What in the world? This is everything I said about the CHA:
That is some serious insecurity to blow me up over a factual statement about the quality of Hockey East. I did not say "The CHA sucks." It is a factual statement that the CHA -- as fun and frisky as the league always is/was/whatever -- has always been a significant step below the Big Three and has (rather famously, in fact) been a one-bid league essentially since its inception. I am not being disrespectful for making the statement that Hockey East has dropped significantly below the Big (now) Two into a tier with the CHA and is now very much a one bid league (in a world with an 11 team tournament, no less).
There's nothing sucky about the CHA, everyone including me loves the mid-major conferences in every sport and they fill a fun and important role, but they were certainly a large step behind Hockey East and now they are not.
And if you're going to be EXTRA mad because Mercyhurst had several great years relative to the rest of their league before flaming out in the NCAA tournament... well, heck, that sounds quite a lot like Hockey East the last several years too, doesn't it??
Lastly -- really, are you getting that bristled over me saying CHA instead of AHA? I to this day call it the CHA with wistful affection because I like the history of the CHA and I'm still a bit miffed that they had to get shackled with the men's league name simply because Men.
Since when do we have beef?? lol what the heck!
If I have typed a single word of non-fact in this post, I would love for it to be pointed out to me. But I suspect my take here is pretty widely accepted as true.
Grant you are hilarious. You see hockey East as having been part of the big 3. How many nattys? You have the gold medal coaches and the Olympians and all that like the WCHA but that's where the similarities with that league ends and it's always been that way. You have had more in common with the CHA forever. Better players? Yes. Better results? Never when it matters.
I have seen your terrible comments about Mercyhurst and the cha for more than a decade. I have a decent memory I can’t help it.
One thing I got wrong. When Mercyhurst beat you guys by a combined 2 game score of 10-1 in 2005 your were already 10 years deep in your varsity journey. Forgive me for thinking you guys were just emerging from club, when my scoring challenged CHA team destroyed your Hockey School.
I saw your comments back in 2012 or so about how bad Mercyhurst was when you guys came to Erie. Of course you guys split even though you had like Bolden, Skarupa and who knows who else on your team.
I saw your disbelief on twitter when Mercyhurst beat you guys in Nashville. Like losing to Minnesota was ok to you, but OMG Mercyhurst? Why should it surprise you to lose to Mercyhurst? Once again, the disrespect. Thank you Minnesota for destroying these guys yesterday.
I saw you talk crap about how Mercyhurst would never beat Clarkson the last time they were in the tourney. Lakers took them to OT on the road. I forget what Clarkson did that year, runners up or champs maybe. Think that was the same year you guys got shut out at home in the playoffs against a team making their NCAA debut.
I've seen you cry about having to play Syracuse because they were an ACC team and that's why your schedule isn't tough enough to prepare you for the NCAA's. And the Beanpot! It's those other boston teams fault for not making you playoff ready, it's because of Harvard being bad. Make excuses and cry about your team, but leave the AHA out of it. If you didn't have a long history of making unnecessary comments about the quality of the league, maybe I would accept your comments today as fact, rather than deflective potshots at another group. But again - not fact because your best teams have never done any better than the best teams in the CHA. That's the argument I've made for years. You've never been better than us lol.
The only time you ever said anything nice was when RMU got their program cut and for once in your life you acknowledged "they are actually good." So miss me with mid major comments or whatever.
Don't you ever call my pride in Mercyhurst and the CHA/AHA insecurity. You don't know what you are talking about. Nice job by the Hurst sweeping UNH this weekend.
