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Congrats on a great series. You deserved all the wins. The better team is moving on. Good luck going forward and especially the NCAA's.

Good luck against BU. Make the ECAC proud. BU will be tough. A top seed has the best chance of making it to the F4. I think if you can get by BU you will make the F4.

I have heard that there is no tie-breaker for the Cleary Cup. Can teams share it? Do you know if this is correct? If it is correct, is there a mathematical possibility that Cornell, Union, and Harvard could share the Cleary Cup?

Congrats on a well deserved win !!! Good luck in Connecticut.

Good luck against Providence. You are the biggest team (#1 in height and #2 in weight) in College Hockey. Pound the stuffing out of them and then do the same against BC the next night. The whole ECAC is pulling for you. We don't get these opportunities against ranked HE teams often, got to take advantage. Nothing to lose here. The pressure is on Providence. They have not been tested. May the hockey gods be with you !!!!

Originally Posted USCHO

It's about the halfway point in College Hockey. Good time to assess. If the season ended today, looking at the pairwise, the ECAC would only send two teams to the NCAA's, Harvard (#4) and Yale (#14) and perhaps a third team if another team won the tournament. OOC wins are critical if you want to make it to the NCAA's. We are (#26).

So where does the ECAC stand?

The ECAC, if I counted correctly, has 41 OOC games to go ..... Our current record is:

37-30-8 OOC when counting OOC against league opponents
36-29-4 OOC when not counting OOC against league opponents

Who is helping > or = .500 in OOC
For these 9 teams, their OOC record is 32-15-4

HARVARD 4-0-0 as of 12/10/2014 Remaining NC - 3
DARTMOUTH 2-0-0 as of 12/10/2014 Remaining NC - 5
YALE 2-0-1 as of 12/10/2014 Remaining NC - 4
UNION 6-2-0 as of 12/10/2014 Remaining NC - 4
BROWN 2-1-0 as of 12/10/2014 Remaining NC - 4
COLGATE 6-4-0 as of 12/10/2014 Remaining NC - 2
ST. LAWRENCE 4-3-1 as of 12/10/2014 Remaining NC - 4
QUINNIPIAC 4-3-1 as of 12/10/2014 Remaining NC - 4
CORNELL 2-2-1 as of 12/10/2014 Remaining NC - 2

Who is not helping < .500 in OOC
For these three teams, their OOC record is 5-15-4

PRINCETON 1-2-1 as of 12/10/2014 Remaining NC - 3
CLARKSON 2-6-2 as of 12/10/2014 Remaining NC - 2
RPI 2-7-1 as of 12/10/2014 Remaining NC - 4

The next 6 weeks will close out much of the OOC competition.

Observations
#1. The three ECAC teams, Princeton, RPI and Clarkson have as many OOC loses as the rest of the league combined. Without this huge drag, the other nine teams would have the best OOC record in College Hockey.
#2. The Ivy OOC record is 12-5-3 is outstanding and would be the best in all of College Hockey if they were a separate league
#3. We have three very important OOC games coming up against three very tough HE teams, Connecticut, UML and BU. Connecticut always plays us tough and its their "Coming out Party" we are attending. UML is #2 in HE and BU is #1 in HE. Going to be very tough.
#4. This coming week our ECAC teams could go 0-6 (... always the optimist)
#5. Robert Morris is 10-1-3 but their SOS is 59 and they are ranked 33 (KRACH). St. Cloud State is 6-7-1 but their SOS is 6 and they are ranked 17 (KRACH). Scheduling and winning against tough OOC teams is critical for making the NCAA tournament. Look at Colgate last year.

GREAT WIN CORNELL !!!!! HUDGE WIN FOR THE ECAC. PLEASE, ..... WE NEED A SWEEP !!!!!!!

You could help yourself and the whole league by taking out Denver (twice) and winning that Florida Tournament thing. We (ECAC) need the OOC wins !!!

Looking over the ECAC at this point, I still believe that I am correct in my assumption that the league is stronger than it was last year. This is due in part to a stronger group of IVY's, as a whole. The competition within the league should get pretty savage in the coming weeks. The question is, will this lead to more ECAC teams making the NCAA's than in previous years. I believe the answer is no. I believe that we will end up with the usual 2-3 teams. The problem is our out of conference performance. Don't get me wrong, so far our out of conference performence is good, just not good enought to land perhaps a 4th team. We are (just barely) the second best league to the NCHC. However, the sample size is for the most part too small to draw any conclusion. We are 35-27-4 OOC (Not counting OOC against league opponents) and 17-9-2 against HE.

If I counted correctly, here are the ECAC teams that are helping our OOC record. I am including here OOC results where the team was also a league opponent.

Who is helping > or = .500 in OOC
For these 9 teams 31-14-3
HARVARD 4-0-0
DARTMOUTH 2-0-0
UNION 6-2-0
BROWN 2-1-0
COLGATE 6-3-0
YALE 2-1-0
St. LAWRENCE 4-3-1
QUINNIPIAC 4-3-1
CORNELL 1-1-1

Who is not helping < .500 in OOC
For these three teams 5-13-4
PRINCETON 1-2-1
CLARKSON 2-4-2
RPI 2-7-1

The next 6 weeks will close out much of the OOC competition. If you or your team has an opportunity to knock off an OOC opponent (especially a NCHC opponent, like Denver) it would be greatly appreciated if you did so.

Great Game Cornell ..... time to take 2 from Denver.

Quote from: TrotskyBetter night for the ECAC, spearheaded by the Ivies:

Cornell 3 Penn State 1
Michigan 6 RPI 0
Merrimack 2 Clarkson 1
Dartmouth 3 AIC 2
Harvard 4 Lowell 2
Quinnipiac 3 UMass 1
BU 5 Colgate 2
Brown 1 UConn 0
Yale 2 RIT 0
Michigan State 4 Princeton 2
Western Michigan 8 Union 2

Friday
ECAC 1-2 vs HE
ECAC 1-1 vs BIG10
Saturday
ECAC 3-2 vs HE
ECAC 2-0 vs AHA
ECAC 0-1 vs NCHC
ECAC 1-2 vs BIG10

Ivy League component of ECAC did well .... 5-1. Non-Ivy was terrible .... 2-7   Some very impressive Ivy wins and the loss by Princeton was very close with Princeton battling furiously for a tie before an ENG. Nice win by Cornell too !!!!

I believe the ECAC has about 72 Out of Conference (non-exhibition) games coming up starting today and extending into January. The non-ivy's have gotten the league off to a good start for the most part and the Ivy's are continuing and building on that (Thank you Harvard !!!). IMO the ECAC has never been more competitive in the past 5 years as it is this year. However, that is just an opinion and the pairwise does not show this yet. To land as many teams as possible in the national tournament its very important that the league do well, starting tonight. Cornell has 5 out of conference games coming up. It is 3rd in the nation in defense. How about sweeping these five games, and especially taking both DU games. Well within Cornell's reach. Harvard has been running roughshod over all its OC Competition. How about Cornell doing the same, starting with Penn State, starting saturday.

I am also an RPI Alumnus (MS, PhD Computer Science) as well as a BSEE from Union. In the early mid 1970' the classes at RPI in Hartford were filled with engineers from Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky, Turbo Power and Marine, United Aircraft as well as programmers from all the insurance companies that resided in Hartford, like Aetna and The Hartford. Great resource for evening engineering students, excellent location, same instructors and professors as in Troy. What about Cornell NYC Tech ?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_NYC_Tech

Harvard just beat BC 6-3. Not sure Harvard Sucks anymore ....

Here is the write-up
http://theqbsn.com/2014/11/09/cornell-coach-rips-rand-pecknold-after-a-1-0-loss-to-quinnipiac/
http://sportsnewstime.org/cornell-coach-mike-schafer-gets-salty-in-post-game-interview/