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Colgate 23-24

PuckLover said:
Umm... is that relevant? No place in the game for that regardless. Honestly, two games seems pretty light.
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I hope it actually happened, these days people have no morals against making false accusations. Not long ago a player on Ohio State's men's team was punished for a racial slur that didn't happen. The kid who made the claim was a known instigator and it supposedly happened when they were yapping right in front of me so I know it wasn't said.
 
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Despite the two losses to an excellent Clarkson team, the Raiders control their own destiny. (Thanks to Brown, Cornell & St. Lawrence.) A win this afternoon against St. Lawrence is almost a must if they hope to end up on top of the league.
 
Kalty not playing again today so something is up.
That said it's irresponsible for Backyardice to make that allegation without offering some tangible evidence. Bad form.
 
We're leading after 2 but lucky to be. The team remains flat and error prone especially in passing and clearing our zone. Hope we can really focus in the 3rd and get our mojo back.

TchrBill you need to root for another team. I cannot believe you are a Gate grad with your mile high expectations and continuing frustration that our women have not won the NCAAs each of the last 4 years. Name another Gate team that ever has won a championship in anything....None. We are always frustrated and revel in it, that's in our DNA. How else could "undefeated, untied, unscored upon and uninvited" be our unofficial motto? It's upsets like today's men's lax team (picked to finish 7th in the PL) beating #4 Penn State in Happy Valley 13-12 that make our often mundane lives glorious! Get with the program.
 
The way I look at it, TchrBill, we just witnessed four pretty equal ECAC teams playing in the north country. No need for alarm by any of the four teams. Just competitive hockey.

St. Lawrence had the most impressive weekend, coming away with five points. (But when they played Cornell and Colgate at their rinks earlier this year, they has the worse weekend losing to both.)

Using your logic (which I do not agree with), Clarkson could say, "Wow. We're on life support. (Losing twice this season to Cornell, once in regulation and once in overtime. And being shutout twice in the past two weekends.) And overrated no more. On the flip side, thank you...St. Lawrence."
 
Colgate is assured a top four regular season record. Fifth place Quinnipiac is 13 points behind Colgate, with only four games to play. Thus Colgate will receive a bye during the first round of the ECAC playoffs, and not have to play a one-and-done series.
 
We're clearly a less confident team without Kalty and Sydney. Kalty's loss is obvious. Sydney maybe less so. First, she can really skate and her presence on the blue line allows us not to have to play some of the younger D as much which is good. She also is a huge part of our offense as she can score at will. Having Kalty on the crease or boards and Sydney slotting in wherever allows Danielle to do her thing and drives opposing coaches crazy. It was a tough weekend (historically the toughest road trip in ECAC hockey men and women) but assuming Sydney's loss is not season ending I agree with QuasiCosmos, the sun will rise on Monday as it always does. Even if the afternoon brings a drop in USCHO poll rankings which it will, our adversaries know what we were missing this weekend and they will not read all that much into the results. We need to end the season strong though and here's hoping RPI and Union next weekend provide just what we need.
 
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Oldtimer said:
We're leading after 2 but lucky to be. The team remains flat and error prone especially in passing and clearing our zone. Hope we can really focus in the 3rd and get our mojo back.

TchrBill you need to root for another team. I cannot believe you are a Gate grad with your mile high expectations and continuing frustration that our women have not won the NCAAs each of the last 4 years. Name another Gate team that ever has won a championship in anything....None. We are always frustrated and revel in it, that's in our DNA. How else could "undefeated, untied, unscored upon and uninvited" be our unofficial motto? It's upsets like today's men's lax team (picked to finish 7th in the PL) beating #4 Penn State in Happy Valley 13-12 that make our often mundane lives glorious! Get with the program.
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I agree, Oldtimer. Enough of your "glass half empty" rhetoric, TchrBill - on both Colgate threads!!
 
It did show that it threw off our game with the three out, so not the outcome we may all have wanted. Overall, I think we have a really impressive program. I think it's easy to forget that some of the top teams in the country that we are competing with are huge universities. Ohio State - undergrad enrollment over 22k, Wisconsin - over 27k, and University Minnesota Duluth - over 11k. We are tiny in comparison so we may never be the dominant team to beat, but we can beat these schools and have beat them. I think we have a good chance to make it to the frozen four this year if we have everyone healthy and play our game. Hope we can lock in our own fate to stay the top of conference next couple of weekends. I would love to see the ECAC finals weekend hosted at Class of '65.
 
2023-2024 has been a wonderful year for Colgate fans viewing both women's and men's hockey. Every game has been competitive with no blowout losses (greater than 3 goals). Not perfection (never can be) but very enjoyable (ok, occasionally frustrating) every weekend. More cumulative wins (women + men) than inches of snow!

The ultimate level of joy would be to win the national championship, or at least get into the finals. No current ECAC team has won both a women's and a men's national championship. (Of course, we all should know that only one women's ECAC team has won the tournament, Clarkson - three times!)

So, it made me wonder, what current ECAC schools have made it to both the men's and women's national finals since 1985 (when some former ECAC men's teams split and formed Hockey East)? Without looking it up, can you name the three teams? (Hint: NO ECAC school has made both a men's and a women's finals since the women's national tournament began in 2001. So you're looking for men's teams that made it to the finals between 1985 and 2000.)

And of these three schools, which of them has most recently appeared in both the women's and men's tournament finals?
 
CU13 said:
I agree, Oldtimer. Enough of your "glass half empty" rhetoric, TchrBill - on both Colgate threads!!
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I agree with Old timer and CU13 one hundred percent. He will bring you down even after a weekend sweep. I have ignored his posts for years. On the ECAC pickem contest here he picks Colgate to lose both games every week, such a debby downer !
 
I'm not great at college hockey history but I know Gate is one ('89 and '17) and I'm guessing it would have to be Clarkson assuming their men have won which I believe they have (sorry north country folks I know I should know that) and Harvard where I know their women have been there at least once (with Angela Rugerio my all time favorite female D) but never won and I think their men won with Teddy Donato still playing, but that could have been just the ECAC. The only other possibles are Cornell and St Lawrence with both strong men's and women's teams in the past. RPI, Union, Yale have all won on the men's side but their women haven't gotten there... I'm not looking this up but if Cornell men won it was that in the Dryden area or later or both?
 
QuasiCosmos said:
2023-2024 has been a wonderful year for Colgate fans viewing both women's and men's hockey. Every game has been competitive with no blowout losses (greater than 3 goals). Not perfection (never can be) but very enjoyable (ok, occasionally frustrating) every weekend. More cumulative wins (women + men) than inches of snow!

The ultimate level of joy would be to win the national championship, or at least get into the finals. No current ECAC team has won both a women's and a men's national championship. (Of course, we all should know that only one women's ECAC team has won the tournament, Clarkson - three times!)

So, it made me wonder, what current ECAC schools have made it to both the men's and women's national finals since 1985 (when some former ECAC men's teams split and formed Hockey East)? Without looking it up, can you name the three teams? (Hint: NO ECAC school has made both a men's and a women's finals since the women's national tournament began in 2001. So you're looking for men's teams that made it to the finals between 1985 and 2000.)

And of these three schools, which of them has most recently appeared in both the women's and men's tournament finals?
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Harvard, Colgate and SLU is my guess.
 
Morrow and Kalty still missing in action (announcer said both injured?) so we're still out of sync in the first. It's like the second game of the season for a normal team. Thankfully it's a game we should win by 6 or 7 so we have plenty of time to morph back into Colgate again if it's possible... it really seems to stem from Morrow being out and the depleted experienced D having to rely on 2 first years and a soph other than Pickering to get it done and they can't. This may be the year to use the transfer portal for help as we have no D presently shown to be coming in next fall.
 
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