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ECAC 2015-2016 Season Thread

Re: Goaltending in the ECAC

Re: Goaltending in the ECAC

bulldog10jw said:
http://alongtheboards.com/2016/02/ecac-hockey-goaltending-cream-of-the-crop/

Largely acknowledged to be the most important position on any given hockey team, a solid goaltender can be the difference between a good team and a great team. No league in college hockey has the level of goaltending that ECAC Hockey currently ices on any given weekend.
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It's really kind of frustrating. Kazzy is an amazing goaltender, but it's not the difference maker it could be when you go up against guys like Lyon.
 
Re: Goaltending in the ECAC

Re: Goaltending in the ECAC

bulldog10jw said:
http://alongtheboards.com/2016/02/ecac-hockey-goaltending-cream-of-the-crop/
Largely acknowledged to be the most important position on any given hockey team, a solid goaltender can be the difference between a good team and a great team. No league in college hockey has the level of goaltending that ECAC Hockey currently ices on any given weekend.
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Agreed wholeheartedly and in my humble opinion, Alex Lyons is the best goalie in all of college hockey.
 
Re: Goaltending in the ECAC

Re: Goaltending in the ECAC

lugnut92 said:
It's really kind of frustrating. Kazzy is an amazing goaltender, but it's not the difference maker it could be when you go up against guys like Lyon.
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I think a lot of us get frustrated with our offenses. I know I have a tendency to wonder if we will ever score in some games. But look what our forwards are up against.
 
Re: Goaltending in the ECAC

Re: Goaltending in the ECAC

bulldog10jw said:
http://alongtheboards.com/2016/02/ecac-hockey-goaltending-cream-of-the-crop/

Largely acknowledged to be the most important position on any given hockey team, a solid goaltender can be the difference between a good team and a great team. No league in college hockey has the level of goaltending that ECAC Hockey currently ices on any given weekend.
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This article conveniently overlooks the fact that Steve Perry was the original starter for Clarkson, DID get benched due to poor play (both in-league and OOC), and Greg Lewis along with Clarkson has been on an absolute tear in 2016.
 
Re: Goaltending in the ECAC

Re: Goaltending in the ECAC

StayPuftMMcu said:
This article conveniently overlooks the fact that Steve Perry was the original starter for Clarkson, DID get benched due to poor play (both in-league and OOC), and Greg Lewis along with Clarkson has been on an absolute tear in 2016.
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Huh, it's a 50/48 split in TOI. I wonder how the author missed that.
 
Re: ECAC 2015-2016 Season Thread

Okay, ECAC super-nerds, help me out here...

I was looking up some history on the ECAC, and noticed that when the conference formed, there were quite a few teams that were around the first few years that I had thought were always D-III teams. (Middlebury, Williams, Bowdoin, MIT, etc.)

http://www.ecachockey.com/men/history/Summaries-I.pdf

But, if you look up the histories of those teams on USCHO or CHN, you'll see that they were all listed as D-III schools at the time. Were all of those schools still playing D-III hockey, despite being in a D-I conference, or what was the deal there?
 
Re: ECAC 2015-2016 Season Thread

ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
Okay, ECAC super-nerds, help me out here...

I was looking up some history on the ECAC, and noticed that when the conference formed, there were quite a few teams that were around the first few years that I had thought were always D-III teams. (Middlebury, Williams, Bowdoin, MIT, etc.)

http://www.ecachockey.com/men/history/Summaries-I.pdf

But, if you look up the histories of those teams on USCHO or CHN, you'll see that they were all listed as D-III schools at the time. Were all of those schools still playing D-III hockey, despite being in a D-I conference, or what was the deal there?
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Read the beginning of this http://www.augenblick.org/chha/ecac_his.html.
 
Re: ECAC 2015-2016 Season Thread

ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
So... all 28 schools were considered D-I? Or was it really so informal that not everyone involved was actually D-I?

It gets confusing when none of the usual suspects have much info on it.
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This was a few years before I entered college. I don't think that there was an NCAA-III (or -II) tourney then, so in theory anyone was eligible for the D-I championship.
 
Re: ECAC 2015-2016 Season Thread

ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
So... all 28 schools were considered D-I?
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It's a little confusing. Before the NCAA there was the ECAC Conference which is still a conference within the NCAA. In All Sports it has 89 D-I teams, 40 D-II teams and 169 D-III teams. The ECAC started D-III hockey in 1961. So first you have to separate the ECAC conference from the NCAA. The ECAC conference does not list hockey as a sport. Instead the ECAC Conference has three D-III Hockey Leagues. ECAC D-I Hockey is only an affiliate of the ECAC. It could be called the "Ivy and friends" conference or anything else.

The NCAA did not start D-III in some sports, like football until 1973. Prior to that, the focus of ECAC competition was more focussed on small school vs large school. Small schools, considered D-III today, like Colby played Vermont. Kings Points (D-III) played Temple (D-I) and Lafayette (D-I). The Lambert cup and bowl signified championship staus.

The key to remember is that ECAC D-I Hockey is only an affiliate of the ECAC (http://www.ecacsports.com/about/About_ECAC). Its really its own separate league. It was born out of the original ECAC. It is really a spinoff from the original ECAC affiliation less the HE teams that left to form their own conference.
 
Re: ECAC 2015-2016 Season Thread

Seasons over and we have three in the pairwise in the top 12
1 Q
8 Yale
11 Harvard

Not unexpected. They were picked to finish at the top preseason. The ivy's have to be careful because their shorter season usually means a greater sensitivity to losses this late in the year. In addition, they usually do not have the quality opponents and wins that would allow them to anchor near the top. They generally have to continue winning.

The rest of us are at:

20
23
24
25
27
29

43
47
56

Anything is possible and any team can go on a run but my guess is that for any team from the bottom 9 to make it, they would have to win the ECAC tournament. Cornell and Clarkson might be exceptions if either make it to the final. That being said, it is not going to be very easy but stranger things have happened.

The key to getting teams into the NCAA tournament is OC wins and especially against tough opponents. While we have improved, as a league, we still need to do better. NCHC teams with .500 league are in the running because their league RPI is tops.

IMO we are looking at 2-3 ECAC teams in the tournament.
 
Re: ECAC 2015-2016 Season Thread

I am having trouble finding confirmation of the webcasts for this weekends ECAC playoffs. There is no listing on the Ivy League Digital Network schedule for the Cornell and Dartmouth games, also no real mention if WRPI and Clarkson are webcasting the games. Any confirmation appreciated.
 
Re: ECAC 2015-2016 Season Thread

LTsatch said:
I am having trouble finding confirmation of the webcasts for this weekends ECAC playoffs. There is no listing on the Ivy League Digital Network schedule for the Cornell and Dartmouth games, also no real mention if WRPI and Clarkson are webcasting the games. Any confirmation appreciated.
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ECAC's call, and they use a PPV streamer of their choice, because after all they believe people won't go if they watch for free online.
 
Re: ECAC 2015-2016 Season Thread

STREAMING
All ECAC Hockey tournament games will be available for viewing by a global audience and be aired through www.ecachockey.com through the technology of BoxCast.

Fans can watch all first-round; quarterfinal round games; as well as championship weekend on mobile devices as well as standard PCs and Macs. The games will be available on iOS devices as well as Androids.

Fans can purchase a game for $9.95 (US) for viewing directly from www.ecachockey.com.

Links can be found on the league's composite schedule - http://ecachockey.com/composite.
 
Re: ECAC 2015-2016 Season Thread

LTsatch said:
STREAMING
All ECAC Hockey tournament games will be available for viewing by a global audience and be aired through www.ecachockey.com through the technology of BoxCast.
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The IVY League Network uses BoxCast technology as well. My guess is that you will probably see the same quality as the IVY League Network.
 
Re: ECAC 2015-2016 Season Thread

It's a brand new season. Season #2. Wipe the slate clean. Forget the past records. Everyone is 0-0-0. The past does not matter.
It's a new start. After this weekend for 4 teams, the 2015-2016 season will be over. After next weekend some more.
Which team is hungrier? Which team wants it more? Who is going to be able to reach way down when it counts?
Which team is going to step up to the next level?

Discipline and 60 minutes or more

Q 0-0-0
Yale 0-0-0
Harvard 0-0-0
Saints 0-0-0

Cornell 0-0-0
RPI 0-0-0
Colgate 0-0-0
Brown 0-0-0
Union 0-0-0
Princeton 0-0-0
Dartmouth 0-0-0
Knights 0-0-0
 
Re: ECAC 2015-2016 Season Thread

Dutchman said:
It's a brand new season. Season #2. Wipe the slate clean. Forget the past records. Everyone is 0-0-0. The past does not matter.
It's a new start. After this weekend for 4 teams, the 2015-2016 season will be over. After next weekend some more.
Which team is hungrier? Which team wants it more? Who is going to be able to reach way down when it counts?
Which team is going to step up to the next level?

Discipline and 60 minutes or more

Q 0-0-0
Yale 0-0-0
Harvard 0-0-0
Saints 0-0-0

Cornell 0-0-0
RPI 0-0-0
Colgate 0-0-0
Brown 0-0-0
Union 0-0-0
Princeton 0-0-0
Dartmouth 0-0-0
Knights 0-0-0
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You know there aren't ties in the postseason, right?
 
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