Friar Hockey 21-22 - Reach for the top

[Jon]

That was a productive weekend.

[PaulKorea]

PK sees this week's rankings find PC as the top ranked HE team. Not bad.

[Jon]

PK sees this week's rankings find PC as the top ranked HE team. Not bad.

That's a good place to be. Some of the penalties I've seen them commit recently were not great by any stretch of the imagination.
The people in the UNH thread are convinced that the SMT's have no chance of getting a result this weekend which leads me to believe that PC is going to lose or tie one of these games because UNH will have three chances to figure them out.

[Jon]

We get four points out of a weekend - as I predicted, playing the same team three times in a row is going to give them a chance to figure something out. On to UMASS.

[uncle_cliff]

We get four points out of a weekend - as I predicted, playing the same team three times in a row is going to give them a chance to figure something out. On to UMASS.

Minimally a split with UMass is needed, and a sweep would be optimal. I think UMass is ripe for the picking, especially given that they've struggled in their wins against lesser teams.

[73PCFriar]

Minimally a split with UMass is needed, and a sweep would be optimal. I think UMass is ripe for the picking, especially given that they've struggled in their wins against lesser teams.

Well they proved why they are one of the top teams in the league and they continue their dominance of the Friars at Amherst with the 1-0 win. Makes tomorrow night critical for this early season matchup.

[3100IRL]

Just throwing this out there... anyone looking for tickets to tonight's game, three available. Let me know. Would rather they not go to waste.

[Jon]

Good bounce back after the UMASS weekend. Should be interesting to see how they play in Burlington, which has not been terribly kind to PC over the years.

[Jon]

That was another great weekend, aside from the bad first period on Friday where they spotted the Catamounts a 3-0 lead. The Gutt is such a tough place to get wins for this program that those six points look massive.
And on a national level, PC somehow drops 2 spots in the polls after sweeping their way through the weekend. More worrying is that PC is solidly stuck in the 18-21 range in the Pairwise which means that if the season ends, we're left out again. Hockey East might only send one of the UMASS schools to the NCAA tournament which is bizarre.

[73PCFriar]

According to Mike Logan, the Gutt has not been a bad place for PC during Leaman's time as the HC....although it can be a tough place to win....didn't seem to be big crowds for the 2 games there...

Friars have to continue to rack up OOC wins from a PWR point few, so the IVY weekend is big. Then big Northeastern weekend followed by 2 at home with Princeton to end the first half. Chance to go on a good winning streak before the tourney at end of December. After that it's all HE until the exhibition game to finish the regular season against the development team.

[Jon]

UVM hasn't been that good for a while, so that probably has something to do with the smaller crowds. The only game I went to at UVM was their first Hockey East game ever so that place was packed. I'm not that surprised that Leaman's teams have a decent record at the Gutt - they also have the ability to win at Alfond, the Whitt, and even - this will shock 1999 Jon - Meehan Auditorium!
Speaking of Bruno, Brown and Dartmouth are both okay this year, so PC needs to be careful. It does seem like Quinnpiac and Cornell are carrying the ECAC right now. Clarkson and Colgate might be right behind them and no one knows that Harvard will do in any given weekend. On the other side of the standings, Yale is close to being unable to field a team.

[PaulKorea]

Happy Thanksgiving all you Friar fans, from PK and the rest of the Korea's, just not the north one.

[Jon]

On the other side of the standings, Yale is close to being unable to field a team.

And just like that, the Eli manage to get their first win of the season and it's against UVM. Just in case you thought Hockey East was going to scrape out a winning out of conference record.

[Jon]

PC down 3-0 in the first period again.

[Jon]

PC down 3-0 in the first period again.

And now it's tied. We really need to stop doing this.
I almost feel bad for Dartmouth because they were skating circles around PC in the first. Almost.