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Colgate 2013-14

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ColSkate65 said:
Thanks Gate93 for your thoughts - very enlightening - makes for some good reading. Want to also thank Rainman for his rundown on the two games. Always enjoy your recaps.

If we do win Friday night, then the Saturday night game with SLU does concern me. There could be a letdown based on this being a young team. Hopefully what they achieved this past w/e gives them the confidence and the realization that they can beat anyone, and do this at Starr, where we've had trouble this season.
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First things first, we have a huge game on Friday and I expect Starr to be rocking as clarkson travels to us very well. If we get through clarkson (big if) I don't worry about STL as much. This team showed that it can come back from an exciting game @MN and play well in a vacuum against Ferris.
 
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Friday's game means a lot if we win, as it would give us a quality wins bonus. Saturday, meanwhile, could hurt us if we lose, as it would lower our RPI. The team needs to approach this weekend one game at a time. No looking ahead to Saturday. (Maybe Clarkson looks ahead to Cornell and we catch them?)

Wonder if Starr will sell out for both of these games? For Clarkson and SLU fans that travel, this is a "short" trip compared to others, so I expect plenty of visiting fans on both nights. In the 2007-08 season, our home games against both North Country teams were sellouts.
 
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Gate93 said:
Couple of quick thoughts -

Thanks to Rainman for the Saturday night recap. Can't speak to that game but have to disagree a bit on the "playing with fire" comment with regard to the 2nd period in Hanover. What I saw was a team that realized early in the first that they were markedly superior and their reaction was to try to make a lot of fancy, highlight real plays. Essentially they looked like they were playing with a lack of respect for their opponent. This led to some great plays and scoring chances but also to some real sloppy play and Dartmouth's only goal. In the second they came out and played a tighter, more conservative and defensively more sound game. This gave Dartmouth more "chances" but few if any were particularly good. I also think playing in that manner in the 2nd set the base for coming out in the third and absolutely burying Dartmouth. Colgate's play in the first worried me much more than its play in the second (though one goal leads are inherently nerve wracking). This team looked good enough to impose its will on teams but young enough to still be learning how to pull that off. Friday night looked like the type of learning experience that could pay dividends for a long time. Essentially in my eyes, the game broke down this way: 1st - Wrong way to beat a weaker team (the kind that results in upsets); 2nd deep breath and get back to playing sound hockey; 3rd - Right way to beat a team. The locals chatter in the mens room between the 1st and 2nd was that Colgate was a way better team than the home side and one of the best seen in the building that year. The regulars expected to be beat. The second didn't do much to change that opinion and the third was dispiriting to both the crowd and the Big Green.

Sullivan has improved markedly in my opinion since he started on the ECAC beat but his latest column was lazy overall and in the case of his Colgate comment - stupid. Since he wrote his piece the first time, Colgate has played 5 games going 4-2-1. They tied #1 ranked Minnesota (well actually they beat them but everybody seems to want to pretend we don't decide games by shootout - even though we do - and if the score had gone the other way, you can be sure that the press would be referencing it as a win) and played one other one goal game - a 3-2 win over a ranked and good Vermont team. Don't know what happened in the UMass games and no one seems to have chimed in with much, but to ignore a 3-0 beat down of a top 5 team, a throttling of an OK Dartmouth team (they were tied with UNH until the final 2 minutes of the Riverstone game and tied Cornell on Saturday) and a two goal win over Harvard while reiterating a comment that, on its own, doesn't say anything meaningful in the first place, is inane.

Finally, saw this in the Harvard thread and thought it ought to be here as well:

"There isn't much good you can say about last night's game. We got our butts kicked up and down the ice. The scoreboard is so misleading; this wasn't a game as much as a scrimmage for Colgate to run some set plays and make us look like fools. It was truly men against boys and we had nothing until the final three minutes of the game. We lost battles along the boards, in the neutral zone, pretty much everywhere on the Bright-Landry ice sheet. The Colgate goalie could have ordered out from Crimson pub because we hardly caused him to break a sweat."
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Great post Gate93, I agree wholeheartedly. I watched both games !
 
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Great to see a stretch of some extremely good hockey from DV's squad.

Since things have been going well, there's been a notable absence of that negative Coat guy!
 
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Go Gate 3747 said:
Great to see a stretch of some extremely good hockey from DV's squad.

Since things have been going well, there's been a notable absence of that negative Coat guy!
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Here's hoping "that Coat guy" has reason to come back after Friday night! :p
 
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Nice article, thanks for sharing. I am impressed - and jealous - by Union and Qpac; to have the successful consistency they've had over the last several years and not fade is amazing, especially after Lehman left. How have they been able to do it? Some teams can manage a 2-year stint at the top, if they're lucky. These teams, however, seem to have planted themselves there and aren't looking back.
 
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Ranked #21 in the USCHO poll, 12 pts behind Maine. Good to see us moving up. Clarkson at #13 will be another big test on Friday. It doesn't get any easier with upcoming games against #3 Union and #4 QU. It seems like every game we play is against a ranked opponent :)
 
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TchrBill said:
Nice article, thanks for sharing. I am impressed - and jealous - by Union and Qpac; to have the successful consistency they've had over the last several years and not fade is amazing, especially after Lehman left. How have they been able to do it? Some teams can manage a 2-year stint at the top, if they're lucky. These teams, however, seem to have planted themselves there and aren't looking back.
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Union I'll accept, since they've been to the NCAAs for three straight years and played in the league title game the year before. In terms of Qpac, however, this is only their second year at the top. Before last year they hadn't even finished in the top 4.
 
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I haven't noticed anything about Clarkson's Captain Sexton being suspended for Fridays game ?
 
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hockeyenthusiast said:
Union I'll accept, since they've been to the NCAAs for three straight years and played in the league title game the year before. In terms of Qpac, however, this is only their second year at the top. Before last year they hadn't even finished in the top 4.
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Rand Pecknold has the QU recruiting machine going though; I believe they will be a force in the league for mamy years to come. Having the TD Bank rink is a great recruiting tool. Hopefully the new Vaughn Rink in the Slater Arena will help us to pull in Grade A guys year after year :)
 
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hockeyenthusiast said:
Union I'll accept, since they've been to the NCAAs for three straight years and played in the league title game the year before. In terms of Qpac, however, this is only their second year at the top. Before last year they hadn't even finished in the top 4.
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Quinnipiac has the best facilities in the league by far. They have very good academics as well and can go toe to toe in recruiting battles with some of the big guns in college hockey. They should be a top team in the ECAC for the a long time.
 
QUAlum2004 said:
Quinnipiac has the best facilities in the league by far. They have very good academics as well and can go toe to toe in recruiting battles with some of the big guns in college hockey. They should be a top team in the ECAC for the a long time.
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Very true, however they may leave for HE down the road although that may seem absurd now.
 
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still an empty net said:
Very true, however they may leave for HE down the road although that may seem absurd now.
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I don't know. I think hockey east is content with 12 teams and I like being in the ECAC. To me this season HE and ECAC have been the two best leagues. I don't really see them making that move to the HE.
 
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hockeyenthusiast said:
Union I'll accept, since they've been to the NCAAs for three straight years and played in the league title game the year before. In terms of Qpac, however, this is only their second year at the top. Before last year they hadn't even finished in the top 4.
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Even when they had that workhorse Reid Cashman? And wasn't there a guy named Brandon Wong? Was so glad when they both finally left ;)
 
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Article on Clarkson on page one and not us:confused: Maybe a good thing to fly under the radar
 
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