So there's no Gametracker for any of the WCHA games, or for half the Hockey East, so if anyone happens to be trolling USCHO score threads, I'd love the updates.
And we're "routing" for Onion tonight right? (preferably in the 22nd OT :)
(trolling? Who talks like that?)
only 22 overtimes? Cmon - dream a litte! :-}
With Quinnipiac's 5-1 score over AIC, (only 7 min left) they are close to tying up the#1 seed in their tournament. Good to see our soon to be ECAC bretheren tearing up their old conference. :)
After showing Dartmouth up 2-0 over yale, Gametracker seems to have changed their minds, and now Yale is up 1-0 :S
Dartmouth ties it 1-1 against yale.
Brown up 1-0 over RIP
RIP ties brown 1-1 halfway through 1st.
Meech scores. 2-1 Brown now.
BU 1, UNH 0
Minn 1, MTU 0
Looks like they forgot to put their goalies in again tonight. :)
And in other conferences, NMU up 1-0 over LSSU, and BU up 1-0 over New Hampshire.
Make that 2-0 for BU on top of UNH
ME over BC 1-0
Providence up 1-0 over UML
MSU up 1-0 over Notre Dame
NMU now tied w/ LSSU at 1 each.
Is this more or less annoying than having one post with all the scores and updating it?
Less annoying this way. Thanks for the updates. :-)
Michigan up 1-0 over Bowling Green.
Yale up 2-1 over Dartmouth. Guess the Green got a little too comfortable after last night...
NMU up 2-1 over LSSU
And closer to home, SLU(t) pulls ahead of Princeton 1-0
They must have heard me taunting them...
Dartmouth ties Yale at 2 in the 2nd.
Providence up 2-0 over UML
Bowling green ties Michigan at 1 (1st)
Providence 2-1 over UML
NMU 3-1 over LSSU
NMU 3 - LSSU 2 (2nd)
Minn 3-0, I'm giving up on that for well. Oh well on the Minn from for the last 2 weekends.
3-0 BU
Meanwhile, Yale up on Dartmouth 3-2
End of the second period:
Princeton 0 SLU 1
Clarkson 1 Union 0
Yale 3 Dartmouth 2 (shots on goal: DC 40 - YU 15)
UNH goal, making it BU3-UNH1
I can only imagine what the Dartmouth players are hearing in the locker room ::twitch::
MSU 2 - Notre Dame 1
Bowling Green 1 Michigan 2 (2nd)
Miami 1 tOSU 0
BU 3 UNH 2
SLU 2 - Princeton 0
RIP 3 - Brown 2 (GRRRRR....)
Michigan 3 - Bowling Green 1
Now 3-3 at Brown
2-1 at SLU
Yale 4- Dartmouth 2
Union ties it with 8 mins left in the 3rd.
Audio available on Clarkson web.
Yale 4- Darmouth 2
The shots however are 56-23 the other way. Damn Yacey is a sieve....
[Q]Jacob '06 Wrote:
Yale 4- Dartmouth 2[/q]
Shots 57-23 for the Green.
Yacey not having a good night, Gartner having a great one.
Edit: Beaten to the punch.
Union ties clarkson at 1
Princeton ties SLU at 2.
Welcome to hockey's Twilight Zone.
Dartmouth gets one back....4-3 yale
Princeton ties up SLU at 2 - SLU still dominating on the shots
1-0 Wisconsin (trying to stay ahead of Minn in the standings)
Dartmouth brings it back within 1 - 4-3 Yale
so what time are Sunday games should anyone go to game 3? They all starting at 7?
RIP and Brown tied at 3.
Dartmouth ties it up
All 4 ECAC games tied late in the 3rd.
Also, Bowling green ties Michigan at 3
and SLU takes the lead with under 2 minutes to go
Yes, I believe all the Sunday games are 7 as well
Dartmouth now with as many shots in the 3rd as Yale has all game long (24).
Icing on clarkson with 0.7 secs left in regulation ... OT here we come?
OT, again.
RPI-Brown and Clarkson-U going to OT. Keep tiring each other out!
Edit: And Dartmouth-Yale.
Providence and UML tied at 2.
Must be something in the air tonight.
Maine 2-0 over BC
Goal Maine 2-0 in the third
Wisc, UMD tied at 1, mid 2nd
still BU 3, UNH 2 - under 9 minutes left
SLU wins 4-2 - Princeton is done for the year
Dartmouth/Yale going to OT at 4 a piece
Brown/RPI net 3 each as they head to the extra session
Union/Clarkson knotted at one after regulation
< looking to explain the exciting variety of tie situations we have right now ;) >
SLU up 4-2
gotta love the ECAC - three games with 7 goals last night then three games with OT tonight
not to mention 56 shots by SLU and 63 by the green(before OT)!!
Shots in DMouth - Yale is 64-24 ::nut::
Michigan up 4-3 over Bowling Green end of the 2nd.
Brown wins!!!
Yale wins early in OT
Yale wins :-(
Brown wins :-)
BU wins :-) 3-2
BC scores with :17 left in the 3rd, now tied with Maine 2-2. :-(
BC ties Maine and takes it into OT.
I don't think I'm enjoying this.
BC-Maine free audio: http://sports.yahoo.com/top/collegebroadcast/teams/bam#mch
Clarkson-U free audio: http://streamingmedia.clarkson.edu/
Michigan up 5-3 over Bowling Green (3rd)
Results so far:
First Round
#5 Dartmouth tied with #12 Yale, 7-2, 4-5 (ot), deciding game Sunday
#6 Brown defeats #11 RPI, 7-4, 4-3 (ot)
#7 St. Lawrence defeats #10 Princeton, 7-0, 4-2
#9 Clarkson leads #8 Union, 1-0 (ot), second game in overtime
Union wins, good.
First Union playoff win in 15 games.
Make that:
First Round
#5 Dartmouth tied with #12 Yale, 7-2, 4-5 (ot), final game Sunday
#6 Brown defeats #11 RPI, 7-4, 4-3 (ot)
#7 St. Lawrence defeats #10 Princeton, 7-0, 4-2
#8 Union tied with #9 Clarkson 0-1 (ot), 2-1 (ot), final game Sunday
Copying my post from USCHO:
Damn it, French. Why'd you have to go and pull up the audio?
I got on the audio and last night and the game ended a minute later. You do the same tonight and it ends. If Cornell fans could just keep their damn computers off the Clarkson feed, the games would never end and the teams would be too worn down to make it to Ithaca next week.
IAYF, IAYF ;)
Meanwhile, we could still end up playing Yale, though I hope not for Dartmouth's sake.
Maine is freaking useless. :-(
2-2 final Maine BC
BC ties Maine, final
Delta, I don't know why you want Dartmouth to win. Who would you rather play next series Yale or (Union-Clarkson). I krnow I would definitely want Yale. The only reason why you would want Dartmouth to win is on the hope 3 Ivies will make the tourney, which they still have to get by Vermont and maybe more to make it.
BTW, not that this prediction was a good thing, but since you all have been ripping off my posts anyway... :-D B-]
[q]
Prediction time:
OT will end in 5 minutes. Dartmouth will control the play. It's just a matter of whether or not they'll get one by Gardner before Yale gets to 3 SOG for the period.[/q]
So of course, Yale scored on their 3rd SOG of OT, and while play was probably a little more even for those 2:30 minutes than I expected, it's probably fair to say that Dartmouth still controlled the play - the GWG was a half dump-in as both teams were changing lines. Yacey had a pretty bad night. From the 4 goals I saw that he let in, it was as weak as I've seen him play all year.
[Q]TCHL8842 Wrote:
Delta, I don't know why you want Dartmouth to win. Who would you rather play next series Yale or (Union-Clarkson). I krnow I would definitely want Yale.[/q]
Altnough Yale would be (presumably) easier, they would also be very bad for Cornell's RPI, wouldn't they?
[Q]Trotsky Wrote:
[Q2]TCHL8842 Wrote:
Delta, I don't know why you want Dartmouth to win. Who would you rather play next series Yale or (Union-Clarkson). I krnow I would definitely want Yale.[/Q]
Altnough Yale would be (presumably) easier, they would also be very bad for Cornell's RPI, wouldn't they?
[/q]
Last time, and repeat after me. You can no longer hurt your RPI by beating a poor team in the playoffs. If we lose, we deserve the hit in RPI anyway.
negative RPI is removed in the playoffs so no, it is all dependent on how others teams do.
Right now, we have dropped down to number 6 in the PWR. Michigan's win jumped them over Minnesota and us into 4. Even thought the rest of the games are not in yet, I am pretty confident that we are going to stay in this position. We are still in the #2 band, and at 6 we are more likely to be out east then 5. For a number one seed, we will need to win out, and get lucky. So number 2 seed is what I am rooting for, and hopefully then we get a good draw.
Edit: This was done with 3-2-1 bonus, else we are 5, since Miami(OH) is right on the bubble of being a TUC.
It works out pretty the same with bonsuses of 0/0/0, 3/2/1, or 5/3/1
The best new is that Minn trails Mich by 2 comparisons - mainly Minn vs. Mich and Minn vs. BU - both of which Minn loses. So Minn would have to take both those comparisons back to be a #1. And even if they did, which with their sucky play is less than like, we would still have to take the Mich (or another) one back to get stuck in Minnesota.
So we're in fairly good position now to end up east, but lets give it another week before I/we start trying to rattle off all the possibilities :)
Also cool news: with 0/0/0 and 3/2/1 bonus, we end up in a likely regional of BC/Cornell/BU/NMU in Worcester (not sure if swaps for other regions would change this at all, just did our regions)
And while playing Yale couldn't hurt our RPI, it would keep it the same, while beating another team would raise it.
However, I'm more concerned at this point about Dartmouth - I'd love to see 3 ECAC teams there - and they are twelfth at the moment. Sure, I'd take Yale, but if they can beat Dartmouth, they're on a role. I'm not too much more thrilled about a hot Yale vs. a tired Union/Clarkson. We better be able to beat any of them if all this caring about NCAA seeding means anything.
Never mind 3 ECAC teams (not since 1998), but it's never happened that three Ivy League teams made the NCAAs in the same season. Root for Dartmouth.
[Q]adamw Wrote: Never mind 3 ECAC teams (not since 1998), but it's never happened that three Ivy League teams made the NCAAs in the same season. Root for Dartmouth.[/q]Disagree;-) ,I'm rooting, or routing, for Yale and CLK. I'd like nothing better, well maybe something better:-} ,than to beat that great Coach Taylor and have CLK rough up you know who.:-D
Not that it really matters, but the scores from the top 15 this week:
Team (First Place) Record Pts Last Week
1 Colorado College (12) 25-6-3 556 2 W, L (Denver)
2 Cornell (21) 22-4-3 553 2 idle
3 Denver (4) 23-8-2 523 1 L, W (Colorado Collge)
4 Michigan (3) 24-7-3 488 4 W, W (Bowling Green)
5 Boston College 20-6-6 470 5 W, T (Maine)
6 Wisconsin* 21-10-3 339 6 T, L (Minnesota-Duluth)
7 New Hampshire 22-8-4 334 7 T, L (Boston University)
8 Ohio State 23-8-3 319 8 W, T (Miami)
9 Minnesota 22-12-1 274 12 W, W (Michigan Tech)
10 Boston University 20-11-3 212 9 T, W (New Hampshire)
11 Harvard 18-8-3 186 11 idle
12 Maine 18-10-6 171 14 L, T (Boston College)
13 Mass.-Lowell 19-9-4 117 10 W, L (Merrimack, Providence)
14 Northern Michigan 18-9-7 91 15 W, W (Lake Superior)
15 Dartmouth 17-10-2 55 NR W, L, ? (Yale)
* Has won only 1 of its last 9 games.
[Q]Jim Hyla Wrote:
[Q2]adamw Wrote: Never mind 3 ECAC teams (not since 1998), but it's never happened that three Ivy League teams made the NCAAs in the same season. Root for Dartmouth.[/Q]
Disagree ,I'm rooting, or routing, for Yale and CLK. I'd like nothing better, well maybe something better ,than to beat that great Coach Taylor and have CLK rough up you know who.[/q]
Agreed. Absolutely rooting for Yale. I'd like to get a crappy team come here off a tough weekend. I'd like our guys to have as easy a time as possible and save their energy for the semis. Plus another shutout or two would be nice.
If I could choose any team, it would be Clarkson for sure. I'm tired of easy opponents and I don't think they're helping the team. Clarkson would battle hard and Cornell obviously has huge incentive to bring their very best against them. It would be far more beneficial in the long run for Cornell to play a Clarkson or Union than a Yale.
The team also has a bone to pick with Clarkson.
But one thing about Yale coming would be that then Vermont would get an easier opponent as well in their QF. So which would you rather have?:
Cornell v Yale
Harvard v SLU
Colgate v Brown
Vermont v Clunion
or
Cornell v Clunion
Harvard v SLU
Colgate v Brown
Vermont v Dartmouth
Since there are positive/negative points for each, this is a case of reaching into the Coach's Bag O' Cliches: "we don't care who we play. All of our league opponents are dangerous, well-coached teams. We need to take care of our own business and not worry about watching the scoreboard, and the good Lord willing, things will work out."
[Q]Trotsky Wrote:
The team also has a bone to pick with Clarkson.
But one thing about Yale coming would be that then Vermont would get an easier opponent as well in their QF. So which would you rather have?:
Cornell v Yale
Harvard v SLU
Colgate v Brown
Vermont v Clunion
or
Cornell v Clunion
Harvard v SLU
Colgate v Brown
Vermont v Dartmouth
Since there are positive/negative points for each, this is a case of reaching into the Coach's Bag O' Cliches: "we don't care who we play. All of our league opponents are dangerous, well-coached teams. We need to take care of our own business and not worry about watching the scoreboard, and the good Lord willing, things will work out."[/q]
I believe the two most dangerous teams for us are Harvard and Dartmouth, in that order. Anything that puts them out of the tournament is a good thing, IMHO. If it affects their NCAA bid chances, I don't care a whit. Winning in Albany is important. Seeing Dartmouth in the NCAAs pales in comparison.
Maybe a team that knocks out Dartmouth is by definition more dangerous than Dartmouth, in the short term (hot goalie, team coming together at the right time, sold their souls to Satan, blah blah blah...).
[Q]Trotsky Wrote:
Maybe a team that knocks out Dartmouth is by definition more dangerous than Dartmouth, in the short term (hot goalie, team coming together at the right time, sold their souls to Satan, blah blah blah...).[/q]
Maybe, but certainly not "by definition."
In any case, I'd be happy to take that chance. Little doubt in my mind that Dartmouth's "more dangerous" than Yale.
[Q]Trotsky Wrote:
Maybe a team that knocks out Dartmouth is by definition more dangerous than Dartmouth, in the short term (hot goalie, team coming together at the right time, sold their souls to Satan, blah blah blah...).[/q]I'm not a big believer in momentum. Even if Yale beats Dartmouth tonight, I would still rather face them next weekend than keep Dartmouth hanging around as a potential opponent in Albany.
Ari - the team practices at Lynah. They play to win. Once we are in the playoffs I want cupcake city for as long as possible. Go Yale.*
*One night only.
[Q]Trotsky Wrote:
But one thing about Yale coming would be that then Vermont would get an easier opponent as well in their QF. So which would you rather have?:
Cornell v Yale
Harvard v SLU
Colgate v Brown
Vermont v Clunion
or
Cornell v Clunion
Harvard v SLU
Colgate v Brown
Vermont v Dartmouth
[/q]
Actually, should Yale win, all teams would have different-than-expected opponents. Vermont gets the highest seed to emerge from this weekend:
Yale win:
Cornell vs. Yale
Harvard vs. Clunion
Colgate vs. SLU
Vermont vs. Brown
Dartmouth win:
Cornell vs. Clunion
Harvard vs. SLU
Colgate vs. Brown
Vermont vs. Dartmouth
Harvard has always had trouble with Clarkson. I believe that I read that this was the first year the Crimson have swept the Knights since the 1980s. On the other hand, I really believe that SLU has its game together. They made Cornell dig deep last weekend, rolled Colgate, and just laid 104 shots on Princeton this weekend. The Saints could be poised to do what Clarkson did in 2004.
[Q]RichH Wrote:
Actually, should Yale win, all teams would have different-than-expected opponents.
You're right of course. Brain fart.[/q]
SLU is really coming on and I think they have a decent shot at beating Harvard and an even better shot if they play Colgate.