Brian SullivanSixteen is sweet; but results sour for QU The Bobcats are still streaking, reeling off games number 15 and 16 without a loss this weekend. That said, their dominance is still in question in some circles: Friday’s 1-1 home result against RPI (1-6-3 in ECAC play) and Saturday’s 3-2 squeaker versus Union were hardly scores … Read more
Sixteen is sweet; but results sour for QU The Bobcats are still streaking, reeling off games number 15 and 16 without a loss this weekend. That said, their dominance is still in question in some circles: Friday’s 1-1 home result against RPI (1-6-3 in ECAC play) and Saturday’s 3-2 squeaker versus Union were hardly scores … Read more
Perhaps 2013 will be a Crimson kind of year: It can’t possibly be a bad thing that the “other” Crimson — the fluid, Southern kind — just won another national title, can it? The scholastic, Cambridge kind of Crimson are having some troubles on the ice. (The males, at least… the females are ranked second … Read more
Some weeks, it feels as though there were no “big stories” over the weekend… a lot of splits, no major controversies, nothing really stood out. Why couldn’t every week be like this week? Golden boys First and foremost, congratulations to the trio of ECAC Hockey representatives on the American World Junior Championship team. The United … Read more
Some weeks, it feels as though there were no “big stories” over the weekend… a lot of splits, no major controversies, nothing really stood out. Why couldn’t every week be like this week? Golden boys First and foremost, congratulations to the trio of ECAC Hockey representatives on the American World Junior Championship team. The United … Read more
With only a handful of holiday-break games remaining for ECAC Hockey, let’s take a look at the league’s winners and losers from the last week. Props … to Quinnipiac and Dartmouth. The Bobcats now boast the nation’s longest unbeaten streak with a 12-game streak, an 11-0-1 tear that culminated with this weekend’s sweep of 12th-ranked … Read more
With only a handful of holiday-break games remaining for ECAC Hockey, let’s take a look at the league’s winners and losers from the last week. Props … to Quinnipiac and Dartmouth. The Bobcats now boast the nation’s longest unbeaten streak with a 12-game streak, an 11-0-1 tear that culminated with this weekend’s sweep of 12th-ranked … Read more
Inspired in part by years of curiosity, and more recently by the Cornell hockey blog “WAFT” (Where Angels Fear to Tread), I gathered a novella of league standings and schedules and went to work on breaking down exactly how tough ECAC Hockey’s teams have had it in the first half. The method Not being a … Read more
Inspired in part by years of curiosity, and more recently by the Cornell hockey blog “WAFT” (Where Angels Fear to Tread), I gathered a novella of league standings and schedules and went to work on breaking down exactly how tough ECAC Hockey’s teams have had it in the first half. The method Not being a … Read more
We’re waist-deep in holiday madness, so here’s a shimmering lifeline of hockey happiness to hold on to for the next two weeks. Assuming the world doesn’t end, of course. This isn’t all, you know: Check out the last two entries in the ECAC Hockey blog for more reflections and wrap-ups on the semester that was. … Read more
North Country sliding Clarkson and St. Lawrence are a combined 3-7-1 in their last 12 games, which include two head-to-head matchups that both went Tech’s way. While SLU boasts the better record (7-8-2, to Clarkson’s 4-8-5), the Saints have dropped four straight and seven of their last 10. Clarkson started the season 0-4-3 and has … Read more
North Country sliding Clarkson and St. Lawrence are a combined 3-7-1 in their last 12 games, which include two head-to-head matchups that both went Tech’s way. While SLU boasts the better record (7-8-2, to Clarkson’s 4-8-5), the Saints have dropped four straight and seven of their last 10. Clarkson started the season 0-4-3 and has … Read more
True, we are only a third of the way into the ECAC Hockey regular-season schedule, but many teams have seen a full 50 percent of their dockets already. Time to make some half-informed assessments! Let’s face it, QU is the story No point in tip-toeing around the Most Obvious Fact of the Fall: The Bobcats … Read more
True, we are only a third of the way into the ECAC Hockey regular-season schedule, but many teams have seen a full 50 percent of their dockets already. Time to make some half-informed assessments! Let’s face it, QU is the story No point in tip-toeing around the Most Obvious Fact of the Fall: The Bobcats … Read more
After noting the dearth of draftees atop ECAC Hockey’s leaderboards earlier this week, I took to calling some of the conference’s coaches to find out what they thought of the discrepancy. Quinnipiac coach Rand Pecknold said, “in my opinion, the NHL draft is probably a little young. “You look at [goalie Eric] Hartzell and [forward … Read more
Can we all agree that it’s early, thereby accepting that caveat without further asterisk-ing? Great. Now then: ECAC Hockey is looking good so far. Scary good. Let’s take a spin ’round the league we call our own. What the NHL doesn’t know… In order to be a top team, you have to get the top … Read more
Can we all agree that it’s early, thereby accepting that caveat without further asterisk-ing? Great. Now then: ECAC Hockey is looking good so far. Scary good. Let’s take a spin ’round the league we call our own. What the NHL doesn’t know… In order to be a top team, you have to get the top … Read more
Yale riding (a mile) high No doubt about it, the story of the weekend was Yale’s road sweep of Centennial Staters Denver and Colorado College. The Pioneers entered the weekend at 9-1-1 and ranked second in the USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll, while CC (7-5-0 as of Turkey Day) was tagged for 14th in the … Read more
Yale riding (a mile) high No doubt about it, the story of the weekend was Yale’s road sweep of Centennial Staters Denver and Colorado College. The Pioneers entered the weekend at 9-1-1 and ranked second in the USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll, while CC (7-5-0 as of Turkey Day) was tagged for 14th in the … Read more
In its first games since Adam Oates’ induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame, Rensselaer manufactured some of Oates’ (class of ’85) favorite product: offense. On the heels of consecutive shutouts at Dartmouth and Harvard (each 4-0 losses), the Engineers quietly dismissed Atlantic Hockey foe Mercyhurst by 4-2 and 4-1 margins. The victories were RPI’s … Read more