This Week in ECAC Hockey: First Round

[ECACHL writer]

Pick the winners .. you may vote multiple times, so use your four votes to pick the four victors.

[burgie12]

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CCT over SLU was the only real upset of the bunch that I picked, and that's only because all the games in the NC are toss-ups.

[kdiff77]

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RPI has 11 votes to Brown's zero. Fantastic...

[ECACHL writer]

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RPI has 11 votes to Brown's zero. Fantastic...

Wow. If only they played the series on a message board, RPI would already be sizing up its some-dozenth national championship ring.

[Ralph Baer]

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Since I regard SLU-CCT as a tossup, and I voted for SLU in Vic's contest, I'll take Clarkson here.

[vicb]

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The REAL Poll with 13 hours to go

Winner 2-0 2-1
SLU 61 22 39
Clark 13 0 13

RPI 70 57 13
Brown 4 0 4

Quinni 52 17 35
Dartm 22 4 18

Prince 60 24 36
Harvard 14 2 12

[FlagDUDE08]

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Wow. If only they played the series on a message board, RPI would already be sizing up its some-dozenth national championship ring.

We'd come in second every year. The national championship ring would go to Michigan Tech.

[vicb]

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The real final poll . Within a few % of your poll since it is probably all of the fans that voted in mine.

Winner % 2-0 2-1
SLU 74 83.15% 29 45
Clark 15 16.85% 0 15

RPI 83 93.26% 67 16
Brown 6 6.74% 0 6

Quinni 62 69.66% 20 42
Dart 27 30.34% 4 23

Prince 68 76.40% 28 40
Harvard 21 23.60% 3 18

[35-Year Go Big Red Fan]

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Attendance through Friday and Saturday at any of the games was not exactly stellar.

Harvard @ Princeton had the fewest at a game -- 841 (Friday).

Brown @ RPI had the lowest percentage of capacity -- 23.4% (Saturday) and was the only series with lower attendance on Saturday than Friday.

Dartmouth @ Quinnipiac had the largest number of fans -- 1901 (Saturday).

Clarkson @ Saint Lawrence the highest percentage of capacity -- 63.0% (Saturday).

[UnionHockeyManiac]

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Attendance through Friday and Saturday at any of the games was not exactly stellar.

Harvard @ Princeton had the fewest at a game -- 841 (Friday).

Brown @ RPI had the lowest percentage of capacity -- 23.4% (Saturday) and was the only series with lower attendance on Saturday than Friday.

Dartmouth @ Quinnipiac had the largest number of fans -- 1901 (Saturday).

Clarkson @ Saint Lawrence the highest percentage of capacity -- 63.0% (Saturday).

Wow...That's terrible. Why do you guys think that is?

I hope to see a packed house at Messa when Union plays Quinnipiac on Friday even though it's the beginning of finals week on Monday for Union students.

[LynahFan]

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Wow...That's terrible. Why do you guys think that is?

Many reasons: spring breaks, the economy, the fact that there were three ~.500 teams and five sub-.500 teams playing, short notice for where teams would be, etc. The first round games have never been stellar draws, but it does seem a bit down this year. RPI is really the series that sticks out for me - I would have expected much better. Princeton and Quinnipiac don't draw that well overall anyway, and SLU probably didn't get too much help from the fans of the #12 team - tough for them to be up for the series even for a rivalry game.

[35-Year Go Big Red Fan]

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Final attendance stats didn't improve, which was not a surprise to me. Even though it may be the last game of the year, third games in these series rarely have the best attendance.

Average attendance:

Harvard@Princeton
897.5
42.7% of Capacity.

Clarkson@St. Lawrence
1639.7
54.7%

Brown@RPI
1438
27.6%

Dartmouth@Quinnipiac
1782.3
57.8%.

Kudos such as they are, go to Quinnipiac.