Opponent and other news and results of interest 2024-2025

[sah67]

Dartmouth could take a few pointers from Wisconsin's Pietila on proper taunting of the opposing student section: https://x.com/spittinchiclets/status/1888008790567428335

[marty]

OT @ Toothpaste.

[Trotsky]

Jesus this is boring.

[BearLover]

We aren't getting a bye, and we certainly aren't getting an at-large bid. The only thing left to do now is to root against Quinnipiac so they don't get an at-large bid.

[RichH]

We aren't getting a bye, and we certainly aren't getting an at-large bid. The only thing left to do now is to root against Quinnipiac so they don't get an at-large bid.

Not the only thing. I'll be rooting for (an albeit unlikely) run to the league championship (and the auto-bid), but you do you. It's still not an impossible task, given the general parity of the upper half of the league. But a lot has to fall in place.

Edit: Fukkit, the whole league top-to-bottom has as much parity as I've ever seen. Most years, there are 1-2 teams running away with it, and 1-2 teams with 2-4 wins. This year, the top 5 are within 5 points of each other, and the bottom 5 are within 3 points of each other. I feel the "any given night" cliche really hits. Nobody has fewer than 4 league losses and the last place team has 9. This is shaping up to be a weirdly unpredictable postseason.

[ugarte]

We aren't getting a bye, and we certainly aren't getting an at-large bid. The only thing left to do now is to root against Quinnipiac so they don't get an at-large bid.

Not the only thing. I'll be rooting for (an albeit unlikely) run to the league championship (and the auto-bid), but you do you. It's still not an impossible task, given the general parity of the upper half of the league. But a lot has to fall in place.

yeah for sure. jfc, bl, we aren't going to win ECACs but I'm still going to *root for it*. hell I'm even going to watch these last few weekends. there's got to be something in between constant gloom and "good results are nice but i just think hockey is neat."

how come I'm the only person who gets this exactly right?

[ursusminor]

We aren't getting a bye, and we certainly aren't getting an at-large bid. The only thing left to do now is to root against Quinnipiac so they don't get an at-large bid.

Not the only thing. I'll be rooting for (an albeit unlikely) run to the league championship (and the auto-bid), but you do you. It's still not an impossible task, given the general parity of the upper half of the league. But a lot has to fall in place.

Edit: Fukkit, the whole league top-to-bottom has as much parity as I've ever seen. Most years, there are 1-2 teams running away with it, and 1-2 teams with 2-4 wins. This year, the top 5 are within 5 points of each other, and the bottom 5 are within 3 points of each other. I feel the "any given night" cliche really hits. Nobody has fewer than 4 league losses and the last place team has 9. This is shaping up to be a weirdly unpredictable postseason.

Interesting point about parity, but it seems to me that the parity has been caused by the upper teams dropping down, not with a simultaneous improvement by the bottom of the league. OTOH, it seems that there is greater parity on the women's side considering that my team, RPI, defeated Colgate on Saturday. OTOH by either points or percentage the men are less spread out than the women.

Upon rereading this, I am not sure that I can call the RPI women my team since there was no women's hockey at RPI when I was there. A matter of fact there were very few women at all.

[BearLover]

We aren't getting a bye, and we certainly aren't getting an at-large bid. The only thing left to do now is to root against Quinnipiac so they don't get an at-large bid.

Not the only thing. I'll be rooting for (an albeit unlikely) run to the league championship (and the auto-bid), but you do you. It's still not an impossible task, given the general parity of the upper half of the league. But a lot has to fall in place.

Edit: Fukkit, the whole league top-to-bottom has as much parity as I've ever seen. Most years, there are 1-2 teams running away with it, and 1-2 teams with 2-4 wins. This year, the top 5 are within 5 points of each other, and the bottom 5 are within 3 points of each other. I feel the "any given night" cliche really hits. Nobody has fewer than 4 league losses and the last place team has 9. This is shaping up to be a weirdly unpredictable postseason.

Sorry I wasn't clear, I meant things to root for for the remainder of the regular season. I'll be following and rooting for Cornell during the ECAC tournament.

For the record, I'd put Cornell's chances of winning the ECAC tournament at about 1/16, or 6.25%.

[arugula]

Still going to New Haven next weekend. Nothing will keep me from pizza.

[Al DeFlorio]

Still going to New Haven next weekend. Nothing will keep me from pizza.

Not pizza.  In New Haven it's a-beets!

[marty]

Still going to New Haven next weekend. Nothing will keep me from pizza.

Not pizza.  In New Haven it's a-beets!

Had to think out loud to get that.  I wonder if they pronounce the consonant somewhere between a "p" and a "b".

My wife makes - and I eat - paklava.  We don't make baklava though we occasionally eat it.  My mouth doesn't do the "pb" sound.

Does eLynah have a designated language afficionado?

[CU2007]

I think the chances of the ECAC championship are higher than some might think. Remember, just because we got some guys back this past weekend doesn't mean we're going to be firing on full cylinders immediately. It takes time for the individual player to get back to full game speed and it takes time and practices to reacquaint everyone into their place in the line-up. That, and there are still a few bodies to get back. Lgr

[Trotsky]

Our next "meaningful" game is the First Round.  We can enjoy the rest of the RS as pure present experience with no lasting significance.

Not optimal, but its own aesthetic.

[Dafatone]

Our next "meaningful" game is the First Round.  We can enjoy the rest of the RS as pure present experience with no lasting significance.

Not optimal, but its own aesthetic.

If we run the table from here on out, we still have a shot at a bye.

Granted, there's no reason to believe we're going to do so.

[Al DeFlorio]

Still going to New Haven next weekend. Nothing will keep me from pizza.

Not pizza.  In New Haven it's a-beets!

Had to think out loud to get that.  I wonder if they pronounce the consonant somewhere between a "p" and a "b".

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/27/the-lasting-pleasures-of-new-haven-pizza#:~:text=But%2C%20of%20course%2C%20I%20would,bit%20of%20enduring%20Neapolitan%20dialect.