BC just got a commitment from the son of Caps GM George McPhee. George McPhee won the Hobey Baker in 1982 while playing for Jerry York at Bowling Green. Graham McPhee is just 14 now and a sophomore at Shattuck. He's commited to BC for 2017-18, so I'm assuming the plan is to graduate from SSM and then play a year in the USHL.
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ForceAtHome said:
And he is pretty damn talented as well. Last year for Shattuck Bantam (MinnB) he had 35 goals and 54 assists.
NESN should have it on instead of that Syracuse game. It would be great to be able to switch between that game and the Gophers-Irish game.Dropkick Izzy said:
Northeastern dropped Lowell last night at Tsongas 4-2. Don't have much to say, since I wasn't there, but seeing a W after a couple of brutal losses to BC last weekend already shows how different this team is compared to the past couple years. The team used to spiral after those kinds of losses. Encouraging, encouraging win, especially doing it on the road. Home and home against UNH up next.
JT Compher gives Michigan the lead with his first collegiate goal. 2-1 Wolverines, headed into the second [intermission].
I have Comcast, jsinger, so I can't help you. Sorry.
I have Comcast, jsinger, so I can't help you. Sorry.
UNO takes a 3-2 lead 7 minutes into the third. Michigan has to play with much more intensity.
With another good weekend, I wonder if there's any chance that Providence jumps to #2 or #3 in the rankings come Monday... Gillies is further cementing himself as a stud as well. I'm really excited to see him as the likely starter for the US in this year's WJC. Looking a bit ahead since Providence in my dark horse national title pick, the Friars luckily (intentionally?) have a very favorable schedule that overlaps with the WJC this year. Providence went 0-2-1 with Gillies in Ufa last year, but he will likely only miss their games against Army, Dartmouth, Air Force/Northeastern, Merrimack, and Northeastern. You never know in college hockey, but Army and Dartmouth look terrible. Providence already swept Merrimack on the road, albeit with Gillies in net. I'm not a believer in Air Force, which leaves Northeastern as the only solid opponent. (I'm sure now that I've brought this up, Providence will struggle with UNH and then lose to QU in the next week and a half to make this all moot.)
#1 Minneota (8-1-1) - Swept Minnesota State (4-1, 3-0) at home. They'll surely retain the top spot next week. With 38/50 first place votes last week and two convincing wins over a good team (de facto #21), they're a lock to remain top dogs.
#2 Michigan (7-2-1) - Split at UNO (2-3, 4-3). Definitely not a crippling weekend to split against the #25 team on the road, but they did lose a game and that's generally not good for a team ranked second.
#3 St. Cloud (8-1-1) - Took two at Alabama-Huntsville (10-0, 4-3), but that's hardly a feat. It seems unlikely that they'll fall in the rankings with a weekend sweep, but will they climb?
#4 Notre Dame (8-3-1) - Beat and tied Merrimack at home (4-0, 2-2). Merrimack isn't UAH bad, but Notre Dame really had to be hoping for a pair of wins at home in this series.
#5 Providence (9-1-1) - Swept UVM at the Gut (3-2, 3-0). The Catamounts hardly look like a powerhouse, but they did split with Notre Dame. Sweeping a conference opponent on the road in a relatively tough building with a shutout is nothing to scoff at, either.
#6 Quinnipiac (11-1-1) - Beat Harvard (3-2) and Dartmouth (3-1) at home. Dartmouth is atrocious and that was an assumed win for the Bobcats at home, but Harvard is a decent win
Though I think Providence is deserving of #2 in the rankings, I see them more likely to end up ranked 4th. Not only is Providence 9-1-1, but they're third among all teams in both scoring and goals against. I think that there are enough voters who still love Michigan (9 first place votes last week) to hold them in second or third, and SCSU isn't likely to fall with a 2-0 weekend. Notre Dame didn't lose, but I think PC jumps them with 2 road wins. I could conceivably see a top 7 this week featuring (in order) Minnesota, St. Cloud State, Michigan, Providence, Quinnipiac, Notre Dame, and Boston College.
#1 Minneota (8-1-1) - Swept Minnesota State (4-1, 3-0) at home. They'll surely retain the top spot next week. With 38/50 first place votes last week and two convincing wins over a good team (de facto #21), they're a lock to remain top dogs.
#2 Michigan (7-2-1) - Split at UNO (2-3, 4-3). Definitely not a crippling weekend to split against the #25 team on the road, but they did lose a game and that's generally not good for a team ranked second.
#3 St. Cloud (8-1-1) - Took two at Alabama-Huntsville (10-0, 4-3), but that's hardly a feat. It seems unlikely that they'll fall in the rankings with a weekend sweep, but will they climb?
#4 Notre Dame (8-3-1) - Beat and tied Merrimack at home (4-0, 2-2). Merrimack isn't UAH bad, but Notre Dame really had to be hoping for a pair of wins at home in this series.
#5 Providence (9-1-1) - Swept UVM at the Gut (3-2, 3-0). The Catamounts hardly look like a powerhouse, but they did split with Notre Dame. Sweeping a conference opponent on the road in a relatively tough building with a shutout is nothing to scoff at, either.
#6 Quinnipiac (11-1-1) - Beat Harvard (3-2) and Dartmouth (3-1) at home. Dartmouth is atrocious and that was an assumed win for the Bobcats at home, but Harvard is a decent win
Though I think Providence is deserving of #2 in the rankings, I see them more likely to end up ranked 4th. Not only is Providence 9-1-1, but they're third among all teams in both scoring and goals against. I think that there are enough voters who still love Michigan (9 first place votes last week) to hold them in second or third, and SCSU isn't likely to fall with a 2-0 weekend. Notre Dame didn't lose, but I think PC jumps them with 2 road wins. I could conceivably see a top 7 this week featuring (in order) Minnesota, St. Cloud State, Michigan, Providence, Quinnipiac, Notre Dame, and Boston College.
ForceAtHome said:
There will probably be midwest bias for both Providence and Quinnipiac not moving up. Though they should jump over both ND and Michigan in my view. That game in Hamden in 2 weeks is going to be a dandy. Too bad students will be home on the break. The atmosphere will be terrible for that game.
ForceAtHome said:
New top-20 out today. I was close in my guesses but I had Michigan too high (I think their drop to #5 is appropriate, I just didn't think they'd get it right). If you slide Michigan down behind PC and QU, everything else holds up.
New top-10:
1. Minnesota
2. St. Cloud
3. Providence
4. Quinnipiac
5. Michigan
6. Notre Dame
7. Boston College
8. Miami
9. Yale
10. Ferris State
The top 9 were all in there last week. At #10, Ferris State is the only new addition to the top-10. Ferris State switched spots with last week's #10, RPI, who have dropped to #14.
Other big risers were Union who jumped essentially 6 spots to #17. The Dutchmen swept RPI over the weekend. New Hampshire is up 5 spots to #20. UNH had a three win week, taking a mid-week matchup with Brown and then two from Northeastern over the weekend. Nebraska-Omaha split with Michigan to move up 8 spots to 23. Ohio State has the most votes of any team not in the top-20, making them 21st. Ohio State wasn't among the 31 teams to receive votes last week, but a sweep of Canisius has propelled them to the cusp of the top-20.
BU vs ND got really chippy with multiple scrims and multiple hitting after the whistle calls. BU won 3-1, but they play again tomorrow at 7 on NESN
UNH got the 3-2 OT win last night at PC. UNH scored 2 in the first, PC followed with 2 in the third and UNH got the winner 15 seconds into the OT. The real story though it PC's Jon Gillies left after two periods last night with a lower body injury. Late in the second he stayed down after a scrum at his net but would finish the period. Talk on a PC board is that he hurt his hamstring last week and aggravated it last night and that he should have an MRI today.
Not a good weekend for many in the top-10. None of the top-9 were able to win two games, though Minnesota could do it tomorrow.
#1 Minnesota: Beat UMD on Friday, play UMD again on Sunday.
#2 St. Cloud State: Tied and beat Colorado College
#3 Providence: OTL to UNH on Friday, win over UNH Saturday
#4 Quinnipiac: Split with Princeton, with the road team winning each game
#5 Michigan: Beat Niagara, just one game this weekend
#6 Notre Dame: Lost twice to UML on the road
#7 Boston College: Beat Harvard on the road, lost to Maine at Alfond
#8 Miami: Lost twice at UNO
#9 Yale: Beat Colgate on the road, lost to Cornell at Lynah
#10 Ferris State: Beat Alaska twice at home
#11 Clarkson: Did not play
#12 Wisconsin: Did not play
#13 UMass-Lowell: Swept Notre Dame at home
#14 RPI: Split at Mercyhurst
#15 North Dakota: Lost and tied at BU
#16 Lake Superior: Split at Bemidji State
#17 Union: Did not play
#18 Cornell: Beat Brown and Yale at home.
#19 Minnesota-Duluth: Lost at Minnesota, play again Sunday
#20 New Hampshire: Split at Providence
Among the #11-#20 teams, there are two obvious winners in UML and Cornell. Both teams went 2-0 this weekend including wins over top-10 teams. UML seems like they could be moving back into the top-10. UNH, even with just a split, is another big winner in my opinion. Splitting with #3 Providence in Providence is a favorable result. Clarkson, Wisconsin, and Union are among the better half of top-20 results simply just by virtue of not playing and thus not dropping points.
#1 Minnesota: Beat UMD on Friday, play UMD again on Sunday.
#2 St. Cloud State: Tied and beat Colorado College
#3 Providence: OTL to UNH on Friday, win over UNH Saturday
#4 Quinnipiac: Split with Princeton, with the road team winning each game
#5 Michigan: Beat Niagara, just one game this weekend
#6 Notre Dame: Lost twice to UML on the road
#7 Boston College: Beat Harvard on the road, lost to Maine at Alfond
#8 Miami: Lost twice at UNO
#9 Yale: Beat Colgate on the road, lost to Cornell at Lynah
#10 Ferris State: Beat Alaska twice at home
- Notre Dame and Miami both lost twice.
- Providence, Quinnipiac, BC, and Yale each won one and lost one.
- St. Cloud State won and tied to the lowly Colorado College.
- Minnesota and Michigan each won their only game. Minnesota plays again tomorrow while Michigan is done for the weekend.
- Ferris State is the only team to win twice among all in the top-10.
#11 Clarkson: Did not play
#12 Wisconsin: Did not play
#13 UMass-Lowell: Swept Notre Dame at home
#14 RPI: Split at Mercyhurst
#15 North Dakota: Lost and tied at BU
#16 Lake Superior: Split at Bemidji State
#17 Union: Did not play
#18 Cornell: Beat Brown and Yale at home.
#19 Minnesota-Duluth: Lost at Minnesota, play again Sunday
#20 New Hampshire: Split at Providence
Among the #11-#20 teams, there are two obvious winners in UML and Cornell. Both teams went 2-0 this weekend including wins over top-10 teams. UML seems like they could be moving back into the top-10. UNH, even with just a split, is another big winner in my opinion. Splitting with #3 Providence in Providence is a favorable result. Clarkson, Wisconsin, and Union are among the better half of top-20 results simply just by virtue of not playing and thus not dropping points.
yeahlunchbox said:
Thankfully Gillies was back in the cage tonight for the Friars. He stopped 32 of 34 in a 4-2 Providence win. Both goals allowed were PPGs for UNH. Gillies moves to 9-1-1 on the season with a 1.70 GAA, .946 SV%, and 3 SO.
Bad loss for QU last night. Up 2-0 and 3-1, in third lost 4-3. Peca is having a tough year so far it seems. Lost puck in his own end on no look bad drop pass, Princeton guy picked it up and score from a few feet inside blue line. Goalie gave up 4 goals on 18 shots. QU outshot em 35-18. Meh.
Great game that'll be easy to attend if anyone interested: Providence at QU Thanksgiving Eve. I unfortunately have a band gig and will miss it. Students gone, so quieter rink. I'm not happy about missing it, but duty calls.
Great game that'll be easy to attend if anyone interested: Providence at QU Thanksgiving Eve. I unfortunately have a band gig and will miss it. Students gone, so quieter rink. I'm not happy about missing it, but duty calls.
Doug Beerabelli said:
It was a pathetic effort defensively. They have been missing Tolkinen due to a broken foot and Derek Smith has missed the last 2 games for unknown reasons. Probably an injury. Peca's stats are down across the board. He isn't skating with the Jones twins as they have Sam Anas on that line who is QU's leading scorer. He is playing with Travis St. Denis and Tommy Schutt.
Huge weekend for NU, bouncing back after a tough weekend against UNH and taking 4 points against a struggling Merrimack team. It's their first 4 point weekend since sweeping Vermont in January of 2012, and their first conference win at home since beating BC in October of last year.
Oh and this was pretty cool too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_F-rIXALug
Oh and this was pretty cool too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_F-rIXALug
UMD beat Minnesota 6-2 today. Wow. What a cap to an atrocious weekend for top teams. To update my post from last night:
#1 Minnesota: Split with UMD at home
#2 St. Cloud State: Tied and beat Colorado College
#3 Providence: OTL to UNH on Friday, win over UNH Saturday
#4 Quinnipiac: Split with Princeton, with the road team winning each game
#5 Michigan: Beat Niagara, just one game this weekend
#6 Notre Dame: Lost twice to UML on the road
#7 Boston College: Beat Harvard on the road, lost to Maine at Alfond
#8 Miami: Lost twice at UNO
#9 Yale: Beat Colgate on the road, lost to Cornell at Lynah
#10 Ferris State: Beat Alaska twice at home
A whopping 7 of the top-9 teams lost this weekend. In fact, 8 of the top-9 lost if you could SCSU. St. Cloud beat Colorado College and also lost to them in a shootout -- though it counts as a tie essentially for SCSU, it's an extra point for a lowly 1-8-2 Colorado College. Michigan is the only team in the top-9 not to lose in any form (1-0 weekend), and Ferris State's 2-0 weekend is the best of the top-10.
It will be interesting to see who is ranked #1 tomorrow. Can Minnesota stand pat off a high profile Sunday loss? Can SCSU jump to 1 despite a T/SOL to Colorado College at home?
#1 Minnesota: Split with UMD at home
#2 St. Cloud State: Tied and beat Colorado College
#3 Providence: OTL to UNH on Friday, win over UNH Saturday
#4 Quinnipiac: Split with Princeton, with the road team winning each game
#5 Michigan: Beat Niagara, just one game this weekend
#6 Notre Dame: Lost twice to UML on the road
#7 Boston College: Beat Harvard on the road, lost to Maine at Alfond
#8 Miami: Lost twice at UNO
#9 Yale: Beat Colgate on the road, lost to Cornell at Lynah
#10 Ferris State: Beat Alaska twice at home
A whopping 7 of the top-9 teams lost this weekend. In fact, 8 of the top-9 lost if you could SCSU. St. Cloud beat Colorado College and also lost to them in a shootout -- though it counts as a tie essentially for SCSU, it's an extra point for a lowly 1-8-2 Colorado College. Michigan is the only team in the top-9 not to lose in any form (1-0 weekend), and Ferris State's 2-0 weekend is the best of the top-10.
It will be interesting to see who is ranked #1 tomorrow. Can Minnesota stand pat off a high profile Sunday loss? Can SCSU jump to 1 despite a T/SOL to Colorado College at home?
ForceAtHome said:
The answer... Minnesota holds off SCSU by 1 point (963-962), despite SCSU taking 5 more first place votes!
1. Minnesota (22)
2. St. Cloud (27)
3. Michigan
4. Providence,
5. Quinnipiac
6. Ferris State (1)
7. Boston College
8. UMass-Lowell
9. Yale
10. Clarkson
- The top-5 teams all remained within the top-5 due to a lot of struggles for top teams this weekend. The only change was Michigan jumping from 5th to 3rd, which bumped Providence and Quinnipiac each down a spot.
- The other real winner amongst the top-10 teams from last week was Ferris State, who went from 10th to 6th. Ferris State received 1 first place vote and are the only team other than Minnesota/St. Cloud to garner one.
- Notre Dame and Miami were big losers and the only teams to fall from the top-10. Notre Dame fell from 6th to 11th, while Miami made a similar fall from 8th to 13th.
- New additions to the top-10 are UML (13th to 8th) after a big weekend and Clarkson (11th to 10th) despite not even playing this week.
- ECAC foes Cornell and RPI swapped spots with Cornell moving up four spots to 14th and RPI moving down four to 18th.
- UNO, who were unranked last week (23rd in votes), jumped to 17th.
- North Dakota finally fell out of the rankings from 15th to first out of the top-20.
Took my family to Ingalls in New Haven tonight for Yale-Merrimack. Yale outshot Merrimack by a good margin over the first two periods, but other than a couple of flurries of activity, never really threatened. Merrimack was much more physical and aggressive, winning the battles in the corners and backchecking vigorously.
1-0 Merrimack after two periods. Of course, my 3-year-old daughter was asleep on our feet so we had to go.
Regulation ended 2-2 and Yale scored with less than a minute left in OT.
Although we missed the best part, it was a great time. Ingalls is a beautiful building, it was packed (even with the students away), and the crowd was great. Highly recommended if you've never been.
1-0 Merrimack after two periods. Of course, my 3-year-old daughter was asleep on our feet so we had to go.
Regulation ended 2-2 and Yale scored with less than a minute left in OT.
Although we missed the best part, it was a great time. Ingalls is a beautiful building, it was packed (even with the students away), and the crowd was great. Highly recommended if you've never been.
So the ECAC website and app is showing Cornell beating BU 3-1 with 5 mins left in the 3rd...I proceeded to send a gloating text or two before discovering that the ECAC was wrong and had the two teams flipped. It's actually BU winning 3-1 (3-2 now I think). I'm not pleased.
Things continue to look up on Huntington Ave. The Huskies tied Western Michigan on Friday in the first round of the Shillelagh Tournament in South Bend. After advancing in a shootout, NU faced off with Notre Dame in the championship. The Huskies went down 2-0 on a short-handed goal for the Irish midway through the second period. Jim Madigan called a timeout and from then on it was night and day. Northeastern clearly outplayed Notre Dame from that point on, potting 3 goals to come away with a trophy. Northeastern is now undefeated in Notre Dame's new arena at 3-0-1.
More importantly, though, they now have the same number of wins this year as they did all last season. They're just 4 wins shy of Madigan's first season win total as well.
Providence and Vermont (both counting for conference play) are up next.
More importantly, though, they now have the same number of wins this year as they did all last season. They're just 4 wins shy of Madigan's first season win total as well.
Providence and Vermont (both counting for conference play) are up next.
inJacobyWeTrust said:
The ECAC website is a fantastic Website - if you're in 1998. It looks like an after-school project for seventh graders. They really need to upgrade their efforts to reach the public in general.
Just hanging around CT over Thanksgiving, I heard people talking about college hockey that never cared about it before, because of the success of QU and Yale - just random chatter in a sports bar, etc. The atmosphere at Ingalls was playoff-quality. Yet when I had to leave Yale-Merrimack after the second period because my three-year-old conked out, and I tried to find it on the radio for the drive home - there was no radio. Selected games are on the Yale student radio station, but this wasn't one of them. No radio? Come on. High school football is on the radio.
They've got to strike while the iron is hot in CT and do whatever they can to get a higher profile. I don't think local TV would be out of the question, especially for Yale-QU games.
All Quinnipiac games are on the radio in New Haven county on AM1220 WQUN. That is also on radio.com as well. All games are also streamed live on YouTube with the radio broadcast synced up. Quinnipiac also buys numerous air time on NESN and SNY to broadcast games.OilCanShotTupac said:
jsinger121 said:
That's excellent. Good for QU.
I was a Yale undergrad in the late 80's - early 90's and followed the hockey team casually - went to 2-3 games a year. They were decent then, nothing special. I'm really impressed with how the average CT sports fan is getting really into college hockey now, and I just think they're wasting an opportunity to make it a real hotbed like the Boston area and the upper Midwest. Between the amateurish ECAC Website and the fact that I couldn't get radio of a sold-out home game (for the national champion), I got the impression that they're not doing as much as they could be.
The Yale-Harvard game at MSG in January could be a big deal, that's a great step. I got tickets and it looks like there aren't many left. College hockey gets zero interest in the NYC media, so this might get it onto the radar a little.
OilCanShotTupac said:
The ECAC website does suck. I do think Yale could do a lot more in terms of marketing their team. To me Quinnipiac has really I think risen the league up in terms of stature. While Yale won the National Title last year Quinnipiac has consistently pumped big money into the hockey program with the arena, marketing, tv, etc. I think this has forced other ECAC schools to step up their game as well in terms of more funding towards hockey. You see that with Union making the frozen four two years ago and both Quinnipiac and Yale playing for the national championship this past April. I think the ECAC really needs to get a television deal with a network.
OCST - is Ingalls the arena Yale has been playing in forever? The one with the finished wood looking curved roof shaped like the correct answer to a calculus question?
jsinger121 said:
I agree. I think the lack of a strong NYC college hockey presence hurts the ability to get a good regional deal(s).
It's funny. Areas with strong college hockey traditions tend also to have strong high school/prep school traditions. NYC has neither. Prep schools in New England are huge into hockey, but in NYC they just aren't. The obvious reason is the lack of space for a rink, I suppose.
LoweTek said:
It's one of my favorite rinks that I've ever been to... though I've yet to visit The Ralph. A couple photos from a game I saw there last season:
Brown with a much needed strong final weekend of the semester. They beat Harvard 2-1 on Friday night. On Saturday, despite trailing 2-0 into the third period, the Bears prevailed with a 3-2 OT win over Dartmouth. Brown had been on the road for their 6 previous games (going 1-5) coming into the weekend, so taking getting four points on the weekend was huge -- especially while Harvard and Dartmouth continue to sit near the bottom of the ECAC table. The Bears are off until Jan 3-4 when they swing to Colorado for games with Denver and Colorado College.
Brown is 3-4-1 at this point in ECAC play and 5-6-1 overall. The conference losses came @Cornell, @Quinnipiac, vs. Clarkson, and @Colgate. The non-conference losses were @UNH and @Providence. So, five of the six losses were to current top-18 teams, and four of those on the road. Losing at Colgate isn't a bad loss either. While they don't have any bad losses, unfortunately, Browns wins have come at the expensive of bad teams. Brown has beaten Dartmouth twice, Harvard, and Princeton -- the bottom three teams in ECAC right now. Their only good win was a neutral ice opener against Yale.
At the conclusion of 2013, I'd say the Bears look like a mid-tier team with some dark horse upside. They should beat most bad teams and will lose to a number of good teams, but I expect them to add a handful more top-20 type wins. They still have home and homes with Union, RPI, and Yale. They also have Quinnipiac, @Clarkson, Cornell, Boston College, and @Denver. With a strong 2014, they could certainly force their way near the top-20, though as of now that's optimistic thinking. I think they'll be another pesky out in the ECAC tournament, especially if they can at least secure a 5-8 spot, let alone a bye.
As was the case last year, I expect Brown to once again move away from the more veteran goalie in Marco de Filippo and give the lion's share to an unproven goalie in rookie Tyler Steel as the calendar flips. How good he can be and how quickly that happens (4-1-1, 2.62, .901 in 6 starts) may determine the outcome of the season.
Brown is 3-4-1 at this point in ECAC play and 5-6-1 overall. The conference losses came @Cornell, @Quinnipiac, vs. Clarkson, and @Colgate. The non-conference losses were @UNH and @Providence. So, five of the six losses were to current top-18 teams, and four of those on the road. Losing at Colgate isn't a bad loss either. While they don't have any bad losses, unfortunately, Browns wins have come at the expensive of bad teams. Brown has beaten Dartmouth twice, Harvard, and Princeton -- the bottom three teams in ECAC right now. Their only good win was a neutral ice opener against Yale.
At the conclusion of 2013, I'd say the Bears look like a mid-tier team with some dark horse upside. They should beat most bad teams and will lose to a number of good teams, but I expect them to add a handful more top-20 type wins. They still have home and homes with Union, RPI, and Yale. They also have Quinnipiac, @Clarkson, Cornell, Boston College, and @Denver. With a strong 2014, they could certainly force their way near the top-20, though as of now that's optimistic thinking. I think they'll be another pesky out in the ECAC tournament, especially if they can at least secure a 5-8 spot, let alone a bye.
As was the case last year, I expect Brown to once again move away from the more veteran goalie in Marco de Filippo and give the lion's share to an unproven goalie in rookie Tyler Steel as the calendar flips. How good he can be and how quickly that happens (4-1-1, 2.62, .901 in 6 starts) may determine the outcome of the season.
UAH beats Bowling Green 4-3 in OT for their first win of the season. One step closer to college hockey domination.
- St. Cloud finally took #1 in the polls this week. They are the only team in the country with just 1 loss.
- ECAC has 6 of the top 18 teams. They lead all conferences in top-20 ranked teams currently.
- Ferris State continues to move up (#4 this week), though I remain unconvinced that they are that good. Their only victories against teams with a winning record are twice at Lake Superior and once over Atlantic Hockey's Mercyhurst (It's worth noting that Mercyhurst is 7-1 against AH teams and 2-6-1 out of conference). Ferris State also split against mid-tier ECAC schools Colgate and SLU, who are both at .500 records on the season.
Can't wait for the Boston one next year. It will be much easier than the 10 hour and 14 hour drive to and from Pittsburgh this past year to see Quinnipiac.
Compher and Motte were cut from the US World Juniors team, I'd like to think, mostly because of injury. Compher was on crutches. Motte had a better chance of making the team since he was healthy, but also suffered injury. I'm bummed that they're not helping the US defend gold, but I'm also glad that they're back with Michigan. It sounds like they should be able to play in the GLI, though with the injuries, I'm not sure how bright that is. With Copp gone. losing Compher too (injury or WJC) would have significantly impacted Michigan down the middle. I'd maintain that Copp is the heart of this Michigan team, but Compher and Motte are both proving to be very significant pieces. Their presence should help in his absence.
I may do one on television, but I'll never return to Fenway for a hockey game. Freeze your ass off and can't see a thing.
