2003-4 Schedule

Jim Hyla · February 11, 2003, 10:14:03 PM

The schedule according to the hockey office as of 2/6/03.
Everblades dates not certain yet (Christmas/New Years dates).
Home games in bold. All games at 7:00 except they don't know Florida yet.


Oct   18 Sat   Red/White
      25 Sat   Ex. US under 18
      31 Fri     Western Michigan
Nov    1 Sat   Western Michigan
       7 Fri     Princeton
       8 Sat    Yale
      14 Fri     Clarkson
      15 Sat    St. Lawrence
      21 Fri     Ohio State
      22 Sat    Bowling Green
      29 Sat    Mercyhurst
Dec    5 Fri     Harvard
       6 Sat    Brown
      ?          Florida Everblades
                  Notre Dame/Ohio State/Maine
Jan    9 Fri     Brown
      10 Sat    Harvard
      16 Fri     RPI
      17 Sat    Union
      23 Fri     Dartmouth
      24 Sat    Vermont
      30 Fri     Colgate
      31 Sat    Colgate
Feb    6 Fri      Dartmouth
       7 Sat    Vermont
      13 Fri     Princeton
      14 Sat    Yale
      20 Fri     RPI
      21 Sat    Union
      27 Fri     Clarkson
      28 Sat    St. Lawrence

Great home schedule.

And that's as good an editing job as I can do tonight.

jtwcornell91 · February 11, 2003, 10:18:41 PM

But no BU, unfortunately.

Beeeej · February 11, 2003, 10:20:37 PM

I'm just glad to see that one of the Hahvahd games will be during semester break, so I can be there without major stress.

Beeeej

Beeeej · February 11, 2003, 10:21:49 PM

Wasn't the plan for the home-and-home with BU that we'd probably do two years on, one year off, rinse & repeat?

Beeeej

DeltaOne81 · February 11, 2003, 10:53:26 PM

According to someone at BU, the series was supposed to continue going back and forth, but I guess that might not of happened.

The first oddity I noticed... no home conference games 'til December 5th? Wow.

Section A · February 11, 2003, 10:54:34 PM

and what a way to begin the home conference schedule too!

Section A · February 11, 2003, 11:02:07 PM

The OOC schedule doesn't seem nearly as strong as it is this year, but then again, perhaps that has something to do with Bowling Green + Mercyherst not exactly being BU + BU...

jtwcornell91 · February 11, 2003, 11:36:07 PM

Jeffrey "Beeeej" Anbinder '94 wrote:

QuoteWasn't the plan for the home-and-home with BU that we'd probably do two years on, one year off, rinse & repeat?

Four games every three years? I can live with that.

Plus we get to root against BU again next season. :-D

ugarte · February 11, 2003, 11:37:25 PM

I think we have a good mix in our OOC for next year. We throw a bone to the MAAC, and get some western teams on the schedule. Pretty cool to have NO road OOC games (Estero is neutral site, even though it plays like the road.)

jtwcornell91 · February 11, 2003, 11:44:59 PM

Playing Mercyhurst is also likely to help our RPI because if they have a good season in the MAAC, they will masquerade as a strong opponent.

rhovorka · February 12, 2003, 12:01:10 AM

A couple things:

* Good move getting Bowling Green into town to fill out the weekend with the reciprocal OSU game.

* The Mercyhurst game is right after Thanksgiving break, which is fine. Not like the big BU home series we had this season. I'm wondering if we could find someone like UMass to fill in that weekend on Sunday. The lack of any Hockey East team (save the possibility of Maine in Estero) is striking.

* Interesting shuffling of the ECAC schedule. My gripe is the move of the Harvard-Brown weekends. For the past 10 years at least, the 2 weekends have been mid-November and early/mid-February, with the hosting duties flopping every other year. Although I'm not too attached to those weekends, I do dislike scheduling a Harvard-Brown weekend during winter break. Since they usually keep the same ECAC schedule in 2-year blocks (they just flip the home-away), this suggests that the Harvard game at Lynah in 2004-2005 will be right in the middle of winter break. Awful.

jtwcornell91 · February 12, 2003, 12:13:47 AM

Rich Hovorka '96 wrote:

Quote* The Mercyhurst game is right after Thanksgiving break, which is fine. Not like the big BU home series we had this season. I'm wondering if we could find someone like UMass to fill in that weekend on Sunday. The lack of any Hockey East team (save the possibility of Maine in Estero) is striking.

UMass would also be cool because we could hang with the fans we met in Florida, but it looks like our NC schedule is full.

Quote* Interesting shuffling of the ECAC schedule. My gripe is the move of the Harvard-Brown weekends. For the past 10 years at least, the 2 weekends have been mid-November and early/mid-February, with the hosting duties flopping every other year. Although I'm not too attached to those weekends, I do dislike scheduling a Harvard-Brown weekend during winter break. Since they usually keep the same ECAC schedule in 2-year blocks (they just flip the home-away), this suggests that the Harvard game at Lynah in 2004-2005 will be right in the middle of winter break. Awful.

Crap, I didn't even see that Lynah East was happening over break; I was just looking at Fish'n'Fowl on that terrible last weekend before finals.

jy3 · February 12, 2003, 12:14:20 AM

aweful for students, great for alums who want tickets

DeltaOne81 · February 12, 2003, 12:17:20 AM

[Q] I'm wondering if we could find someone like UMass to fill in that weekend on Sunday. The lack of any Hockey East team (save the possibility of Maine in Estero) is striking. [/Q]
Sure, right after we petition the Ivy League to give us 30 games. :-)

[Q]this suggests that the Harvard game at Lynah in 2004-2005 will be right in the middle of winter break. Awful.[/Q]
That would be awful, let's hope they're not that stupid (though this *is* the ECAC we're talking about - maybe the Athletics Dept will object).

French Rage · February 12, 2003, 12:21:13 AM

Importantly, there are no home games during winter break, so buying season tickets will allow us to see all home games (unlike 2001-2002). Here's hoping Bowling Green has a great year next year!