ECAC Early Departures

[RichH]

Caught feeding again.

[Trotsky]

Protracted worrying about something you have no control over is the definition of fandom.

[osorojo]

Yup. They are synonyms.

[redice]

I wish you all would stop doing this to me.......

[Trotsky]

I wish you all would stop doing this to me.......

twss?

[redice]

I wish you all would stop doing this to me.......

twss?

HUH!!   Damned acronyms...

[Chris '03]

Not early per se...

https://twitter.com/joemeloni/status/1253093500293390337?s=21

[French Rage]

Shouldn't anyone with 32 seasons somewhere have the most wins?

[Beeeej]

Shouldn't anyone with 32 seasons somewhere have the most wins?

You'd think so. Of course it's not exactly a high bar when you retire with an average of fewer than 11 wins per season; any halfway decent coach who replaces him should have a shot at breaking his record if he sticks around for a while. By way of counter-example, Schafer won his 331st game as Cornell's head coach two games into his 17th season.

[Trotsky]

Shouldn't anyone with 32 seasons somewhere have the most wins?

The quote is misleading, since Gaudet's coaching time is divided between Brown and Dartmouth.  Either the 331 wins isn't in 32 years, or the 331 wins isn't the "most in school history."

Edit: it's the first one.

93 wins in 9 years at Brown
331 wins in 23 years at Dartmouth

As for Gaudet, I can't say whether he actively encouraged it but he sure coached a lot of dirty players over the years.

[Beeeej]

Shouldn't anyone with 32 seasons somewhere have the most wins?

The quote is misleading, since Gaudet's coaching time is divided between Brown and Dartmouth.  Either the 331 wins isn't in 32 years, or the 331 wins isn't the "most in school history."

Edit: it's the first one.

93 wins in 9 years at Brown
331 wins in 23 years at Dartmouth

That makes a little more sense. I didn't really have the time or energy to look up his actual records at Dartmouth last night, but ten and change wins per season was low even for them.

[Trotsky]

I didn't really have the time

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

[jtwcornell91]

Not early per se...

https://twitter.com/joemeloni/status/1253093500293390337?s=21

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2020/04/23_Bob-Gaudet-The-Decision-.php

[Internal monologue] Say something nice ... say something nice ... say something nice. ::twitch::

Seriously though, Gaudet's tenure at Brown and Dartmouth is one of the things that's made the ECAC the ECAC the last 25+ years.  (I remember that Princeton-Brown ECAC playoff series from the HOCKEY-L days.)

[Jim Hyla]

Not early per se...

https://twitter.com/joemeloni/status/1253093500293390337?s=21

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2020/04/23_Bob-Gaudet-The-Decision-.php

[Internal monologue] Say something nice ... say something nice ... say something nice. ::twitch::

Seriously though, Gaudet's tenure at Brown and Dartmouth is one of the things that's made the ECAC the ECAC the last 25+ years.  (I remember that Princeton-Brown ECAC playoff series from the HOCKEY-L days.)

He had a lot of good teams, too. But ones that just never got over the hump. Never won an ECAC championship or made the NCAAs, despite coming close numerous times in the 2000s, as the program churned out future NHL players. It was hard not to root for them — but it never came to be.

People can disagree.

But the trademark of Gaudet's lengthy tenure as an NCAA head coach will be having changed a lot of young men's lives for the better. That is a legacy that will live on longer than all the wins and losses.

Seems like what is always said about a coach who was never quite that successful.

Sorry to bring up a bad one, but one of my most intense memories with you is the 1995 ECAC playoff series against Princeton with Brown. (Brown was the 2 seed and had NCAA aspirations, and Princeton was the 7 seed. Princeton won in 2 OT in Game 3 for its first trip to Lake Placid and Brown fell short of the NCAAs.) I was broadcasting for Princeton at the time, and just hated you guys in that series, it was so fierce. And that first period of Game 3, there was 96 penalty minutes and it was a wild game.

Now that's the Gaudet that many remember.

[Scersk '97]

And (Cornell coach Mike) Schafer gets on, and of course my (Zoom) background is the background in my basement, and Schafer's is a background picture of me. And I looked like Chucky, got my brow all furled up.

Zing!