2007-2008 Schedule released

johnny923 · July 30, 2007, 03:29:34 PM

2007-08 schedule

KeithK · July 30, 2007, 03:38:49 PM

I was about to bitch at the OP for just posting a link and not the actual schedule. But then I saw that CSTV only posted the schedule in PDF format. How annoying.

billhoward · July 30, 2007, 05:01:06 PM

Date           Opponent Location Time 
October 
Saturday 13    Red & White Game Ithaca, N.Y. 7 p.m. 
Friday 19      Trois-RivieresIthaca, N.Y. 7 p.m. 
Sunday 21      University of Ottawa Ithaca, N.Y. 7 p.m. 
Saturday 20    RIT~ Rochester, N.Y. 7 p.m. 
 
November 
Friday 2       Princeton* Ithaca, N.Y. 7 p.m. 
Saturday 3     Quinnipiac* Ithaca, N.Y. 7 p.m. 
Friday 9       Yale* New Haven, Conn. 7 p.m. 
Saturday 10    Brown* Providence, R.I. 7 p.m. 
Friday 16      Harvard* Cambridge, Mass. 7 p.m. 
Saturday 17    Dartmouth* Hanover, N.H. 7 p.m. 
Saturday 24    Boston University# New York, N.Y. 8 p.m. 
Friday 30      MassachusettsIthaca, N.Y. 7:30 p.m. 
 
December 
Friday 28      UMass-Lowell^ Estero, Fla. 4 p.m. 
Saturday 29    Clarkson/Maine^ Estero, Fla. 4/7:30 p.m. 
 
January 
Friday 4       Niagara Ithaca, N.Y. 7 p.m. 
Saturday 5     Niagara Ithaca, N.Y. 7 p.m. 
Friday 11      Rensselaer* Troy, N.Y. 7 p.m. 
Saturday 12    Union* Schenectady, N.Y. 7 p.m. 
Friday 18      St. Lawrence* Ithaca, N.Y. 7 p.m. 
Saturday 19    Clarkson* Ithaca, N.Y. 7 p.m. 
Friday 25      Brown* Ithaca, N.Y. 7 p.m. 
Saturday 26    Yale* Ithaca, N.Y. 7 p.m. 
 
February 
Friday 1       Colgate* Ithaca, N.Y. 7 p.m. 
Saturday 2     Colgate* Hamilton, N.Y. 7 p.m. 
Friday 8       Clarkson* Potsdam, N.Y. 7 p.m. 
Saturday 9     St. Lawrence* Canton, N.Y. 7 p.m. 
Friday 15      Union* Ithaca, N.Y. 7 p.m. 
Saturday 16    Rensselaer* Ithaca, N.Y. 7 p.m. 
Friday 22      Quinnipiac* Hamden, Conn. 7 p.m. 
Saturday 23    Princeton* Princeton, N.J. 7 p.m. 
Friday 29      Dartmouth* Ithaca, N.Y. 7 p.m. 
 
March 
Saturday 1     Harvard* Ithaca, N.Y. 7 p.m. 
Fri.-Sun. 7-9  ECAC Hockey First Round campus sites (higher 
seeds)  
Fri.-Sun. 14-16 ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals campus sites (higher 
seeds) 
Fri.-Sat. 21-22 ECAC Championships Albany, N.Y. 
 
^ - at Blue Cross Arena (Rochester, N.Y.) 
# - at Madison Square Garden (New York, N.Y.) 
^ - Florida College Classic at Germain Arena (Estero, Fla.) 
* - ECAC Hockey game

Josh '99 · July 30, 2007, 05:23:59 PM

Thank you Bill. I know I give you enough shit for some of your posts so I thought I'd give credit where credit is due as well. :-)

RIT and two with Niagara is a bit disappointing.

ithacat · July 30, 2007, 05:40:41 PM

[quote Josh '99]

RIT and two with Niagara is a bit disappointing.[/quote]

I like the idea of playing RIT in Blue Cross Arena. RIT fans are already talking about outdrawing Cornell fans at that game. The Tigers' confidence should be sky high after last season. Also, Western just won their 3rd straight Empire Games. The best youth hockey in NY is played in the Rochester area (Buffalo would probably argue with that). It wouldn't be a bad idea for the 2 schools to donate a few hundred tickets to the youth program up there -- as long as that's legal.

Niagara should have another high-scoring team and will provide a nice test.

This is a better schedule than last year's.

PS, I'm assuming RIT is on the 27th.

French Rage · July 30, 2007, 05:57:14 PM

[quote Josh '99]Thank you Bill. I know I give you enough shit for some of your posts so I thought I'd give credit where credit is due as well. :-)

RIT and two with Niagara is a bit disappointing.[/quote]

I'd also like one matchup against a western team, for all the statistical importance it can have.

billhoward · July 30, 2007, 10:23:02 PM

Disappointing is putting it mildly. At first glance, a team with this schedule better count on winning the conference playoffs in order to make the NCAAs:
- No WCHA or CCHA team this year; I believe Niagara is the most westerly team we play. Until, say, if we make the NCAAs and get sent west to Minnesota or Wisconisn in April.
- BU for sure, UMass and UMass-Lowell possibly could be quality opponents. Plus Maine as a possible second round opponent in Florida. Otherwise ... Niagara and RIT don't do much for strength of schedule.
- We've got a 50-50 chance of meeting Clarkson for a third time this year in the Florida tournament rather than Ohio State or Notre Dame (who also boost the attendance). Not that Clarkson isn't a fine rival, but how many times in a year do you want to see green and yellow uniforms lined up against you, especially with our recent history of seeing them in the ECAC playoffs, too? Draw Clarkson in the early rounds of the ECACs and we could play them five times.

... but what could be sweeter than ending the regular season playing Harard in Ithaca? Would that there's a decent lacrosse game the same day, in Ithaca.

KeithK · July 31, 2007, 12:11:37 AM

Hard to be too disappointed with the opponents now, considering that we've pretty much known the lineup for months now. I agree that I'd like to do better than Niagrax2 and RIT. But we've beaten the whole "must have home games" thing to death in other threads.

Beeeej · July 31, 2007, 10:41:54 AM

Damn... I'm going to miss the Hahvahd game at Hahvahd for the first time in many, many years.

At least it's for a good reason, though... http://www.active.com/donate/tntnyc/JAnbinder

Al DeFlorio · July 31, 2007, 11:31:07 AM

I wish they'd split up the road trips to Yale/Brown and Harvard/Dartmouth so they don't fall on consecutive weekends. It would make more sense to have one during fall semester and the other during spring semester.

KeithK · July 31, 2007, 11:48:30 AM

[quote Al DeFlorio]I wish they'd split up the road trips to Yale/Brown and Harvard/Dartmouth so they don't fall on consecutive weekends. It would make more sense to have one during fall semester and the other during spring semester.[/quote]
If onyl they put that much thought into it. Somehow I hardly think the folks in the league office put any such consideration into making the league schedule. I'm surprised we don't play the same pair on successive weekends.

Beeeej · July 31, 2007, 12:56:45 PM

[quote KeithK][quote Al DeFlorio]I wish they'd split up the road trips to Yale/Brown and Harvard/Dartmouth so they don't fall on consecutive weekends. It would make more sense to have one during fall semester and the other during spring semester.[/quote]
If onyl they put that much thought into it. Somehow I hardly think the folks in the league office put any such consideration into making the league schedule. I'm surprised we don't play the same pair on successive weekends.[/quote]

Even if the league office did consider such things, is it even possible to avoid it for all six sets of travel partners? I don't have the mathematical wherewithal to answer this question, but someone here must (and it's still not October).

Trotsky · July 31, 2007, 12:58:00 PM

I'm assuming the "Trois-Rivieres" is the UQTR Patriotes college team (a perennial powerhouse), not the juniors team.

I thought there was a rule about having just one non-NCAA exhibition unless you applied for a waiver (for, say, a Europe tour). That changed? (We would play two canuck colleges pretty regularly in the 80's, IIRC, but then there was talk of A Rule.)

Give My Regards · July 31, 2007, 01:46:15 PM

[quote KeithK]If onyl they put that much thought into it. Somehow I hardly think the folks in the league office put any such consideration into making the league schedule. I'm surprised we don't play the same pair on successive weekends.[/quote]

You're not saying that as if it's never happened, are you?

http://www.uscho.com/schedules/team.php?season=19981999&team=28&gender=m

KeithK · July 31, 2007, 02:33:00 PM

[quote Give My Regards][quote KeithK]If onyl they put that much thought into it. Somehow I hardly think the folks in the league office put any such consideration into making the league schedule. I'm surprised we don't play the same pair on successive weekends.[/quote]

You're not saying that as if it's never happened, are you?
[/quote]
Heh. I almost typed "more often" but I couldn't remember exactly when.