clarkson @ cornell, ecachl second round chatter

jy3 · March 05, 2006, 10:14:17 PM

should be plenty of talk this week on the board. hoping to NOT get a repeat of 2004. so what does everyone think?
anyone have tickets they want to get rid of ::help::

Dpperk29 · March 05, 2006, 10:20:35 PM

why don't we repaet 2005?

daredevilcu · March 05, 2006, 10:22:15 PM

See all of you next week. Words cannot express how excited I am for this series.

ebilmes · March 05, 2006, 10:23:30 PM

[quote daredevilcu]Words cannot express how excited I am for this series.[/quote]

Unfortunately, I don't expect the same to be true for RichS.

redhair34 · March 05, 2006, 10:25:23 PM

[quote daredevilcu]See all of you next week. Words cannot express how excited I am for this series.[/quote]

Is the rest of the band going to make the trip? Or at least a few more pieces than you guys brought last year to the quarterfinals?

daredevilcu · March 05, 2006, 10:28:23 PM

Hopefully we can muster more together this year. Last year was thrown together absolutely last minute, this time we're a little more prepared. We'll see though, it really depends on who is going to be around for spring break and can get a ride into town.

calgARI '07 · March 05, 2006, 10:30:30 PM

Best case scenario in my opinion. Clarkson was the best team who played this weekend and I want Cornell to play the very best team possible. They have played their best hockey when playing tough teams this year and I think Clarkson is the perfect team to start the playoffs with. Should be a great series like the last two.

redhair34 · March 05, 2006, 10:45:41 PM

[quote calgARI '07]Best case scenario in my opinion. Clarkson was the best team who played this weekend and I want Cornell to play the very best team possible. They have played their best hockey when playing tough teams this year and I think Clarkson is the perfect team to start the playoffs with. Should be a great series like the last two.[/quote]

I completely agree...plus there's no better way to close out the "old lynah" than a battle with Clarkson.

Trotsky · March 06, 2006, 12:05:52 AM

Gonna be a very, very tough series.

JasonN95 · March 06, 2006, 12:57:18 AM

[quote Trotsky]Gonna be a very, very tough series.[/quote]

Agreed. I somewhat understand the desire to have a chance to improve PWR or to face a tough opponent who'll hopefully bring out Cornell's best, but, frankly, I'd be much happier with the ECACHL championship and Cornell having the path of least resistance that leads to that. Playing Clarkson is not that path. Consider this: would you choose (a) bowing out in the ECACHL but heading into the NCAAs as one of the 1 seeds (I'm speaking hypothetically; I know that cannot happen this year), or (b) winning the ECACHL and heading to the NCAA's as the 14th seed just ahead of the CHA and AHA champ? I'd take "b" in a heartbeat.

Rich S · March 06, 2006, 07:39:38 AM

[quote ebilmes][quote daredevilcu]Words cannot express how excited I am for this series.[/quote]

Unfortunately, I don't expect the same to be true for RichS.[/quote]

"Unfortunately"? Grow up...:-}

Of course I'm excited. It should be a great series...and no, you guys can't have my tickets. :-D

Liz '05 · March 06, 2006, 07:54:25 AM

[quote redhair34][quote calgARI '07]Best case scenario in my opinion. Clarkson was the best team who played this weekend and I want Cornell to play the very best team possible. They have played their best hockey when playing tough teams this year and I think Clarkson is the perfect team to start the playoffs with. Should be a great series like the last two.[/quote]

I completely agree...plus there's no better way to close out the "old lynah" than a battle with Clarkson.[/quote]

I don't. I'm starting to feel like that's Ari's standard response (no offense, but you have said it about four times very recently), and it's not necessarily true. What about Harvard at Lynah? Harvard is a good team, and we didn't play well enough to beat them - in fact, we made some stupid decisions that probably cost us the game. You say we were injured? Okay, how about the game at Dartmouth? This year's ECAC co-champs killed us in an ugly, ugly affair back in November. We haven't played consistently good hockey against anyone.

I welcome Clarkson mostly because its fun to see them for the third year straight in the playoffs at Lynah (even though I won't be there). daredevilcu, please get as much of your band there as posible, because it's fun to yell at you

I still think, though, that Clarkson is NOT in our best interest (see: Clarkson 3, Cornell 1, 2/10/06), and that Quinnipiac (who we beat twice, once by a score of 6-0) was.

Drew · March 06, 2006, 09:14:18 AM

I too, am excited because it is Cornell/Clarkson. I still see the Clarkson team as a year or two away from making a real run. The team is young and has not learned to win on the road, as of yet. They need to learn how to play in a hostile evironment, none better than Lynah. If we win, it will be big upset, if we lose I see it as "tempering of the sword" for the upcoming years. I hope the games are as competitive as in the past.
Cheers!
Drew

Trotsky · March 06, 2006, 10:48:49 AM

[quote Liz '05]We haven't played consistently good hockey against anyone.[/quote]

Colgate might disagree.

KeithK · March 06, 2006, 10:56:52 AM

It's simple. If we beat Clarkson then it was the best possible opponent because it might help our RPI/PWR and prepare us for the next round. If we (knock on wood) lose next weekend then it was an unlucky break and it would've been better to draw someone lower.

Win the games and it won't matter.