Preseason USCHO poll - Cornell 18th

[dietlbomb]

[quote jtwcornell91][quote dietlbomb]But what about our position in the KRACH?[/quote]

Ask a stupid question...

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:-P

[jtwcornell91]

[DeltaOne81]

Woohoo! Top right corner!

[Beeeej]

CHN picks us 4th in their ECAC Preview:

http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2007/10/24_ecacpreview.php

[Trotsky]

Back up to 18th this week: http://www.uscho.com/rankings/

[Beeeej]

At least we sort of scored a lot of goals in the interim, this time.

[Josh '99]

Posts like this make me wonder why CowbellGuy won't move the menu bar back to the left.

[Avash]

[quote Dafatone]Not that the usatoday poll is a big deal, or that any poll is, but we're behind RIT?  Ouch.[/quote]

Hmm...

[jtwcornell91]

It looks a little less silly now, with only Harvard not having played yet.  (Although having lost our only game gives us an awful RRWP!)



In general, the end of October tends to be an interesting time for proto-KRACH, since the groups have not yet collapsed into one, but there are enough connections that they're no longer trivial.

[ursusminor]

JTW,

One argument against having more schools playing D-I hockey is that it would make your abbrevations even harder to figure out without a list. ::help:: ;-)

[RichH]

[quote jtwcornell91]It looks a little less silly now, with only Harvard not having played yet.[/quote]

You know, for the amount of pissing and moaning Harvard does regarding having to play a weekend of games before Mondays at the Beanpot, they sure do start playing actual games pretty late.  One would think that they could get a few games squeezed in before some schools hit 10 games played instead of making a big production of it in the Spring.

[Josh '99]

[quote RichH][quote jtwcornell91]It looks a little less silly now, with only Harvard not having played yet.[/quote]

You know, for the amount of pissing and moaning Harvard does regarding having to play a weekend of games before Mondays at the Beanpot, they sure do start playing actual games pretty late.  One would think that they could get a few games squeezed in before some schools hit 10 games played instead of making a big production of it in the Spring.[/quote]That's a bit of a misnomer - they don't play "a weekend of games" before Beanpot Mondays, almost always only one game.

[RichH]

[quote Josh '99]That's a bit of a misnomer - they don't play "a weekend of games" before Beanpot Mondays, almost always only one game.[/quote]

Well, that's my point.  This arrangement is the result the league has come up with to placate H after all the moaning they did when they did play 2 games prior to the Beanpot Mondays.  They now play one game the weekend prior to each Beanpot game and have moved the opposite traveling partner to a weird weekday game.  This year's example: Harvard plays at Yale on Wed. 11/28 and at RPI on Tues. 12/4 to accomodate the singlet pre-Beanpot weekend.

How fair is it to ask Yale and RPI to basically lose a weekend game and the revenue associated with a weekend date vs. a weekday date?  I don't know why Harvard isn't playing their traveling partner (Dartmouth) once on both Beanpot weekends, if it's a requirement to have two single-game weekends.  As it stands now, they could've easily had the Brown-Yale roadtrip in late October, move the 12/1 and 1/26 games with Dartmouth to the vacated beanpot weekends, which leaves either week free for Union-RPI and a free weekend to take on a NC opponent.

Obviously, there are other dominoes that fall in terms of NC scheduling with all the affected teams, but if you set the ECAC schedule first and then coaches call each other filling in slots, I'm sure you could easily accomodate this league schedule that actually makes sense and maximizes revenues and attendance.

[jtwcornell91]

Okay, now it's just depressing: