Opponent and other news and results of interest 2024-2025

[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.

[scoop85]

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?

"Lighten up, Francis"

[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.

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.

I was reading "deciding their fate" a little differently. I agree that knocking Q out will doom Michigan, but customizing Pairwise as much as I can right now, there appears to be additional paths to knocking Michigan out. If CC and Minnesota State win, that puts ASU just a hair under Michigan in RPI, and if ASU wins (which we can't plug into the customizer yet) they could knock out Michigan as well. North Dakota is too far behind in RPI to be a threat unless they win their tourney.

Michigan should be rooting hard for Q and Denver to win, and hope that Northeastern doesn't have a miracle tourney. And with three out of the five remaining NCHC teams having the ability to play spoiler, as well as three out of four ECAC teams, the Michigan camp should be very nervous right now.

[BearLover]

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.

I was reading "deciding their fate" a little differently. I agree that knocking Q out will doom Michigan, but customizing Pairwise as much as I can right now, there appears to be additional paths to knocking Michigan out. If CC and Minnesota State win, that puts ASU just a hair under Michigan in RPI, and if ASU wins (which we can't plug into the customizer yet) they could knock out Michigan as well. North Dakota is too far behind in RPI to be a threat unless they win their tourney.

Michigan should be rooting hard for Q and Denver to win, and hope that Northeastern doesn't have a miracle tourney. And with three out of the five remaining NCHC teams having the ability to play spoiler, as well as three out of four ECAC teams, the Michigan camp should be very nervous right now.

What are Q's odds if we beat them next round? Not that I need extra motivation to want to win, but I have to imagine Q's odds are fairly low if they lose RPI from the loss and also an extra auto-bid gets in (Cornell/Dartmouth/Clarkson).

[RichH]

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.

On the espn+ broadcast, one of (much discussed) John McGraw's many asides mentioned how the traveling Faithful did all the usual traditions we're known for, and "there was a gentleman handing out newspapers before introductions" and I said to myself "Hey, good to know Jim made it!" :-)

[Trotsky]

Never tell me the odds.

[chimpfood]

I'm fine with the Q matchup. We were likely gonna have to face them anyway so might as well get it done early.

[Tcl123]

I'm fine with the Q matchup. We were likely gonna have to face them anyway so might as well get it done early.

Agreed. Lets go!

[adamw]

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.

not finalized - just a placeholder.

[Chris '03]

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.

not finalized - just a placeholder.

Cornell now says it's at 4.
https://cornellbigred.com/sports/mens-ice-hockey

[fastforward]

By the stats, Q would seem to have a slight advantage......BUT, If the guys can perform like they did this weekend, it can be a 50/50 outcome in my opinion!!

[adamw]

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.

edit - sorry I just realized what you meant.....

Times constantly change, which is why they are "wrong" -- when it comes to playoffs, teams change them constantly. Also, we get a feed from the NCAA's portal - which the teams are supposed to insert into and keep updated. And often they are different than what is on the team's web site. This week alone, I had to email 4 schools to ask about discrepancies. No other web site curator out there emails teams trying to make sure everything is correct, I assure you, whether that be schedules or stats.

We have an automated process that checks our stuff against the "official" portal - times, locations, dates, opponents, etc... I get a report every morning on what doesn't match. 99% of the time, the "official" portal is wrong and we're right.

I believe in the case of Cornell-Yale, they didn't know yet what date it would be. We had to put the game in system before knowing the date, in order to make everything else we do run properly -- Pairwise, Pairwise Customizer, Probability Matrix, etc...

Can't say we're never wrong - but barking up the wrong tree here. I can assure you we're the least wrong  our whole system depends upon it being right.

[adamw]

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.

Michigan's odds are low because they only need one conference to go "non-chalk" - but it's not true that they're certainly done. If all the conferences go chalk, they are in.