ECAC Playoffs 2024

[Trotsky]

2024

First Round
#5 Clarkson vs #12 RPI
#6 Union vs #11 Brown
#7 St. Lawrence vs #10 Yale
#8 Harvard vs #9 Princeton


Quarterfinals
#1 Quinnipiac vs TBD
#2 Cornell vs TBD
#3 Colgate vs TBD
#4 Dartmouth vs TBD


History

[KenP]

Wrong forum Greg

[mike1960]

Wrong forum Greg

Come on, Greg.

[RichH]

Wrong forum Greg

Come on, Greg.

Boooooo. Greg is the worst!

[Trotsky]

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[Trotsky]

Wrong forum Greg

Come on, Greg.

Boooooo. Greg is the worst!

Greg's loser energy is palpable.

[Trotsky]

2024

First Round
^#12 RPI 3 ^#5 Clarkson 2
^#6 Union 6 ^#11 Brown 0
^#7 St. Lawrence 4 ^#10 Yale 2
^#8 Harvard 1 ^#9 Princeton 0


Quarterfinals
^#1 Quinnipiac vs ^#12 RPI
^#2 Cornell vs ^#8 Harvard
^#3 Colgate vs ^#7 St. Lawrence
^#4 Dartmouth vs ^#6 Union

[blackwidow]

Oh God... Harvard gonna Harvard cornell

[Trotsky]

Cornell has won all four Lynah series against Harvard: 1990, 1997, 2000, and 2010.

[Trotsky]

Congratulations all of our long-suffering eLynah RPI fans.  Now Godspeed against Q.

[ursusminor]

Congratulations all of our long-suffering eLynah RPI fans.  Now Godspeed against Q.

RPI has a long-history of winning when a last seed in the playoffs. i can remember like it was yesterday RPI, the lowest seed (#8) in the ECAC playoffs, defeating #1 UNH in 1974 in OT on a goal by Rick Smith. The only video I have ever seen is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUEHAUJsKDE showing UNH scoring 3 goals in 1:39. Whenever someone posts a comment stating that RPI actually won the game it eventually gets deleted. Revisionist history.

[marty]

Congratulations all of our long-suffering eLynah RPI fans.  Now Godspeed against Q.

RPI has a long-history of winning when a last seed in the playoffs. i can remember like it was yesterday RPI, the lowest seed (#8) in the ECAC playoffs, defeating #1 UNH in 1974 in OT on a goal by Rick Smith. The only video I have ever seen is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUEHAUJsKDE showing UNH scoring 3 goals in 1:39. Whenever someone posts a comment stating that RPI actually won the game it eventually gets deleted. Revisionist history.

Comment added with a dig against the "University of No Hardware"!

[dbilmes]

Reducing the first round of the ECAC playoffs to a one-and-done certainly increases the odds of an upset. Since I'm too lazy to look this up myself, how many times has the No. 12 seed knocked off the No. 5 seed since the ECAC expanded the playoffs to all 12 teams? I'm assuming it's not that common an occurrence.

[Trotsky]

2-19 since they started doing it in 2003.  

2011 Colgate over RPI,  2-4, 5-2, 2-1 (2ot)
2024 RPI over Clarkson, 3-2

So, 1-1 as single game vs 1-18 as best of 3.

In 2 of those 18, the #12 won game 1 and then was swept in games 2-3:

2012 Brown at Quinnipiac
2013 Harvard at Dartmouth

And ironically the one time a #12 beat a #5 in three games, the #5 would have escaped had it been a single game.

[ursusminor]

Congratulations all of our long-suffering eLynah RPI fans.  Now Godspeed against Q.

RPI has a long-history of winning when a last seed in the playoffs. i can remember like it was yesterday RPI, the lowest seed (#8) in the ECAC playoffs, defeating #1 UNH in 1974 in OT on a goal by Rick Smith. The only video I have ever seen is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUEHAUJsKDE showing UNH scoring 3 goals in 1:39. Whenever someone posts a comment stating that RPI actually won the game it eventually gets deleted. Revisionist history.

Comment added with a dig against the "University of No Hardware"!

Thanks for your post on that video. Also thanks to stephenkrause1122. I am going to have to remember to check if they are deleted. BTW, I am pretty sure that the video was posted by the same person who posts on USCHO with the handle C-H-C https://fanforum.uscho.com/member/35577-c-h-c. I do regard UNH as much the better team that year, and they would not have dug themselves a deep hole early had their #1 goalie, Cap Raeder, not been playing injured until he was replaced.

I add that in the ECAC semis in Boston Harvard trounced RPI, and Cornell did the same in the consolation game. The victory over UNH was enough to earn RPI a bid to the one and only Hockey NIT that year. It was turned down.