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Boston College Women's Hockey - 2012-2013 Season Thread

Re: Boston College Women's Hockey - 2012-2013 Season Thread

joecct said:
Will BC be missing Skarupa and Carpenter for the U-22's.
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Probably not. The only time of the year the US fields a U22 squad is in August. Having said that, there is often a National camp during the holiday break, geared towards the Senior USA squad.

Stat Man said:
Since the US has never sent a team to the U22 I doubt BC will be missiing anyone, on the other hand Clarkson will be missing Rattray and Ambrose so the advantage should swing to BC.
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There is no such thing as "The U22". Canada sends a "Mostly U22" squad to the MECO/MLP/"whatever it is called these days" tournament in Europe. All the other nations in that tourney (Sweden/Finland/Russia etc) field their full National teams, while Canada sends in a squad of mostly U22's with the odd older player that is typically on the fringes of the National team. They use it as a development tool. Most years Canada either wins, or loses in the final. To the best of my knowledge, the US has never sent a team to this event. Some years ago, this event used to be in late January, a "Bad" time for college teams to miss these type of players. More recently, the event has been held in the beginning of January.

Note that this season there are a bunch of Olympic qualifying tournaments coming up in Late January/February. Any college players from teams like Russia, Czech, Slovakia etc would be missing a week or two with their college teams during the stretch drive.
 
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OnMAA said:
Probably not. The only time of the year the US fields a U22 squad is in August. Having said that, there is often a National camp during the holiday break, geared towards the Senior USA squad.



There is no such thing as "The U22". Canada sends a "Mostly U22" squad to the MECO/MLP/"whatever it is called these days" tournament in Europe. All the other nations in that tourney (Sweden/Finland/Russia etc) field their full National teams, while Canada sends in a squad of mostly U22's with the odd older player that is typically on the fringes of the National team. They use it as a development tool. Most years Canada either wins, or loses in the final. To the best of my knowledge, the US has never sent a team to this event. Some years ago, this event used to be in late January, a "Bad" time for college teams to miss these type of players. More recently, the event has been held in the beginning of January.

Note that this season there are a bunch of Olympic qualifying tournaments coming up in Late January/February. Any college players from teams like Russia, Czech, Slovakia etc would be missing a week or two with their college teams during the stretch drive.
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Interesting. Lucky for BC not to be facing this problem, though odd that USA Hockey would pass up on a potential developmental tool?

The Clarkson game is going to have absolutely massive PWR implications.
 
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BCWH Superfan joe said:
How about BC AND Clarkson vs. Minnesota? 10-on-5?
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Now you've gone and doctored the "miracle" right out of a BC win. :(

Unless of course, we get Ditka. :cool: (Whenever I use a joke this old, I wonder if it is lost on today's audience.)
 
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ARM said:
Now you've gone and doctored the "miracle" right out of a BC win. :(

Unless of course, we get Ditka. :cool: (Whenever I use a joke this old, I wonder if it is lost on today's audience.)
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It's okay - I just spent a couple of weeks badgering BC's athletic director via twitter to call Mike Ditka and ask him if he wants to coach BC football. I get the joke.

..

By the way: This story reminded me a little bit of Grant...
 
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On a more serious note, while there's still a longgg time until the next game I'm already really looking forward to it, and I was trying to look into some statistics that might be more predictive than hearsay about BC and Clarkson.

The stats show roughly what my gut was telling me: this is a really tight matchup, with BC a slight underdog due in part to playing on the road.

The RPI is razor-tight (.6123 to .6305 edge for Clarkson) and Rutter calls it a close one (1.18-1.11 for Clarkson, with the teams 5th & 6th respectively). KRACH does show a decent advantage for Clarkson - 498.7-398.7, with BC having played a slightly tougher schedule (9th vs 16th, though I think our SOS would be higher if whoever did the calculations realized that Maine and Vermont are better than Wisconsin and North Dakota!!11111111).

I'm a big believer in goal differential as a predictor for future games. This is the one stat where BC has an edge - 75-35 for BC, 59-27 for Clarkson.

Anecdotally, BC's been playing very well lately, with the offense really humming along; their rankings are still recovering from the team's very slow start.

Realistically, a split of the @Clarkson/@SLU series would be a very good result, but for PWR purposes I think it's crucial to go 1-0-1.

What kind of game does Clarkson play, style-wise, and how might that match up with BC?
 
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BCWH Superfan joe said:
This story reminded me a little bit of Grant...
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Is BC also that boring to watch? :D ( The fellow in the Picture is Yawning !!.)

P.S...Things I remember about Ditka's team, is the Fridge, the Super Bowl Shuffle and they Eyes of that fearless defensive linebacker (Singletary ?).
 
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BCWH Superfan joe said:
I'm a big believer in goal differential as a predictor for future games. This is the one stat where BC has an edge - 75-35 for BC, 59-27 for Clarkson.
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Goal differential inaccurately favors an offensive team over a defensive one. Goal ratio is a better predictor, at least at the professional level. (I don't know if anyone has looked at college hockey, let alone the women's game, specifically.) Clarkson actually has a very slight edge here, 2.19 to 2.14.
 
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But we'll be missing JLR and Ambrose. That's a big bit of production out of the lineup.

Would be nice for Skarupa to be the first player from this area to win a State and NCAA hockey championship. Just not this year. I want the alma mater to win its 1st NCAA title sometime in my lifetime.
 
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joecct said:
But we'll be missing JLR and Ambrose. That's a big bit of production out of the lineup.

Would be nice for Skarupa to be the first player from this area to win a State and NCAA hockey championship. Just not this year. I want the alma mater to win its 1st NCAA title sometime in my lifetime.
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1) would be nice to see ANYONE break the tri-opoly currently dominating NCAA women's hockey (except for BU ;)).

2) How'd Skarupa get away? She's been a game-changer for BC, a huge reason why they're so deep offensively.
 
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BCWH Superfan joe said:
2) How'd Skarupa get away? She's been a game-changer for BC, a huge reason why they're so deep offensively.
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She's from Maryland (and won a state title with her brother for Wooton HS her freshman yr). Unless you want to play for D-III startup Stevenson, there are not a heck of a lot of collegiate options in the Fee State.
 
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joecct said:
She's from Maryland (and won a state title with her brother for Wooton HS her freshman yr). Unless you want to play for D-III startup Stevenson, there are not a heck of a lot of collegiate options in the Fee State.
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Didn't one or both of her parents attend BC?
 
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