Re: Brown @ RPI, Saturday, March 6th
We don't need to datamine here, we just need to play some good tough hockey. Brown is probably going to lay back and clog the neutral zone. I hope we don't try to go up tempo too much tonight as it ill play into their hands. We need three periods of tough hockey in our end and we need to be responsible in the neutral zone. Do that and we win.
From a glance at ECAC Tournament History, teams losing the first game in an ECAC best-of-3 are 16-85 in their series.
The good news for RPI is home teams have 14 of those 16 comebacks.
1993 QF: #2 RPI defeats #9 Colgate, 2-5, 5-4, 5-1
1994 QF: #4 Brown defeats #5 Vermont, 5-8, 3-2, 3-2
1995 QF: #4 Colgate defeats #5 Vermont, 2-5, 2-0, 4-1
1999 1R: #3 RPI defeats #8 Harvard, 1-2, 4-0, 4-2
2003 1R: #8 Colgate defeats #9 St. Lawrence, 1-2, 3-2 (ot), 5-2
2003 QF: #3 Dartmouth defeats #8 Colgate, 3-4 (4ot), 3-1, 5-2
2004 QF: #1 Colgate defeats #10 St. Lawrence, 1-2, 1-0, 2-1
2004 QF: #9 Clarkson upsets #2 Cornell, 1-5, 5-4, 5-1
2004 QF: #4 Dartmouth defeats #5 RPI, 1-3, 6-0, 1-0
2005 QF: #4 Vermont defeats #5 Dartmouth, 2-3, 3-2 (ot), 2-1
2006 QF: #2 Colgate defeats #10 Quinnipiac, 0-3, 5-3, 4-0
2006 QF: #4 Harvard defeats #5 St. Lawrence, 1-5, 3-2, 8-4
2007 1R: #6 Princeton defeats #11 Brown, 3-4 (ot), 2-1 (ot), 4-3
2008 1R: #8 Colgate defeats #9 St. Lawrence, 2-5, 3-2, 3-1
2008 QF: #8 Colgate upsets #1 Clarkson, 0-1, 4-3, 3-2 (2ot)
2009 QF: #2 Cornell defeats #11 RPI, 0-1, 4-0, 4-3
We don't need to datamine here, we just need to play some good tough hockey. Brown is probably going to lay back and clog the neutral zone. I hope we don't try to go up tempo too much tonight as it ill play into their hands. We need three periods of tough hockey in our end and we need to be responsible in the neutral zone. Do that and we win.