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ECAC 2025-26

Upcoming games:
  • Harvard plays (edit: not host) BC for the Beanpot 1st round this afternoon at 4:30pm
This weekend:
  • Cornell & Colgate at Brown & Yale
  • RPI & Union at Clarkson & SLU
  • Harvard & Dartmouth at Princeton & Quinnipiac
Princeton has been strong this season and has won their past 10 regular-season games. Colgate is coming off a weekend sweep at home of the two North Country teams. The standings remain close.

Will Harvard continue their upswing this season with the Beanpot games? They have a winning record overall and are ranked just above BC in NPI.
 
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Upcoming:
  • Clarkson at SLU (conference game) 6pm
  • Penn State at Cornell, 6pm
  • BU vs Harvard in the Beanpot final, 7:30pm today
This weekend:
  • Clarkson & SLU at Dartmouth & Harvard
  • Cornell & Colgate at Princeton & Quinnipiac
  • RIT at Brown (one game, Sat 1pm)
  • RPI at Union (one game, Sat 3pm - edit to add: Mayor's Cup game, non-conference)
Princeton is at the top of the standings, but it's pretty close at most points from top to bottom. The biggest standings gap is from #9 Harvard (16.5 points) to #10 Dartmouth (11.5 points).
 
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Timothy A said:
The EZAC is using half points? 😵‍💫

I guess Crowell just isn't going to get anything going at Dartmouth. Bummer.
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Yes you get 1.5 points for a tie -- even though a shootout result eventually counts as one of the tiebreakers for the standings. Though confusing, it does largely mirror the way the NPI is done nationally, it sounds like.

Dartmouth seems to still rely on their goaltending a lot. They have been low-scoring this year. The Crowell rebuild seems not to have changed much yet. But Bellamy's rebuild at the Beanpot champs has started to show through; so maybe we need to give it another season or so at Dartmouth.
 
BowWowWow said:
Yes you get 1.5 points for a tie -- even though a shootout result eventually counts as one of the tiebreakers for the standings. Though confusing, it does largely mirror the way the NPI is done nationally, it sounds like.

Dartmouth seems to still rely on their goaltending a lot. They have been low-scoring this year. The Crowell rebuild seems not to have changed much yet. But Bellamy's rebuild at the Beanpot champs has started to show through; so maybe we need to give it another season or so at Dartmouth.
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To amplify this - Dartmouth has lost 6 1-goal games this season, including a couple in OT, and is 4-0 when they score more than 2 goals. If they could get some decent scoring they could scratch back to .500-ish, but the players I'm familiar with in their next two recruiting classes are more grinder types than scorers. IDK, maybe that's what Crowell wants, but it's gotta be tough to know that if you give up one goal your chances to win are nearly zero.

That said, they do have a couple wins over Clarkson and Colgate. While those two are admittedly several steps behind what they were in previous years, I'd still call those quality wins, so I think you could say there's been a half-step forward this year. To me you gotta give it another two years to see how her own recruits develop, gel and perform, before calling the Crowell era a bust.

Maybe they could land some sisters from the mens squad? Last I checked they were top 10 in the country!
 
Moosefan1 said:
To amplify this - Dartmouth has lost 6 1-goal games this season, including a couple in OT, and is 4-0 when they score more than 2 goals. If they could get some decent scoring they could scratch back to .500-ish, but the players I'm familiar with in their next two recruiting classes are more grinder types than scorers. IDK, maybe that's what Crowell wants, but it's gotta be tough to know that if you give up one goal your chances to win are nearly zero.

That said, they do have a couple wins over Clarkson and Colgate. While those two are admittedly several steps behind what they were in previous years, I'd still call those quality wins, so I think you could say there's been a half-step forward this year. To me you gotta give it another two years to see how her own recruits develop, gel and perform, before calling the Crowell era a bust.

Maybe they could land some sisters from the mens squad? Last I checked they were top 10 in the country!
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Harvard had nine 1-goal losses last year in its incipient turnaround. Crowell is one year behind Bellamy. Yes, give her time.
 
thirdtime's . . . said:
Harvard had nine 1-goal losses last year in its incipient turnaround. Crowell is one year behind Bellamy. Yes, give her time.
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Patience in this day and age? Winning NFL coaches dropping like flies, people being convicted by the public with 2% of the facts. Airfryers cooking 60% faster than regulars ovens. Instant hot water heaters! What's next, a machine that cooks without a heating element and it spins your food around and around? MADNESS I tell you, MADNESS!
 
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