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# 3 - This is where Utica belongs - not #8 !!!

93GreatLaker said:
Really Utica fans? #3? I have heard people in all areas of Sport argue who should be number 1, but never have I heard such blustering over who should be 3rd. I guess when the bar has consistently never been met it automatically lowers. Make your case for #1, or shut the heck up.
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I say Utica fan is smarter than they appear, last week they fought the # 8, this week the # 3. Heck in two weeks they will have won NCAA 's without playing a game! That's determination!
 
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I'm starting to wonder if some Utica fans would rather be ranked in the top 3 right now and get bounced in the first round of NCAAs as opposed to being under the radar and going deep into the tournament.
 
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I've never heard any fans, of any team, chant "We're number 3, we're number 3". Mediocrity is the unattainable goal of the Pioneers. Flame on....
 
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Norm, this is a HOCKEY board. The assumption should have been that I was talking hockey fans.;):D (BTW, you wouldn't believe all the #3 pennants flapping from car antennas, still, here in South Georgia.)
 
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FYI, I know a lot of Elmira fans who would love to have EC ranked #8 forget #3.
 
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jconnor said:
FYI, I know a lot of Elmira fans who would love to have EC ranked #8 forget #3.
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At this point in the season (THIS season), I will settle for the headline: “Unranked Elmira defeats #3 Hobart [or #10 Utica :p ] to win ECAC West Championship.” :D

But I may have to wait a few weeks...
 
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The Real Georgia Peach said:
Norm, this is a HOCKEY board. The assumption should have been that I was talking hockey fans.;):D (BTW, you wouldn't believe all the #3 pennants flapping from car antennas, still, here in South Georgia.)
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Well you know what they say about ASSUMPTIONS ;) And my brother lives on northern Georgia (Hartwell) and they are everywhere, even in Winston Salem, NC where one of my sisters lives. :cool:
 
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Transplanted Tiger Fan said:
At this point in the season (THIS season), I will settle for the headline: “Unranked Elmira defeats #3 Hobart [or #10 Utica :p ] to win ECAC West Championship.” :D

But I may have to wait a few weeks...
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Can you imagine the implosion that will occur if that comes to fruition?!?!??!?!
 
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jerrynu26 said:
Can you imagine the implosion that will occur if that comes to fruition?!?!??!?!
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Nothing. It's like Hush-A-Boom. It will be just one win/loss in the selection process for Pool C.
 
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jerrynu26 said:
Can you imagine the implosion that will occur if that comes to fruition?!?!??!?!
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I hear you, I can't imagine Utica droping 2 spots, I wonder if it would be worse than a team going 27-1-1 (20-0) and not getting a bid.
 
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Transplanted Tiger Fan said:
At this point in the season (THIS season), I will settle for the headline: “Unranked Elmira defeats #3 Hobart [or #10 Utica :p ] to win ECAC West Championship.” :D

But I may have to wait a few weeks...
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I keep thinking what Hobart did LAST season;) Crazy things CAN happen, especially in the ECAC-W. Can you imagine if the ECAC-W had an Auto bid and that happend:D
 
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jconnor said:
I keep thinking what Hobart did LAST season;) Crazy things CAN happen, especially in the ECAC-W. Can you imagine if the ECAC-W had an Auto bid and that happend:D
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I hear ya. A few weeks ago I was thinking about last year and wondering if either Neumann or M'ville was going to catch fire and make a run for the pool C bid (like Hobart did last year). Not sure, but it looks like that ship has sailed for both clubs now...but (as you noted) you never know.

BTW- I have to wonder how that Hobart team would have done in the tourney...they were firing on all cylinders down the stretch. Oh well - that is a good reminder that EVERY GAME COUNTS.
 
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llama said:
I hear ya. A few weeks ago I was thinking about last year and wondering if either Neumann or M'ville was going to catch fire and make a run for the pool C bid (like Hobart did last year). Not sure, but it looks like that ship has sailed for both clubs now...but (as you noted) you never know.

BTW- I have to wonder how that Hobart team would have done in the tourney...they were firing on all cylinders down the stretch. Oh well - that is a good reminder that EVERY GAME COUNTS.
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As much as Utica fans dont want to hear it/pretend it doesnt exist those losses to Cortland/Elmira could come back to haunt them if they dont win the ECAC-W in either format (reg. season/playoffs).

I would argue that Hobarts loss to Cortland was the main reason they didnt get in as well as the 1-2 record vs. Elmira.

Though Neumann did knock off Norwich, theirs and Manhattanvilles resumes arent impressive unless M-ville can finish strong with the sweep of Utica and either make a run in the tournament to the final and/or more likely will have to win.
 
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Please, let me handle this.......

Pioneers#1 said:
A team went 27-1-1 and didn't receive a bid?! :eek::confused:
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That would be this team. It was Adrian's second year in D-III hockey and their league, MCHA, did not have an autobid. At that time the MCHA and the ECAC-West were elegible for a Pool B bid, which went to teams from leagues which did not have an autobid. An ECAC-West team always got that bid. The addition of Adrian and Concordia (Wis) in 2007-2008 to the MCHA, as the 7th and 8th teams in the league, started the clock on the MCHA getting an autobid. In 2009-2010 the MCHA got an autobid and Pool B went away.
 
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Pioneers#1 said:
A team went 27-1-1 and didn't receive a bid?! :eek::confused:
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And you should have read the posts that some of their fans made. Some of them were reasonable and some of them sounded a lot like some fans of this years "most underrated" team.
 
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