ECAC Prelims

[Jim Hyla]

So let's start a discussion. The games are:

Princeton @ Dartmouth
Brown @ Harvard
Union @ Cornell
RPI @ Clarkson

I think we drew the toughest team, but I think we can beat them on home ice. I think any of the other series can easily have upsets. If we get past Union, I don't mind playing SLU, would like Colgate, feel we'd have some chance at Q, but want to stay away from Yale. Personally I think Yale may be the best team, at this time. I think they have the best coach in the league. He's probably the only ECAC coach that I'd put ahead of ours. Maybe SLU will turn out great, but it's too soon to tell.

What do you think about any of this?

[Dafatone]

I feel like we still have a run in us.  Maybe not much of one, perhaps like two years ago where we just play a really good team tough.

I'd like to avoid Yale, though, I agree there.

[Tcl123]

So let's start a discussion. The games are:

Princeton @ Dartmouth
Brown @ Harvard
Union @ Cornell
RPI @ Clarkson

I think we drew the toughest team, but I think we can beat them on home ice. I think any of the other series can easily have upsets. If we get past Union, I don't mind playing SLU, would like Colgate, feel we'd have some chance at Q, but want to stay away from Yale. Personally I think Yale may be the best team, at this time. I think they have the best coach in the league. He's probably the only ECAC coach that I'd put ahead of ours. Maybe SLU will turn out great, but it's too soon to tell.

What do you think about any of this?

Dartmouth in 2
Brown in 3
Cornell in 3
RPI in 2

[Trotsky]

Princeton 0 @ Dartmouth 2
Brown 1 @ Harvard 2
Union 1 @ Cornell 2
RPI 2 @ Clarkson 1

Dartmouth will have no trouble at all.

The way Brown played the final 45 minutes against us they couldn't beat anybody.  This will be the Bears losing, not the Crimson winning.

RPI and Clarkson is a crap-shoot, but if RPI could beat SLU last Saturday maybe they have a last gasp.

And that leaves us.  I think this is a favorable matchup, based on the prior two meetings.  We certainly have it in us to crap out a la 2007, but I think the seniors have just enough to prove that they can shake 2 wins out in 3 nights.  If so, enjoy them, because the QF is going to be brutal unless Gillam steals one.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Dartmouth in 2
Sucks in 3
Cornell in 3
RPI in 3

[Trotsky]

We can set a team record for GP if we take the 1R and QF to 3 and then make it to the final.

[dbilmes]

We can set a team record for GP if we take the 1R and QF to 3 and then make it to the final.

Those are some big "ifs"!

[TimV]

I'm hard pressed to remember a year when I'd more NOT like to do that.::pissed::

[Jim Hyla]

I'm hard pressed to remember a year when I'd more NOT like to do that.::pissed::

If we can get to the final, we should be happy. It would mean a lot of excitement over the next 3 weekends.

[upprdeck]

with the ECAC the finals could be against princeton they way this conf works sometimes.

[Jim Hyla]

with the ECAC the finals could be against princeton they way this conf works sometimes.

That's okay with me.

[Jim Hyla]

Boxcast will be streaming the games. I assume they'll have archived games as well, but it doesn't look like there is an all tournament games price. $9.95/game

[Chris '03]

Boxcast will be streaming the games. I assume they'll have archived games as well, but it doesn't look like there is an all tournament games price. $9.95/game

Looks like the league pays $300 and earns $5/per person per game: https://www.boxcast.com/product/pricing_sports

[pfibiger]

Boxcast will be streaming the games. I assume they'll have archived games as well, but it doesn't look like there is an all tournament games price. $9.95/game

Looks like the league pays $300 and earns $5/per person per game: https://www.boxcast.com/product/pricing_sports

So it looks like the league decided that it was $9.95/game, not the provider. Priced sort of at the theoretical maximum before people start writing disgusted letters. That feels slimy.

[unionhockeynews]

A Q&A with Big Red play-by-play man Jason Weinstein ahead of this weekend's series:

http://t.co/N38rywlxzv

It should be a great series, one that will likely go three games. I'd probably give Cornell a slight edge being on home ice, but it's pretty much a toss-up.