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D3 scores 2014-2015

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I don't know if Adrian and CC are 9 goals apart, but Adrian was a clearly better team. From what I saw yesterday, a rematch would likely produce another comfortable Adrian victory. Don't let the final shot totals fool you. For a good portion of the game, the shots were very heavily slanted in Adrian's favor, and the scoring chances were headed in that manner as well. Adrian simply had far too much for Connecticut College to deal with.
 
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The game was streamed live over AC TV. Not sure if you tried to find it or not but it was as I watched part of it on my phone. AC streams most of their home games.
 
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Hammer said:
I don't know if Adrian and CC are 9 goals apart, but Adrian was a clearly better team. From what I saw yesterday, a rematch would likely produce another comfortable Adrian victory. Don't let the final shot totals fool you. For a good portion of the game, the shots were very heavily slanted in Adrian's favor, and the scoring chances were headed in that manner as well. Adrian simply had far too much for Connecticut College to deal with.
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well, you saw what you saw...I'm just going by similar scores.

It just seems hard to figure how AC can tie UMB 2-2 a few weeks ago [shots even], and a few days later, Conn beats UMB 7-0.....then Conn comes west and loses to AC 9-0. Again, not saying CC is a better team, but I have a hard time believing that score was not a fluke.
 
CrossCheck said:
well, you saw what you saw...I'm just going by similar scores.

It just seems hard to figure how AC can tie UMB 2-2 a few weeks ago [shots even], and a few days later, Conn beats UMB 7-0.....then Conn comes west and loses to AC 9-0. Again, not saying CC is a better team, but I have a hard time believing that score was not a fluke.
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That's fine.

And the UMB comparison confounds me as well. I don't know what to make of that.

Also, CC needed OT to beat a now 0-10-1 St. Olaf the night before. *shrug*
 
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Adrian certainly had a great weekend beating NESCAC Williams (3-1) and Conn College (the 9-0 blow out of all blow outs). I am sure they will move up from their previous #9 spot and may well jump St.Thomas (who lost twice to NESCAC foes Bowdoin and Trinity) and possibly UWRF and UWSP. Let's talk top 5 after we see their result against Gustavus. I saw the Middlebury-Elmira tie on Saturday and the Panthers look to me a pretty solid #4. They played the Soaring Eagles a vastly better game than their loss back in November. The Norwich@Elmira game Sunday should be worth watching (although I am told people had trouble watching the Midd-Elmira webcast yesterday).
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They shouldn't jump River Falls who hasn't lost since they were ranked ahead of them previously. Stevens Point probably since they lost to Norberts. Outside of Adrian and Norberts, however, is there anyone good in the NCHA?
 
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Hammer said:
That's fine.

And the UMB comparison confounds me as well. I don't know what to make of that.

Also, CC needed OT to beat a now 0-10-1 St. Olaf the night before. *shrug*
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I'd think the UMB outcome was more a fluke on Adrian's part. If you look at it, the game was on a Saturday night on a 1 game weekend. So they traveled roughly 12 hours...did they drive up the night before and stay in a hotel or did they leave at 5 in the morning and get there and play the game and drive home? Either way that is a lot of travel to play a hockey game.
 
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Hammer said:
That's fine.

And the UMB comparison confounds me as well. I don't know what to make of that.

Also, CC needed OT to beat a now 0-10-1 St. Olaf the night before. *shrug*
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Look at some of the recent St. Olaf scores...seem to be getting more competitive. Also, the shots in the CC/Olaf game were very lopsided for CC and if you read the play by play I counted at least 3-4 "Hit Post" on shots...game could easily have been 5-2 or 6-2. Again, just looking at apples to apples....Williams basically beat St. Olaf by 1 goal [they scored PPG with 15 sec to go]...and Williams was up on AC 1-0 in the 3rd in what I assume was a competitive game. I don't think Williams is a much different animal than Conn. I'm calling it a 'Mulligan in Michigan' :D
 
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Disappointing to read some of the comments defending the Eastern teams who lost to Adrian and barely beat St. Olaf. When Western teams travel East and don't win, it's because they aren't good. When Eastern teams travel West and don't win, it's must be a fluke. How about giving Adrian some credit? They are undefeated, first in their conference, and just beat two very good Eastern teams.
 
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Having seen Gustavus play Plattsburgh and Middlebury two very competitive games at the Cardinal/Panther, I think anyone from the east taking western teams too lightly this season is making a big mistake.
 
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Let's not overlook the previously winless Hamline sweep of Stevenson who then beat UMB in OT to win the Codfish smelly Bowl.

New records:

Hamline 2-7-1
Stevenson 9-4-0
UMB 6-4-4
Conn 7-1-3
Adrian 9-0-2
 
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Hello said:
Looking at the box score from Norbert's vs Point on Friday it looks like maybe Point was fortunate to capitalize around the net, and that Norbert's struggled w/ finish against Point's goalie who is very good. Lake Forest, St. Scholastica, Adrian & Norbert's appear to be on par with other conferences best. Time will tell in the NCAA's. The WIAC is really starting to drop, or maybe the NCHA is just getting stronger since the split. Marian almost beat Superior before break. Last year Norbert's swept Oswego. This year Adrian sweeps two NESCAC teams. The NCHA record vs. MIAC leans towards the NCHA being stronger. It looks like the NCHA's top four are equal too or stronger then the rest of the conferences. The NCHA will be the first conference from the west to win the NCAA's.
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I wouldn't count on it...as they would have to go through Gustavus/River Falls to get there most likely. I'm not saying Adrian is bad...just who have they played? And just because they beat mediocre east teams doesn't mean they are better than all other west teams.

How much stock can you put in Adrian beating Williams and Conn College. Yes Conn College has a good record but who have they played? Their Opponents have a combined record of 28-46-11, with half of those wins being holy cross and UMB's wins over bad teams. Withouth HC and UMB's records Conn Colleges opponents have a 15-39-3 record. Not that great!

I don't think you can really say that "NCHA holds the edge over the MIAC." So far the NCHA is 5-1-2 against the MIAC with those games being Concordia-WI at 2-1-1 (wins and loss/tie against Concordia-MN and Augsburg) and St Norbert being 3-0 (2 wins vs St Bens (4-6) and 1 vs St Marys (5-5-1) and the epic Marian-St Cate's Tie. No one good from the NCHA has played anyone good from the MIAC. This weekends match ups between Adrian/Gustavus and Lake Forest/Gustavus should give you a better feel for how the NCHA compares to the MIAC.

As far as the WIAC there is apparent animosity between the NCHA and the WIAC as there is very little crossover but the WIAC is 4-2 vs the NCHA (soon to be 6-2 after the UWS/Finlandia series tonight). 3-0 against Marian, CSS over UWEC, and the SNC/UWSP split. Again...not much evidence to make the case that the NCHA is the best in the west.
 
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pucko said:
Disappointing to read some of the comments defending the Eastern teams who lost to Adrian and barely beat St. Olaf. When Western teams travel East and don't win, it's because they aren't good. When Eastern teams travel West and don't win, it's must be a fluke. How about giving Adrian some credit? They are undefeated, first in their conference, and just beat two very good Eastern teams.
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Adrian supporters used the travel distance as an excuse against UMB, so everyone has their own excuse. Adrian was no doubt the best team this past weekend. The score against Williams appears to be pretty reflective of the balance in the game, with Adrian getting themselves together in the 3rd period finally - regardless it was probably the best played game of the weekend (the Conn St O OT game by all accounts I have heard was a very slow pace game). The Adrian score against Conn was probably something of an aberation, but 9-0 is 9-0 and Adrian is clearly better than Conn at this point in the season. Both Conn and Williams handily out shot St Olaf - definitely better teams than St. O and St. O got strong goaltending to keep it close.

I would suggest that travel could have been a factor this past weekend as it may have been for Adrian at UMB. I understand that Williams had a 14 hour bus trip through a snowstorm to get to Adrian. I didn't hear Conn College's travel arrangements but it's a trek from CT to MI also by bus, train, or plane.

I would say that Conn deserved to be called a very good team up until this past weekend (jury is out again though). Williams is average at the moment. That being said, they were average at this point last season and ended up winning the NESCAC and playing a good game against Plattsburgh in the NCAA quarters, so the season is still young.
 
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When did "Adrian supporters" use travel as an excuse for the tie against UMB? Genbeau made a comment about it being a long way for just one game, but a quick review of that poster's history does not indicate that they are an Adrian supporter. As far as I can tell, there are two of us on here, and neither one of us made excuses for that result. It was a tie, and probably one we'd like to have back.

Adrian has another N/C game at both Gustavus and Stevens Point. We're going to find out one way or another about our girls.
 
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I was at both Conn games over the weekend. Here's a couple humble opinions, Conn-Adrian...Adrian is a very good team, playing a team that just didn't come to play..so 9-zip..Adrian hustled and took advantage at every opportunity. But I wouldn't be surprised if they have a great year. Conn can be better..but very off day... St. Olaf...maybe not the strongest team..but very well coached, played to the end.. their system compensated to keep game in check..ie. when they got control of puck in their zone a winger would immediately burst toward opposing blue line taking heat off of their blue line and stretching things out...But my number one takeaway last weekend is that Adrian's rink is AWESOME, sports bar looking down on ice, pretty nice way to watch any game...
 
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Glad you enjoyed yourself.

One other takeaway from this weekend, from what I saw, is that Williams looked fundamentally sound as well, even if there was a disparity in talent.
 
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Hammer said:
When did "Adrian supporters" use travel as an excuse for the tie against UMB? Genbeau made a comment about it being a long way for just one game, but a quick review of that poster's history does not indicate that they are an Adrian supporter. As far as I can tell, there are two of us on here, and neither one of us made excuses for that result. It was a tie, and probably one we'd like to have back.

Adrian has another N/C game at both Gustavus and Stevens Point. We're going to find out one way or another about our girls.
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I don't know if autocorrect changed gojackets to genbeau...but yah--i suggested that travel could have been a factor and I'm not an Adrian supporter beyond they are a western team and I want the western teams to do well against the east.
 
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Superior beat Finlandia 3-1 last night. Finlandia goalie had a great game as she stopped 75 of 78 shots
 
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