ECAC 2013 Who will Lead

[bothman]

Havard can't even get a third place in the Beanpot. What in the world makes you think they could have beaten Michigan?

The Harvard team that beat Cornell 6-....would they have beaten Michigan? Absolutely!

 

[joecct]

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Clarkson has a huge unknown in net - with Karpo gone, and the remaining goaltenders with almost no experience, and new recruits coming to challenge for starting spots, it's hard to guess what will happen. I think offense and defense will both improve, but without a backstopper it will be hard to challenge for top 4, much less top 1 or 2.

They had a backstopper who, for most of his 4 years, had a swiss cheese defense in front of him. If the team D improves, then we won't need the goalie to be perfect every night. Just don't lose the game is all I'm asking.

 

[Skate79]

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Seriously. Cornell had a successful season. Harvard has to hang all their bragging rights on that one game, 'cause they got nothing else to go on.

Seems to me that prior to the season, everyone was picking Harvard to finish in the bottom six of the league. Given where they finished, I'd say that is something to brag about. Especially given how the past few seasons have gone for us.

 

[French Rage]

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Actually in all fairness I mistakenly thought Skate79 was a Colgate fan and was trying to brag about sweeping us in the regular season, so my response was us beating them in the tourny and gaining a NCAA bid because of that final win (or rather, not losing one due to losing that game). So my response did not make sense given the context of the poster's allegiance.

Though it does sort of work by mentioning the game that got us into the NCAAs whereas Harvard did not (which is unfortunate, as I'm sure Hockey East would have liked the chance to get another team into the second round). Congrats, you beat us bad in the semis and had a nice little run in the spring there, next time try a) either having a run in the first half of the season so a later run means something or b) continue that run through the finals to get an auto-bid so that the run means something.

 

[LynahFan]

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I thought it was a completely apropos response: Skate79 said that Cornell would be too "emotionally wounded" to play Harvard next year, when the fact is that Cornell had already regrouped the very next night. So much for Skate79's theory.