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BC Hockey '13-'14: The Quest To Make Holy Cross Transitive Property National Champs

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Highlights from last night are up on hockeyeastonline. It's nice that little Merrimack posts clips from their games and big BC can't be bothered to do so the same like they used to last season and prior. Did anyone mention this at the town hall meeting with Master Bates? Instead we have our own fans making the highlights for us and posting to a blog. Seriously w t f Bradster?
 
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Nick Papagiorgio said:
Highlights from last night are up on hockeyeastonline. It's nice that little Merrimack posts clips from their games and big BC can't be bothered to do so the same like they used to last season and prior. Did anyone mention this at the town hown meeting with Master Bates? Instead we have our own fans making the highlights for us and posting to a blog. Seriously w t f Bradster?
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A lot of people on these boards like to ridicule Merrimack for its rink, but one thing people should give the school credit for is its dedication and doing more with less. The athletic department up there has gotten games on WBIN, FCS, etc, puts out a lot of great promotions and puts everything it has into the hockey program.
 
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MC's rink is vastly improved. A 180 degree change from just 5 or so years ago.
 
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CollegeHockeyRinkReport said:
A lot of people on these boards like to ridicule Merrimack for its rink, but one thing people should give the school credit for is its dedication and doing more with less. The athletic department up there has gotten games on WBIN, FCS, etc, puts out a lot of great promotions and puts everything it has into the hockey program.
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Cool story bro.
 
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Last 5 games, the powerplay is operating at 35% & the PK at 92%, not bad.
 
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Nick Papagiorgio said:
Highlights from last night are up on hockeyeastonline. It's nice that little Merrimack posts clips from their games and big BC can't be bothered to do so the same like they used to last season and prior. Did anyone mention this at the town hall meeting with Master Bates? Instead we have our own fans making the highlights for us and posting to a blog. Seriously w t f Bradster?
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what in the hell happened on the first BC goal? i've watched it ten times and am still having trouble figuring out how that puck went in. nice play by savage on the 3rd goal.

claver2010 said:
Last 5 games, the powerplay is operating at 35% & the PK at 92%, not bad.
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paging hoky...ya but all five of those games were against depleted BU (oh wait, they weren't?)...time for another reason...

the fact of the matter is they have been dominant in the PP breakout, gaining the zone and keeping the puck in the zone. great movement and results are finally showing. they've moved all the way up to 18th nationally. Last time i looked they were close to 50th. a common play has been matheson initially carry up the ice and then drop it back to gaudreau who skates it in over the offensive blue line. PK is now #1 nationally. this is a much different team than last year. at the end of last year, some people wanted to see mullane, gaudreau, whitney. as good as they were together, they simply can't compare to this current top line.
 
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J.D. said:
what in the hell happened on the first BC goal? i've watched it ten times and am still having trouble figuring out how that puck went in. nice play by savage on the 3rd goal.
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Yes that play by Savage... wow risky but got it done.

On that first goal, someone for Merrimack came by and kicked it into his own net way after the shot... one of the more odd own goals you'll ever seen since it was sitting there for a while and then he kicked it slowly past his own goalie. Everyone for BC had cleared out and Merrimack pretty much had an easy rebound to bring behind the net for the breakout.

hokydad may be out for a while. He had a rough weekend after proclaiming BC was a soft, one-line team that didn't compare to the likes of Ferris State (swept by Mankato last weekend) prior to the weekend's tilts.
 
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Yeah what happened there?

Keep on keeping on, teams are about to be eliminated from HE RS title, which is absolutely absurd to be happening a week & a half before the beanpot. A L or T from UMass will eliminate them, a L from BU will eliminate them.
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Sounds about right. I'm not great at this stuff but from what I can tell... BC has 23 points and the most UMA can get to is 24, and BC holds the tiebreaker so their magic number is 1 to eliminate UMA. BC also holds the tiebreaker on BU (most points possible = 25) so the magic number to eliminate BU is 2. Merrihack is also close but without the H2H sewn up yet completely, it's a little more complicated and they have some games in hand so although they are in last place, they are 3rd in the elimination order as of right now. They could get up to 26 points and even 12 wins (the 2nd tiebreaker... a hypothetical table run would include a win vs BC and thus a 1-1 H2H record and move to wins in conference as the next tiebreaker), 1 more than BC currently has. So I'd say without thinking too hard that the magic number to eliminate Merrihack is 4.

On the flip side, UML is the team in the best shape, their most possible points is 33 and the magic number to eliminate them is 11 to put them completely out of reach with no H2H games played yet.

It is really insane to look at this stuff considering we aren't even into February yet.
 
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Nick Papagiorgio said:
It is really insane to look at this stuff considering we aren't even into February yet.
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Welcome to the 20-game Hockey East schedule.

The shorter and more disjointed league schedule has made the league race a lot less fun. Also, the fact that there's no playoff race at the bottom of the table since everyone gets a playoff participation ribbon this year. That race for 8th was usually fun to follow.
 
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joegrav said:
Welcome to the 20-game Hockey East schedule.

The shorter and more disjointed league schedule has made the league race a lot less fun. Also, the fact that there's no playoff race at the bottom of the table since everyone gets a playoff participation ribbon this year. That race for 8th was usually fun to follow.
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to be fair, how often is the first place team 11-1-1 in their first 13 conference games? i think that's an outlier. at the very least, the battle for the byes should come down to the end as well as the battle for home ice in at least the 8/9 first round series. the post beanpot stretch run across the league should still be pretty good. i do agree (as i think most hockey east fans do) that everyone making the playoffs is a joke. it was something unique to hockey east that not every team made it. not anymore.
 
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a PC-UML split would be what the doctor ordered this wekend but i have a hard time rooting for UML when they play PC, just sayin
 
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J.D. said:
to be fair, how often is the first place team 11-1-1 in their first 13 conference games? i think that's an outlier. at the very least, the battle for the byes should come down to the end as well as the battle for home ice in at least the 8/9 first round series. the post beanpot stretch run across the league should still be pretty good. i do agree (as i think most hockey east fans do) that everyone making the playoffs is a joke. it was something unique to hockey east that not every team made it. not anymore.
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Except the battle for the byes is not really exciting. first of all there's 5 of them. Secondly, by getting a bye, you earn the right to... sit around and get rusty for a weekend instead of getting to tee off for two games on a UMass or a Merrimack. (And the team that's 6th place in Hockey East could very well use those extra wins if we're talking PWR bubble.)

And I'm not particularly compelled by who gets home ice in the Vermont vs BU series this year to see who gets to go get pasted by Providence. The home ice battle for teams 3, 4, 5, 6 was pretty intense. You're talking about good teams battling to give themselves home ice for the chance to get to the Garden.

IDK, I just really, really liked the old format. I know people are generally just resistant to change, so maybe that's my issue... but it feels like the whole regular season race is a lot less enjoyable.
 
joegrav said:
Except the battle for the byes is not really exciting. first of all there's 5 of them. Secondly, by getting a bye, you earn the right to... sit around and get rusty for a weekend instead of getting to tee off for two games on a UMass or a Merrimack. (And the team that's 6th place in Hockey East could very well use those extra wins if we're talking PWR bubble.)

And I'm not particularly compelled by who gets home ice in the Vermont vs BU series this year to see who gets to go get pasted by Providence. The home ice battle for teams 3, 4, 5, 6 was pretty intense. You're talking about good teams battling to give themselves home ice for the chance to get to the Garden.

IDK, I just really, really liked the old format. I know people are generally just resistant to change, so maybe that's my issue... but it feels like the whole regular season race is a lot less enjoyable.
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I'd like to see the first round games be midweek before the quarters and not have a week off for the top four teams. I would make them one game instead if best of three too. It would give the top four teams an advantage and create a lot more excitement.
 
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joe, sure, you're not gonna be excited about those scenarios and i probably won't care much either, but i think fans of other teams will care. maybe not, guess we'll see.
 
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by the way, 6th place team in hockey east will have a chance at those wins provided they don't gag against team #11.
 
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