Opponent and other news and results of interest 2024-2025

[scoop85]

Clarkson with the win. We get Q.

How do we feel about Q, genuinely?
And Harvard still sucks. God bless.

We tied them twice and lost by one goal. Certainly a talented and well coached team, but not an impossible hill to climb.

[Jim Hyla]

CHN has us at 7:30 for the second game.

If correct, that's nice for our fans, but surprises me. Would think that Q would want the early game.

[ugarte]

Clarkson with the win. We get Q.

How do we feel about Q, genuinely?
And Harvard still sucks. God bless.

better than us but beatable! this is not the best team rand has put on the ice. no result in lake placid would be that big a surprise.

[stereax]

Clarkson with the win. We get Q.

How do we feel about Q, genuinely?
And Harvard still sucks. God bless.

We tied them twice and lost by one goal. Certainly a talented and well coached team, but not an impossible hill to climb.

Alright. Feelin' a little better about it.
Also, my BU friend says the Cornell-Q game might decide Michigan's fate, as they're 14th in pairwise, and if we win, Q gets an at-large bid and they drop out due to autobids from the shit conferences (CCHA and AHA). From what I understood, anyway.

[pjd8]

Clarkson with the win. We get Q.

How do we feel about Q, genuinely?
And Harvard still sucks. God bless.

We tied them twice and lost by one goal. Certainly a talented and well coached team, but not an impossible hill to climb.

Alright. Feelin' a little better about it.
Also, my BU friend says the Cornell-Q game might decide Michigan's fate, as they're 14th in pairwise, and if we win, Q gets an at-large bid and they drop out due to autobids from the shit conferences (CCHA and AHA). From what I understood, anyway.

Q losing to Cornell doesn't drop Q below, Michigan. and Michigan is done in the Big 10 so they can't improve their fate. They are almost certainly done for the season (barring some unexpected RPI math).

Atlantic Hockey and CCHA will take two bids from the top 16. And the ECAC, HE and NCHC all still have spoilers in their tournaments as well. A Q bid is not a certainty.

[BearLover]

Congrats to the Quinnipiac fans on this forum for getting the matchup they wanted. Now we have a game we are around 40% to win instead of one we are around 60% to win. Hope for the best I suppose.

[Jim Hyla]

Clarkson with the win. We get Q.

How do we feel about Q, genuinely?
And Harvard still sucks. God bless.

We tied them twice and lost by one goal. Certainly a talented and well coached team, but not an impossible hill to climb.

Alright. Feelin' a little better about it.
Also, my BU friend says the Cornell-Q game might decide Michigan's fate, as they're 14th in pairwise, and if we win, Q gets an at-large bid and they drop out due to autobids from the shit conferences (CCHA and AHA). From what I understood, anyway.

Careful how you say it. Minnesota State is #16 and could move to 15 or maybe even 14 (I doubt).

[ugarte]

Congrats to the Quinnipiac fans on this forum for getting the matchup they wanted. Now we have a game we are around 40% to win instead of one we are around 60% to win. Hope for the best I suppose.

You need to stop taking the pro-Q posts literally.  They are the equivalent of the guy with a We Want Duke at the America East championship game.

[RichH]

The hockey gods have made it clear: we must root for Harvard today.

From experience, 100% of the time this is the case, they never come through. They always lose when it hurts us. Harvard sucks.

[Jim Hyla]

Congrats to the Quinnipiac fans on this forum for getting the matchup they wanted. Now we have a game we are around 40% to win instead of one we are around 60% to win. Hope for the best I suppose.

You need to stop taking the pro-Q posts literally.  They are the equivalent of the guy with a We Want Duke at the America East championship game.

What he really should do is find a way to think positively about others. I don't have stats, but the general tenor seems to posting negatively 75-90% of the time.

For me finding something nice is much more satisfying than being negative.

I'm not saying he was one of them, as I'm too lazy to look, but whenever I see negative posts I think back upon all those who said Schafer could never change his style and basically we were doomed if we didn't get rid of him. Well these teams are nothing like 10 years ago and I can't find an ECAC coach that I'd rather have had.

Naysayers be damned.:-D

[marty]

Clarkson with the win. We get Q.

How do we feel about Q, genuinely?
And Harvard still sucks. God bless.

We tied them twice and lost by one goal. Certainly a talented and well coached team, but not an impossible hill to climb.

Alright. Feelin' a little better about it.
Also, my BU friend says the Cornell-Q game might decide Michigan's fate, as they're 14th in pairwise, and if we win, Q gets an at-large bid and they drop out due to autobids from the shit conferences (CCHA and AHA). From what I understood, anyway.

Q losing to Cornell doesn't drop Q below, Michigan. and Michigan is done in the Big 10 so they can't improve their fate. They are almost certainly done for the season (barring some unexpected RPI math).

Atlantic Hockey and CCHA will take two bids from the top 16. And the ECAC, HE and NCHC all still have spoilers in their tournaments as well. A Q bid is not a certainty.

But there has to be an upset in one of the tourneys other than the 2 that will take the 15 and 16 spots.   There is no guarantee that there will be an upset.  The statement that knocking Q out in Lake Placid would knock out Michigan seems to be correct.

[BearLover]

For me, the highs from this weekend ended as soon as it became reality that we have to play Quinnipiac next weekend. Joy turns to dread as one realizes that more likely than not Rand Pecknold will end Mike's career. Even in a "normal" year for Cornell, Quinnipiac would be a tough matchup, but this season Quinnipiac has way fewer (~zero) injuries and is getting big contributions from fifth year players (something Cornell is not allowed to have). We're going to need puck luck next weekend to win. Far from impossible, but unlikely. All we can do now is pray. What's DeSantis's status?

[CU2007]

CHN has us at 7:30 for the second game.

If correct, that's nice for our fans, but surprises me. Would think that Q would want the early game.

Wouldn't put too much stock in that. CHN had all sorts of game times and dates wrong in the past few weeks - for example it showed us playing Yale on the Friday night until about Wednesday of that week.

I imagine we will almost certainly play the early game.

[BearLover]

Congrats to the Quinnipiac fans on this forum for getting the matchup they wanted. Now we have a game we are around 40% to win instead of one we are around 60% to win. Hope for the best I suppose.

You need to stop taking the pro-Q posts literally.  They are the equivalent of the guy with a We Want Duke at the America East championship game.

What he really should do is find a way to think positively about others. I don't have stats, but the general tenor seems to posting negatively 75-90% of the time.

For me finding something nice is much more satisfying than being negative.

I'm not saying he was one of them, as I'm too lazy to look, but whenever I see negative posts I think back upon all those who said Schafer could never change his style and basically we were doomed if we didn't get rid of him. Well these teams are nothing like 10 years ago and I can't find an ECAC coach that I'd rather have had.

Naysayers be damned.:-D

For what it's worth, I was quite negative about the program/Schafer in 2015 and after 2016 ended, but I never called for his firing. The most I said was that he deserves another year to show he can change styles/turn things around. Then we made the NCAAs in 2017 and I never questioned Schafer's style ever again.

[Jim Hyla]

As an addition to my last post, it reminded me of this weekend.

As I was passing out newspapers, some old gent, I can say that cause I'm old, started confronting me to be sure to pick up all the left over papers. Ha ha.

Then at the end of yesterdays game I was throwing more Snickers to our fans and some, not as old, guy came up to challenge me about what was I doing and I needed to go pick up everything I threw, blah, blah, blah. He kept carrying on until an usher, that I was standing next to the whole game, had to get in between us so that he didn't get any closer.

Damn, it's a game. Be glad you could watch it and forget the rest.