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Quote from: French RageIs today's game shown online anywhere?

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Quote from: martyYou do get points for picking Clarkson tenth rather than twelfth.

This year's good prediction was that Yale would regress, which was projected from Yale's 2013 ECAC upset loss and second half drop, and the loss of their goaltending and a substantial amount of their offense.

Then again, the other team that was supposed to crater by those metrics was... Colgate.  Oh well.

The teams possibly in trouble in 2014-15 based on loss of senior scoring will be: Clarkson (losing 4 of their top 5 scorers), Princeton (4/6 including Caloff), Quinnipiac (3/5: the Jones brothers and Samuels-Thomas), St. Lawrence (3/5 including Greg Carey's 181 career points), Union (3/5 including Carr and Bodie), and Yale again (3/4, including Root and Agostino).

Far and away the greatest impact from loss in goal will be us.  Brown (DeFilippo), Harvard (Girard), and St. Lawrence (Weninger) all either have credible backups or are losing unimpressive incumbents.

Looking at that, we (Colgate) should be in good shape entering next year, losing our No. 1A goalie (Mihalik may be back-up but we owe him 3 playoff series wins) and a fourth-liner. Then again, we also thought we were in good shape entering 2010-11 and only started playing like the team we were supposed to be all year in the postseason.

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Quote from: Jim HylaSo who are the better prognosticators?

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Coaches' preseason poll
                         Ended
1. Yale       (4) - 103  6
2. Rensselaer (2) - 102  7
3. Quinnipiac (2) - 93   3
    Union     (2) - 93   1
5. Cornell    (1) - 89   4
6. Harvard        - 67  11
7. Dartmouth  (1) - 64  10
8. Brown          - 46   9
9. Colgate        - 44   2
10. St. Lawrence  - 43   8
11. Princeton     - 26  12
12. Clarkson      - 22   5

ECAC Hockey Media Association's 2013-14 preseason poll
                          Ended
1. Rensselaer (18) - 367  7
2. Yale        (5) - 224  6
3. Quinnipiac  (6) - 292  3
4. Union       (3) - 287  1
5. Cornell     (1) - 238  4
   Dartmouth       - 238 10
7. St. Lawrence    - 212  8
8. Brown           - 188  9
9. Colgate         - 125  2
10.Harvard         - 108 11
11.Princeton       - 102 12
12.Clarkson        -  83  5


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                            Preseason
Final Season        Pts Coaches Media
1 Union        37      4   4
2 Colgate 29      9   9
3 Quinnipiac 28      3   3
4 Cornell 26      5   5
5 Clarkson 24     12  12
Yale        24      1   2
7 Rensselaer 21      2   1
8 St. Lawrence 18     10   7
9 Brown        17      8   8
10 Dartmouth 16      7   6
Harvard 16      6  10
12 Princeton 8      11  11


Well, who is?  Eyeball test says the media by a hair, but neither did great, and I can't so a sum of squares in my head.

I'd say the coaches did worst, mainly because of Harvard. Year after year, they keep picking Harvard in the top half, and except in 2011-12 (I actually think they didn't pick them top half) they have been disappointing since losing that first round series to Brown in 2009.

Quote from: Jim HylaFrom ECAC Site

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FIRST-ROUND (Friday, March 7 - Sunday, March 9 - Best-of-three)
No. 12 Princeton at [b]No. 5 Clarkson[/b] 2-0
No. 11 Harvard at [b]No. 6 Yale[/b] 2-1 (OT Game 3)
[b]No. 10 Dartmouth[/b] at No. 7 Rensselaer 2-1
[b]No. 9 Brown[/b] at No. 8 St. Lawrence 2-1

QUARTERFINALS (Friday, March 14 - Sunday, March 16 - Best-of-three)
Dartmouth at No. 1 Union
Brown at No. 2 Colgate
Yale at No. 3 Quinnipiac
Clarkson at No. 4 Cornell

FRIDAY, MARCH 21 (SEMIFINALS)
Semifinal No. 1 - 4 p.m.; Semifinal No. 2 - 7:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, MARCH 22 (CHAMPIONSHIP GAME)
Championship Game - 7:30 p.m.


My picks so far.

P.S. Any idea on when they decided to eliminate the consolation game? Thank God they did. Being a consolation veteran, there's nothing worse than having to play it. Even if an NCAA bid is on the line, as will probably be the case this year if the top 4 seeds make it to Placid.

Which one of you did it?

Hey, just put yourselves in Clarkson's shoes. Quinnipiac or Yale will have won a national championship before them. They'll still have the "best program to never win a national title" moniker attached to their name.

I remember when I was watching Colgate play Ferris State think that they were a team very eerily similar to you guys. It'll be a good, probably low-scoring game between two teams that match up well. Colgate almost got a split against them at their barn, so I think you'll be fine on neutral ice. So please go ahead and get another "EZAC" team in the Frozen Four and if Union gets it done, then in the title game. Good luck!

Union in 3
Cornell in 2
Yale in 3
Colgate in 3

It's 9 bucks for all 3 games in America One, good broadcast too. Few if any cutoffs. Good deal IMHO.

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Quote from: dbilmesWe're not the only team with injury problems. Princeton only had 16 skaters suit up for its game last night against Yale.

This article was linked at the sidebar.  This is a joke, right?

Hand is the name of a high school in Connecticut. So it should really have said "Hand High School, wrestling."

Quote from: dbilmesWe're not the only team with injury problems. Princeton only had 16 skaters suit up for its game last night against Yale.

I wonder if it's their strength and conditioning program that is the problem. They've struggled with injuries throughout the past 3 years, failing to return to being the force they were in 07-08 and 08-09.

Congrats on getting that monkey off your backs. My boys did so tonight as well. Watch out for Yale. Really good skating team, way better than their record. Goaltending is still light years behind the rest of their team talent-wise.

As a Colgate fan with what I think is a sense of reality, the whole Colgate-Cornell thing is something that has been mostly pushed by the administration and has trickled down to athletics throughout the years. They are the ones who have an inferiority complex towards Cornell and the Ivy League in general and from the moment you step on the Colgate campus as a freshman they try to sell you the Colgate-Cornell game as a big rivalry and one of the "highlights" of your time at Colgate. It disgusts me all the attention that they give trying to sell the Cornell game to the students and fans, while they do nothing in comparison for other games throughout the year. The one positive that I can find, is that for at least one game a year Starr Rink feels the way a college hockey rink and atmosphere should, something some schools do not have for any games. At the same time, I wish we would tone it down a little bit and avoid looking so pathetic. I'm looking forward to that weekend this season, but it's because home and homes are always fun and we're 1-2 in the standings right now, and I hope it stays like that until then.

I know I'm a Colgate fan, but the way I see it is that for Cornell to have won last Saturday, he would have needed a shutout. You can't ask for much more than what he did. It was the offense's fault that you guys did not sweep.

Please win tomorrow. We don't want to take a trip to Lynah if it can be avoided.