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Colgate 2021-22

I’m always lurking in the background Shabby.

Pretty good weekend for Colgate men’s sports. 2 good wins for the hockey team and BB beats Syracuse for the first time in a million years. Nikki Moore must be thrilled. Now if someone can find a way to get more people into the Class of ‘65 Arena. It’s embarrassing how bad the attendance is.
 
Magoo, I looked it up... the Northeastern shut-outs were 3-0 and 3-0.

Off-topic... I just got back from Norfolk at Reading ECHL game. Dartmouth grad Cam Strong is playing for Reading, as is goalie and fellow college player Hayden Hawkey (who got today’s win).
 
PairWise Rankings (PWR) for Colgate and 2021-22 opponents out of 59 NCAA D-1 MIH programs (as of 11/25/21)...

4-Western Michigan, 8-Quinnipiac,
13-Harvard, 15-Clarkson,
23-Cornell, 24-Connecticut, 26-Merrimack, 27-RPI,
29-Colgate, 30-Northern Michigan, 31-Saint Lawrence, 35-Arizona State, 36-RIT, 42-Princeton, 45-Dartmouth, 49-Union, 52-Brown, 58-Vermont, 59-Yale.

This week's Colgate opponent... Connecticut.
 
It’s still a bit too early to be evaluating the Pairwise, in my opinion. Right now each game outcome can result in a wild swing of the rankings due to the small sample size of games (especially among Ivy teams). I usually first look at the rankings on Christmas, since by then every team has played enough games to give us some sort of indication of where each team stands in terms of NCAA at-large eligibility.

However, because the Pairwise evaluates every game we play, every game is important to improving our own ranking.

I’ll be making the trip to Hartford this afternoon. It’ll be another Hockey East rink to check off my “rinks visited” list (9 of 11).
 
Mitch Benson led the team on to the ice today for pre-game warm-up.

Shabby, the PWR is the only thing I look at starting October 1. The ‘wild swings’ lessen with each game played. The season is one pie each time I look at PWR. Each game played; the slices get smaller (and the swings lessen). I watched Omaha be ranked PWR number two on January 1 one season... and they missed the NCAA tournament. Only because they couldn’t close games in the second half and couldn’t close the season. Anything can happen.

UConn 8, Colgate 0, SOG on goal midway through first.
UConn 1, Colgate 0, score midway thru 1.

They have us back on our heels.

First UConn goal was a wrap-around.
Second UConn goal was a defensive miscue right in front of Mitch.

Colton Young with the initial shot and Pierson Brandon backhanded the rebound into the net.

UConn 12, Colgate 5, SOG after one.
UConn 2, Colgate 1, score after one.

UConn scored a beautiful goal one minute into the second.
PP breakaway and Mitch gave up the rebound and the goal.
Mitch gave up a quick shot off a face-off, midway through the game.
This has the feel of a blow-out.

UConn 25, Colgate 21, SOG after two.
UConn 5, Colgate 1, score after two.

We came back on shots, but not many were great chances. But their goalie Darion “Big Hands” Hanson has looked good when called upon.

Not surprisingly, Carter Gylander has replaced Mitch Benson in net.

Late UConn goal against a screened Gylander.

UConn 34, Colgate 32, final SOG.
UConn 6, Colgate 1, final score.

That loss was a total team effort. Offense was lethargic from the drop of the first puck. The defense committed many mistakes and often didn’t communicate with each other. And while Mitch Benson didn’t play that well, Carter Gylander was only a little better.
 
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Sorry for those of you who witnessed this "performance" in person. Back to .500 it is...for now. The North Country awaits.
 
Gate83, you truly didn’t miss anything.

Again, I consider a blow-out to be a four-goal differential and today’s 6-1 loss definitely qualified. So far this year, we have been blown-out twice. But we have also blown-out our opposition twice. In our Point-less 2018-19 season, we were blown-out 7 times (and only did the same once). I am thankful for the little things.
 
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Mitch Benson led the team on to the ice today for pre-game warm-up.

Shabby, the PWR is the only thing I look at starting October 1. The ‘wild swings’ lessen with each game played. The season is one pie each time I look at PWR. Each game played; the slices get smaller (and the swings lessen). I watched Omaha be ranked PWR number two on January 1 one season... and they missed the NCAA tournament. Only because they couldn’t close games in the second half and couldn’t close the season. Anything can happen.

UConn 8, Colgate 0, SOG on goal midway through first.
UConn 1, Colgate 0, score midway thru 1.

They have us back on our heels.

First UConn goal was a wrap-around.
Second UConn goal was a defensive miscue right in front of Mitch.

Colton Young with the initial shot and Pierson Brandon backhanded the rebound into the net.

UConn 12, Colgate 5, SOG after one.
UConn 2, Colgate 1, score after one.

UConn scored a beautiful goal one minute into the second.
PP breakaway and Mitch gave up the rebound and the goal.
Mitch gave up a quick shot off a face-off, midway through the game.
This has the feel of a blow-out.

UConn 25, Colgate 21, SOG after two.
UConn 5, Colgate 1, score after two.

We came back on shots, but not many were great chances. But their goalie Darion “Big Hands” Hanson has looked good when called upon.

Not surprisingly, Carter Gylander has replaced Mitch Benson in net.

Late UConn goal against a screened Gylander.

UConn 34, Colgate 32, final SOG.
UConn 6, Colgate 1, final score.

That loss was a total team effort. Offense was lethargic from the drop of the first puck. The defense committed many mistakes and often didn’t communicate with each other. And while Mitch Benson didn’t play that well, Carter Gylander was only a little better.
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What did I say ? Did you mean Rainman ?
 
sshablak said:
What did I say ? Did you mean Rainman ?
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Yeah, Iowa was talking to me about the PWR there.

And I agree, yesterday’s game was a total clunker for us. Is the season over? No. Can we redeem ourselves? Yes.

Am I frustrated right now? Yes. We started 4-0 and we’ve fallen to 8-8. There have been prior seasons where we got off to a fast start and then gotten mediocre. This season is starting to take a similar form.
 
Sorry, Shabby, my mistake.

And Rainman, I totally agree with your summary of where we are at as a team.

I am sitting at Matthews Arena right now, awaiting this afternoon’s RPI at Northeastern non-conference contest. Arena #114 for me. Then I am headed up to the North Country next weekend; I believe Clarkson is now undefeated in six games (since losing to Dave Smith’s RPI). The next weekend I will check out Quinnipiac at LIU. So much college hockey to be played before I return to Boston for the Frozen Four in mid-April.
 
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What time did you try, I looked at 7 PM and the game was over. Didn't know the game was on at 4:00, maybe a good thing I missed it.
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Close to the start, I knew game was at 4. Got the spinning wheel of death and by the time I checked back it was 4-1 so no reason to try to figure out why it didn't work...
 
Not a great weekend for Easy AC Hockey vs. Hockey Least...

Fri., Providence over Dartmouth,
Fri., New Hampshire over Harvard,
Fri., Northeastern over RPI,
Sat., UConn over Colgate,
Sat., Union over Merrimack,
Sat., Providence over Brown,
Sat., Cornell over BU,
Sun., Northeastern over RPI,
Sun, Vermont over Dartmouth.

Did somebody mention PairWise Rankings?

P.S. - It especially hurts as Cornell and Union are my two least favorite ECAC teams. he he he
 
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I guess one of my best Thanksgiving presents was not viewing the 6-1 blowout against UConn...are we reverting to the mean for our program? another 14-18-2 regular season? I guess the 2 X 4 never felt so good...perhaps some kind of split up north next weekend is all we can hope for...reality bites...
 
let's face it boys and girls there are four teams in the ECAC that, essentially year-in and year-out, are able to recruit with the rest of country...the bottom eight? pretty much above Atlantic Hockey but below the other DI leagues...albeit from not-so-reliable sources Colgate seems to be near the top of the bottom eight, but not in the class of Harvard, Cornell, Clarkson and Q-Pac...I wonder if Brett Riley could've changed our dynamic a little?
 
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