Opponents and Others, 2021-22

[CU2007]

The Yale coach couldn't have been too happy with his son for leaving his team shorthanded for Saturday's consolation game of the Connecticut Ice Classic.
"The Bulldogs played with only 17 skaters; NCAA teams are allowed 19. Leading scorer Niklas Allain had to sit out Sunday after receiving a disqualification penalty to go with a cross-checking major in the last minute of Saturday's game against UConn. Yale is also dealing with several injuries."
Yale lost 4-3 in OT to Sacred Heart, with a transfer student from Yale, Dante Pelecco, scoring tying the tying goal for Sacred Heart late in the third period.

And with it goes another chance for an ECAC OOC win and some Pairwise help for the conference. Probably not many chances left.

[ursusminor]

The Yale coach couldn't have been too happy with his son for leaving his team shorthanded for Saturday's consolation game of the Connecticut Ice Classic.
"The Bulldogs played with only 17 skaters; NCAA teams are allowed 19. Leading scorer Niklas Allain had to sit out Sunday after receiving a disqualification penalty to go with a cross-checking major in the last minute of Saturday's game against UConn. Yale is also dealing with several injuries."
Yale lost 4-3 in OT to Sacred Heart, with a transfer student from Yale, Dante Pelecco, scoring tying the tying goal for Sacred Heart late in the third period.

And with it goes another chance for an ECAC OOC win and some Pairwise help for the conference. Probably not many chances left.

There is Harvard in the Beanpot, but that rarely goes well for them.

[Dafatone]

If we're looking for pairwise optimism, 6 of our 9 remaining games are on the road.

Also, root for ASU and ND. Ew.

[dbilmes]

If we're looking for pairwise optimism, 6 of our 9 remaining games are on the road.

Also, root for ASU and ND. Ew.

Let's face it. At this point, unless we win the ECAC tournament, or at least make it to the title game, we don't have a shot of getting an NCAA bid.

[Dafatone]

If we're looking for pairwise optimism, 6 of our 9 remaining games are on the road.

Also, root for ASU and ND. Ew.

Let's face it. At this point, unless we win the ECAC tournament, or at least make it to the title game, we don't have a shot of getting an NCAA bid.

I'm too lazy to do any actual number crunching, but I bet if we ran the table from here to the conference semis we'd have a reasonable chance.

Certainly it's gonna be an uphill battle, RPIwise.

[dbilmes]

The latest Pairwise ratings have us at No 20, behind Quinnipiac (6) and Clarkson (18).

[ugarte]

If we're looking for pairwise optimism, 6 of our 9 remaining games are on the road.

Also, root for ASU and ND. Ew.

Let's face it. At this point, unless we win the ECAC tournament, or at least make it to the title game, we don't have a shot of getting an NCAA bid.

I'm too lazy to do any actual number crunching, but I bet if we ran the table from here to the conference semis we'd have a reasonable chance.

Certainly it's gonna be an uphill battle, RPIwise.

i've done some number crunching (counted sheep for a while then passed out) and figured out that we're not going to run the table to the conference semis

[CU2007]

Here's something. Doesn't the committee claim to use something similar to Pairwise but not the actual Pairwise? Is it possible if we beat a bunch of bad teams the rest of the way, coupled with others around us losing games here and there, and move up to say 7th or 8th in the polls but say a spot or two outside the Pairwise "cut off" that we get into the tourney? I'm not an expert but I thought the polls were generally pretty similar to the Pairwise and that isn't the case this year. Maybe I'm wrong

[nshapiro]

Here's something. Doesn't the committee claim to use something similar to Pairwise but not the actual Pairwise? Is it possible if we beat a bunch of bad teams the rest of the way, coupled with others around us losing games here and there, and move up to say 7th or 8th in the polls but say a spot or two outside the Pairwise "cut off" that we get into the tourney? I'm not an expert but I thought the polls were generally pretty similar to the Pairwise and that isn't the case this year. Maybe I'm wrong

The only time I would think the committee would exercise any discretion would be to punish someone (Michigan) who is blatantly trying to game the system.

[Swampy]

IMHO, the entire season needs to have an asterisk because COVID is making every game a crap shoot.

Witness our series at ASU. We weren't missing many players, but COVID made CU implement more draconian limits on student activities, which deprived the team of practice time. Similar things have happened to other teams, except perhaps Michigan, which lied about COVID contacts.

I bet if someone (not me) were to use RPI in an analysis of the variation in the strength of opponents corresponding to wins & losses over the course of the season, the variation would be much larger during COVID seasons (2020-1, 2021-2, 2022-?) than in earlier years.

[Dafatone]

IMHO, the entire season needs to have an asterisk because COVID is making every game a crap shoot.

Witness our series at ASU. We weren't missing many players, but COVID made CU implement more draconian limits on student activities, which deprived the team of practice time. Similar things have happened to other teams, except perhaps Michigan, which lied about COVID contacts.

I bet if someone (not me) were to use RPI in an analysis of the variation in the strength of opponents corresponding to wins & losses over the course of the season, the variation would be much larger during COVID seasons (2020-1, 2021-2, 2022-?) than in earlier years.

We've also been down a coach for nearly a month.

[andyw2100]

Witness our series at ASU. We weren't missing many players, but COVID made CU implement more draconian limits on student activities, which deprived the team of practice time.

I'm pretty sure I recall reading that several of our players did have COVID, and had only recently recovered before the ASU series.

[Trotsky]

If we're looking for pairwise optimism, 6 of our 9 remaining games are on the road.

Also, root for ASU and ND. Ew.

Let's face it. At this point, unless we win the ECAC tournament, or at least make it to the title game, we don't have a shot of getting an NCAA bid.

Yeah, just aim for the title in Lake Placid.

[Trotsky]

BU.

[Scersk '97]

Harvard blows their Beanpot semi, like always. 4-3 to BU.

Thanks, you wankers.