Bentley Falcons 2013-2014: No offseason. No excuses.

[eXcSports]

Re: Bentley Falcons 2013-2014: No offseason. No excuses.

USCHO posted attendance at 1095; is that a record for the JAR? Falcons Nest students were great in their chants tonight, with "It's all your fault" at the AIC goalie, "You can't do that" at the AIC penalty takers, a creative Miranda rights chant at one AIC penalty taker, and "Gloria" for the Bentley president who made an appearance.

Big offensive night for Grieve with 2 goals and 2 assists, Blomquist with 3 assists, and Gensler with a goal and an assist to move up to 4th place for points in Div 1 (Grieve now tied for 7th). But, more important, Bentley played excellent team defense in front of Komm, who also had a fine game tonight. All of Bentley's 5 unanswered goals were at even strength. At least third place, first round bye, and home ice for second round now assured for post-season.

Nice final regular season home game for the 7 seniors and their parents honored at the beginning of the contest.

I'm still checking if it's a record.

[eXcSports]

Re: Bentley Falcons 2013-2014: No offseason. No excuses.

I'm still checking if it's a record.

It's officially the first time Bentley's gone over 1,000 people at the JAR.

[The Top Shelf]

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That's awesome! It's great way to close out the regular season, and a huge positive looking ahead to next year. I think there were a lot of people who were attending their first game, and everyone seemed to have a great time. The playoff series will unfortunately occur over Spring Break so we can't expect that kind of crowd for next weekend. However, I know the dorms will be open and some students are planning on coming back early on Friday the 14th for the series. If it went to a game 3, everyone would be back on campus and we could probably get the place packed again, but let's hope that isn't necessary!

[Snively65]

Re: Bentley Falcons 2013-2014: No offseason. No excuses.

That's awesome! It's great way to close out the regular season, and a huge positive looking ahead to next year. I think there were a lot of people who were attending their first game, and everyone seemed to have a great time. The playoff series will unfortunately occur over Spring Break so we can't expect that kind of crowd for next weekend. However, I know the dorms will be open and some students are planning on coming back early on Friday the 14th for the series. If it went to a game 3, everyone would be back on campus and we could probably get the place packed again, but let's hope that isn't necessary!

Great effort this year, TTS. Thanks for all that you do.

[eXcSports]

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I'll be hosting a playoff kickoff show in the Student Center tomorrow night at 7 PM. Further details released tomorrow. Bentley's athletic site RT'd what I had to say about it and I'll have a more detailed post tomorrow.

http://jarpride.com/2014/03/02/help-...ffs-this-week/

[The Top Shelf]

Re: Bentley Falcons 2013-2014: No offseason. No excuses.

I'll be hosting a playoff kickoff show in the Student Center tomorrow night at 7 PM. Further details released tomorrow. Bentley's athletic site RT'd what I had to say about it and I'll have a more detailed post tomorrow.

http://jarpride.com/2014/03/02/help-...ffs-this-week/

Great show Dan! That radio montage of Dan Rubin calls to kick it off was excellent. Looking forward to the rest of your coverage leading up to the big series next weekend!

[Snively65]

Re: Bentley Falcons 2013-2014: No offseason. No excuses.

Great show Dan! That radio montage of Dan Rubin calls to kick it off was excellent. Looking forward to the rest of your coverage leading up to the big series next weekend!

Also, Dan wrote a very fine USCHO.com lead article on the AHA opening round this week. Thanks for adopting Bentley, Dan.

[eXcSports]

Re: Bentley Falcons 2013-2014: No offseason. No excuses.

Also, Dan wrote a very fine USCHO.com lead article on the AHA opening round this week. Thanks for adopting Bentley, Dan.

It has been absolutely my pleasure. Coming out of a D3 school that had a great hockey team when I was there (and basketball), I'm happy to have found a landing spot at the ground floor. Like I've said before, the Bentley Falcons were a stock that I was lucky enough to buy into low (that they let me buy into), and that stock is on the way up. One thing I can never take for granted is the way the school took me in. I truly appreciate it.

The causehead in me looked for something that I could help build. Instead, the hockey fire burning at Bentley drives me to keep doing what I'm doing. Now we just have to get it to rage into an inferno; there's a lot of hockey and work left to do!

[eXcSports]

Re: Bentley Falcons 2013-2014: No offseason. No excuses.

Picks are posted. If we are right, next week would bring the following:

Dan:
RMU at Air Force
Niagara at UConn
RIT at Bentley
Sacred Heart at Mercyhurst

Chris:
Holy Cross at Mercyhurst
RMU at Air Force
Niagara at UConn
Canisius at Bentley

[eXcSports]

Re: Bentley Falcons 2013-2014: No offseason. No excuses.

Picks are posted. If we are right, next week would bring the following:

Dan:
RMU at Air Force
Niagara at UConn
RIT at Bentley
Sacred Heart at Mercyhurst

Chris:
Holy Cross at Mercyhurst
RMU at Air Force
Niagara at UConn
Canisius at Bentley

RMU winning would send them to UConn, which was my mistake - UConn is the 4 and Air Force is the 3. This would flip the two of them.

If teams finish off the series tonight, it'll be Canisius coming ot Bentley next week with #9 RIT heading to Mercyhurst. I have a feeling we're going to see some 3 game series. There were also 2 double-OT games, with Niagara wiping out AIC, 1-0, and RIT up-ending HC.

RM

[Snively65]

RMU winning would send them to UConn, which was my mistake - UConn is the 4 and Air Force is the 3. This would flip the two of them.

If teams finish off the series tonight, it'll be Canisius coming ot Bentley next week with #9 RIT heading to Mercyhurst. I have a feeling we're going to see some 3 game series. There were also 2 double-OT games, with Niagara wiping out AIC, 1-0, and RIT up-ending HC.

RM

Yup, Army and the Cross pushing to third game.

[schiegs]

Re: Bentley Falcons 2013-2014: No offseason. No excuses.

So, if Army and HC win tomorrow, that sets up a Bentley/HC matchup?

[Snively65]

Re: Bentley Falcons 2013-2014: No offseason. No excuses.

So, if Army and HC win tomorrow, that sets up a Bentley/HC matchup?

I think so. And, if Army loses, Mercyhurst would host HC or RIT, and Bentley would host Canisius, as Dan predicted.

[blazer777]

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I think so. And, if Army loses, Mercyhurst would host HC or RIT, and Bentley would host Canisius, as Dan predicted.

Here's what I have for possible matchups next week.

RMU Loss
MH v Army
BEN v HC\RIT
UCON v CAN
AFA v NIAG

With a RMU Win
MH v HC\RIT
BEN v CAN
UCON v NIA
AFA v RMU

A little confused by the AFA \ UCON rankings as their tied in points (must be a tie breaker scenario) so this is giving UCON the edge in the standings over AFA.

[eXcSports]

Re: Bentley Falcons 2013-2014: No offseason. No excuses.

It's Canisius in a rematch of last year!

http://jarpride.com/2014/03/10/bentl...-its-canisius/