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Re: Brown Hockey 2012-2013:Climbing the ECAC Ladder
Brown wasn't supposed to win that series, and Brunonians even said that they didn't believe they could really win that series without the right amount of luck. We were simply hoping and praying that the week off stunted RPI's momentum while Brown's roll through the last week or so did vice-versa.
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Then Rand really isn't that great of a coach. Based off what you said about the playoffs, you'd think he'd have put his foot on the gas pedal full bore to keep his team sharp. Easing up then taking the week off knowing some team would come to Hamden fired up and pistol hot? If we know that, I'm betting Coach Pecknold was like that. No game means nothing in terms of the big picture because the playoffs are so much of a crapshoot. You have to make sure your team is getting hot. And like we said after the game against Brown, some of Qpac's players are products of the system. In that case, because they're products of the system, if the system starts to fail, then the team isn't that great. Solid system, but if he pulled off the gas pedal down the stretch, then that's a gross miscalculation based on what we said about teams disappearing, getting hot, and cooling off.
From November 6 to February 15th, Quinnipiac lost zero games. That's pretty unbeatable. Unbeatability = Talent + Puck luck.
Ok I'll agree with you on this one. But I'll do it through this lens - Brown's fans have been starved for success for years and years and years. We've been saying all along the same thing - that if this ride is ending at some point, we've already gotten so much out of this team. We don't sit back and walk around thumping our chest about this team winning a championship. We wholly believe that they could simply lose each game; this is still the team selected to finish 12th. There's nothing left to prove on this year for Brown; they've become relevant under the most dire of circumstances. It's a very different type of bravado. We believe that Brown very easily could lose this game on Friday, but oh, what a ride it was. Some (not all) of the Qpac fans are walking around like winning has become a birthright because they're Qpac. Not all of them, but the ones that do make the experience interminable, and for their sake, a slice of humble pie would be great.
Please note that Brown doesn't have casual fans....they barely have fans, period.
Again, I agree. But Pecknold has a great system in place, and Whittet has made chicken salad out of pig turds. Given the circumstances, if you gave Whittet the Qpac roster and Pecknold the Brown roster, I believe Quinnipiac wouldn't have had that letdown and Brown would've folded up tent halfway through the season. Very different animals. Jack Parker actually coveredt his when talking about Yale when he almost took that job in his presser for retirement. I'm sure Pecknold is thrilled he didn't take the UMass job.
Again, we're looking at it as saying, "Brown very easily would've lost 25 games and been the next coming of Sacred Heart and we wouldn't have blamed them." Instead, this is what we got. You really have to marvel at it; bear in mind that I'm only a casual Brown supporter. I wish we had this type of result up at Bentley where the team went 1-10-2 down the stretch when the roof was falling in.
See you there!! 
All this aside, you're probably one of the classier posters out there, and I love it when you interact with us. The banter makes the week go by faster, and in the end, you're not Harvard or Yale 
Originally posted by MarkEagleUSA
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Games that, at the time, meant nothing in terms of the big picture
Then Rand really isn't that great of a coach. Based off what you said about the playoffs, you'd think he'd have put his foot on the gas pedal full bore to keep his team sharp. Easing up then taking the week off knowing some team would come to Hamden fired up and pistol hot? If we know that, I'm betting Coach Pecknold was like that. No game means nothing in terms of the big picture because the playoffs are so much of a crapshoot. You have to make sure your team is getting hot. And like we said after the game against Brown, some of Qpac's players are products of the system. In that case, because they're products of the system, if the system starts to fail, then the team isn't that great. Solid system, but if he pulled off the gas pedal down the stretch, then that's a gross miscalculation based on what we said about teams disappearing, getting hot, and cooling off.
Yes, we've been solid all season, but hardly unbeatable. We had our share of puck luck along the way and way too many close games for my liking (last night being the best example of that).
Winning does that, especially to the casual fans. Take a close look... there's been a lot of bravado here over the past few weeks (and I don't mean that in a bad way).
Please note that Brown doesn't have casual fans....they barely have fans, period.
Seems that sentence could easily be re-written with Whittet's name.
Again, we're looking at it as saying, "Brown very easily would've lost 25 games and been the next coming of Sacred Heart and we wouldn't have blamed them." Instead, this is what we got. You really have to marvel at it; bear in mind that I'm only a casual Brown supporter. I wish we had this type of result up at Bentley where the team went 1-10-2 down the stretch when the roof was falling in.
Save that for Friday night! 
All this aside, you're probably one of the classier posters out there, and I love it when you interact with us. The banter makes the week go by faster, and in the end, you're not Harvard or Yale
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