ECAC playoffs 2022

[upprdeck]

the issue is can colgate win 4x4 or 4x5 from cornell in a year and will cornell go 1-10 on the PP again.

[Give My Regards]

St. Lawrence really doesn't need room reservations Saturday night in Hamden. Q's only non-wins in the ECAC are:
2-2 tie and 3-1 loss vs. Clarkson
2-1 loss, OT, and 1-0 loss vs. Cornell
1-0 loss vs. Harvard
... so any of the top-four teams perhaps could beat Quinnipiac in a single-game elimination in Lake Placid. St. Lawrence, taking 2 of 3 this weekend?

Certainly a tall order... but the Saints did pick off Q in Hamden last year for the tourney championship.  Admittedly, that was only one game.

[dbilmes]

Hard to believe, but lots of empty seats at Lynah East for Game 1 of their quarterfinal series against RPI.

[scoop85]

Harvard completes a comeback from 3–0 down. They win 4-3 in OT after scoring 3 EAG in the last 4 minutes of regulation (sound familiar?)

Clarkson also wins in the 1st 2 minutes of OT and beats Onion 3-2

[BearLover]

Cornell looked like it had so much more energy than Colgate towards the end of tonight's game. Seeing what happened at Clarkson and Harvard (both winning in OT with Harvard staging a huge comeback in the final minutes), I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing was true for those teams. Having a bye is such a massive advantage.

I agree that playoff inflation is a bad thing. IMO the fairest thing would be for only the top 4 teams to make the playoffs. But if you're going to put 8 or 12 teams in the playoffs, the most exciting system is giving the top teams the big reward (byes) to play for during the regular season.

[ursusminor]

Harvard completes a comeback from 3–0 down. They win 4-3 in OT after scoring 3 EAG in the last 4 minutes of regulation (sound familiar?)

Clarkson also wins in the 1st 2 minutes of OT and beats Onion 3-2

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No comment by me.

[Jim Hyla]

Cornell looked like it had so much more energy than Colgate towards the end of tonight's game. Seeing what happened at Clarkson and Harvard (both winning in OT with Harvard staging a huge comeback in the final minutes), I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing was true for those teams. Having a bye is such a massive advantage.

I agree that playoff inflation is a bad thing. IMO the fairest thing would be for only the top 4 teams to make the playoffs. But if you're going to put 8 or 12 teams in the playoffs, the most exciting system is giving the top teams the big reward (byes) to play for during the regular season.

I'm not sure that having the bye was the reason for our energy explosion. I rather think it was a head thing. You could see right after Colgate took the lead, we exploded. After all we out shot them 20-7 in the second period. Although it ended up Colgate 1-0 after 2, we certainly had taken control.

My question was whether the young team could put aside that they hadn't yet scored and come out with the same intensity in the third. I guess they showed me, although Colgate's DiPaolo helped. And you wonder what effect having Coach Schafer behind the bench added.

[Trotsky]

Grady and Tim did comment that early in the game Cornell was hitting the body hard and that might show as the night wore on.

If that's so we should expect the same tactics tonight.

I think outshooting them 37-10 down the stretch may have been closer than the actual level of dominance.  That was some 2003 shit there.

[marty]

Grady and Tim did comment that early in the game Cornell was hitting the body hard and that might show as the night wore on.

If that's so we should expect the same tactics tonight.

I think outshooting them 37-10 down the stretch may have been closer than the actual level of dominance.  That was some 2003 shit there.

Young got banged up a few times and looked close to losing it.  Manderville also pushed some of our guys around.  He's got some serious size.

[Trotsky]

Oh, I have to mention I love the change on the pp.  They went super aggressive - very rarely once they got low did they throw it back out to the point.  Somebody tough, Andreev or Psenicka usually, would protect the puck with his body and grind inside and then either fire it or dish it in front.  We had a TON of great chances on this and we also used the extra man effectively to win a lot of the battles for the loose puck after and then put it right back on Benson or set up and fire from the circles.

It was such a dramatic change from all year.  I'm not sure whether they would dare try it against somebody like Clarkson with their explosive counterattack.

[Trotsky]

As of now, the Cornell Athletic site is down and the ECAC site doesn't show any links to video.

ESPN+ either will or will not come through.  Edit: it did.

[Trotsky]

SLU 1 Q 0
Clarkson 2 Union 1

[Trotsky]

The other 3 QF games all in overtime at 3-3.

Clarkson wins theirs and advances.

[Trotsky]

Harvard gets a major in overtime and Ted Donato has turned a darker crimson than the empty seats at Bright.

[dbilmes]

RPI scores on a textbook 2-on-1 break early in the second OT to send the handful of Harvard fans home disappointed. RPI goalie made 47 saves.