Believe it or not, we (ok, most of the teams we follow) have already played more than a quarter of their ECAC Hockey schedules. Time flies when you’re having fun/pulling your hair out, dunnit? Hockey Haven holding serve Quinnipiac (5-0-1)and Yale (2-0-2) remain the league’s only unbeaten teams. Yale is winning by playing clean (nine … Read more
Overall: 20-14-3 All games are 7 p.m. unless noted Friday, Nov. 15 Cornell at Clarkson Clarkson shows no sign of slowing down. The Golden Knights have been outstanding defensively and have gotten balanced scoring through their lineup. Cornell has been shutout in its two of its last three games after a strong start, putting a … Read more
Don’t look now, but Quinnipiac is almost halfway to last season’s 21-game unbeaten streak. The Bobcats beat Brown Friday before salvaging a 3-3 tie in a national championship rematch with Yale on Saturday. Quinnipiac is riding a ten-game unbeaten stretch since losing its opener Oct. 11, and is now 9-1-1. It was a year ago … Read more
Friday, November 8 Clarkson at Dartmouth 7:00 The Big Green have surrendered 22 goals in four games. Clarkson has given up 21 goals in 10 games. This is gut-check time for Dartmouth, picked to finish in the middle of the pack in the preseason polls, but rapidly plummeting into the basement. Tough to pick against … Read more
Standing ovations: Quinnipiac, Union The Bobcats continued their eye-opening, season-opening tear, reeling off consecutive wins no. seven and eight this weekend. The Q-Cats downed Colgate and Cornell on the road by a 10-2 aggregate, scoring five goals in the third period alone in Hamilton Friday night. (Funny enough, it hasn’t been so long since QU … Read more
Overall: 12-12-1 Rensselaer and Harvard started the ECAC’s league schedule with a 3-3 tie Tuesday in Troy. This weekend is the first full weekend of conference play, with two teams (St. Lawrence and Clarkson) traveling to the rinks where they ended their seasons last year, and two more (Cornell and Dartmouth) are hosting the teams … Read more
It was another solid weekend for the ECAC. Quinnipiac, Cornell and Clarkson each swept their opponents, while Rensselaer beat No. 13 New Hampshire at home. The ECAC has a 26-11-4 interconference record, by far the best of any league in the country. Ivies in action: The remaining six teams yet to play in Division I … Read more
Three of Division 1’s four Huskies programs are in action against the ECAC this weekend. In related news, 6.7 percent of DI hockey programs are Huskies… while only 3.4 percent of DI are Bulldogs. We have a serious canine gap here. Oh hey, and ECAC Hockey is a national-best 17-8-3 against other leagues. Friday, October … Read more
Bentley at Quinnipiac, 7 p.m. Quinnipiac hasn’t missed a beat in the early going, and posted an impressive sweep of Massachusetts-Lowell this past weekend. The Falcons have lost three in a row, scoring only four goals over that span. Michael Garteig and the Bobcats’ defense should be too much for Bentley. The only thing that … Read more
Welp, there are no more perfect teams in the ECAC… it will be up to the Ivies to try to duplicate Dartmouth’s accomplishment last year of being the last unbeaten team in Division 1. That said, Union (!!) is the only active league member under .500, somehow, as ECAC Hockey is currently 16-8-3 in early … Read more
Last week: 6-3-1 Overall: 7-7-1 I had decent luck last week, which pulled my overall record up to .500. Let’s see how long I stay there. All games are 7 p.m. unless noted. Friday, Oct. 18 RIT at Clarkson RIT has scored a respectable five goals in their first two games, but has allowed a … Read more
Every team outside of the Ivy schools is now at least two games into its season. Here’s a look at some notables in the the early going: Rookies make an impact: Several freshman made their presence felt immediately over the last two weekends. Clarkson goal Steve Perry stopped 54-of-55 shots in a pair of wins … Read more
Time for my first picks of the year; all times Eastern. Wish me luck. Thursday, October 10 Colgate at RIT Ok, I’m cheating: It’s 1-1 in the first period as I type this. Sorry. It’s tough picking such early-season games, as there is practically no basis for comparison yet… that said, it’s a big opening … Read more
Welcome back for another season of weekly picks. It hasn’t even been six months since Yale won the national title, but the ECAC is ready to go with Clarkson and Colgate each starting the regular season this weekend. Quinnipiac, RPI and St. Lawrence are all in preseason action as well. Saturday, Oct. 5 Ferris State … Read more
It’s been a long time… and we’re sorry. ECAC Hockey fans are sorry that the league hasn’t put a team in the title game in 23 years. We’re sorry it’s been two dozen seasons since a conference member finished on top. We apologize for being dismissed, marginalized, underrated, ignored, and downright insulted for our opinion, … Read more
Three ECAC teams are set to play in the NCAA Tournament this weekend. There’s Yale, who was shutout twice last weekend in Atlantic City; Quinnipiac, who lost out at a chance at the program’s first Whitelaw Cup with a 4-0 loss to Brown in the semifinals; and Union, who enters the tournament off their second … Read more
Was it dramatic? No. Was it boisterous? No. Was it inspiring? Not really. Ah, but was it predictable? Never… not in ECAC Hockey. Union marched to its second consecutive ECAC tournament title in Atlantic City, and – all things considered – the Dutchmen are probably the only folks will enjoyed the three-year A.C. experiment, having … Read more
Looking for an incisive breakdown of your team’s PairWise potentialities? Well, if your fan isn’t from ECAC Hockey, you’ll have to look elsewhere. Here’s how things are looking for the ECAC: • Rensselaer is eliminated. This drops the maximum number of ECAC representatives to three, but all four teams that are playing today are eligible. … Read more
Coach of the Year: Rand Pecknold, QU Player of the Year: Eric Hartzell, QU Goaltender of the Year: Eric Hartzell, QU Best Defensive Defenseman: Zach Davies, QU Best Defensive Forward: Greg Miller, Cornell Rookie of the Year: Jason Kasdorf, RPI All-ECAC Hockey Teams First Team F Greg Carey, SLU F Kyle Flanagan, SLU F Andrew … Read more
Nate: Last week: 2-2 Overall (playoffs): 6-2 Three of the of the top four teams in the regular season standings meet in Atlantic City this weekend to decide this year’s ECAC champion. No. 7 Brown is the only team out of the top four to make it to the finals weekend, although I wouldn’t call … Read more