Quarterfinal Choices-The Real Ones

[Jim Hyla]

OK, OK hold the cheers. All my wishes came true. What do you think about next weekend? Here's my choices.

RPI @ Union
Dartmouth @ Cornell
Yale @ Harvard
Quinnipiac @ Colgate

And thanks to snert1288 and gatefan for the info on the broadcasts. Watching tonight was fun.

And how could you all not crap on me when I labeled the other thread as Quarterfinal Choices?::dribble::

[css228]

OK, OK hold the cheers. All my wishes came true. What do you think about next weekend? Here's my choices.

RPI @ Union
Dartmouth @ Cornell
Yale @ Harvard
Quinnipiac @ Colgate

And thanks to snert1288 and gatefan for the info on the broadcasts. Watching tonight was fun.

And how could you all not crap on me when I labeled the other thread as Quarterfinal Choices?::dribble::

Flip Qpac and Colgate. Colgate may be close enough to the TUC cliff that if they get swept they may fall off.

[billhoward]

1-Union vs 10-RPI
2-Cornell vs 9-Dartmouth
3-Harvard vs 6-Yale
4-Colgate vs 5-Quinnipiac

The most delicious weekend in Atlantic City would be for the top 3 or top 4 seeds to advance in the QFs, Cornell to have the late game Friday, take down Harvard, and then beat Union Saturday for the title. Union deserves at shot at the NCAAs and might be good enough to advance past the first round of NCAAs.

When hosting the QF, Cornell has failed to advance to Lake Placid/Albany/AC how many times in addition to the painful Clarkson series? I can't see Union or Cornell not taking 2 of 3 at home from 9/10 seeds. Harvard seems the weakest host team in the QFs.

[bnr24]

OK, OK hold the cheers. All my wishes came true. What do you think about next weekend? Here's my choices.

RPI @ Union
Dartmouth @ Cornell
Yale @ Harvard
Quinnipiac @ Colgate

And thanks to snert1288 and gatefan for the info on the broadcasts. Watching tonight was fun.

And how could you all not crap on me when I labeled the other thread as Quarterfinal Choices?::dribble::

I'm going with Cornell, Harvard, and Quinnipiac.  I'm not sure whether to go with RPI or Union. Both on who I'd rather win and who I think would be more likely to win...

[ajh258]

RPI in 3
Cornell in 2
Yale in 3
Quinnipiac in 3

Unfortunately, this means we have to face RPI at 4pm on Friday at Atlantic City.

[kingpin248]

1-Union vs 10-RPI
2-Cornell vs 9-Dartmouth
3-Harvard vs 6-Yale
4-Colgate vs 5-Quinnipiac

The most delicious weekend in Atlantic City would be for the top 3 or top 4 seeds to advance in the QFs, Cornell to have the late game Friday, take down Harvard, and then beat Union Saturday for the title. Union deserves at shot at the NCAAs and might be good enough to advance past the first round of NCAAs.

When hosting the QF, Cornell has failed to advance to Lake Placid/Albany/AC how many times in addition to the painful Clarkson series? I can't see Union or Cornell not taking 2 of 3 at home from 9/10 seeds. Harvard seems the weakest host team in the QFs.

The only other such instance is the 2007 loss to Quinnipiac. Prior to the final weekend moving to LP, Cornell lost home quarterfinals in 1988 (split two games with Clarkson, lost mini-game) and 1978 (lost single-game quarterfinal to Providence).

[gatefan]

Union in 3
Cornell in 2
Yale in 3
Colgate in 3

[jtn27]

RPI @ Union
Dartmouth @ Cornell
Yale @ Harvard
Quinnipiac @ Colgate

I don't want RPI to win because that would mean we would face them in the semi-final, something we obviously don't want. Additionally, I'd like to see Colgate get knocked out, plus we match-up well with Quinnipiac (another plus is a QU sweep may cost Colgate its TUC status). As for Yale and Harvard, I don't really care all that much. However, Yale winning and becoming a TUC would help us, and any scenario where Harvard loses is good.

[snert1288]

Since it seems to be ok to discuss PWR potentials, UMass is hanging on by a thread.  If they lose their next game they should fall out of TUC, in which case Colgate dropping out would bring us to 5-1-3 against TUC.  A great record, but below 10 games so we would need another game against Union, Harvard, or Quinnipiac (or Yale maybe?).  Should be an interesting next few weeks.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Since it seems to be ok to discuss PWR potentials, UMass is hanging on by a thread.  If they lose their next game they should fall out of TUC, in which case Colgate dropping out would bring us to 5-1-3 against TUC.  A great record, but below 10 games so we would need another game against Union, Harvard, or Quinnipiac (or Yale maybe?).  Should be an interesting next few weeks.

And UMass is playing BC in the first round.  They'll be dropping out after this coming weekend.

[CowbellGuy]

Union in 2
Cornell in 2
Yale in 3
Colgate in 2

[TimV]

If the RPI phobia is because they have good goaltending and are therefore dangerous in a 1-game series, I understand it.  In my opinion we outplayed them in 4 periods out of 6 and lost the season series on a deflection.  As I said on a different thread,only once in 12 years have we not gotten a W from them in a season.  They are playing with house money now and are grateful to get out of the first round, and if they lose game 1 they're cooked.  I agree with those who think they CAN beat Union in the QF series, but I think chances of that are about 30%.

[Aaron M. Griffin]

RPI-Union
Yale-Harvard
Quinnipiac-Colgate

These are probably more along the lines of wishful thinking than pure logic. Selfishly, I want a chance at a Harvard-Cornell game in Atlantic City (considering that I am going to be there). I have been to many Cornell-Harvard games but I have not been to one in the ECAC Championship series. I missed (thankfully?) seeing the 2008 ECAC Championship Semifinal contest between Cornell and Harvard during my first year on the Hill.

[RichH]

And how could you all not crap on me when I labeled the other thread as Quarterfinal Choices?::dribble::

I took "Quarterfinal Choices" to mean "who would you like to play in the Quarterfinals," so it made sense to me.  What we're doing here, I usually call these "picks" or "predictions," instead of "choices," but that's just me.

Union in 2
Cornell in 3
Harvard in 3
Colgate in 2

[Trotsky]

And how could you all not crap on me when I labeled the other thread as Quarterfinal Choices?::dribble::

I took "Quarterfinal Choices" to mean "who would you like to play in the Quarterfinals," so it made sense to me.  What we're doing here, I usually call these "picks" or "predictions," instead of "choices," but that's just me.

Jeez, there's always that one guy...

Respect for the Hockey Gods prevents me from speculating about who advances.