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Not so ez????

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ECAC can hold its own with the other conferences this year . In addition to games mentioned, Princeton beat Bowling Green over the weekend (ok, not a huge accomplishment). I do think Yale , Union, Princeton, RPI and maybe Dartmouth have a shot at NCAA.
 
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Nick Papagiorgio said:
I'd rather see 2 out of 3 in the semis and/or finals but that's just me. At least I felt that way in April 2007! :D
Let's get back on topic. The EZAC is a bad hockey conference and will continue to claim otherwise and then fall on its face in the NCAAs.
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And I'll counter that a few programs are heading upward. For grins... If I were to rank teams from HE and ECAC in terms of relative strength I would group as follows:
Top Tier (deserve to be ranked in top 5): Yale and BC
2nd Tier (NCAA Bound): RPI, UNH, Merrimack
3rd Tier (Bubble boys): Union, Maine

Any one of these 7 teams could make it to the FF and of course 2 or more probably will.
 
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jmhusker said:
My five year old wants me to tell you that we're not fans of BU either. Since Krieder if from our hometown, we'd like to be able to root for BC but frankly we've found it hard to appreciate the chippy play of your bevy of leprechaun forwards.
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Since you consider the BC forwards to be chippy, would be interested to know your description of the Merrimack forwards. You could throw Bigos in there too, but he's kind of in a league of his own, wouldn't you say?
Personally, I have no problem with the style of hockey either team plays... but since you brought up the pussification of the sport, you peaked my curiosity.
 
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The majority of posters who belittle the quality of the ECAC - TODAY - use one of the following preposterous arguments:
1) Results of ECAC teams from years back prove that today's ECAC teams deserve no respect.
2) Predicted or imagined future results trump current results, so the ECAC teams deserve no respect.

Any team from any conference with any number of professional recruits and any past record or any imagined future record would be foolish to take a current ECAC opponent lightly.

Let the chest beating begin!
 
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Osorojo said:
The majority of posters who belittle the quality of the ECAC - TODAY - use one of the following preposterous arguments:
1) Results of ECAC teams from years back prove that today's ECAC teams deserve no respect.
2) Predicted or imagined future results trump current results, so the ECAC teams deserve no respect.

Any team from any conference with any number of professional recruits and any past record or any imagined future record would be foolish to take a current ECAC opponent lightly.

Let the chest beating begin!
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You're quite correct in what you post (for possibly the 3rd time ever; I'm impressed), and the same could be said about Atlantic, as they have made the Frozen Four recently. Unfortunately, we live in a "put up or shut up" sports society. If ECAC teams can put it up this March, then these posters will shut up. However, we won't know for a couple months.
 
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FiveHole12 said:
Since you consider the BC forwards to be chippy, would be interested to know your description of the Merrimack forwards. You could throw Bigos in there too, but he's kind of in a league of his own, wouldn't you say?
Personally, I have no problem with the style of hockey either team plays... but since you brought up the pussification of the sport, you peaked my curiosity.
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No question that Merrimack plays physical and they push it to the edge and probably over it at times. When I say chippy, I refer mainly to stick work. I think the BC players use their sticks a lot whereas Merrimack is all body (not always the legal parts either).

Bigos is a huge defenseman. I think there's a size limitation to qualify for being called chippy and he is over it. Goon is a more apt term for those guys. He could be one but he doesn't strike me as overtly dirty in his play - unlike the goon from BU that set the penalty record mark and graduated recently (last year was it?).
 
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