ECAC Semis: best opponent PWR/best opponent to win

[redredux]

The Red are 4-1-1 against the possible semis opponents.  All tough teams, though.  

From PWR perspective, I'm assuming Harvard or SLU would be the best teams to play.

From a just win perspective, it's hard to say.  Colgate hasn't seemed that strong down the stretch but they usually play their best against Cornell.  Plus, they'd have even more incentive to get up for their biggest rival given the regular season results.  Harvard and Cornell are incapable of playing anything but one goal games.  SLU has a lot of offense even without Zeiler.  I can't decide what team I'd like to see in the semis.  I guess if forced, I would say Colgate or SLU.  Whoever it is, I think it's safe to say we won't have the shot advantage like we did this weekend.  Most of all, I'd like to see Dartmouth lose in the semis.  They are on quite a run.

[dargason]

I haven't gone through all the scenarios, but I don't think our semi opponent this weekend will have much bearing on our PWR.  All who will be in Albany are TUC's and still should be even if they lose 2 games next weekend.  As far as RPI, we're too far down against most of the top few teams (BU, MState) to catch them.  

The teams close to us are NoDak, CC and Harvard.  We're currently winning the CC and losing the NoDak comparison based on RPI.  Both are playing tonight, so those are probably the most important games Pairwise-wise for us.

Personally, I want to see colgate, so I can (hopefully!) stick it to my toothpaste cousin for a third time this season!

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

We can flip the Wisconsin match-up with a win over SLU.  We're currently tied on the common opponent measure.