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The EC-Easy Conference strikes again...

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hockeyjunkie10 said:
I gave you a pass because I understood the narrow scope from which you see the game having based your comments solely from your watching of the Brown-Yale series in the ECACHL playoffs. You're lack of knowledge, masked by some aggressive language and average wit, is rather disheartening.
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You want to make a case that Yale is the best in the ECAC, I can work with that. For you to say they are close to being the best team in the NCAA? That's borderline cause for commitment to an asylum. Sure, if Ryan Miller and Zack Parise showed up to play for the Bulldogs, I'd agree with you.
 
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I really should have stopped reading when you mentioned the overhyped #1 seed of Clarkson in 2007. Anyone who actually watched the Clarkson-UMass game would tell you that Clarkson dominated that game and just couldn't get past a goaltender that was standing on his head. (He was pretty good too, he's playing in some league called the NHL now.) It was also virtually the same Clarkson team that beat SCSU the following season in the tournament and played a strong game against the #1 seeded Wolverines.

I didn't expect much from Yale in the tournament; they really only have one top line and no goaltending whatsoever. They proved me wrong by beating an overrated WCHA team. I think BC will be a different story.
 
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Yale may have taken out best team in the tournament yesterday. If they play as well today they win. I dont think BC has the horses NoDak had.
Of course Nodak wasnt Nodak until 3rd period...
Should be a great game.
 
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Got 6 said:
Uhhhh, yeah. If Yale had a premier goaltender and without the Backman injury it would take an upset for them not to be a Frozen Four team, and who knows they still might be.
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That 2nd BC goal shows they need a goalie:D
 
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walrus said:
That 2nd BC goal shows they need a goalie:D
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Not a well kept secret, but ouch, giving up a goal from 150 feet!! That hurts. Not a lot of luck for Yale in the first. First they give up on a broken stick breakaway and then the long shot.
 
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If the NC game lives up to the speed and intensity of this game we would all be very lucky. Wicked speed/skill shown by both teams.
 
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Yale should just pull the goalie....it really cant be any worse. How good to you feel about yourself if you are Maricic and not even one of the three dressing tonight? :eek: Well, at least they played well yesterday! I really don't know why he pulled Blaise. It has been their Achilles heel all year and tonight it has escalated to disaster!
 
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W-force said:
Yale may have taken out best team in the tournament yesterday. If they play as well today they win. I dont think BC has the horses NoDak had.
Of course Nodak wasnt Nodak until 3rd period...
Should be a great game.
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Yale is playing better today than yesterday, offensively anyways. Defensively? Not so much.
 
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SamluvstheBears said:
In basketball how many Ivy league teams make the NCAA tourney? One would be the answer and Cornell made it to the sweet 16which was impressive. The Ivy league understands that academics and their tough standards will effect their athletic participation and they accept that fact, which they should. The ECACHL should be forced to accept the same fate as do all the other sports played in the Ivy League. One bid and one bid only, until you prove you deserve more then that.
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"all the other sports" != "basketball"

Multiple Ivies have made the NCAA tournament in soccer (men's and women's), lacrosse (men's and women's), wrestling, women's hockey (where Dartmouth and Harvard were two of the best programs in the country for a good chunk of the last decade)

To be fair, the Ivy is a one-bid conference in baseball and softball, although that's true of the northeast in general (even the Big East, which can place multiple teams in the baseball tournament usually does so with southern and/or midwestern schools like Louisville and Notre Dame). However, the Ivies sponsor a large number of sports - especially relative to enrollment - and placing multiple teams in the NCAA tournament is not a phenomenon exclusive to hockey.

I'm not going to get involved in the debate about how many schools from a given conference should be allowed in the tournament. It's stupid and irrelevant. I just want to make sure that everyone is properly informed.
 
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Three hours ago if you had told me Yale would score 7 tonight, I would have said I look forward to seeing them in the Frozen Four. 9 GAA, ***!! On the bright side, at least it was not a boring game!!!

Onion Man, give it a rest. With Backman and a decent goalie, Yale could have won that game against (you heard the commentators) the most consistent and successful team in the NCAA's for the last decade. They played at Wisconsin this year and though they tied they dominated shot-wise. HockeyJunkie is a lot more right than you are!! Yale is/was one of the best offensive teams in the country this year.
 
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Got 6 said:
Three hours ago if you had told me Yale would score 7 tonight, I would have said I look forward to seeing them in the Frozen Four. 9 GAA, ***!! On the bright side, at least it was not a boring game!!!

Onion Man, give it a rest. With Backman and a decent goalie, Yale could have won that game against (you heard the commentators) the most consistent and successful team in the NCAA's for the last decade. They played at Wisconsin this year and though they tied they dominated shot-wise. HockeyJunkie is a lot more right than you are!! Yale is/was one of the best offensive teams in the country this year.
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What I saw was BC fall asleep up 9-4 and give up a few garbage goals. Yale is better than I thought, but not as good as Hockeyjunkie thinks. I will give them credit for going toe to toe with a true powerhouse college hockey program tonight.
 
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Onion Man said:
What I saw was BC fall asleep up 9-4 and give up a few garbage goals. Yale is better than I thought, but not as good as Hockeyjunkie thinks. I will give them credit for going toe to toe with a true powerhouse college hockey program tonight.
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I saw one garbage goal in the entire game and it was scored from 150 feet away by BC. Take away that bad goal and with Backman in the lineup who is generally good for a goal a game and Yale very well might have proved hockeyjunkie right.
 
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Got 6 said:
I saw one garbage goal in the entire game and it was scored from 150 feet away by BC. Take away that bad goal and with Backman in the lineup who is generally good for a goal a game and Yale very well might have proved hockeyjunkie right.
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Good Lord, Backman is not Ovechkin or Crosby. Im not saying Yale is a bad team at all, Im just saying its laughable to proclaim that Yale would be the best team in the nation with Backman and a "legit goalie". If the goalie was Ryan Miller, he'd be right. Seems to me that one of the top teams in the nation would have good enough sense to recruit a capable netminder.
 
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Onion Man said:
Good Lord, Backman is not Ovechkin or Crosby. Im not saying Yale is a bad team at all, Im just saying its laughable to proclaim that Yale would be the best team in the nation with Backman and a "legit goalie". If the goalie was Ryan Miller, he'd be right. Seems to me that one of the top teams in the nation would have good enough sense to recruit a capable netminder.
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How many games was Backman held pointless this season. Backman was easily one of the best players in the country this year and I know for a fact a number of coaches voted for him as POTY. Yale just beat one of the most storied NCAA programs and put 7 goals up against another. I don't recall anyone saying they would be the best team in the NCAA. It is not, however, a stretch to say that with Backman and a decent goalie they wouldn't have pretty good odds of making it to the Frozen Four.
 
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Got 6 said:
How many games was Backman held pointless this season. Backman was easily one of the best players in the country this year and I know for a fact a number of coaches voted for him as POTY. Yale just beat one of the most storied NCAA programs and put 7 goals up against another. I don't recall anyone saying they would be the best team in the NCAA. It is not, however, a stretch to say that with Backman and a decent goalie they wouldn't have pretty good odds of making it to the Frozen Four.
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IF, IF's and but's were candy and nuts it would be Christmas every day as well, ECACHL and Yale fans. The outcome of this game kinda validates my point. As I said before if you knock at the door enough you might sneak past one team like Yale did yesterday, but it's not likely any ECACHL team would sneak past another top program from one of the three elite leagues in college hockey.

As for Yale making the Frozen Four if they had a goalie and Backman? Maybe if it were an all ECACHL regional. Yale had better hope Brown isn't invited...:o
 
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Got 6 said:
How many games was Backman held pointless this season. Backman was easily one of the best players in the country this year and I know for a fact a number of coaches voted for him as POTY. Yale just beat one of the most storied NCAA programs and put 7 goals up against another. I don't recall anyone saying they would be the best team in the NCAA. It is not, however, a stretch to say that with Backman and a decent goalie they wouldn't have pretty good odds of making it to the Frozen Four.
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Backman would have helped, but he wouldn't have made them the best team in the country. He wouldn't be a first line forward on BC or Miami.
 
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