Yale - The best team in the country?

[Biddco]

Re: Yale - The best team in the country?

Yes. It's the last champion of this era as we know it. Starting next year everybody starts from scratch.

Boy you're really on this "start from scratch" business aren't you?

 

[HarleyMC]

Re: Yale - The best team in the country?

Yale was a 15th seed and played Q 3X in the regular season and playoffs losing all three, while averaging 1G/game with a total goal differential of 13-3 in favor of Q. Although Yale deserves credit for elevating their game in the postseason, most college hockey fans would agree that statistically they were NOT the best team in NCAA D1 hockey this season.

Personally, I'm not interested in seeing a team not ranked in the top ten in the nation for most of the season win a national championship. Fans want to see the best teams all season go head to head in a national tournament. In my view, any team that consistently ranks high throughout the season deserves a better shot at proving it in the postseason than just playing a lower seed in the NCAA regionals.

Two of Yale's tournament wins were OT Ws. IMO if they played ANY of teams they beat in the NCAA tournament in a best of 3, they lose those series. All the more reason to alter the NCAA tournament and eliminate the single elimination format for a "best of" series format similar to what is done in the NHL. Logistics might be a bit challenging, but I think changing to a tournament series format could be done starting with using college campus sites of top tournament teams for regional playoffs, which would also solve the perennial problem of poorly attended regionals at neutral sites.

 

[WildShawn]

Yale was a 15th seed and played Q 3X in the regular season and playoffs losing all three, while averaging 1G/game with a total goal differential of 13-3 in favor of Q. Although Yale deserves credit for elevating their game in the postseason, most college hockey fans would agree that statistically they were NOT the best team in NCAA D1 hockey this season.

Personally, I'm not interested in seeing a team not ranked in the top ten in the nation for most of the season win a national championship. Fans want to see the best teams all season go head to head in a national tournament. In my view, any team that consistently ranks high throughout the season deserves a better shot at proving it in the postseason than just playing a lower seed in the NCAA regionals.

Two of Yale's tournament wins were OT Ws. IMO if they played ANY of teams they beat in the NCAA tournament in a best of 3, they lose those series. All the more reason to alter the NCAA tournament and eliminate the single elimination format for a "best of" series format similar to what is done in the NHL. Logistics might be a bit challenging, but I think changing to a tournament series format could be done starting with using college campus sites of top tournament teams for regional playoffs, which would also solve the perennial problem of poorly attended regionals at neutral sites.

Really, the way Yale dominated UML, you think UML wins a best of three? The reason UML was in that game, and it went to ot is UML's insanely good goaltender, otherwise,Uml didn't belong on the same ice, despite their top ten ranking... Had Yale beaten one top seed, you could call it a fluke, maybe, but they beat th top three ranked teams in the nation... They earned it, period, and it is good for the game....

Guessing you'd rather have an 8 team tournament or something silly....

 

[SurfCityRed]

Cornell was better than minnesota in 2003?

Sadly due to an incorrect decision of a video replay official to overturn a good goal, we never had the opportunity to find out.

 

[WildShawn]

Sadly due to an incorrect decision of a video replay official to overturn a good goal, we never had the opportunity to find out.

On what planet?