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So we'll get Michigan first round, correct?

BU looking good, many more chances and has hit 2 posts.

Quote from: BearLoverIt's getting pretty tiring repeatedly going up against a far more talented Harvard team. Unless Cornell figures out a way to compete with Harvard in recruiting, Harvard beating Cornell and winning ECAC championships will continue to be the norm.

Looking at their roster, Harvard recruits heavily from Massachusetts prep schools. Cornell can't really compete with them there. Harvard also recruits a few players each year from the US National Team Development Program. Again, Cornell seems to be uncompetitive for these players. We have historically ended up with a few of these players, such as Bardreau, Bliss, Tschantz, and Fiegl, but these recruits were all basically depth guys on the Under 17/Under 18 teams and I don't think we've had a single recruit from the USNTDP since 2014.

It would be great if Cornell could shore up the above weaknesses by winning recruiting battles in upstate NY, and indeed we have gotten some good players from there and continue to (eg. Ryan Walsh, who is among the USHL scoring leaders and should be coming next year). But even still, a lot of those guys end up at schools like BU.

I'd be curious to know if the coaching staff has any sort of answer for Harvard's recruiting dominance. Our future recruiting looks good, but not Harvard levels of good. What's the plan?

Cornell doesn't want high nhl draft picks that leave after 2 years and force a constant cycle of recruiting. We want solid, 4-year players that can be a part of a cohesive team, not stars.

Yale's defense seems to get better as games go on so it's great that we've accumulated a big lead early.

Even if Merrimack loses tomorrow would they even fall behind us after this?

This absolutely blows. 0-3 vs Harvard on the season and we might lose our tournament bid. Terrible.

We're on a playoff revenge tour of teams that beat us during the regular season. Clarkson down, Well get Harvard today and hopefully BU in the NCAAs

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Quote from: chimpfoodA UConn loss here would be really bad as we might lose our quality win bonus.

It looks like the quality win bonus is a sliding scale based on the team's rank. So there isn't a cliff that you fall off of if a team goes from the bottom of the quality win bracket to out of it.

Oh, I thought it went from 0.0025 points if they were in 20th to none if they fell out of the top 20. Not such a huge game in that case.

A UConn loss here would be really bad as we might lose our quality win bonus.

We blocked more shots than they put on goal, love it. Such a stressful game.

Kyle Penney got first team all Ivy... didn't see that coming.

I could see harvard losing to princeton

Barron with a goal and an assist so far tonight, nice to see as he hadn't had any points in a while before now.

Go Dartmouth. Not looking too good so far thoguh

Tied 0-0 after 1, got dominated for a long stretch there but came out unscathed. Refs really letting them play in this one.