Historic Parity?

[scoop85]

As the regular season winds to its conclusion, the results seem to confirm (at least to me, anyway) that there is more parity throughout college hockey -- not only in the ECAC -- than I can recall in my 25 years  ::worry:: of following Cornell hockey.  I have no doubt that on any given night that we can beat anybody, but can just as likely be beaten by virtually anyone else.  I don't think I've ever felt such uncertainty going into every game in any prior season.

[billhoward]

[quote scoop85]As the regular season winds to its conclusion, the results seem to confirm (at least to me, anyway) that there is more parity throughout college hockey -- not only in the ECAC -- than I can recall in my 25 years  ::worry:: of following Cornell hockey.  I have no doubt that on any given night that we can beat anybody, but can just as likely be beaten by virtually anyone else.  I don't think I've ever felt such uncertainty going into every game in any prior season.[/quote]
Parity has been helped by Cornell finding ways to beat itself.

[scoop85]

Yeah, but if you look at the entire league, I don't think the bottom teams have ever been so consistently competitive with the top tier teams in a given season.  Brown took us to OT twice, we needed a last minute goal to beat Q-Pac on home ice, and Princeton shut us out.  The other top teams have had similar results.  A look at the other leagues has seen fairly similar scenarios.