2011 ECAC Post-season

[Jim Hyla]

Harvard sweeps. 2 PP goals the difference. So 2 games tomorrow.

[Rita]

Hahvahd lives for another week and knocks out Clarkson.

[Rita]

I'm very disappointed that there aren't any OT games. :`-(

[nyc94]

I think I got this right:
If RPI advances they play at Cornell.  Princeton v. SLU would be irrelevant to us.
If Colgate and Princeton win we get Princeton.
If SLU and Colgate win we get Quinnipaic

[Jim Hyla]

I think I got this right:
If RPI advances they play at Cornell.  Princeton v. SLU would be irrelevant to us.
If Colgate and Princeton win we get Princeton.
If SLU and Colgate win we get Quinnipaic

But who would we rather play. Yes, I know I asked this before.

[TimV]

For me, probably Princeton first, then QPac, then RPI.  I'd be worried about RPI most because they're tough in goal, play a fast, uptempo game, and can shoot.  Don't think we'd beat them four games out of five, and I'm happy we escaped with 2 already. Princeton beat us once at Lynah, and I don't think they can do that three times in one season. I'd be afraid QPac, as a non-traditional rival, wouldn't generate the intensity we need to play our best.::uhoh::

[billhoward]

For me, probably Princeton first, then QPac, then RPI.  I'd be worried about RPI most because they're tough in goal, play a fast, uptempo game, and can shoot.  Don't think we'd beat them four games out of five, and I'm happy we escaped with 2 already. Princeton beat us once at Lynah, and I don't think they can do that three times in one season. I'd be afraid QPac, as a non-traditional rival, wouldn't generate the intensity we need to play our best.::uhoh::

Tim, your analysis is spot-on. Princeton is beatable no matter what they did to us earlier. RPI is a good team and were it not for their main goalie missing some injury time, they might have finished third.

I most of all would like to play Harvard (I know it's not possible with the pairings) because beating Harvard 100 times in a season in all sports is barely good enough. (Remember the joke, What do you call 100 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?)

Q'pac would be okay to play. The fans wouldn't get psyched. The players would be up for the game.

From the fan's perspective, it seems like we've played Colgate and Clarkson more than we needed to the past five years. So enough. Clarkson is a worthy foe, though, most years. Plus our ex provost (?) Bob Plane whipped them into even better academic shape as their president. I know Cornell is kind of remote, but why would a sane person attend a college with little to do in the summer when they're away and less in the winter. Oh, sorry, I forgot snowmobiling for phys ed credit.

If RPI advances to play us, they'll beat us because the Gods of Irony want both Union and RPI in the ECAC final four now that it's gone from Albany. For the same reason, Princeton (closest school) cannot advance to Atlantic City. I could see the title game drawing 4,000.

It doesn't matter. In the end, we're all cannon fodder for Union and Yale. I'm starting to think of Union (small school, good academics, good hockey) as Colorado College East. Love to see Union with the NCAA championship then lose everyone to the pros or academic issues and revert to seventh place ECAC finishes and folds in the ECAC quarterfinals.

[billhoward]

I think I got this right: ...

... why I didn't attempt to write what you did. Three years ago we could've just said PM you-know-who for the real story.

[Jim Hyla]

Of the teams remaining, I think Harvard is the most bothersome. They could beat either Union or Yale. Now if that happens, and we win, we're third, maybe beating Dartmouth. Harvard then plays the other U or Y, beats them, and we play Harvard for the title.::banana::

[billhoward]

Of the teams remaining, I think Harvard is the most bothersome. They could beat either Union or Yale. Now if that happens, and we win, we're third, maybe beating Dartmouth. Harvard then plays the other U or Y, beats them, and we play Harvard for the title.::banana::

I love your scenario. I had the same optimism last spring when Army upset Syracuse in lax in the first round and that virtually guaranteed our place in the title game on account of the path there led through Army and Notre Dame, two beatable teams.

[Trotsky]

By definition, whoever we'll play will be playing good hockey.

As for advancing only to be cannon fodder, since Yale will be losing most of their talent this summer I'm sure our players would like one more crack at beating the "super team."  It would be great to send them home on their shields.

[Greenberg '97]

I love your scenario. I had the same optimism last spring when Army upset Syracuse in lax in the first round and that virtually guaranteed our place in the title game on account of the path there led through Army and Notre Dame, two beatable teams.

...mutter mutter mutter... Bemidji State...

[ursusminor]

I think I got this right:
If RPI advances they play at Cornell.  Princeton v. SLU would be irrelevant to us.
If Colgate and Princeton win we get Princeton.
If SLU and Colgate win we get Quinnipaic

Looks correct http://www.withoutapeer.com/2011/03/mens-hockey-playoff-scenario-update.html

[Rita]

FYI... SLU's free audio link for the Princeton game is here.. Another 4 pm start from Hobey Baker Rink.

[trainbow]

The St Lawrence radio sounded very muddy.  The Princeton radio is clear as a bell.

So you could easily hear a pin drop at the rink when StLU went up 2-0 in the 1st period.