And doooowwn the stretch they come; will Union falter? Will Yale leapfrog to the front again? Will I finish with a .667 prediction percentage? All these questions and more, to be answered in the coming weeks! Prediction precision Season: 121-57-20 (.662) This week All times Eastern Friday, February 18 Brown at Princeton – 7:00 Brown … Read more
This’ll be a quick-hitter, without the usual feature material in the middle due to a crunched-up week… the Beanpot and Clarkson-St. Lawrence kinda accordioned my standard pace and schedule. Players of the Week Player of the week: Alex Killorn, Harvard The Crimson’s most consistent (or perhaps only consistent) player this year scored three goals and … Read more
On the fly Friday, February 11 Brown 1 at Clarkson 4 The Golden Knights didn’t score on either of two power plays, but they did keep Bruno off the board on eight Bears advantages to grit out the victory. Frosh Allan McPherson and Will Frederick scored for ‘Tech, as did seniors Scott Freeman and Tom … Read more
Geez, 19 blogs devoted to picks already? Crazy. Onto the madness! Prediction precision Season record: 116-51-19 (.675) This week All times Eastern Friday, February 11 Yale at St. Lawrence – 7:00 Good heavens, Yale is mortal… on the road at least. Away from home, the Bulldogs are 5-4-0 overall, 4-3-0 in conference. Unfortunately, the Saints … Read more
Players of the Week Player of the Week: Joe Devin, Cornell The Scituate, Mass. senior earns Player of the Week honors this time around for his three-goal, five-point contribution to Cornell’s four-point weekend. He led off with Friday’s power-play game-winner over Clarkson, but finished even stronger with two goals – including the equalizing extra-attacker strike … Read more
Friday, February 4 Clarkson 2 at Cornell 5 Cornell scored three power-play goals as well as one short-handed, sealing Clarkson’s fate. Sophomore John Esposito, junior Sean Collins, and seniors Tyler Roeszler and Mike and Joe Devin scored for the Big Red in front of junior goalie Mike Garman (23 saves). Freshman David Pratt and senior … Read more
Prediction precision Season record: 106-50-18 (.661) On the fly All times Eastern Friday, February 4 Rensselaer at Quinnipiac – 7:00 While RPI will surely be the popular pick – especially in light of yesterday’s column – QU isn’t exactly folding up shop: The Bobcats are 5-1-3 in their last nine and are looking to solidify … Read more
Players of the Week Player of the week:Chase Polacek, Rensselaer Chase makes it two weeks in a row, as the senior striker opened the weekend with a power-play game-winner against Brown (plus a first-assist on the second goal), and wrapped it up with another power-play goal and two assists in the big win against Yale … Read more
On the fly Friday, January 28 Brown 0 at Rensselaer 3 Despite out-shooting the Engineers 36-20, Brown took the goose-egged L as RPI won the special-teams game. Senior Chase Polacek and Bryan Brutlag potted power-play goals late in the first period to pace the ‘Tute, and classmate Tyler Helfrich added the empty-netter in support of … Read more
Prediction precision Season record: Me: 100-47-16 (.663) Guest guessers: 76-49-13 (.598) Head to head: Sullivan 7, Guests 4*, with 1 tie. Looks like I’m doing alright so far. This week All times Eastern Friday, January 28 Cornell at Dartmouth – 7:00 Much like Princeton, Cornell has somehow figured out how to win on the road … Read more
Players of the Week Player of the week: Chase Polacek, RPI No stranger to the spotlight, Polacek scored twice – including the game-winner – in Friday’s tight win over Harvard, and added another GWG (this one on the power play) and an assist in Saturday’s romp over Dartmouth. The senior is now second in the … Read more
On the fly Friday, January 21 Clarkson 2 at Yale 5 Clarkson tested Yale all night, but the Bulldogs broke through with three third-period goals to vanquish the Knights. Freshman Kenny Agostino, junior Brian O’Neill, and seniors Denny Kearney and Chris Cahill (twice) scored for the Elis, who fought through 1-1 and 2-2 ties to … Read more
Our good friend BD – Mr. Benjamin Davis – is back again, and why not? He can’t help but beat me. He rolls out of bed each morning a better prognosticator than I, and the rest of the day is just downhill from there. Prediction precision Season record: Me: 91-46-15 (.648) Guest guessers: 70-45-12 (.598) … Read more
Players of the Week Player of the Week: Harry Zolnierczyk, Brown Brown’s one-man wrecking crew potted two goals, added two assists and finished +3 in the home-and-home split with No. 1 Yale. The Antagonizer scored a short-handed equalizer on Saturday evening in a game Bruno ultimately lost, but he earned first-assists on each of Brown’s … Read more
On the fly Friday, January 14 Rensselaer 1 at Cornell 5 Senior Joe Devin’s sixth goal of the year with 6:05 to play in the second period opened the Big Red floodgates, as Cornell scored four straight to break a 1-1 draw and secure the Red their first three-game winning streak of the year. Classmate … Read more
Yale University Associate Athletic Director and Director of Sports Publicity Steve Conn released a new statement this afternoon regarding Chris Cahill’s eligibility: The NCAA has confirmed the process and due diligence of Yale University and the Ivy League regarding the eligibility of Chris Cahill. He remains eligible to compete in all Yale hockey games. The … Read more
Benjamin Davis, former equipment manager at Clarkson (’03) and a really all-around sharp guy (or so says his record), is back for a shot at 3-0 against yours truly. We also welcome a second guest-guesser, in Mr. Peter Jasinski, a Yalie who requested this week as his first shot since the Bulldogs are finally back … Read more
Players of the Week Player of the Week: Kyle Bodie, Union Six-foot Manitoban sophomore Bodie scored a goal and added an assist against St. Lawrence on Friday, then added the game-winner and an insurance tally in the rout of Clarkson on Saturday. Plus-5 on the weekend, Bodie doubled his point production on the season in … Read more
On the fly Friday, January 7 Brown 4 at Harvard 3 The Bears’ power play went 2/5, bookending the scoring in a wild game and negating a natural hat trick by Harvard senior Michael Biega. Freshman Garnet Hathaway, sophomore Chris Zaires, junior Bobby Farnham and senior Harry Zolnierczyk did the honors for Brown, while Biega … Read more
Low on time, as I have been for the past two days… I have no competitor this week (Mr. Davis will have to come back next week, unless he chooses to retire 2-0 against yours truly?), so here are the quick picks for Friday night. (This page will be updated with full predictions tomorrow.) Friday, … Read more