Opponents and Others, 2021-22

[dbilmes]

Let's hope we can buck the trend Saturday night.

[Trotsky]

Harvard on a 6x4 in the final minute, down 0-1.

[Trotsky]

Harvard 0 UNH 1 (final)

[Iceberg]

Still a number of OOC games but I suspect the conference isn't sending more than 2 teams to the NCAA's this year and that might be generous

[Trotsky]

Brown 1 Holy Cross 5 (final)
Dartmouth 4 Providence 7 (final)
St. Lawrence 2 Western Michigan 8 (final)
Harvard 0 UNH 1 (final)
RPI 1 Northeastern 2 (final)

Princeton 4 RIT 5 (3rd)
Clarkson 0 Wisconsin 0 (2nd)

5 losses
1 trailing, 4 minutes to go
1 tied, midway through game

Woof.

[Trotsky]

Still a number of OOC games but I suspect the conference isn't sending more than 2 teams to the NCAA's this year and that might be generous

If we send 2 then it's Q and whoever wins in Lake Placid.

[Trotsky]

Princeton now in the final minute down 4-5, with the extra skater.

[Trotsky]

Brown 1 Holy Cross 5 (final)
Dartmouth 4 Providence 7 (final)
St. Lawrence 2 Western Michigan 8 (final)
Harvard 0 UNH 1 (final)
RPI 1 Northeastern 2 (final)
Princeton 4 RIT 5 (final)

Clarkson 0 Wisconsin 0 (end 2nd)

6 losses -- all in regulation, just for fun
1 tied, going to the third period

12 GF - 28 GA

Suboptimal.

[Trotsky]

Clarkson tied.  ECAC goes 0-6-1 for the night.

10 Qpc
15 Clk
24 Hvd
25 Cor
31 Cgt
35 RPI
37 SLU
46 Prn
47 Drt
49 Uni
57 Brn
59 Yal

Median 36, Mean 36.25

[ursusminor]

FWIW, the attendance for NU @ RPI was 32. That's with school being on break and no visitors allowed.

On the hopefully bright side, RPI has chosen a new President to replace Shirley next summer, namely Martin Schmidt (RPI '81) who is currently Provost at MIT. He asked about the hockey team in discussion with student members of the selection committee. https://fanforum.uscho.com/forum/college-hockey/men-s-division-i/3682322-rpi-2021-22-picking-up-where-we-left-off?p=3696103#post3696103

[dbilmes]

Considering the fact that most of the teams in the ECAC didn't play last year, it's not surprising that the league is going to be down this year. The five lowest ranked teams all are Ivies (and Union), who didn't play last year. When Harvard got off to its fast start, it was mostly against teams which didn't play last year. Now that it's been playing more teams, both in and out of conference, that didn't take last season off, it's results have suffered (with the exception of their win over St. Lawrence).

[Trotsky]

Considering the fact that most of the teams in the ECAC didn't play last year, it's not surprising that the league is going to be down this year. The five lowest ranked teams all are Ivies (and Union), who didn't play last year. When Harvard got off to its fast start, it was mostly against teams which didn't play last year. Now that it's been playing more teams, both in and out of conference, that didn't take last season off, it's results have suffered (with the exception of their win over St. Lawrence).

It's entirely understandable. I don't blame them; it's going to suck for a few years.  It's hard for teams on the PWR bubble but I'm just overjoyed we aren't one of the teams in the low 40s or 50s.  We could easily have been.

[Trotsky]

Better job by the conference tonight, 3-4-0:

Cornell 6 BU 4
Clarkson 3 Wisconsin 0
Union 3 Merrimack 2
Princeton 0 RIT 1 (ot)
Brown 0 Providence 4
SLU 1 Western Michigan 5
Colgate 1 Connecticut 6

[Iceberg]

Clarkson looked good in that first game in Madison, too. Friday's game ar Cheel should be a good one

[Trotsky]

From the second period of last night's Clarkson game:

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Wisconsin Ryder Donovan 2 Roughing 17:49
Wisconsin Tarek Baker 10 Misconduct 17:49
Wisconsin Tarek Baker 2 Roughing 17:49
Wisconsin Carson Bantle 10 Misconduct 17:49
Wisconsin Carson Bantle 2 Roughing 17:49
Wisconsin Carson Bantle 2 Roughing 17:49
Clarkson Luke Santerno 2 Roughing 17:49
Clarkson Jordan Power 10 Misconduct 17:49
Clarkson Jordan Power 2 Roughing 17:49
Clarkson Jordan Power 2 Roughing 17:49
Clarkson Dustyn McFaul 10 Misconduct 17:49
Clarkson Dustyn McFaul 2 Roughing 17:49
Clarkson Dustyn McFaul 2 Roughing 17:49


It appears those Misconducts were not DQs.