson has 20 sports; only men's and women's hockey are D1 and the rest are D3.

In comparison: Ohio State's current athletics budget is $335 million, maybe more if they chip in to pay Michigan's most current athletes/sex abuse lawsuit.

billhoward
The NCAA remains apoplectic that small schools like Union / Clarkson should be allowed in D1, ditto Hopkins in lacrosse. In comparison:

"The NCAA" is not apoplectic about it, and "the NCAA" has nothing to do with the choice.

Trouble at Union:

.@UnionAthletics announces that @Unionmhockey men's head coach Rick Bennett has been put on paid administrative leave as the College investigates an allegation that was received late Wednesday evening. Assistant coach John Ronan will run the team this weekend.

— Ken Schott #ThePartingSchottsPodcast (@slapschotts) January 21, 2022

Looks like they didn't want to fuck around. Less than 24 hours.

Trotsky
Looks like they didn't want to fuck around. Less than 24 hours.

24 hours 8 years.

marty

Trotsky
Looks like they didn't want to fuck around. Less than 24 hours.

24 hours 8 years.

QFT

Brown rescheduled for Tuesday, Feb 1.

Trotsky
Brown rescheduled for Tuesday, Feb 1.

@ 3 PM

redice

Trotsky
Brown rescheduled for Tuesday, Feb 1.

@ 3 PM

Shit. Good catch.

Let's switch UVM back for Q please.

Trotsky
Let's switch UVM back for Q please.

the curse of justin milo

Trotsky
Let's switch UVM back for Q please.

I know they played Q and UMass, but I can't believe that whatever an AIC is has a tough enough schedule to be even with us at 13-9-1.

Dafatone

Trotsky
Let's switch UVM back for Q please.

I know they played Q and UMass, but I can't believe that whatever an AIC is has a tough enough schedule to be even with us at 13-9-1.

they have a higher SOS..

they have no wins against any of the better teams but a couple ties.

Prov/Quin/Mass/BC losses Prov/Quin(2) OT games

we have UND win QUin/Clark OT Harv L then ASU/BU games

so they have had a pretty good schedule and no wins against any if them. we have the 2-3 wins depending on how you count a middling BU win

still 5 less losses should mean something.

upprdeck

Dafatone

Trotsky
Let's switch UVM back for Q please.

I know they played Q and UMass, but I can't believe that whatever an AIC is has a tough enough schedule to be even with us at 13-9-1.

they have a higher SOS..

they have no wins against any of the better teams but a couple ties.

Prov/Quin/Mass/BC losses Prov/Quin(2) OT games

we have UND win QUin/Clark OT Harv L then ASU/BU games

so they have had a pretty good schedule and no wins against any if them. we have the 2-3 wins depending on how you count a middling BU win

still 5 less losses should mean something.

It's a lot easier to understand when you stop thinking of Cornell as being 13-4-1 -- because for Pairwise purposes, they are not.

Cornell is 9-4-1 with 4 OT wins

American International is 13-5-1 with 4 OT losses.

This in effect makes the teams:
Cornell 9-4-5
AIC 13-5-5

That hopefully makes it more obvious what's going on.

adamw

upprdeck

Dafatone

Trotsky
Let's switch UVM back for Q please.

I know they played Q and UMass, but I can't believe that whatever an AIC is has a tough enough schedule to be even with us at 13-9-1.

they have a higher SOS..

they have no wins against any of the better teams but a couple ties.

Prov/Quin/Mass/BC losses Prov/Quin(2) OT games

we have UND win QUin/Clark OT Harv L then ASU/BU games

so they have had a pretty good schedule and no wins against any if them. we have the 2-3 wins depending on how you count a middling BU win

still 5 less losses should mean something.

It's a lot easier to understand when you stop thinking of Cornell as being 13-4-1 -- because for Pairwise purposes, they are not.

Cornell is 9-4-1 with 4 OT wins

American International is 13-5-1 with 4 OT losses.

This in effect makes the teams:
Cornell 9-4-5
AIC 13-5-5

That hopefully makes it more obvious what's going on.

The fact that you had to explain that here, to this crowd, makes it obvious how stupid the current system is.

Is 3x3 just for Covid or is this going to be The New Stupid even afterwards, like the NL DH?

Seems like a lot of leagues (not necessarily NC$$) are using the emergency to push through a lot of garbage. Man on second in extras is the only one so far that would actually make me burn down a stadium, but I expect even worse.

Trotsky
Is 3x3 just for Covid or is this going to be The New Stupid even afterwards, like the NL DH?

Seems like a lot of leagues (not necessarily NC$$) are using the emergency to push through a lot of garbage. Man on second in extras is the only one so far that would actually make me burn down a stadium, but I expect even worse.

3x3 hockey is dumb and a travesty, but it IS fun. 3x3 for entertainment's sake plus treating a game tied at regulation as more or less a tie for RPI purposes isn't that bad, if we're committed to keeping crowds thrilled or something.

Man on second suuuucks. Like, start that in the 13th if you have to.

Trotsky
Is 3x3 just for Covid or is this going to be The New Stupid even afterwards, like the NL DH?

Seems like a lot of leagues (not necessarily NC$$) are using the emergency to push through a lot of garbage. Man on second in extras is the only one so far that would actually make me burn down a stadium, but I expect even worse.

This was implemented regardless of COVID. Across the board NCAA hockey rule. Every 2 years is a "rule change year." - So theoretically they can vote to change that again this summer. I doubt it however.

Dafatone
3x3 hockey is dumb and a travesty, but it IS fun.

I don't think so. I think it just turns the sport into lacrosse, where you hold possession unless you fuck up.

It's not just a crime, it's a blunder.

Trotsky

Dafatone
3x3 hockey is dumb and a travesty, but it IS fun.

I don't think so. I think it just turns the sport into lacrosse, where you hold possession unless you fuck up.

It's not just a crime, it's a blunder.

I rather enjoy 3-3 if both teams are truly trying to score. Saturday, against Q, CU seemed to be playing for a tie, for most of the OT. That was not enjoyable.

redice

Trotsky

Dafatone
3x3 hockey is dumb and a travesty, but it IS fun.

I don't think so. I think it just turns the sport into lacrosse, where you hold possession unless you fuck up.

It's not just a crime, it's a blunder.

I rather enjoy 3-3 if both teams are truly trying to score. Saturday, against Q, CU seemed to be playing for a tie, for most of the OT. That was not enjoyable.

When 3 x 3 OT started in the NHL, it was wild fire wagon hockey. But it’s evolved into “possess the puck at all costs” and that’s what transpired last night at Lynah. Not nearly so entertaining, even though it worked out for us.

Dafatone
3x3 hockey is dumb and a travesty, but it IS fun. 3x3 for entertainment's sake plus treating a game tied at regulation as more or less a tie for RPI purposes isn't that bad, if we're committed to keeping crowds thrilled or something. Man on second suuuucks. Like, start that in the 13th if you have to.

When the NHL instituted the shootout, Sports Illustrated wrote on how players didn't like shootouts. But when they were sort-of watching another game on TV and it went to shootout, all eyes were glued to the shootout. It's just a game, rules change as you go along. Kids do it, why not grown-ups? Maybe MLB goes to invisible man in right field and any ball hit there is a do-over. Last year, it could only have helped terrible teams like the Pirates and Diamondbacks.

Trotsky
Is 3x3 just for Covid or is this going to be The New Stupid even afterwards, like the NL DH?

Seems like a lot of leagues (not necessarily NC$$) are using the emergency to push through a lot of garbage. Man on second in extras is the only one so far that would actually make me burn down a stadium, but I expect even worse.

I'd prefer a return to the status quo ante, of course, maybe with a five-minute 4-on-4 overtime if there is such a need for more space. But, if we absolutely must not have ties and with the excellent and exciting CFB overtime rules in mind, why not dueling power plays?

***

Coin flip or whatever to determine possession.

Winning team gets a one-man power play advantage. (Some sort of rules to set up a defensive zone breakout to start the power play. Defense needs to be above the faceoff dots or something.)

Goal? 1-0. Shorty or successful kill? 0-1.

Switch possession.

Repeat.

First team to a "two-goal" lead wins.

***

I'd have few problems with counting all the stats. You could even go 4-on-3 or 5-on-3 after a couple of innings if there needs to be even more space. At least we're talking about plausible game situations. 3-on-3 is so very rare as to be nearly artificial.

Scersk '97

Trotsky
Is 3x3 just for Covid or is this going to be The New Stupid even afterwards, like the NL DH?

Seems like a lot of leagues (not necessarily NC$$) are using the emergency to push through a lot of garbage. Man on second in extras is the only one so far that would actually make me burn down a stadium, but I expect even worse.

I'd prefer a return to the status quo ante, of course, maybe with a five-minute 4-on-4 overtime if there is such a need for more space. But, if we absolutely must not have ties and with the excellent and exciting CFB overtime rules in mind, why not dueling power plays?

***

Coin flip or whatever to determine possession.

Winning team gets a one-man power play advantage. (Some sort of rules to set up a defensive zone breakout to start the power play. Defense needs to be above the faceoff dots or something.)

Goal? 1-0. Shorty or successful kill? 0-1.

Switch possession.

Repeat.

First team to a "two-goal" lead wins.

***

I'd have few problems with counting all the stats. You could even go 4-on-3 or 5-on-3 after a couple of innings if there needs to be even more space. At least we're talking about plausible game situations. 3-on-3 is so very rare as to be nearly artificial.

Eventually we can come up with so many ideas that we ruin the game for those who love it.

For those of us who love their smart phone, but were also happy back in the analog day, I think we can cater too much to the "have it now, digital crowd".

Sort of why I like the numbers 2-29. And Malone is my favorite player.

Jim Hyla
Eventually we can come up with so many ideas that we ruin the game for those who love it.

For those of us who love their smart phone, but were also happy back in the analog day, I think we can cater too much to the "have it now, digital crowd".

Sort of why I like the numbers 2-29. And Malone is my favorite player.

I'm with you, Jim.

Really, I see no need to break what wasn't broken. I also become increasingly frustrated with change, or the appearance of change, for the sake of change.

And 13 is a lucky number in my family.

Harvard is admitting spectators at games. [gocrimson.com]

I apologize is if this was mentioned already here. I only received it because RPI's game is referred to.

ursusminor
Harvard is admitting spectators at games. [gocrimson.com]

I apologize is if this was mentioned already here. I only received it because RPI's game is referred to.

Can RPI be far behind? Yes. The witch doesn't leave until the summer. RPI allows spectators in October.

ursusminor
Harvard is admitting spectators at games. [gocrimson.com]

I apologize is if this was mentioned already here. I only received it because RPI's game is referred to.

With no effect on attendance.

I expect perhaps a few more kids this weekend. I dont think townie sales change but who really knows.

Scersk '97

Trotsky
Is 3x3 just for Covid or is this going to be The New Stupid even afterwards, like the NL DH?

Seems like a lot of leagues (not necessarily NC$$) are using the emergency to push through a lot of garbage. Man on second in extras is the only one so far that would actually make me burn down a stadium, but I expect even worse.

***

Coin flip or whatever to determine possession.

Winning team gets a one-man power play advantage. (Some sort of rules to set up a defensive zone breakout to start the power play. Defense needs to be above the faceoff dots or something.)

Goal? 1-0. Shorty or successful kill? 0-1.

Switch possession.

Repeat.

First team to a "two-goal" lead wins.

***

Shorty should automatically win the game, if for no other reason than to disincentivize the team on PP from pulling the goalie to get a 6x4.

I feel for Michael Regush. He was a nice player for us and obviously had some team success here. But as a grad transfer at Miami OH his team is having an awful year, and they just got swept by St. Cloud State by a combined 19-1 in two games over the weekend. Yikes.

scoop85
I feel for Michael Regush. He was a nice player for us and obviously had some team success here. But as a grad transfer at Miami OH his team is having an awful year, and they just got swept by St. Cloud State by a combined 19-1 in two games over the weekend. Yikes.

It was his decision to transfer.

BearLover

scoop85
I feel for Michael Regush. He was a nice player for us and obviously had some team success here. But as a grad transfer at Miami OH his team is having an awful year, and they just got swept by St. Cloud State by a combined 19-1 in two games over the weekend. Yikes.

It was his decision to transfer.

Was he in the same boat as Galadja, where he left because the Ivy League took forever to declare that he'd get an extra year?

I want to say no, since I think Regush was a year behind Galadja, but I'm too lazy to look him up.

Dafatone

BearLover

scoop85
I feel for Michael Regush. He was a nice player for us and obviously had some team success here. But as a grad transfer at Miami OH his team is having an awful year, and they just got swept by St. Cloud State by a combined 19-1 in two games over the weekend. Yikes.

It was his decision to transfer.

Was he in the same boat as Galadja, where he left because the Ivy League took forever to declare that he'd get an extra year?

I want to say no, since I think Regush was a year behind Galadja, but I'm too lazy to look him up.

Even then he'd still have risked losing a year.

I don't blame the guys who jumped although my god what a gut punch. As it turned out, though... I mean, we can hardly complain with what we have in our underclassmen.

Dafatone
I want to say no, since I think Regush was a year behind Galadja, but I'm too lazy to look him up.

Not sure? Make an obvious mistake and you'll get the correct answer.

Dafatone
I want to say no, since I think Regush was a year behind Galadja, but I'm too lazy to look him up.

You are correct, Regush was a year behind Galadja. He’s now a senior at Miami. His goal production is down significantly from his two years at Cornell. Probably lacks the supporting cast he had here. I guess he can skate another year as a grad student at Miami.
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Dafatone
Man on second suuuucks. Like, start that in the 13th if you have to.

Don’t worry, given enough time and leeway, somebody will always think of something dumber. <screams in silence>

The Pioneer League is testing out sudden death baseball. After 10 innings, the home team will choose whether they want to hit or field. The hitting team will start with a runner on 1st. If the run scores, the hitting team wins. If the run does not score, the fielding team wins.

— MLB News Network (@newsnetworkmlb) January 24, 2022

Jim Hyla
For those of us who love their smart phone, but were also happy back in the analog day, I think we can cater too much to the "have it now, digital crowd".

It's not that. It's just the idiocy and greed that have always been there but which are now unmoored from any consequences at all after 41 years of this fucking nightmare Neofeudalism.

The kids are kids. They're the same as all kids in all ages. Like we were, they are neither interestingly better nor worse, just fungibles spit off the conveyor belt waiting to consume. This isn't their fault. It's we who laid down on the job of keeping the sociopaths at bay, and now we have billionaires in space and ads on the boards.

BearLover

scoop85
I feel for Michael Regush. He was a nice player for us and obviously had some team success here. But as a grad transfer at Miami OH his team is having an awful year, and they just got swept by St. Cloud State by a combined 19-1 in two games over the weekend. Yikes.

It was his decision to transfer.

Rarely agree with bearlover, but yep.

abmarks

BearLover

scoop85
I feel for Michael Regush. He was a nice player for us and obviously had some team success here. But as a grad transfer at Miami OH his team is having an awful year, and they just got swept by St. Cloud State by a combined 19-1 in two games over the weekend. Yikes.

It was his decision to transfer.

Rarely agree with bearlover, but yep.

It sounds like he jumped from (what he thought was) a sinking ship, onto the Titanic. Sometimes things don't work out as you plan them.....

redice

abmarks

BearLover

scoop85
I feel for Michael Regush. He was a nice player for us and obviously had some team success here. But as a grad transfer at Miami OH his team is having an awful year, and they just got swept by St. Cloud State by a combined 19-1 in two games over the weekend. Yikes.

It was his decision to transfer.

Rarely agree with bearlover, but yep.

It sounds like he jumped from (what he thought was) a sinking ship, onto the Titanic. Sometimes things don't work out as you plan them.....

I don't understand Regush' history...he played two years at Cornell, sat out a year, and is now a grad transfer at Miami?

nshapiro

redice

abmarks

BearLover

scoop85
I feel for Michael Regush. He was a nice player for us and obviously had some team success here. But as a grad transfer at Miami OH his team is having an awful year, and they just got swept by St. Cloud State by a combined 19-1 in two games over the weekend. Yikes.

It was his decision to transfer.

Rarely agree with bearlover, but yep.

It sounds like he jumped from (what he thought was) a sinking ship, onto the Titanic. Sometimes things don't work out as you plan them.....

I don't understand Regush' history...he played two years at Cornell, sat out a year, and is now a grad transfer at Miami?

Schafer said at some point that Regush and Joe Leahy graduated early.

EDIT: Found it. [www.cornellhockeyassociation.com]

nshapiro

redice

abmarks

BearLover

scoop85
I feel for Michael Regush. He was a nice player for us and obviously had some team success here. But as a grad transfer at Miami OH his team is having an awful year, and they just got swept by St. Cloud State by a combined 19-1 in two games over the weekend. Yikes.

It was his decision to transfer.

Rarely agree with bearlover, but yep.

It sounds like he jumped from (what he thought was) a sinking ship, onto the Titanic. Sometimes things don't work out as you plan them.....

I don't understand Regush' history...he played two years at Cornell, sat out a year, and is now a grad transfer at Miami?

He had two years of eligibility left prior to last season. My guess is that, upon the announcement that the Ivy League had canceled last year’s season, he decided to take extra classes to graduate early, and transferred to Miami. Why he chose Miami, I don’t know. I bet he regrets the decision now. While I can’t say I’m rooting for him (or any of the players who transferred), most of the fault lies with the Ivy League for (1) canceling the season and (2) waiting too long to announce the players would receive an extra year of eligibility.

BearLover

nshapiro

redice

abmarks

BearLover

scoop85
I feel for Michael Regush. He was a nice player for us and obviously had some team success here. But as a grad transfer at Miami OH his team is having an awful year, and they just got swept by St. Cloud State by a combined 19-1 in two games over the weekend. Yikes.

It was his decision to transfer.

Rarely agree with bearlover, but yep.

It sounds like he jumped from (what he thought was) a sinking ship, onto the Titanic. Sometimes things don't work out as you plan them.....

I don't understand Regush' history...he played two years at Cornell, sat out a year, and is now a grad transfer at Miami?

He had two years of eligibility left prior to last season. My guess is that, upon the announcement that the Ivy League had canceled last year’s season, he decided to take extra classes to graduate early, and transferred to Miami. Why he chose Miami, I don’t know. I bet he regrets the decision now. While I can’t say I’m rooting for him (or any of the players who transferred), most of the fault lies with the Ivy League for (1) canceling the season and (2) waiting too long to announce the players would receive an extra year of eligibility.

Yeah, I think it's overly harsh to blame the players who decided to transfer given the uncertainly surrounding Ivy League hockey at the time the players had to make the decision.

it was not even a given they were playing this year when the school yr started.

I can't blame them for transferring. But they all made choices as to "where" they went.

Maybe there are non hockey reasons why he chose that program, who knows. But if he was looking for a currently strong program and misjudged, that's on him

also the assumption is anyone would take him.. he was a grad transfer. he needed to go to someplace that offered the grad school classes he wanted and also wanted someone of his talent to play.

RPI leading Harvard 1-0 in the 3rd.

marty
RPI leading Harvard 1-0 in the 3rd.

RPI softens up the Crimson for the weekend.
[RPI] Men's Hockey Blanks Harvard 2-0 ... at Harvard

BearLover

nshapiro

redice

abmarks

BearLover

scoop85
I feel for Michael Regush. He was a nice player for us and obviously had some team success here. But as a grad transfer at Miami OH his team is having an awful year, and they just got swept by St. Cloud State by a combined 19-1 in two games over the weekend. Yikes.

It was his decision to transfer.

Rarely agree with bearlover, but yep.

It sounds like he jumped from (what he thought was) a sinking ship, onto the Titanic. Sometimes things don't work out as you plan them.....

I don't understand Regush' history...he played two years at Cornell, sat out a year, and is now a grad transfer at Miami?

He had two years of eligibility left prior to last season. My guess is that, upon the announcement that the Ivy League had canceled last year’s season, he decided to take extra classes to graduate early, and transferred to Miami. Why he chose Miami, I don’t know. I bet he regrets the decision now. While I can’t say I’m rooting for him (or any of the players who transferred), most of the fault lies with the Ivy League for (1) canceling the season and (2) waiting too long to announce the players would receive an extra year of eligibility.

This is all exactly right. Are you feeling okay?

upprdeck
he needed to go to someplace that offered the grad school classes he wanted and also wanted someone of his talent to play.

That's the key: you need a place where you will get a big role and have teammates who are good enough to help you shine. Those two requirements close in on each other. If you go to Yale you'll play 40 minutes a night but your teammates suck. If you go to Michigan you could win the NC$$ title on the bench.

I also seem to remember that Miami, perhaps alone among their conference, does not suck academically. Which... I mean he might care?

Cam didn't.

billhoward

marty
RPI leading Harvard 1-0 in the 3rd.

RPI softens up the Crimson for the weekend.
[RPI] Men's Hockey Blanks Harvard 2-0 ... at Harvard

LOL. They had their Princeton game. (Or maybe RPI's good -- I have no fix on them.)

Trotsky

BearLover

nshapiro

redice

abmarks

BearLover

scoop85
I feel for Michael Regush. He was a nice player for us and obviously had some team success here. But as a grad transfer at Miami OH his team is having an awful year, and they just got swept by St. Cloud State by a combined 19-1 in two games over the weekend. Yikes.

It was his decision to transfer.

Rarely agree with bearlover, but yep.

It sounds like he jumped from (what he thought was) a sinking ship, onto the Titanic. Sometimes things don't work out as you plan them.....

I don't understand Regush' history...he played two years at Cornell, sat out a year, and is now a grad transfer at Miami?

He had two years of eligibility left prior to last season. My guess is that, upon the announcement that the Ivy League had canceled last year’s season, he decided to take extra classes to graduate early, and transferred to Miami. Why he chose Miami, I don’t know. I bet he regrets the decision now. While I can’t say I’m rooting for him (or any of the players who transferred), most of the fault lies with the Ivy League for (1) canceling the season and (2) waiting too long to announce the players would receive an extra year of eligibility.

This is all exactly right. Are you feeling okay?

So you agree the Ivy League was wrong to cancel last season?

Trotsky

billhoward

marty
RPI leading Harvard 1-0 in the 3rd.

RPI softens up the Crimson for the weekend.
[RPI] Men's Hockey Blanks Harvard 2-0 ... at Harvard

LOL. They had their Princeton game. (Or maybe RPI's good -- I have no fix on them.)

RPI is actually fifth in the ECAC standings, one spot behind Harvard, so it's not as monumental an upset. Plus, since starting the season 4-0, Harvard has gone 5-6-1. Princeton, meanwhile, had lost 9 straight games before it beat us.So it's not that strong a comparison.

they out shot them 40-25 and it was a 1-0 game until the ENG. RPI goalie played pretty well

Trotsky

billhoward

marty
RPI leading Harvard 1-0 in the 3rd.

RPI softens up the Crimson for the weekend.
[RPI] Men's Hockey Blanks Harvard 2-0 ... at Harvard

LOL. They had their Princeton game. (Or maybe RPI's good -- I have no fix on them.)

Is this the same RPI team we beat 11-3 back in November?
.

upprdeck
they out shot them 40-25 and it was a 1-0 game until the ENG. RPI goalie played pretty well

And the winning goal came when an RPI guy tossed the puck toward the net and it went in off a Harvard player's skate.

George64

Trotsky

billhoward

marty
RPI leading Harvard 1-0 in the 3rd.

RPI softens up the Crimson for the weekend.
[RPI] Men's Hockey Blanks Harvard 2-0 ... at Harvard

LOL. They had their Princeton game. (Or maybe RPI's good -- I have no fix on them.)

Is this the same RPI team we beat 11-3 back in November?
.

I watched the third period and their D didn't look anything like what we saw in Lynah. Plus the 5 minute major with misconduct was against Sertti so they played without one of their starting D for most of the 3rd.

Trotsky

billhoward

marty
RPI leading Harvard 1-0 in the 3rd.

RPI softens up the Crimson for the weekend.
[RPI] Men's Hockey Blanks Harvard 2-0 ... at Harvard

LOL. They had their Princeton game. (Or maybe RPI's good -- I have no fix on them.)

I assume that you remember "Kepler's Third Law" since you wrote it. :D

Al DeFlorio

upprdeck
they out shot them 40-25 and it was a 1-0 game until the ENG. RPI goalie played pretty well

And the winning goal came when an RPI guy tossed the puck toward the net and it went in off a Harvard player's skate.

It was a silver skate.

BearLover

Trotsky

BearLover

nshapiro

redice

abmarks

BearLover

scoop85
I feel for Michael Regush. He was a nice player for us and obviously had some team success here. But as a grad transfer at Miami OH his team is having an awful year, and they just got swept by St. Cloud State by a combined 19-1 in two games over the weekend. Yikes.

It was his decision to transfer.

Rarely agree with bearlover, but yep.

It sounds like he jumped from (what he thought was) a sinking ship, onto the Titanic. Sometimes things don't work out as you plan them.....

I don't understand Regush' history...he played two years at Cornell, sat out a year, and is now a grad transfer at Miami?

He had two years of eligibility left prior to last season. My guess is that, upon the announcement that the Ivy League had canceled last year’s season, he decided to take extra classes to graduate early, and transferred to Miami. Why he chose Miami, I don’t know. I bet he regrets the decision now. While I can’t say I’m rooting for him (or any of the players who transferred), most of the fault lies with the Ivy League for (1) canceling the season and (2) waiting too long to announce the players would receive an extra year of eligibility.

This is all exactly right. Are you feeling okay?

So you agree the Ivy League was wrong to cancel last season?

That's more like it.

No, of course not.

Union fired Bennett for "coaching style" which I assume means "being a shouty asshole who has kids skating until they puke and then calling them soft when they do"

[unionathletics.com]

double posted somehow?

ugarte
Union fired Bennett for "coaching style" which I assume means "being a shouty asshole who has kids skating until they puke and then calling them soft when they do"

[unionathletics.com]

The press release in truth should have said he was dismissed because of "his coaching style and practices that no longer translate to championship level teams so we will no longer tolerate his assholery"

ugarte
Union fired Bennett for "coaching style" which I assume means "being a shouty asshole who has kids skating until they puke and then calling them soft when they do"

[unionathletics.com]

Translation: "Now that there's been an official allegation substantiated, the next time he does this we can be sued sooooooooooooooooooooo seeya! (you goon)"

Last night Matt Galajda gave up 3 goals on 5 shots before being pulled halfway through the 1st period of a 5-1 Notre Dame loss to Minnesota.

scoop85
Last night Matt Galajda gave up 3 goals on 5 shots before being pulled halfway through the 1st period of a 5-1 Notre Dame loss to Minnesota.

It was the system.

Some nasty stuff going on with Michigan program, which was heavily criticized for pulling out of the second game of the Great Lakes Tournament earlier this year. Now they are being accused of having players lie about COVID exposure, among other things.

dbilmes
Some nasty stuff going on with Michigan program, which was heavily criticized for pulling out of the second game of the Great Lakes Tournament earlier this year. Now they are being accused of having players lie about COVID exposure, among other things.

Adam seems to be the guy who really dug into this story. Good journalism but maybe have somebody else start your car for the next few months.

Trotsky

dbilmes
Some nasty stuff going on with Michigan program, which was heavily criticized for pulling out of the second game of the Great Lakes Tournament earlier this year. Now they are being accused of having players lie about COVID exposure, among other things.

Adam seems to be the guy who really dug into this story. Good journalism but maybe have somebody else start your car for the next few months.

The mlive report is behind a paywall, but CHN isn't [www.collegehockeynews.com].

eeeugh

As of Saturday, Cornell is the one ECAC top-four team with 0 shootout wins. The top four in the standings and the only four with ECAC winning records are
1. Quinnipiac
2. Clarkson
3. Cornell
4. Harvard
[ecachockey.com]

We can beat Quinnipiac but it's not easy and the same goes with Harvard. Be nice if the RS ended that way in the standings and we avoid Q and H until, if all top seeds advance, the Lake Placid finals. Or we could Just Win, Bâby.

billhoward
As of Saturday, Cornell is the one ECAC top-four team with 0 shootout wins. The top four in the standings and the only four with ECAC winning records are
1. Quinnipiac
2. Clarkson
3. Cornell
4. Harvard
[ecachockey.com]

We can beat Quinnipiac but it's not easy and the same goes with Harvard. Be nice if the RS ended that way in the standings and we avoid Q and H until, if all top seeds advance, the Lake Placid finals. Or we could Just Win, Bâby.

Except, of course, the ECAC listing is on % basis. On the points basis CU & Harvard are reversed. Harvard is #3 with 28 points and CU is #4 with 25 points.

We have 2 games in hand on Harvard. So we can move up to #3, but we need to win at least 1 of those games. As of now, we play Q.

Trotsky

dbilmes
Some nasty stuff going on with Michigan program, which was heavily criticized for pulling out of the second game of the Great Lakes Tournament earlier this year. Now they are being accused of having players lie about COVID exposure, among other things.

Adam seems to be the guy who really dug into this story. Good journalism but maybe have somebody else start your car for the next few months.

Adam does a good job, but this is virtually all from the Ann Arbor news. The A² News article states "according to documents obtained by MLive/The Ann Arbor News." and Adam acknowledges that "Documents obtained by The Ann Arbor News".

Local newspapers have enough problems and we should give them the kudos.

This year's point system turned a 2/4 .500 weekend into 2/6 .333 weekend. Yikes.

Quinnipiac tied the NCAA record with their 12th shutout of the season tonight against UConn

The Yale coach couldn't have been too happy with his son for leaving his team shorthanded for Saturday's consolation game of the Connecticut Ice Classic.
"The Bulldogs played with only 17 skaters; NCAA teams are allowed 19. Leading scorer Niklas Allain had to sit out Sunday after receiving a disqualification penalty to go with a cross-checking major in the last minute of Saturday’s game against UConn. Yale is also dealing with several injuries."
Yale lost 4-3 in OT to Sacred Heart, with a transfer student from Yale, Dante Pelecco, scoring tying the tying goal for Sacred Heart late in the third period.

dbilmes
The Yale coach couldn't have been too happy with his son for leaving his team shorthanded for Saturday's consolation game of the Connecticut Ice Classic.
"The Bulldogs played with only 17 skaters; NCAA teams are allowed 19. Leading scorer Niklas Allain had to sit out Sunday after receiving a disqualification penalty to go with a cross-checking major in the last minute of Saturday’s game against UConn. Yale is also dealing with several injuries."
Yale lost 4-3 in OT to Sacred Heart, with a transfer student from Yale, Dante Pelecco, scoring tying the tying goal for Sacred Heart late in the third period.

And with it goes another chance for an ECAC OOC win and some Pairwise help for the conference. Probably not many chances left.

CU2007

dbilmes
The Yale coach couldn't have been too happy with his son for leaving his team shorthanded for Saturday's consolation game of the Connecticut Ice Classic.
"The Bulldogs played with only 17 skaters; NCAA teams are allowed 19. Leading scorer Niklas Allain had to sit out Sunday after receiving a disqualification penalty to go with a cross-checking major in the last minute of Saturday’s game against UConn. Yale is also dealing with several injuries."
Yale lost 4-3 in OT to Sacred Heart, with a transfer student from Yale, Dante Pelecco, scoring tying the tying goal for Sacred Heart late in the third period.

And with it goes another chance for an ECAC OOC win and some Pairwise help for the conference. Probably not many chances left.

There is Harvard in the Beanpot, but that rarely goes well for them.

If we're looking for pairwise optimism, 6 of our 9 remaining games are on the road.

Also, root for ASU and ND. Ew.

Dafatone
If we're looking for pairwise optimism, 6 of our 9 remaining games are on the road.

Also, root for ASU and ND. Ew.

Let's face it. At this point, unless we win the ECAC tournament, or at least make it to the title game, we don't have a shot of getting an NCAA bid.

dbilmes

Dafatone
If we're looking for pairwise optimism, 6 of our 9 remaining games are on the road.

Also, root for ASU and ND. Ew.

Let's face it. At this point, unless we win the ECAC tournament, or at least make it to the title game, we don't have a shot of getting an NCAA bid.

I'm too lazy to do any actual number crunching, but I bet if we ran the table from here to the conference semis we'd have a reasonable chance.

Certainly it's gonna be an uphill battle, RPIwise.