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D3 Hockey is back!

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gojackets said:
So you brought up D1. Would you consider Harvard and Boston College to be consistently good teams? They've never won a national title, so they must not be as good as any of those top WCHA teams right? Would you still consider UMD a good team? They won a lot of national titles 10-15 years ago...does that still qualify them as elite today?
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Never said that winning a national title was a prerequisite for being consistently good. Consistency implies good over an extended period of time (10 years or more is long enough for me). Using last 14 years of NCAA (comparable to D3 even though the D1 tourney has been around longer) and last 5 years of NCAA (to address your attention span):

- Harvard - Yes, consistently good for me - success over both 14 and 5 year horizons
---14 years - 10 NCAA tourneys, 3 2nd place finishes, 2 3rd place finishes
--- 5 years - 3 NCAA tourneys, 1 2nd place finish
- Boston College - Borderline consistently good - more of a recent phenomenon largely based on Alex Carpenter's arrival - will need to be sustained after her departure.
--- 14 years - 7 NCAA tourneys, 4 3rd place finishes
--- 5 years - 4 NCAA tourneys, 3 3rd place finishes
- UMD - No longer consistently good - Previously consistently good but their abysmal recent 5 year history shows no longer.
--- 14 years - 9 NCAA tourneys, 4 1st place finishes, 1 2nd place finish, 1 3rd place finish
--- 5 years - 1 NCAA tourney (5 yrs ago), no top 4 finishes

None of these three are really directly analogous to the Elmira, Middlebury, or Norwich situations - maybe Harvard/Middlebury and BC/Norwich are the closest.
 
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According to a public Facebook post by her father, Kaitlyn Klein, the injured Gustavus Adolphus player, returned home to Minnesota yesterday.

Here's hoping for a speedy recovery and that she can one day get back on the ice (assuming she wants to).
 
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Yikes - Candace and Matt are wondering why Stevenson isn't getting any national poll votes. Seriously!!?? They've beaten Neumann twice, Becker twice, J&W twice, and Endicott once (and tied Endicott once) - they aren't getting any votes because aside from Neumann they haven't beaten a team that isn't in their first year of existence (and some of these teams are probably better than Neumann). It's like when Buff State was 8-0 after feasting on a bunch of ECAC West doormats and there were a couple of mentions of national polls - as soon as they played a halfway decent team in Williams we saw who they really were - 5 to 0 loss. Please - if you are going to write stuff like that, just don't write. I mean, by all means, support the new programs. But don't suggest that any team in the CHC should be in the national rankings because they beat a bunch of other teams in that conference. If Stevenson beats Adrian in January, bring it back up - I still won't agree but at least they will have a real win under their belt. Frankly, when I look at Stevenson's schedule aside from Adrian, they SHOULD run the table.

They also suggested that Hamline is a candidate for the top ten. They lost to WRF 8-0!! And to Concordia who is under .500. And tied St Olaf who is winless. Come on!!!
 
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Scott_TG said:
According to a public Facebook post by her father, Kaitlyn Klein, the injured Gustavus Adolphus player, returned home to Minnesota yesterday.

Here's hoping for a speedy recovery and that she can one day get back on the ice (assuming she wants to).
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Pardon my ignorance, but what happened there?
 
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HockeyEast33 said:
Yikes - Candace and Matt are wondering why Stevenson isn't getting any national poll votes. Seriously!!?? They've beaten Neumann twice, Becker twice, J&W twice, and Endicott once (and tied Endicott once) - they aren't getting any votes because aside from Neumann they haven't beaten a team that isn't in their first year of existence (and some of these teams are probably better than Neumann). It's like when Buff State was 8-0 after feasting on a bunch of ECAC West doormats and there were a couple of mentions of national polls - as soon as they played a halfway decent team in Williams we saw who they really were - 5 to 0 loss. Please - if you are going to write stuff like that, just don't write. I mean, by all means, support the new programs. But don't suggest that any team in the CHC should be in the national rankings because they beat a bunch of other teams in that conference. If Stevenson beats Adrian in January, bring it back up - I still won't agree but at least they will have a real win under their belt. Frankly, when I look at Stevenson's schedule aside from Adrian, they SHOULD run the table.

They also suggested that Hamline is a candidate for the top ten. They lost to WRF 8-0!! And to Concordia who is under .500. And tied St Olaf who is winless. Come on!!!
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You're absolutely right on with everything in your post! I couldn't agree with you more. This is probably the weakest year overall in women's D3 hockey since many of the teams first started.
 
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HockeyEast33 said:
Yikes - Candace and Matt are wondering why Stevenson isn't getting any national poll votes. Seriously!!?? They've beaten Neumann twice, Becker twice, J&W twice, and Endicott once (and tied Endicott once) - they aren't getting any votes because aside from Neumann they haven't beaten a team that isn't in their first year of existence (and some of these teams are probably better than Neumann). It's like when Buff State was 8-0 after feasting on a bunch of ECAC West doormats and there were a couple of mentions of national polls - as soon as they played a halfway decent team in Williams we saw who they really were - 5 to 0 loss. Please - if you are going to write stuff like that, just don't write. I mean, by all means, support the new programs. But don't suggest that any team in the CHC should be in the national rankings because they beat a bunch of other teams in that conference. If Stevenson beats Adrian in January, bring it back up - I still won't agree but at least they will have a real win under their belt. Frankly, when I look at Stevenson's schedule aside from Adrian, they SHOULD run the table.

They also suggested that Hamline is a candidate for the top ten. They lost to WRF 8-0!! And to Concordia who is under .500. And tied St Olaf who is winless. Come on!!!
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Holy Smokes Batman....what are these 2 smoking? Stevenson should be ranked??? My guess is that Stevenson is closer to 'Slop' than they are to the 'Top'.....As soon as they play anybody even half-decent, the joke will be revealed. :eek:
 
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So River falls is charging $8 to watch their webcasts. Guess I won't be watching any more River Falls games.
 
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Shocker of the Weekend:

Friday Night:

ST. Bens 2 Gustavus 2

Saturday

St. Bens 3 Gustavus 2

In both games, St Bens tied it up late with the extra attacker.

What's going on in Gustie land? First a tie to Augsburg and now this with St. Bens? Not that I'm sad to see the Gusties suck, but wow.
 
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Plattsburgh totally dominated Buffalo this afternoon. The final was 5- 0...shots were 60-10 Plattsburgh. Buffalo did not get a shot in the second period.
 
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Birdwatcher said:
Plattsburgh totally dominated Buffalo this afternoon. The final was 5- 0...shots were 60-10 Plattsburgh. Buffalo did not get a shot in the second period.
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Playing for Plattsburgh must be boring with the exception of a handful of games a year. Did Plattsburgh roll 4 lines & 6 D?
 
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Call It said:
Playing for Plattsburgh must be boring with the exception of a handful of games a year. Did Plattsburgh roll 4 lines & 6 D?
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Pretty much throughout the game. They do not get bored though. They play every minute like they need to be he next team to score !
 
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Birdwatcher said:
Pretty much throughout the game. They do not get bored though. They play every minute like they need to be he next team to score !
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Sounds challenging when you achieve 60 shots on goal for the game and give up 10 (zero in the 2nd). It reminds me of when I was a kid trying to beat my uncle in arm wrestling, I'm sure he put his all into the match.
 
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Call It said:
Sounds challenging when you achieve 60 shots on goal for the game and give up 10 (zero in the 2nd). It reminds me of when I was a kid trying to beat my uncle in arm wrestling, I'm sure he put his all into the match.
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Maybe its time for them to move up to D1. ;)
 
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Will be interesting to see how the Plattsburgh Lady Cards do against 3 Canadian teams: Carleton U, U of Ottawa, Concordia U, Jan 2-4. Anyone know much about these teams? Speculation?
 
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bobbunnell said:
Will be interesting to see how the Plattsburgh Lady Cards do against 3 Canadian teams: Carleton U, U of Ottawa, Concordia U, Jan 2-4. Anyone know much about these teams? Speculation?
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Platty will be very competitive and would not be surprised if they came away with 3 wins. Regarding the other post about maybe Platty should move to D1 (not going to happen)... I would suggest the other D3's outside the perennial powers should raise their game.
 
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