Didn't realize just how poorly every team in this tourney is playing right now (h/t Mike McMahon):
"You’ll struggle to find a better backdrop for college hockey than Lake Placid. Clarkson, St. Lawrence, UMass Lowell, and Alaska headline the third edition of this event — and all four teams arrive in need of a course correction.
Clarkson enters the weekend amid a five-game losing streak. The Golden Knights managed just one goal in four straight outings before finally breaking through with three tallies last Saturday at Princeton.
Their North Country rivals at St. Lawrence are stuck in the same rut — five consecutive losses and searching for answers.
Alaska hasn’t played since Nov. 8 and has sputtered to an 0-4-1 mark in its last five contests.
UMass Lowell, idle last weekend, is still digesting a punishing trip through the Capital Region, where they were shelled 7-1 by Union before being shut out 2-0 by RPI." Should be fine for us because we can't score either and if we lose, no one's gonna say we had a long way off, and the men were stuffed full of turkey.