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Nescac 2013-14

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joecct said:
Devil's advocate time -- who has Trinity played and beaten OOC? A veritable murderer's row of Salve, Wentworth, Becker, and Western New England.
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You may have a point. I concede that I don't know enough about Division III national to have an informed opinion. What I said about Trinity's possible bid is what I've been hearing.

All I know is that after winning the NESCAC championship, the Bowdoin Polar Bears will be somewhere in that bracket for the fourth time in the last five years...

When is the NCAA announcing the brackets?
 
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BOWDOIN WINS THE 2014 NESCAC CHAMPIONSHIP

It was a thrilling 3-2 double overtime victory by the Polar Bears over the Lord Jeffs of Amherst. In the end Bowdoin's offensive superiority prevailed. Great winning goal by John McGinnis.

After a so-so season, in which they underachieved, the Polar Bears put it all together in the playoffs. Second championship in a row (first time since Middlebury did it in the first decade of this century), third championship in the last four years (though the 2011 championship was "returned" to NESCAC by the Bowdoin administration due to an alleged hazing incident that took place AFTER the season), and fourth trip to the NC$$ tournament over the past five years.

Congratulations to Coach Terry Meagher and the Bowdoin Polar Bears.

The Bowdoin victory was well worth suffering through the two NSN broadcasts this weekend.
 
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Euler18 said:
You may have a point. I concede that I don't know enough about Division III national to have an informed opinion. What I said about Trinity's possible bid is what I've been hearing.

All I know is that after winning the NESCAC championship, the Bowdoin Polar Bears will be somewhere in that bracket for the fourth time in the last five years...

When is the NCAA announcing the brackets?
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10 pm ET. go to ncaa.com and follow video links
 
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joecct said:
Devil's advocate time -- who has Trinity played and beaten OOC? A veritable murderer's row of Salve, Wentworth, Becker, and Western New England.
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You were right. No Trinity in the NC$$ bracket.

Bowdoin will play @ Oswego State (for the third time in the NC$$ tournament since 2010) on Wednesday. The winner will play @ Babson on Saturday.
 
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EastCoastBias said:
Worse than the foreign dude Amherst has doing their games??
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Hey!!! Mark Steyn is pretty good! He's understated, which is fine with me. I KNOW the puck went in the corner. I KNOW the team went offside. What I want is the players and any explanation of something that is not obvious on the video.

Now, if they're doing simulcasting with radio (George, for example), then it has to be play by play.
 
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Is it fair to say Trinity's soft non-conference schedule, combined with the fact Bowdoin and Middlebury were down this winter, cost Trinity an at-large NCAA bid?

With the end of both the Middlebury era and the interlock, NESCAC teams can no longer count on the conference schedule to provide the opportunity to build an NCAA resume.

Some NESCAC teams played brutally difficult non-conference schedules this year (e.g., Midd played Norwich and Plattsburgh twice each, while Williams played Babson, Hobart, Manhattanville and Plattsburgh) but two of the top programs, Bowdoin and Trinity, played less challenging opponents (Trinity played only one moderately ambitious game, against Manhattanville, while Bowdoin may not have played a non-conference game against a ranked team since RIT in 2000-01).

I assume programs consider several factors in scheduling the OOC games (including cost, minimizing disruption to academics, and coaching philosophy (i.e., whether to use the games as learning opportunities or NCAA resume-building)) but there are only six games and the lesson may be they're more important now than they were ten years ago. It used to be that every NESCAC team was assured two or three games against not just ranked teams, but top-five teams, in Middlebury and Norwich. Now, by contrast, if the other top NESCAC programs struggle, you end up where Trinity did this season, an excellent team without quite enough wins against ranked opponents to win comparisons.
 
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Meehan Popcorn Guy said:
Is it fair to say Trinity's soft non-conference schedule, combined with the fact Bowdoin and Middlebury were down this winter, cost Trinity an at-large NCAA bid?

With the end of both the Middlebury era and the interlock, NESCAC teams can no longer count on the conference schedule to provide the opportunity to build an NCAA resume.

Some NESCAC teams played brutally difficult non-conference schedules this year (e.g., Midd played Norwich and Plattsburgh twice each, while Williams played Babson, Hobart, Manhattanville and Plattsburgh) but two of the top programs, Bowdoin and Trinity, played less challenging opponents (Trinity played only one moderately ambitious game, against Manhattanville, while Bowdoin may not have played a non-conference game against a ranked team since RIT in 2000-01).

I assume programs consider several factors in scheduling the OOC games (including cost, minimizing disruption to academics, and coaching philosophy (i.e., whether to use the games as learning opportunities or NCAA resume-building)) but there are only six games and the lesson may be they're more important now than they were ten years ago. It used to be that every NESCAC team was assured two or three games against not just ranked teams, but top-five teams, in Middlebury and Norwich. Now, by contrast, if the other top NESCAC programs struggle, you end up where Trinity did this season, an excellent team without quite enough wins against ranked opponents to win comparisons.
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Very Good Assesment
 
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Meehan Popcorn Guy said:
I assume programs consider several factors in scheduling the OOC games (including cost, minimizing disruption to academics, and coaching philosophy (i.e., whether to use the games as learning opportunities or NCAA resume-building) but there are only six games and the lesson may be they're more important now than they were ten years ago. It used to be that every NESCAC team was assured two or three games against not just ranked teams, but top-five teams, in Middlebury and Norwich. Now, by contrast, if the other top NESCAC programs struggle, you end up where Trinity did this season, an excellent team without quite enough wins against ranked opponents to win comparisons.
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I'd like to see Bowdoin schedule Norwich and Babson, two traditional rivals, again, rather than play home-and-home series against Southern Maine and the U of New England. One game a year against the latter two teams should be enough.

For the record, Bowdoin leads both series against Norwich (36-28-0) and Babson (32-19-2).

I'm sorry for Trinity. The Bantams had a very good season, have some exciting forwards, and deserved a better fate. In my opinion, however, the NESCAC semifinals against Bowdoin exposed Trinity's defensive deficiencies.
 
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The Bowdoin NC$$ game against Oswego has been postponed until tomorrow at 3:00pm due to a blizzard.

The empty Bowdoin team bus was involved in an accident this afternoon while the team was having their pre-game meal for what was supposed to have been a 7:00pm contest tonight. The Bowdoin bus rolled down a hill and crashed into a restaurant. Thankfully there were no injuries.
 
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Bowdoin had this one within its grasp getting 2 quick goals to open the 3rd period and lead 3-1. They let it slip away. Oswego calls a time-out and the Polar Bears were on their heels the rest of the game giving up the game winner with less than 3-mins too play. Nice looking arena and WTOP did a top notch job of a webcast even with student announcers. Between period presentation wasn't Mike Milbury and Jeremy Roenick, but it didn't need to be. NESCAC schools should take notice.
 
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OSWEGO 4 - BOWDOIN 3

After spending most of the second half of the season complaining about how the Polar Bears were underachieving, I must now say that I'm very proud of the way they performed during the NESCAC tournament and in the loss to Oswego this afternoon. It was rewarding to see the team play "Bowdoin hockey" again: up-tempo, aggressive, intense, skilled. After defeating three talented teams in the NESCAC playoffs, Bowdoin played an excellent Oswego team evenly and actually led by two goals in the third period before the Lakers staged a great comeback.

Kudos to the Polar Bear class of 2014: Colin Downey (118 career points), Harry Matheson (100 career points), Jay Livermore, Steve Messina, Kyle Lockwood and Ollie Koo (whose season was unfortunately cut short by injuries). This class won three NESCAC championships and played in three national tournaments. They won 75 games, lost only 27 games, and tied 8 games.

And congratulations to Coach Terry Meagher, who continues to be one of the best in the business.

Bowdoin College Polar Bears
ECAC champions 1971, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1986, 1993
NESCAC champions: 2011, 2013, 2014
971 wins
36 All-America selections since the first Division II/III team was named in 1970
 
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bowdin played a great game.like you said very fast ,aggressive,up-tempo game and very good with the puck,they seemed to play a more western type game.which Oswego has encountered in the final four the last few yrs...could have gone either way....
 
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Euler18 said:
Kudos to the Polar Bear class of 2014: Colin Downey (118 career points), Harry Matheson (100 career points), Jay Livermore, Steve Messina, Kyle Lockwood and Ollie Koo (whose season was unfortunately cut short by injuries). This class won three NESCAC championships and played in three national tournaments. They won 75 games, lost only 27 games, and tied 8 games.
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I should have added two names to the Bowdoin class of 2014. Nick Wetzel, a smooth-skating "back" in Bowdoin's three-back system, was a solid contributor during his first two seasons, particularly during his sophomore year. Erik Bertin wasn't always in the lineup, but whenever he was, he played well and gave his all. Bertin may have been the most improved player in the outstanding class of 2014. I apologize for these two omissions.

Bowdoin College Polar Bears
ECAC champions 1971, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1986, 1993
NESCAC champions: 2011, 2013, 2014
971 wins
36 All-America selections since the first Division II/III team was named in 1970
 
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.@DrPnygard: Today in 1913 Civil War veterans retraced their own steps in a reenactment of #PickettsCharge. 50,000 vets had traveled to PA for the event.

Missing from the event was Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, who was too ill to attend and would pass the following February.
 
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