Brian Sullivan Somebody get me a bottle of your finest Andre; the home teams have won! That’s right; for the first time all season, the Hosts claimed a weekend of league play with a 5-3-1 record over those upstart Visitors. Ohh, how we hate those Visitors. Colgate went 2-0-0 at Starr to lead the pack with wins … Read more
For anyone who’s read any of my past columns, you know what’s leading off. That’s right, it’s time for my weekly rant about the crazy road wins in the ECACHL this year. Only four teams in action this weekend, but once again, home-ice advantage proved meaningless in a 1-1-2 weekend where Princeton and Quinnipiac visited … Read more
Quinnipiac head coach Rand Pecknold left the Bright Hockey Center on Friday night as the embodiment of his team’s play that evening: well put-together, but sporting six stitches and a black eye nonetheless. Pecknold’s first-place Bobcats were out-done, out-run and out-gunned by the host Harvard Crimson in the 4-2 Harvard win. Alex Biega scored in … Read more
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody; here’s hoping it’s the tryptophan that’s putting you to sleep, and not the hockey. Or the hockey coverage. Home %&#@ Home… Let me know when you begin to see a pattern emerging here. Last weekend, the host teams went 3-5-0 in league play for the second consecutive week. The visitors, as a … Read more
It was a game between rivals. It was a game of opposites. It was a game of streaks and momentum. It was a game that the Yale Bulldogs won in convincing fashion, 5-2. The Elis stormed the gates of the Harvard Crimson from the very first minute, and never trailed their bitter rivals in the … Read more
I think I might just start deciding my weekly predictions with coin flips. That quarter can’t be any worse at it than I am. Once more, the home teams did me in. The host schools again failed to hold serve last weekend in what is traditionally a very home-friendly league. The visitors, as a collective, … Read more
Wow, talk about a wild weekend. The home teams went 3-7-2 in league play, with no sweeps. RPI was the only home team to take three points this weekend, while traditional powers Dartmouth and Harvard shockingly dropped all four home games between them. Brown went blow-for-blow with visiting Colgate, and nearly doubled up the favored … Read more
Get ready for the thunder; league play is under way. The ECACHL schedule features a full slate of games this weekend, each team playing two games with league points at stake. Dartmouth and RPI are rolling, Cornell is heating up, Yale is on an upset-high. Colgate, Union and St. Lawrence are hungry for decisive, streak-starting … Read more
As though it weren’t enough that only half of the league has commenced the regular season, this past week only four of those six active teams played NCAA games. Time to stretch for material and lean heavy on the quotes! Oh, wait, that was supposed to be strictly internal monologue. Mile High in the Rear … Read more
Hi, everybody. But enough about me, there’s hockey afoot! The State Of The League Two weeks into the season, the usual suspects are off and running. The non-foliage-affilated sextet of Clarkson, Colgate, Quinnipiac, RPI, St. Lawrence and Union tumbled — and in some cases stumbled — out of the gate to a collective 10-6-3 record. … Read more