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Yale vs. UMass-Lowell (Handsome Dan vs. Rowdy) - Frozen Four National Semifinal 4/11

Re: Yale vs. UMass-Lowell (Handsome Dan vs. Rowdy) - Frozen Four National Semifinal 4

WYBC is proud to announce our coverage of the 2013 NCAA Men’s Frozen Four! We'll have complete coverage of the semifinal, starting with a 90-minute pregame show at 3 pm EDT on WYBC-AM 1340 and WYBC.com/listen. The puck drops at 4:30 pm. We have a full broadcast team in the Steel City ready to go: Konrad Coutinho ’13, Evan Frondorf ’14, Nell Meosky ’14, John Ryan ’14, and alumnus Chris Hudson ’07.

If Yale advances past the national semifinal, details about upcoming coverage will be provided shortly after the game.
 
Re: Yale vs. UMass-Lowell (Handsome Dan vs. Rowdy) - Frozen Four National Semifinal 4

ZamboniDude said:
I think the notion that Yale is a huge underdog is solely driven by their implosion in the ECAC playoffs, and the subsequent fall to the 15th seed. If you go back to the Friday afternoon that the ECAC playoffs started (just 11 days ago from today), Yale was tied for 4th in PWR with Miami (QU-1, Min-2, UML-3, Yale/Miami-4). After completely laying an egg against in Atlantic City, they fell all the way to 15th and barely made the tournament.

If you consider their no-show that weekend to be an anomaly and you take their season long perfomance in context, up to that point 11 days ago, and putting any stock in the Pairwise at all, then their win vs Min was in reality a very minor upset (PWR-4 beating PWR-2), and their win over North Dakota wasn't an upset at all (PWR-4 beating PWR 7 or 8).

I fully realize that you can't just exclude games and say that they are the 4th ranked team in the country and Atlantic City never happened. What I'm trying to illustrate is that 11 days ago they were 4th, and thus they are probably better than the 15th seed indicates. The 15th seed is what drives the "major upset" talk when in reality they are probably close/equal in talent to most of the teams in the tournament.
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There has been a lot written about Yale's "implosion" in the ECAC tournament, as if they were playing some last place team. They lost to a white hot Union team and Quinnipiac for xxxxx sake!!! During that 7 game Union run Union was giving up .8 goals per game and scoring 4.5 against some very good teams. Yale was underestimated by a lot of folks this year. Fortunately for Union, our coach was not one of them and correctly and publicly identified them as one of the most dangerous teams in College Hockey. Looks like he was right.
 
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Re: Yale vs. UMass-Lowell (Handsome Dan vs. Rowdy) - Frozen Four National Semifinal 4

Congrats to Yale. Well played game.
 
KnowItAll said:
so forget about the tourney performance, and forget about the stretch from Jam 26 to Feb. 22nd

anything else to forget?
Heck Huntville could be considered undefeated this season if we only look at that win.
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Change your name to KnowAbsolutelyNothing - fits better.
 
Re: Yale vs. UMass-Lowell (Handsome Dan vs. Rowdy) - Frozen Four National Semifinal 4

Congratulations, and good luck on Saturday.
 
Re: Yale vs. UMass-Lowell (Handsome Dan vs. Rowdy) - Frozen Four National Semifinal 4

Well done Yale...you made our team look like our opponents looked over the last 4 months. It wasn't easy for me to watch. Good luck on Saturday!
 
Re: Yale vs. UMass-Lowell (Handsome Dan vs. Rowdy) - Frozen Four National Semifinal 4

riverhawk2000 said:
Well done Yale...you made our team look like our opponents looked over the last 4 months. It wasn't easy for me to watch. Good luck on Saturday!
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I second that.

You guys won that game! We did not lose it! You took it to us. If we had got the OT winner ... we all would've known we had stolen it.
 
Re: Yale vs. UMass-Lowell (Handsome Dan vs. Rowdy) - Frozen Four National Semifinal 4

riverhawk2000 said:
Well done Yale...you made our team look like our opponents looked over the last 4 months. It wasn't easy for me to watch. Good luck on Saturday!
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Ruefully agreeing on this one. Nicely done.
 
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