Opponents and Others, 2022-23

[Trotsky]

#2 at home, #8 and #9 on the road.  I hope we can get a win out of those 3 games and then feast on the rest of the schedule.

The Goal is top 3 in the ECAC to avoid Q until the Placid final, and then top 12 in the PWR to avoid a regional 1-seed (Who knows?  Maybe Q again.) until the NC$$ QF.

Regionals and hosts (with current PWR)  FIXED

N Manchester (UNH #49)
E Bridgeport (Yale #56)
M St. Louis (Lindenwood #55)
W Fargo (NoDak #16)

It would be very nice if NoDak fails to make the tourny to get rid of that nonsense.

[BearLover]

the good news is right now losing the first 2 games has almost been removed from a PWR issue for us in where we are now..
right now a split would be the same as if we had beaten Harvard.

As I understand the pairwise, swapping outcomes with a different game in the schedule should have almost no effect on our ranking. For example, winning one or the games vs UMD instead of losing would have been equivalent to turning any other loss this season (Q or Clarkson) into a win. Pairwise is a function of win% and strength of schedule. The ranking is agnostic as to whether your wins come versus the easy or hard part of the schedule.

So, losing the two games vs UMD will continue to hurt us, but if we had won those games and instead lost to Yale and Brown, we'd be in virtually the same position. Right?

[Weder]

#2 at home, #8 and #9 on the road.  I hope we can get a win out of those 3 games and then feast on the rest of the schedule.

The Goal is top 3 in the ECAC to avoid Q until the Placid final, and then top 12 in the PWR to avoid a regional 1-seed (Who knows?  Maybe Q again.) until the NC$$ QF.

Regionals and hosts (with current PWR)

N Manchester (UNH #49)
E Allentown (Pedo State #4)
M St. Louis (Lindenwood #55)
W Fargo (NoDak #16)

It would be very nice if NoDak fails to make the tourny to get rid of that nonsense.  That would free up the eastern regionals as Allentown (Pedo as a forced home 1 or 2) and Manchester (Q as a 1).  I can see any of BU, Harvard, Merrimack, Cornell, UConn getting either 3-band in that case.

The NCAA site says Bridgeport (Yale) has a regional, not St. Louis.

[Trotsky]

The NCAA site says Bridgeport (Yale) has a regional, not St. Louis.

I suck.

Fixed above.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

FWIW, I did a bracketology this weekend.  I had us in Allentown with Penn State, Denver, and Michigan Tech.

If you simply layout the numerical pairings, Western Michigan would wind up in the 3rd slot against Denver, but since they can't play Denver in the 1st round, I swapped us and Western (and sent Western to Manchester).  Other than that, everything went straight by the numbers with the Goofers in Fargo, Quinny in Bridgeport, and St. Cloud in Manchester.

[abmarks]

So I was thinking during our shoot-out with AIC, is it correct that there is zero impact on PWR/RPI and obviously no standings, so is a non-conference shootout entirely pointless?

Yes.  Literally no meaning.  Just masturbating the non-fans.

Not pointless. Was listening to the Vermont radio feed yesterday when they went to a shootout vs. Yale. Announcing crew said that home team I'm an OOC game chooses whether there's a shootout or not, and that uvm coach prefers shootouts literally for their practice value.  Shootouts that Matter dont happen too often, so it's a chance to let the guys experience the pressure.

Makes sense to me.

[upprdeck]

I think shootouts make teams practice that skill more so things like Penalty shots become more normal to the guys..

I have no idea how much time we spend on that skill vs 10 yrs ago though.

[Trotsky]

Alls I know is I want Zach in the rotation for penalty shots for the rest of his career.  He looked like he knew what he was doing.

[ugarte]

Alls I know is I want Zach in the rotation for penalty shots for the rest of his career.  He looked like he knew what he was doing.

getting the goalie doing the splits and sliding the puck 5 hole was nice. would have been slick even if it didn't make it through, but nobody would have given him credit for it.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Other than shoot-outs, how many penalty shots are taken each year?

Not many.

[Trotsky]

The keeeds will never know how intense a penalty shot was before the NHL shat itself.

Just another thing of beauty gone through sheer stupidity.

[Troyfan]

Yale also leading at Merrimack 3-1 well into the 3rd. That would be a huge upset to the benefit of the rest of the ECAC

Merrimack 2 third period goals, now 3-3.

And that's how it ends...without a shootout.


Meanwhile, Harvard comes back from 3-0 down and wins late in overtime 4-3

We did the exact same thing to Harvard in the Lance Nethery era. Down 3-0 midway in the 3rd, come back win it 4 - 3.  I don't remember if it was OT or regulation.  If I really stretch between the ears, I think Pete Stornik might have gotten the hat trick to tie it.

[redice]

Yale also leading at Merrimack 3-1 well into the 3rd. That would be a huge upset to the benefit of the rest of the ECAC

Merrimack 2 third period goals, now 3-3.

And that's how it ends...without a shootout.


Meanwhile, Harvard comes back from 3-0 down and wins late in overtime 4-3

We did the exact same thing to Harvard in the Lance Nethery era. Down 3-0 midway in the 3rd, come back win it 4 - 3.  I don't remember if it was OT or regulation.  If I really stretch between the ears, I think Pete Stornik might have gotten the hat trick to tie it.

I believe Stornik's first name was John....

[Trotsky]

Yale also leading at Merrimack 3-1 well into the 3rd. That would be a huge upset to the benefit of the rest of the ECAC

Merrimack 2 third period goals, now 3-3.

And that's how it ends...without a shootout.


Meanwhile, Harvard comes back from 3-0 down and wins late in overtime 4-3

We did the exact same thing to Harvard in the Lance Nethery era. Down 3-0 midway in the 3rd, come back win it 4 - 3.  I don't remember if it was OT or regulation.  If I really stretch between the ears, I think Pete Stornik might have gotten the hat trick to tie it.

2/23/78

[dbilmes]

Yale also leading at Merrimack 3-1 well into the 3rd. That would be a huge upset to the benefit of the rest of the ECAC

Merrimack 2 third period goals, now 3-3.

And that's how it ends...without a shootout.


Meanwhile, Harvard comes back from 3-0 down and wins late in overtime 4-3

We did the exact same thing to Harvard in the Lance Nethery era. Down 3-0 midway in the 3rd, come back win it 4 - 3.  I don't remember if it was OT or regulation.  If I really stretch between the ears, I think Pete Stornik might have gotten the hat trick to tie it.

2/23/78

There were a combined 85 shots on goal in that game. Those high-scoring games in the 1970s were so much fun to watch!