ECAC Pick 'em, Week 14

[Rainman]

Friday, February 10:
Brown at Colgate
Yale at Cornell
RPI at Dartmouth
Union at Harvard
St. Lawrence at Princeton
Clarkson at Quinnipiac

Saturday, February 11:
Yale at Colgate
Brown at Cornell
Union at Dartmouth
Clarkson at Princeton

Goals:

 

[Rainman]

Re: ECAC Pick 'em, Week 14

Also - I've noticed that earlier in the season Princeton played at SLU Friday, then at Clarkson Saturday. This weekend, they play the same 2 opponents in the same order. Anyone know why it isn't "Clarkson at Princeton" Friday, then "Clarkson at Quinnipiac" (and SLU at Princeton) on Saturday? Usually the travel partner order is reversed the 2nd time around.

 

[drshoen]

Re: ECAC Pick 'em, Week 14

Also - I've noticed that earlier in the season Princeton played at SLU Friday, then at Clarkson Saturday. This weekend, they play the same 2 opponents in the same order. Anyone know why it isn't "Clarkson at Princeton" Friday, then "Clarkson at Quinnipiac" (and SLU at Princeton) on Saturday? Usually the travel partner order is reversed the 2nd time around.

Without knowing for sure, I'm assuming it's because SLU and Quinnipiac are not playing next weekend; the Friendship Four game between them back in November was the Quinnipiac home game. So SLU goes and just plays Princeton Friday. It would have been an advantage to Quinnipiac to host Clarkson Saturday without playing on Friday.

They probably should have switched to order of the games in the North Country, so they would reverse now.

 

[Rainman]

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Without knowing for sure, I'm assuming it's because SLU and Quinnipiac are not playing next weekend; the Friendship Four game between them back in November was the Quinnipiac home game. So SLU goes and just plays Princeton Friday. It would have been an advantage to Quinnipiac to host Clarkson Saturday without playing on Friday.

They probably should have switched to order of the games in the North Country, so they would reverse now.

My guess was that the SLU at Q game being moved to Belfast had something to do with it. Until reading your post, I thought it made more sense for SLU to play at Princeton on Saturday (as was originally scheduled), so the SLU players wouldn't miss Friday classes. But after reading your post, drshoen, it would give Quinnipiac an unfair advantage over Clarkson, since they would have extra rest when the Knights would have played the night before (and traveled from NJ).

 

[hockeyplayer1015]

My guess was that the SLU at Q game being moved to Belfast had something to do with it. Until reading your post, I thought it made more sense for SLU to play at Princeton on Saturday (as was originally scheduled), so the SLU players wouldn't miss Friday classes. But after reading your post, drshoen, it would give Quinnipiac an unfair advantage over Clarkson, since they would have extra rest when the Knights would have played the night before (and traveled from NJ).

With a Saturday game, SLU would have traveled probably Thursday afternoon.

As for unfair advantages... They do it for Harvard and the beanpit (no typo ) and we know how well that has worked out.

 

[kdiff77]

Re: ECAC Pick 'em, Week 14

Friday, February 10:
Brown at Colgate
Yale at Cornell
RPI at Dartmouth
Union at Harvard
St. Lawrence at Princeton
Clarkson at Quinnipiac

Saturday, February 11:
Yale at Colgate
Brown at Cornell
Union at Dartmouth
Clarkson at Princeton

Goals: 45

 

[Ralph Baer]

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Friday, February 10:
Brown at Colgate: Colgate
Yale at Cornell: Cornell
RPI at Dartmouth: RPI
Union at Harvard: Harvard
St. Lawrence at Princeton: SLU
Clarkson at Quinnipiac: QU

Saturday, February 11:
Yale at Colgate: Yale
Brown at Cornell: Cornell
Union at Dartmouth: Union
Clarkson at Princeton: Clarkson

Goals: 60

 

[Saints#1]

Re: ECAC Pick 'em, Week 14

Friday, February 10:
Brown at Colgate - Colgate
Yale at Cornell - Cornell
RPI at Dartmouth - RPI
Union at Harvard - Harvard
St. Lawrence at Princeton - St. Lawrence
Clarkson at Quinnipiac - Quinnipiac

Saturday, February 11:
Yale at Colgate - Yale
Brown at Cornell - Cornell
Union at Dartmouth - Union
Clarkson at Princeton - Clarkson

Goals: 49

 

[Laker Dude]

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Friday, February 10:
Brown at Colgate
Yale at Cornell
RPI at Dartmouth
Union at Harvard
St. Lawrence at Princeton
Clarkson at Quinnipiac

Saturday, February 11:
Yale at Colgate
Brown at Cornell
Union at Dartmouth
Clarkson at Princeton

Goals: 47

 

[Dutchman]

Re: ECAC Pick 'em, Week 14

Friday, February 10:
Brown at Colgate
Yale at Cornell
RPI at Dartmouth
Union at Harvard
St. Lawrence at Princeton
Clarkson at Quinnipiac

Saturday, February 11:
Yale at Colgate[/
Brown at Cornell
Union at Dartmouth
Clarkson at Princeton

Goals: 48

 

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: ECAC Pick 'em, Week 14

Friday, February 10:
Brown at Colgate: Colgate rights the ship.
Yale at Cornell: Cornell here.
RPI at Dartmouth: Darmouth
Union at Harvard: Still undefeated at home. Hahvahd.
St. Lawrence at Princeton: SLU by a mile.
Clarkson at Quinnipiac: Quinnipiac here.

Saturday, February 11:
Yale at Colgate: Ylae*
Brown at Cornell: Cornell by a mile.
Union at Dartmouth: #26 Union
Clarkson at Princeton: CCT

Goals: 41

 

[drshoen]

Re: ECAC Pick 'em, Week 14

With a Saturday game, SLU would have traveled probably Thursday afternoon.

As for unfair advantages... They do it for Harvard and the beanpit (no typo ) and we know how well that has worked out.

I know Harvard often plays one game on Fridays during Beanpot weekends, but do they play one game on Saturdays? I don't recall any (but it's been a while since a Clarkson game got moved, so I'm not sure).

 

[vicb]

Re: ECAC Pick 'em, Week 14

Friday, February 10:
Brown at Colgate Brown
Yale at Cornell Cornell
RPI at Dartmouth RPI
Union at Harvard Harvard
St. Lawrence at Princeton SLU
Clarkson at Quinnipiac CCT

Saturday, February 11:
Yale at Colgate Ylae
Brown at Cornell Cornell
Union at Dartmouth Dartmouth
Clarkson at Princeton CCT picking with my heart not my head.

Goals:52

 

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: ECAC Pick 'em, Week 14

I know Harvard often plays one game on Fridays during Beanpot weekends, but do they play one game on Saturdays? I don't recall any (but it's been a while since a Clarkson game got moved, so I'm not sure).

Typically, Harvard will move the Saturday fixture to prepare for the Beanpot. There are some schools that will object to it *coughbrowncough*. RPI and Harvard had the league fixture in December.

 

[ecachawkeyfan]

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Friday, February 10:

Brown at Colgate
Yale at Cornell
RPI at Dartmouth
Union at Harvard
St. Lawrence at Princeton
Clarkson at Quinnipiac

Saturday, February 11:

Yale at Colgate
Brown at Cornell
Union at Dartmouth
Clarkson at Princeton

Goals: 54

 

[bothman]

Typically, Harvard will move the Saturday fixture to prepare for the Beanpot. There are some schools that will object to it *coughbrowncough*. RPI and Harvard had the league fixture in December.

Harvard has not lived up to its bargain on this, but the reality is that any ECAC objecting to this scheduling switch is moronic...esoecually when their OOC is filled with the Atlantic Hockey. If Harvard performs, positive PWR boost for the entire ECAC. SLU moved up 2 spots after last night's win vs NU.

 

[Rainman]

Re: ECAC Pick 'em, Week 14

Typically, Harvard will move the Saturday fixture to prepare for the Beanpot. There are some schools that will object to it *coughbrowncough*. RPI and Harvard had the league fixture in December.

Harvard has not lived up to its bargain on this, but the reality is that any ECAC objecting to this scheduling switch is moronic...esoecually when their OOC is filled with the Atlantic Hockey. If Harvard performs, positive PWR boost for the entire ECAC. SLU moved up 2 spots after last night's win vs NU.

This season, the league gave Harvard an "open weekend" before the first Monday in February, which may have been done on purpose so they would only have to move one league game (as opposed to two in the past). Next season's "block schedule" has already been released, and just like this season, Harvard has an open weekend before their 1st Beanpot game, and will move one league game (coincidentally, also against RPI) to accommodate the 2nd Beanpot game. It even has a not about this at the top of the file:

http://elf.elynah.com/file.php/1/710/ECAC_2017-18_Men_s_Schedule.pdf

 

[kdiff77]

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Typically, Harvard will move the Saturday fixture to prepare for the Beanpot. There are some schools that will object to it *coughbrowncough*. RPI and Harvard had the league fixture in December.

Why would Brown not object? There were a couple occasions in the past decade or so where our Harvard home game - typically one of the best attended games of the season - was moved to a random Tuesday to accommodate for the Beanpot. How does that benefit Brown?

 

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: ECAC Pick 'em, Week 14

This season, the league gave Harvard an "open weekend" before the first Monday in February, which may have been done on purpose so they would only have to move one league game (as opposed to two in the past). Next season's "block schedule" has already been released, and just like this season, Harvard has an open weekend before their 1st Beanpot game, and will move one league game (coincidentally, also against RPI) to accommodate the 2nd Beanpot game. It even has a not about this at the top of the file:

http://elf.elynah.com/file.php/1/710/ECAC_2017-18_Men_s_Schedule.pdf

Remember to link the post; eLynah does not allow you to download PDFs directly.

 

[TchrBill]

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Friday, February 10:
Brown at Colgate - BROWN
Yale at Cornell - CORNELL
RPI at Dartmouth - DARTMOUTH
Union at Harvard - UNION
St. Lawrence at Princeton - ST. LAWRENCE
Clarkson at Quinnipiac - QUINNIPIAC

Saturday, February 11:
Yale at Colgate - YALE
Brown at Cornell - CORNELL
Union at Dartmouth - UNION
Clarkson at Princeton - CLARKSON

Goals: 49