Opponent News 19-20

[Trotsky]

Back to 2 in PWR as the Brownian motion of RPICH continues.

[scoop85]

Impressive completing our difficult non-league schedule unbeaten

[billhoward]

Not really an opponent, well sort of, Feola Named Director of Officiating

I don't know...he's often seemed like an opponent.

a) cheap line, Jeff, and obvious
b) you beat us to it

[JasonN95]

ESPN+ has been great in part because of being able to jump to other ECAC contests live or zip through a replay later to check out the highlights. Tonight we get a chance to see Arizona State at Clarkson; I'm looking forward to seeing just how good the independent AZ St is. (Hopefully Clarkson can win for league prestige and PWR bump sake.)

[Trotsky]

Clarkson beats ASU in ot on a nice opportunistic steal and "greasy" goal.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Clarkson beats ASU in ot on a nice opportunistic steal and "greasy" goal.

And right now they're up to 7 in the PWR with OSU losing to the Goofers in the 3rd.

[Robb]

Interesting: Tonight in HEA and B10, the PWR favorites went 0-5-1, including losses by #5 BC, #6 OSU, #8 UMass, and #9 PSU.  The only favorite not to lose was #49 Merrimack tying #50 UVM.

[French Rage]

UMD leads NoDak 4-3 after 2.

[KenP]

Now 5-3 with 11:33 left
Now 6-3 with 8:06 left.
FINAL 7-4 Minnesota-Duluth over NoDak

[abmarks]

Interesting: Tonight in HEA and B10, the PWR favorites went 0-5-1, including losses by #5 BC, #6 OSU, #8 UMass, and #9 PSU.  The only favorite not to lose was #49 Merrimack tying #50 UVM.

Whale of a game at the low end of PWR. I looked at the box, and UVM lead Merrimack 4-1 midway through the second, MER gets it to 4-4 by the end of the period. UVM goes up a goal in the third and MER ties it up in the last few minutes.

[ugarte]

Interesting: Tonight in HEA and B10, the PWR favorites went 0-5-1, including losses by #5 BC, #6 OSU, #8 UMass, and #9 PSU.  The only favorite not to lose was #49 Merrimack tying #50 UVM.

I took a look at the bu - lowell box. saw bu scored 5 in the third period including three on the same major.

[Trotsky]

Not an "opponent," perhaps, but referee Mike Emanatian is retiring due to a bad back.  Anybody who dropped the f-bomb on Bill Cleary at 19 is a national hero.

This is a wonderful image;  I can imagine it perfectly:

"I will never, ever forget [that first game]," Emanatian said. "I said, 'Well, what do I do?' He said, 'Well, you know what everything is, you've played hockey your whole life. If you see a trip, call a trip. If you see a punch in the head, call it.'

"I remember seeing a kid trip another kid, and I'm like, 'There it is.'

"So I put my arm up. Everybody stopped, and it was like, OK, what do you have? So I pointed to the player, and I'm sure I didn't do that right, and I signaled a trip, which I'm sure was terrible. And the kid went to the box and nobody yelled or said a word, and I think it was that moment I just fell in love with it. I thought, 'Wow, I get to come out here, skate, in the game I love,' and it was really that very first penalty I called in the first game I did that I kind of got hooked on it."

I can imagine that.  "Holy shit, they're actually going to listen to me?"  Adorable.

[Trotsky]

Colgate's pp has reached 4.5%

[profudge]

Thanks Trotsky! +1

[dbilmes]

Sacred Heart isn't our opponent this season, but this seemed like the best place to post this. Not only did Sacred Heart convincingly defeat both Yale and Quinnipiac this past weekend in the first Connecticut Classic, it also announced plans to spend $60 million to build a 4,000-seat hockey arena. Apparently Sacred Heart has realized that men's hockey is the best sport for it become a national contender (just like Q),and is going to go for it big time.