ECAC 2015-16

[ugarte]

Thinking ahead to how young we were going to be this year, many of us -- myself included -- did not expect too much. It's still early, but gray skies seem to be clearing up. ::cheer::

Same here.  I am very happy with what's happened so far.

Not to throw a wet blanket on all this, after all I'm happy as well, but the combined record of opponent games that we won is 14-50-9, lost or tied is 25-6-7. At this stage of the season rankings are heavily weighted to record.
We still need to show that we can beat the good teams and it just so happens that our upcoming schedule allows us an opportunity to do just that. By Jan 10 we should be able to tell how good we really are. I'm hoping that with a healthy team, we can do well, but I suspect if we falter, the Schafer must go birds will come out again (not that I think you 2 are in that class).

The best thing that I see from our early record is that we're beating the teams we should, but often we are having trouble doing that and that's worrisome.

We have "lost or tied" three games, all against quality teams, and all games went to OT. I think the early signs are pretty good. Not national title good but "put the cap back on the panic button" good. The biggest issue I have so far is the third period of games against strong teams. I wonder if conditioning/youth is an issue.

[Swampy]

Thinking ahead to how young we were going to be this year, many of us -- myself included -- did not expect too much. It's still early, but gray skies seem to be clearing up. ::cheer::

Same here.  I am very happy with what's happened so far.

Not to throw a wet blanket on all this, after all I'm happy as well, but the combined record of opponent games that we won is 14-50-9, lost or tied is 25-6-7. At this stage of the season rankings are heavily weighted to record.
We still need to show that we can beat the good teams and it just so happens that our upcoming schedule allows us an opportunity to do just that. By Jan 10 we should be able to tell how good we really are. I'm hoping that with a healthy team, we can do well, but I suspect if we falter, the Schafer must go birds will come out again (not that I think you 2 are in that class).

The best thing that I see from our early record is that we're beating the teams we should, but often we are having trouble doing that and that's worrisome.

We have "lost or tied" three games, all against quality teams, and all games went to OT. I think the early signs are pretty good. Not national title good but "put the cap back on the panic button" good. The biggest issue I have so far is the third period of games against strong teams. I wonder if conditioning/youth is an issue.

Or depth.

[Iceberg]

QU/Yale with a 25-minute headstart over everyone else today. That's easily the game of the weekend although Sucks/RPI is tomorrow.

[marty]

QU/Yale with a 25-minute headstart over everyone else today. That's easily the game of the weekend although Sucks/RPI is tomorrow.

RPI is on Time Warner tomorrow for those in upstate NY. Clarkson @ Colgate is on TW tonight. And the Yale game is on SNY tonight,too.

[Jim Hyla]

QU/Yale with a 25-minute headstart over everyone else today. That's easily the game of the weekend although Sucks/RPI is tomorrow.

and no ILDN. It's on American Sports Network, SportsNetNY in Syracuse.

[marty]

QU/Yale with a 25-minute headstart over everyone else today. That's easily the game of the weekend although Sucks/RPI is tomorrow.

and no ILDN. It's on American Sports Network, SportsNetNY in Syracuse.

In the Albany area ch 6, the CBS affiliate, has been showing American Sports Network hockey on Friday and basketball on Saturday for a few weeks. This is on their d2 digital offering,  not on the primary channel.

I have been wondering if this is going on in other markets.

[Iceberg]

QU with a decisive 3-0 victory at Yale. And RPI gets handed their first conference loss of the season. That Dartmouth goaltender Buffalo has had two very good games.

[Swampy]

And PU over Brown, 4-2. Onion leading Sucks 4-3 w/ about 15 min. left.

[RichH]

And PU over Brown, 4-2. Onion leading Sucks 4-3 w/ about 15 min. left.

With the Harvard-Union tie, Cornell sits alone in 2nd, 1 point back of QU.

To further illustrate how dumb PWR is this time of year, with Dartmouth's win vs. RPI, they are currently #16 in the nation with a 3-5-1 record, according to the CHN app.

This also demonstrates the benefit of playing in a strong league.

[Chris '03]

And PU over Brown, 4-2. Onion leading Sucks 4-3 w/ about 15 min. left.

With the Harvard-Union tie, Cornell sits alone in 2nd, 1 point back of QU.

To further illustrate how dumb PWR is this time of year, with Dartmouth's win vs. RPI, they are currently #16 in the nation with a 3-5-1 record, according to the CHN app.

This also demonstrates the benefit of playing in a strong league.

Ten years ago Dartmouth would be that WCHA team everyone would say deserves a tourney bid over the ECAC champ.

[KeithK]

And PU over Brown, 4-2. Onion leading Sucks 4-3 w/ about 15 min. left.

With the Harvard-Union tie, Cornell sits alone in 2nd, 1 point back of QU.

To further illustrate how dumb PWR is this time of year, with Dartmouth's win vs. RPI, they are currently #16 in the nation with a 3-5-1 record, according to the CHN app.

This also demonstrates the benefit of playing in a strong league.

Ten years ago Dartmouth would be that WCHA team everyone would say deserves a tourney bid over the ECAC champ.

This is dumb in December.  But if (and this is a big if) the ECAC keeps up their non-conference strength it may stll be the case in March. And it will still be dumb. But at least it would be working in our favor.

If Cornell had not given up that fourth goal against Q there would only be six ECAC teams in the top 16.  But the top three would be Cornell, Quinnipiac, Harvard in that order.

[ursusminor]

"Saturday's 0-0 tie between St. Lawrence and Quinnipiac was the first scoreless game in the history of the Saints' program — a span of 2,083 games dating to the 1925-26 season.

This is an incredible statistic.

RPI and Harvard tied 0-0. RPI's first scoreless tie since 1/29/1927.

[marty]

"Saturday's 0-0 tie between St. Lawrence and Quinnipiac was the first scoreless game in the history of the Saints' program — a span of 2,083 games dating to the 1925-26 season.

This is an incredible statistic.

RPI and Harvard tied 0-0. RPI's first scoreless tie since 1/29/1927.

Sucks put on a clinic in the first two periods. RPI seemed to refuel during the second intermission and Harvard ran out of gas. Still there were pipes and cross bars ringing all night long. Kasdorf was back after a recent injury and looked great. But so did Madsen.

Check out the video of the first period. It looked like Harvard was wielding the epee at times and we were impressed with their ability to stick handle while skating in circles around RPI.

An entertaining 0-0.

[Iceberg]

Yale seems to have seriously entrenched themselves into a downward spiral. They host BU at home next weekend so they have a chance to not go into the break with 4 straight losses.

[Trotsky]

There's been so much attention to the ECAC's performance at the top of PWR that it may be neglected that we have no "bottom feeder" teams, at least so far.

Typically even in years where there have been two or three top ranked ECAC teams, we have also had teams in the mid to lower 50s.  Not this year.  The worst PWR for an ECAC team today is 42.  Compare the worst PWR by conference:

AH (60, 59, 55, 54, 52, 50)
Big Ten (58, 48)
WCHA (57, 51, 47, 44)
NCHC (56)
HE (53, 46, 45, 43)
Indy (49)
ECAC (42)