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Norwich Women's Hockey

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futurestar said:
Well, after all, how many teams (in any sport) can claim a 24-0 weekend? btw That's 100-11 shots on goal for the weekend too.

Is there any way to transfer out of the ECAC East? The West may have their bottom dwellers but at least they can play the game...
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When you refer to the West are you talking about the ECAC West or the Western Region?
 
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Norwich currently has eight of the top nine scorers in the conference.

That's incredible. Also clicking at a 63 goals for to just 2 given up in league play.
 
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SeymoreHockey said:
Doesn't say much for the conference... ;)
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It's unfortunate that in a year where Castleton takes a major step forward to becoming a relevant team it seems like the rest of the conference has taken a collective step back with NEC, Manhattanville, and Southern Maine struggling.

Holy Cross and Saint Anselm are stilll solid teams but it's been beaten to death that those games don't count.
 
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Agreed the ECAC East is not the strongest conference....but Norwich has the strongest schedule so far in the east, per KRACH.
 
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HockeyDman said:
Agreed the ECAC East is not the strongest conference....but Norwich has the strongest schedule so far in the east, per KRACH.
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Norwich is able to offset its relatively weak conference schedule by playing one of the toughest, if not the toughest OOC schedules there is in D-III women's hockey.

The inclusion of the East/West Hockey Classic for Norwich and landing the home and home with Plattsburgh have helped bring Norwich to the forefront of D-III women's hockey. You can't get into the NCAA Tournament without beating the best there is out there when you lose in your conference tournament and have to rely on the Pool C bid.

Norwich doesn't make the NCAA's last year without those additions to their schedule.
 
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I always am amused when people, that in most instances have never seen any of the teams in the ECACE play, talk about the relative weakness of the conference.
I saw St.Scholastica and St. Bendict' s play this weekend and they did not exactly resemble the US national team. They were good, well coached and tried hard.
But given the outcome, losses to St.A's, I wouldn't attempt to label their respective conferences as weak.But maybe I am not knowledgeable about skills and conference strengths as some of the posters. As far as I am concerned, the ECAC E is still a good conference, not withstanding the great year that Norwich is having, with good teams, good coaching and great kids.
 
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Derek Dunning said:
Norwich is able to offset its relatively weak conference schedule by playing one of the toughest, if not the toughest OOC schedules there is in D-III women's hockey.

The inclusion of the East/West Hockey Classic for Norwich and landing the home and home with Plattsburgh have helped bring Norwich to the forefront of D-III women's hockey. You can't get into the NCAA Tournament without beating the best there is out there when you lose in your conference tournament and have to rely on the Pool C bid.

Norwich doesn't make the NCAA's last year without those additions to their schedule.
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"Me thinks he doth protest too much."
 
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hawkhockey said:
I always am amused when people, that in most instances have never seen any of the teams in the ECACE play, talk about the relative weakness of the conference.
I saw St.Scholastica and St. Bendict' s play this weekend and they did not exactly resemble the US national team. They were good, well coached and tried hard.
But given the outcome, losses to St.A's, I wouldn't attempt to label their respective conferences as weak.But maybe I am not knowledgeable about skills and conference strengths as some of the posters. As far as I am concerned, the ECAC E is still a good conference, not withstanding the great year that Norwich is having, with good teams, good coaching and great kids.
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You also saw St. Ben's the "Potsdam" or "Southern Maine" of the West. They aren't Chatam or Plymouth State but not quite Neumann or Oswego.

St. Scholastica played without arguably their two best players(were a little busy playing for the Swiss National Team). So you didn't exactly see the cream of the crop of the west....which you would maybe know if you took your own advice.
I always am amused when people, that in most instances have never seen any of the teams in the ECACE (insert MIAC/NCHA) play, talk about the relative weakness of the conference.
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St Ben's did as expected...went out and lost two games. With the Waidacher's I would have expected them to win both or the St. Anslem game to be much closer.


if you were offended by most post...which I'm assuming you were since you referenced western teams...you clearly do not get the joke.
 
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gojackets said:
You also saw St. Ben's the "Potsdam" or "Southern Maine" of the West. They aren't Chatam or Plymouth State but not quite Neumann or Oswego.

St. Scholastica played without arguably their two best players(were a little busy playing for the Swiss National Team). So you didn't exactly see the cream of the crop of the west....which you would maybe know if you took your own advice.
What are you talking about, I referenced two teams from the "West" that play in two different leagues that played two teams in the middle of the pack of the ECACE and I was able to see the quality of the quality of the hockey played out West.For the record, have you ever seen a team play from the ECACE?
If you have , and you still want to classify the ECAC as weak. that is your peragative as an informed critic. I won't agree with you but...


St Ben's did as expected...went out and lost two games. With the Waidacher's I would have expected them to win both or the St. Anslem game to be much closer.
Expected by who? You , funny how the St.A's coach didn't expect St.Ben's to lose


if you were offended by most post...which I'm assuming you were since you referenced western teams...you clearly do not get the joke.
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What is a most post? I referenced Western teams because those were the teams that I had a chance to see play. Joke? I don't know if you are trying to make a joke but the correct spelling is Saint Anselm
 
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hawkhockey said:
What is a most post? I referenced Western teams because those were the teams that I had a chance to see play. Joke? I don't know if you are trying to make a joke but the correct spelling is Saint Anselm
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Haha, you know they have no argument when they attack a simple spelling error, especially when they can't quote right.

I would hope that my coach expected the team that I was playing against to lose.

My point was that the teams you watched...would never resemble the US National Team...heck the holy trinity of RIT, Middlebury, Plattsburgh/Elmira would not even resemble the US National Team. You watched teams, that if you knew anything about you'd realize, are mediocre at best.
 
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I thought we were talking about the strengths of conferences and if the ECACE was in fact a weak conference.
my point was , that after seeing a couple of out of region teams(mediocre in your words) play, that the games against "mediocre" teams of the ECACE were competitive games.In fact very competetive.
Given that fact, as opposed to uninformed speculation, I don't see the weak argument standing up. If you would agree that Norwich is a good team, then the top 5-6 teams in the East can play with anyone and represent the conference in a competitive way.
As to your humor, don't quit your day job.
 
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hawkhockey said:
I thought we were talking about the strengths of conferences and if the ECACE was in fact a weak conference.
my point was , that after seeing a couple of out of region teams(mediocre in your words) play, that the games against "mediocre" teams of the ECACE were competitive games.In fact very competetive.
Given that fact, as opposed to uninformed speculation, I don't see the weak argument standing up. If you would agree that Norwich is a good team, then the top 5-6 teams in the East can play with anyone and represent the conference in a competitive way.
As to your humor, don't quit your day job.
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Perhaps we need to revisit the discussion of the relative strengths of the conferences on its own thread?
No one says the ECAC-East teams do not play in competitive games. No one says any of the players are anything less than outstanding student athletes who sacrifice a lot for the sports they love. However, if you average the rankings of both the Rutter and KRACH (and the figures are amazingly consistent), the ECAC-East is the weakest of the 5 conferences.
 
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obserbear said:
Perhaps we need to revisit the discussion of the relative strengths of the conferences on its own thread?
No one says the ECAC-East teams do not play in competitive games. No one says any of the players are anything less than outstanding student athletes who sacrifice a lot for the sports they love. However, if you average the rankings of both the Rutter and KRACH (and the figures are amazingly consistent), the ECAC-East is the weakest of the 5 conferences.
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Unless I'm mistaken though the Rutter and Krach do not account for Saint Anselm or Holy Cross correct? It's unfortunate that two of the better teams in the ECAC East aren't D-III and don't count because both of those teams would be fringe top 10 to top 15 teams in the country in most years.
 
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Derek Dunning said:
Unless I'm mistaken though the Rutter and Krach do not account for Saint Anselm or Holy Cross correct? It's unfortunate that two of the better teams in the ECAC East aren't D-III and don't count because both of those teams would be fringe top 10 to top 15 teams in the country in most years.
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The Rutter and KRACH both assign a rank to Saint Anselm, Holy Cross and Saint Michaels (and the ECAC-East would be computing an even less competitive score without them).
 
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