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BC Women's Hockey, 2015-2016: Embrace The Cupcake Diet

Re: BC Women's Hockey, 2015-2016: Embrace The Cupcake Diet

We hockeyed again! And apart from a terrible defensive breakdown to allow the 2-on-1 that made it 2-2, and a brainfart from everyone that made it 3-2 BU almost immediately afterwards, it was a ton of fun. Four-goal game for Skarupa makes two games in a row that a BC player has scored four goals. But beyond that, Skarupa was absolutely everywhere in this game, backchecking as well as she attacked, including drawing a round of applause from the BC supporters crowd on a particularly well-timed stick-lift from behind as the puck went into our zone.

The lines were mixed up a bit going into the New Year:

Kent-Carpenter-Sullivan
Skarupa-Trivigno-Capizzano
Grieves-Anastos-Newkirk
Slowe-Summerfield-McLean (saw no ice time)

It seemed like there hadn't been a lot of practice with those lines. In particular a lot of Kent-Sullivan passes didn't quite connect. Hopefully this trial by fire will prep them well for the trial by rose petals and soothing music that should be the weekend series with Merrimack.

Skarupa is now one point off being the second all-time points-getter for BC, and 16 goals off being the second all-time leading goal-scorer.

I can't help wishing that USA Hockey had picked Emily Field over Lyndsey Fry. No offence to Fry, but BC would have won the national championship last year and this year, and the USA would have won the Olympics.
 
Re: BC Women's Hockey, 2015-2016: Embrace The Cupcake Diet

Also just want to note that it was BU's Girls Hockey Weekend game and as such girl's hockey teams could get free entry by pre-registering (as could anyone else who got the email, it turned out). That led to a turnout that was probably north of 500 and the best atmosphere at a BC game I've been to since last year's Beanpot final. Well done BU for picking that game to be the one; it could have backfired but the crowd got a thriller.
 
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wwhyte said:
Also just want to note that it was BU's Girls Hockey Weekend game and as such girl's hockey teams could get free entry by pre-registering . . .
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Minnesota has done this for every game for, I think, the last three years. There are 10-year old girls everywhere, sometimes to the detriment of actually watching the game.
 
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Eeyore said:
There are 10-year old girls everywhere, sometimes to the detriment of actually watching the game.
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For the evolution of the sport, it is more important that 10-year-old girls have access to the women's college games than that grumpy, old men are left free to grumble about mascots ruining their sight lines. ;)
 
Re: BC Women's Hockey, 2015-2016: Embrace The Cupcake Diet

wwhyte said:
We hockeyed again! And apart from a terrible defensive breakdown to allow the 2-on-1 that made it 2-2, and a brainfart from everyone that made it 3-2 BU almost immediately afterwards, it was a ton of fun. Four-goal game for Skarupa makes two games in a row that a BC player has scored four goals. But beyond that, Skarupa was absolutely everywhere in this game, backchecking as well as she attacked, including drawing a round of applause from the BC supporters crowd on a particularly well-timed stick-lift from behind as the puck went into our zone.

The lines were mixed up a bit going into the New Year:

Kent-Carpenter-Sullivan
Skarupa-Trivigno-Capizzano
Grieves-Anastos-Newkirk
Slowe-Summerfield-McLean (saw no ice time)

It seemed like there hadn't been a lot of practice with those lines. In particular a lot of Kent-Sullivan passes didn't quite connect. Hopefully this trial by fire will prep them well for the trial by rose petals and soothing music that should be the weekend series with Merrimack.

Skarupa is now one point off being the second all-time points-getter for BC, and 16 goals off being the second all-time leading goal-scorer.

I can't help wishing that USA Hockey had picked Emily Field over Lyndsey Fry. No offence to Fry, but BC would have won the national championship last year and this year, and the USA would have won the Olympics.
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If ands or buts were candy and nuts...;)
 
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ARM said:
For the evolution of the sport, it is more important that 10-year-old girls have access to the women's college games than that grumpy, old men are left free to grumble about mascots ruining their sight lines. ;)
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If you are going to charge me for a ticket to watch the game, I should be able to see the game. If you are more interested in a costumed mascot, there's a perfectly good concourse.
 
Re: BC Women's Hockey, 2015-2016: Embrace The Cupcake Diet

Thank you thank you -- I enjoyed writing it!

It's funny how many of me and Joe's women's hockey memories are connected to Harvard games. "10,000 Men Of Harvard" still stirs up nightmares of that Ryabkina game o.O
 
Re: BC Women's Hockey, 2015-2016: Embrace The Cupcake Diet

BC and Harvard are scoreless near the midway point of the first. The game is being broadcast on ESPN3 if you want to watch it. Skarupa and Carpenter are reunited on a line.
 
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Not sure where to put this so here's as good a place as any.

I liked ARM's history lesson this morning and was curious what BC's chances of going undefeated actually are.

KRACH is built to give you a % chance of a team winning each games, so it's pretty simple to figure out what KRACH has to say on the matter: You would take BC's chances of beating each opponent and multiply them all together.

For the Beanpot, Hockey East, and NCAA tournament games, I matched BC up with whoever the Pairwise/WHEA standings say they'll match up with if the season ended today:

Beanpot: Should play NU
Hockey East tournament: Should face Maine x2, UNH, and NU
NCAA tournament: Should face Princeton*, QU, and UW

*Mercyhurst would be the #8 seed right now but BC would be slotted against Princeton if the tournament ended right now

So, the chance of BC:

Beating Harvard and going 28-0-0 is 96.361%
Beating above plus UConn and going 29-0-0 is 95.265%
Beating above plus Northeastern and going 30-0-0 is 88.759%
Beating above plus Northeastern and going 31-0-0 is 82.697%
Beating above plus Vermont and going 32-0-0 is 82.325%
Beating above plus Providence and going 33-0-0 is 81.960%
Beating above plus Providence and going 34-0-0 is 81.596%
Beating above plus Maine and going 35-0-0 is 81.279%
Beating above plus Maine and going 36-0-0 is 80.964%
Beating above plus UNH and going 37-0-0 is 80.370%
Beating above plus Northeastern and going 38-0-0 is 74.880%
Beating above plus Princeton and going 39-0-0 is 70.857%
Beating above plus Quinnipiac and going 40-0-0 is 63.876%
Beating above plus Wisconsin and going 41-0-0 is 39.734%

That seems high to me. The lower ranked teams are all going to be pretty close to 100% so any difference is negligible, but those better teams (NU, QU, UW) have a better chance than KRACH is giving them credit for because BC is undefeated. KRACH says BC has a 62.2% chance of beating UW, 90.2% chance of beating QU, and a 93.2% chance of beating NU.

I would definitely give QU and NU better than 1 in 10 odds of beating BC, and UW vs BC is probably much more of a coin flip than 62.2% (or worse).

Anyway, it's all an imperfect science but that's what the math says.
 
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Re: BC Women's Hockey, 2015-2016: Embrace The Cupcake Diet

TonyTheTiger20 said:
Not sure where to put this so here's as good a place as any.

I liked ARM's history lesson this morning and was curious what BC's chances of going undefeated actually are.

KRACH is built to give you a % chance of a team winning each games, so it's pretty simple to figure out what KRACH has to say on the matter: You would take BC's chances of beating each opponent and multiply them all together.

For the Beanpot, Hockey East, and NCAA tournament games, I matched BC up with whoever the Pairwise/WHEA standings say they'll match up with if the season ended today:

Beanpot: Should play NU
Hockey East tournament: Should face Maine x2, UNH, and NU
NCAA tournament: Should face Princeton*, QU, and UW

*Mercyhurst would be the #8 seed right now but BC would be slotted against Princeton if the tournament ended right now

So, the chance of BC:

Beating Harvard and going 28-0-0 is 96.361%
Beating above plus UConn and going 29-0-0 is 95.265%
Beating above plus Northeastern and going 30-0-0 is 88.759%
Beating above plus Northeastern and going 31-0-0 is 82.697%
Beating above plus Vermont and going 32-0-0 is 82.325%
Beating above plus Providence and going 33-0-0 is 81.960%
Beating above plus Providence and going 34-0-0 is 81.596%
Beating above plus Maine and going 35-0-0 is 81.279%
Beating above plus Maine and going 36-0-0 is 80.964%
Beating above plus UNH and going 37-0-0 is 80.370%
Beating above plus Northeastern and going 38-0-0 is 74.880%
Beating above plus Princeton and going 39-0-0 is 70.857%
Beating above plus Quinnipiac and going 40-0-0 is 63.876%
Beating above plus Wisconsin and going 41-0-0 is 39.734%

That seems high to me. The lower ranked teams are all going to be pretty close to 100% so any difference is negligible, but those better teams (NU, QU, UW) have a better chance than KRACH is giving them credit for because BC is undefeated. KRACH says BC has a 62.2% chance of beating UW, 90.2% chance of beating QU, and a 93.2% chance of beating NU.

I would definitely give QU and NU better than 1 in 10 odds of beating BC, and UW vs BC is probably much more of a coin flip than 62.2% (or worse).

Anyway, it's all an imperfect science but that's what the math says.
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...and its even better that these 5 teams are just as strong academically

https://t.co/jfBRfiTpmb
 
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TonyTheTiger20 said:
I put together a history of the BC/Harvard rivalry in preparation for tomorrow's game:

http://www.bcinterruption.com/bosto...ry-for-boston-college-bc-eagles-womens-hockey

Came out longer than I expected but lotta mems in there
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Great article!

I have been following Harvard women's hockey since 1987 when my son's babysitter, a girl from Brampton, ON, started at Harvard and I would take my son to all of her games. After 4 years we fond another Canadian Harvard student and hockey player for babysitting the next 3 years. I have season tickets to both men's and women's Harvard hockey (I know it seems a bit obsessive)

I loved seeing the reference to Liza Ryabkina. Liza came to the US in a program funded by Gene Kinasewich (Harvard '64) which brought academically talented athletes from the Ukraine to the US for a prep school year in hopes they could study and play in the US. While he lived he was a huge fan of women's hockey and came to most Harvard women's games.

Gene also figures in Harvard BC hockey history as he starred in a Harvard-BC gane for the ECAC title back in 1963 (I think as I recall Dave Johnston was still playing for Harvard) Gene scored in overtime to win the game The game was at the old Boston Arena where my dad played for Boston Latin. Back in my father's day, during WW I, teams had 7 players on the ice at a time. (goal, 2 wings, 2 defence, rover and cover point).
 
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Wow great story! I like how you went from one player babysitter to another haha.

Also didn't know they used to play with six skaters on the ice. When did that end?
 
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