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ECAC 2016-2017 Season Thread

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FlagDUDE08 said:
Is the Big Roll-a-D20 chopped liver or something? ;)
I'll give you not putting WCHA because no one in the league has played them yet...
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After this week and next, I will pull together the Non-Conference data for the non- ivy's
 
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Friday, October 21:
RIT at Union (Win 5-2)
Niagara at RPI (Tie 3-3)
Clarkson at Providence (Tie 3-3)
St. Lawrence at UMass-Lowell (Loss 5-2)
Colgate at Merrimack (Loss 4-3)

Saturday, October 22:
Niagara at Union
RIT at RPI
Clarkson at UMass-Lowell
St. Lawrence at Providence
Colgate at Merrimack
Quinnipiac at Boston University

Tuesday, October 25:
UMass at Quinnipiac
 
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I have been in the Mediterranean Sea on a 2 week cruise visiting and eating my way around Italy, Spain, Portugal, France and Gibraltar(UK). I come back and with less than one week to go before RPI and Union kick off the ECAC campaign and I find only 22 contestants. Come on people. You have until Friday at 7PM to get your picks in or amend your previous picks. If doing an amendment just give me a new post with your revised picks and state that they are revised.

http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?116311-ECAC-Pick-the-Standings-2016-2017
 
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While there is still another week of non-conference play for the ECAC non- ivy's, it's clear we (ECAC) are not off to a great start. Our top three non-ivy teams, Clarkson, St. Lawrence and Qpack have a total of two "top 20" wins, against UML and Penn State. Kudo's to Clarkson who has thus far the #2 SOS. Not taking the easy road.

NCHC ----- 3-11-6 (.650)
Hockey East ----- 30-22-11 (.563)
Big Ten ----- 13-10-4 (.556)
ECAC ----- 15-14-6 (.514)
Atlantic Hockey ----- 6-13-7 (.365)
WCHA ----- 6-19-2 (.259)

I don't see this changing much once the ivy's kick in but who knows.
 
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HE is usually our largest non-conference opponent.

In 2013-2014, the ECAC tied HE in head to head non-conference competition.
In 2015-2016, the ECAC bettered HE by one game in head to head competition

In 2014-2015 we stumbled, having a losing non-conference record against every league except the AHA. We also did not win a single NCAA tournament game.

Our NCAA tournament record since and including 2010 is 20-17 with 5 team appearances in the FF and two National Champs. Not Bad. How are we going to do this year, 2016-2017?

Year ECAC record in the NCAAs
2000 1-2 F4 (1) - Semifinals
2001 0-1
2002 0-1
2003 2-2 F4 (1) - Semifinals
2004 1-3
2005 1-3
2006 1-2
2007 0-2
2008 1-2
2009 1-3
2010 1-2
2011 1-3
2012 3-2 F4 (1) - Semifinals
2013 8-2 F4 (2) - National Champs
2014 4-2 F4 (1) - National Champs
2015 0-3
2016 3-3 F4 (1) - Finals
 
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Cornell has some high expectations ......

Predicted to finish fifth in the media poll and sixth in the coaches poll, Cornell gets its first opportunity to prove the voters wrong at 7 p.m. Friday when it opens the season at Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass.

“Our expectations are not to be middle of the pack; our expectations are to challenge for (an ECAC Hockey) championship,” Schafer said during the team’s media day. “Sitting here and looking around at all the banners, definitely our expectations are a lot greater than where we were picked. There’s been plenty of years we’ve been picked to be seventh or eighth and we’ve won the league.”

http://www.ithacajournal.com/story/.../27/big-red-men-sleeper-ecac-hockey/92837322/
 
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So how are we doing .... now that we have started up league play .... not so good.
Bottom 1/3 (20) of the NCAA (pairwise before today's games). Ranked 40 to 60th

Brown = 60
Princeton = 59
RPI = 55
Cornell = 51
Yale = 42
Colgate = 41

Top 1/3 (20) of the NCAA (pairwise before today's game). Ranked 1 to 20th

Harvard 10
Q = 14
Union = 16

A complete reversal of two/three years ago. Does not look like a promising year for the ECAC.
 
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I started writing a new series for Tech Hockey Guide that focuses on each recruiting source that the Huskies tap into. While it is focused on MTU, there is some great info for fans from all of college hockey including the All-Americans, Hobey Finalist and NHL players to come from each league/tournament/event. Please check out my series and let me know what you think:
Upper Midwest Elite League (You might remember Chase Polacek?)
BCHL (Pretty much every ECAC has used this league over the last decade)
World Junior A Challenge (This year's edition starts Sunday)
 
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LTsatch said:
Nice articles, you might have mentioned that Quinnipiac basically made it to two frozen fours on the backs of BCHL players. Here is some reference. https://books.google.com/books?id=b...rQ25V-Vs&hl=en&sa=X&output=reader&pg=GBS.PT32
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That would be a nice angle to look at composition of frozen four teams but that is a ton of work since there isn't a single comprehensive list. I went through all the Hobey Finalists/All-Americans and looked them all up and have a quick reference table when doing each article now...WJAC had a similar problem since alot of the guys don't have stats on elite prospects.
 
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Not shocking, a lot of critical departures for many of the teams that are near the top year in year out as of late. Just off the top of my head, Qpac with Anas, Garteig, St. Denis, Toews....Harvard with Vesey + Criscuolo......Yale with Lyon, O'Gara, Obuchowski. Obviously there are plenty of others but those just came to mind, those are some pretty good players and pushed their teams over the hump from good to great over the years.
 
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techtodenver said:
Not shocking, a lot of critical departures for many of the teams that are near the top year in year out as of late. Just off the top of my head, Qpac with Anas, Garteig, St. Denis, Toews....Harvard with Vesey + Criscuolo......Yale with Lyon, O'Gara, Obuchowski. Obviously there are plenty of others but those just came to mind, those are some pretty good players and pushed their teams over the hump from good to great over the years.
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In a strange twist, we're actually a more balanced team this year without Vesey and Criscuolo. What we lost in offense, we make up for in our revamped D with Fox and Marino. Our breakouts and transitions are smoother and quicker. And Madsen is playing better and with more confidence.
 
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Skate79 said:
In a strange twist, we're actually a more balanced team this year without Vesey and Criscuolo. What we lost in offense, we make up for in our revamped D with Fox and Marino. Our breakouts and transitions are smoother and quicker. And Madsen is playing better and with more confidence.
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Completely agree, I have seen you guys play on multiple occasions but getting over the NCAA hump is a different animal and I don't think a down year is helping your team compared to past years where the ECAC really prepared you to make a potential run in the tourney, I personally think Harvards best years are in front of them if all of these elite young prospects get past admissions as guys like Wilde, Wahlstrom, Drury, Deveaux, Shore, Walsh just off the top of my head just in terms of the bigger picture and being a national power.
 
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Here are the league standings based on losses. Nobody in the ECAC is out of it. Assuming that in the past, 28 points got you a first round bye so any of the top 10 teams can still (hypothetically) make it to a first round bye. (top 4) This is the ECAC and there is great parity and anything can happen, as RPI recently demonstrated. ;)

Conference | Overall | Home | Away W L T Win % GP Pts. GF-GA W L T Win % GF-GA W L T W L T
Union 10 1 1 .875 12 21 47-26 16 5 2 .739 88-63 7 2 1 9 3 1
St. Lawre 8 1 3 .792 12 19 37-16 12 6 6 .625 74-54 8 2 1 4 4 3
Cornell 6 2 1 .722 9 13 29-19 11 4 1 .719 47-31 3 1 0 6 2 1
Harvard 7 3 1 .682 11 15 39-26 11 4 1 .719 65-37 6 0 1 5 4 0
Clarkson 6 4 1 .591 11 13 37-31 11 9 3 .543 75-69 4 6 1 6 3 1
Dartmouth 3 5 2 .400 10 8 23-28 6 8 3 .441 44-50 4 2 2 2 6 1
Yale H 3 5 2 .400 10 8 29-36 7 7 3 .500 50-54 4 4 1 2 3 1
Colgate 2 5 2 .333 9 6 19-27 4 12 5 .310 50-70 2 3 3 2 7 2
Quinnipiac 8 6 1 .567 15 17 46-39 13 10 2 .560 73-67 7 3 1 5 5 0
Brown 2 8 0 .200 10 4 25-40 3 13 1 .206 42-74 2 6 0 1 6 1
Princeton 3 9 2 .286 14 8 34-56 7 11 2 .400 57-73 4 4 2 3 7 0
Rensselaer 2 11 0 .154 13 4 30-51 4 20 1 .180 53-99 3 8 1 1 11 0



Read more: http://www.uscho.com/standings/ecac/2016-2017/#ixzz4VwIzYn1C
 
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