College Hockey: By the Decade

[Fighting Sioux 23]

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The 2000's Games of the Decade have been published...

http://www.collegehockeyweekly.com/2...he-Decade.html

Look for more updates in the coming weeks. I believe the 1990's All-Decade team is scheduled to come out next.

[Ralph Baer]

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The 2000's Games of the Decade have been published...

http://www.collegehockeyweekly.com/2...he-Decade.html

Look for more updates in the coming weeks. I believe the 1990's All-Decade team is scheduled to come out next.

Looks more like the Game of the Year for each year.

[vizoroo]

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The 2000's Games of the Decade have been published...

http://www.collegehockeyweekly.com/2...he-Decade.html

Look for more updates in the coming weeks. I believe the 1990's All-Decade team is scheduled to come out next.

Look for more updates in the coming weeks. I believe the 1990's All-Decade team is scheduled to come out next.[/QUOTE]
the 2003-2004 season was pretty darn amazing for DU's Pioneers. The 5-3 comeback victory over UMD in the semis could easily have made the list. Although we would like to forget the "House of Horrors" game in Mankato. it is unforgettable

[Fighting Sioux 23]

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Looks more like the Game of the Year for each year.

Agreed. Initially they had us rank our top 10 games from the decade, but there was too much contention between the editors (I'm not sure how the actual vote came out) as to what game should have been the "game of the decade." They went back and forth about how it should be done for quite awhile. Ultimately, they decided to go year-by-year. FWIW, Here was my top 10...

1. 2004 West Regional Final: Denver 1 - 0 North Dakota
2. 2009 NCAA Championship: BU 4 (OT) - 3 Miami
3. 2002 NCAA Championship: Minnesota 4 (OT) - 3 Maine
4. 2004 WCHA Final Five Championship: Minnesota 5 - 4 North Dakota
5. 2007 WCHA Final Five Championship: Minnesota 3 (OT) - 2 North Dakota
6. 2007 West Regional Final: North Dakota 3 (OT) - 2 Minnesota
7. 2006 Midwest Regional Final: Wisconsin 1 (3OT) - 0 Cornell
8. 2006 WCHA Final Five Semifinal: SCSU 8 (OT) - 7 Minnesota
9. 2004 NCAA Championship: DU 1 - 0 Maine
10. 2008 WCHA First Round Series: Minnesota over Mankato 2 games to 1

Obviously, I only included games that I actually watched (either live or on TV), as I didn't think it was fair to include games that I just heard about or only saw key highlights.

[Fighting Sioux 23]

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College Hockey Weekly has put out their All-Decade Team from the 1990s...

http://www.collegehockeyweekly.com/1...cade-Team.html

[French Rage]

Re: College Hockey: By the Decade

The 2000's Games of the Decade have been published...

http://www.collegehockeyweekly.com/2...he-Decade.html

Look for more updates in the coming weeks. I believe the 1990's All-Decade team is scheduled to come out next.

Re: Cornell/Wisconsin, Skille did receive a pass, unfortunately it was from a Cornell player...

[milzie]

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Re: Cornell/Wisconsin, Skille did receive a pass, unfortunately it was from a Cornell player...

Negative. The pass was from Josh Engel.

[UncleRay]

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College Hockey Weekly has put out their All-Decade Team from the 1990s...

http://www.collegehockeyweekly.com/1...cade-Team.html

Homer Alert!! Homer Alert!! Homer Alert!! Homer Alert!!

The criteria of the list being "the best college hockey players from this past decade" is pretty nebulous, at best. I see they concentrated on players who played four years, but my team of "the best college hockey players from this past decade" would start with Paul Kariya. In a season and a half (51 games - which is only a few more than a single season for some players), he tallied 124 points. That is 2.43 pts/game. For perspective, his teammate Jim Montgomery (the high scorer on CHN's list) was 301/170 for 1.77 pts/game. If the list is merely high scorers, Paul isn't on it. But on my list of "best players" he's on it for sure.

[Fighting Sioux 23]

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Homer Alert!! Homer Alert!! Homer Alert!! Homer Alert!!

The criteria of the list being "the best college hockey players from this past decade" is pretty nebulous, at best. I see they concentrated on players who played four years, but my team of "the best college hockey players from this past decade" would start with Paul Kariya. In a season and a half (51 games - which is only a few more than a single season for some players), he tallied 124 points. That is 2.43 pts/game. For perspective, his teammate Jim Montgomery (the high scorer on CHN's list) was 301/170 for 1.77 pts/game. If the list is merely high scorers, Paul isn't on it. But on my list of "best players" he's on it for sure.

It's a legit argument. Kariya was on my ballot that I had for the All-Decade team. Ultimately, I think Kariya didn't make it for three reasons. First, he only played 51 games in the decade. Second, he quit on his team midway through his sophomore season (also the Maine-NCAA fiasco didn't help). Finally, there were a lot of very good forwards in the 1990s, and everyone on the list was deserving of their spot (IMO). Playing at an extremely high level for 4 years is probably more sought after by colleges than playing great for 1 year.

[kdiff77]

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Yann Effin' Danis. Man he was awesome.

Yup. His numbers would have been even better if Brown had any sort of defense during his time. The team had some good offensive players, but the defense was laughable. Yann kept us in almost every game.

[dwollstadt]

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It's a legit argument. Kariya was on my ballot that I had for the All-Decade team. Ultimately, I think Kariya didn't make it for three reasons. First, he only played 51 games in the decade. Second, he quit on his team midway through his sophomore season (also the Maine-NCAA fiasco didn't help). Finally, there were a lot of very good forwards in the 1990s, and everyone on the list was deserving of their spot (IMO). Playing at an extremely high level for 4 years is probably more sought after by colleges than playing great for 1 year.

I don't think it's fair to say that Kariya "quit on his team" during his sophomore year at Maine, and his departure from Maine in November-December 1993 had nothing to do with "the Maine-NCAA fiasco." He joined the Canadian national team because he wanted to play for his country in the 1994 Winter Olympics, and the coaching staff knew that summer that he intended to leave in mid-season.

[Fighting Sioux 23]

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I don't think it's fair to say that Kariya "quit on his team" during his sophomore year at Maine, and his departure from Maine in November-December 1993 had nothing to do with "the Maine-NCAA fiasco." He joined the Canadian national team because he wanted to play for his country in the 1994 Winter Olympics, and the coaching staff knew that summer that he intended to leave in mid-season.

I was just relaying some of the comments from the others that didn't have Kariya on their ballots. I also wasn't trying to say that Kariya left because of the NCAA scandal, just that was another reason people left him off their ballots.

[LynahFan]

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I also find it a little odd that one of the allegedly 3 best forwards of the decade was never even a first team All-American, while some of the guys riding the pine behind him were 3 time AAs. Can someone explain that to me?

[Fighting Sioux 23]

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I also find it a little odd that one of the allegedly 3 best forwards of the decade was never even a first team All-American, while some of the guys riding the pine behind him were 3 time AAs. Can someone explain that to me?

Scoring the 4th most points in the history of college hockey and more than anyone else in the decade, along with captaining the greatest team in college hockey history, including scoring the game winning goal (his third of the game) in the National Championship is pretty darn good. I had him on my 1st Team ballot.

[UncleRay]

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I also find it a little odd that one of the allegedly 3 best forwards of the decade was never even a first team All-American, while some of the guys riding the pine behind him were 3 time AAs. Can someone explain that to me?

Same numbers game that I had a problem with earlier. Since Kariya didn't score enough goals during the decade, he doesn't make the team. Since Montgomery did score the most, he must be the best. Rubbish. He still belonged on the first team, but got jobbed on the AA teams.