Level B Fishbowl

Penn State is very much an eastern school given the student body and alumni base. That's like saying Syracuse isn't a northeastern school because they play in a basketball conference with a lot of southern teams.

Realistically this game is over. The big thing on Sunday for WMU will be to sustain offensive zone time. I'm not impressed with Hicks and he's given up some big rebounds this game that Cornell simply hasn't been able to capitalize on.

Bizarre that Buccigross isn't in the Albany regional where he can slobber all day about McKenna. Cohen is actually much more tolerable

Denver with two very pretty deflections this game

Dartmouth was definitely not a 2 seed quality team and Providence deserved their placement but had a poor game yesterday until the last period. The gap between the NCHC and Big 10 and the other conferences seems to be large this year.

3-0 now in this Denver home game. Cornell actually looked better than they did in the 1st but that miscue hurts.

NPI is the best you'll get unless every team plays each other, which we all know will never happen. Short of that, you'll have better teams and worse teams and whichever ones play well enough throughout the season to get in, deserve to be in and that's that

2-0 Denver now. Cornell getting killed on faceoffs like they were against Princeton

They hung on against MSU last year and wound up winning at the end. This team is definitely capable

Looked like a high stick; maybe even offisde. No review though

I don't think Cornell has seen a defenseman like Pohlkamp all year. Cournoyer looking very good in net, though

The pep band was supposed to make the trip to Loveland but had a flight that was cancelled at the last minute unfortunately. There should be a decent turnout of alumni around Denver and other parts of Colorado, though. Maybe Sam Malinski makes an appearance in the crowd or on the broadcast with the Avs probably having returned from Winnipeg by now.

I have to imagine CJ Foley leaves Dartmouth and signs a contract. I don't see him sticking around for his senior year

They kind of are. Dartmouth has been lucky with a few posts and can hardly do anything offensively because of how slow they are (or shanked shots)

Such a great stretch pass to set it up. Waited for PC to change and then passed it perfectly through the neutral zone

Dartmouth chasing play a lot. They're not a particularly fast or physical team and tends to get disorganized a lot on defense. Wisconsin doing a good job getting up the ice and through the neutral zone

Q looking like the much more dangerous team offensively. Not surprising given their personnel

All else equal, if either OSU or Princeton won their last games, UConn would've been out

Neither team scored more than two in both meetings and each team won a game. Cornell had a lot of roster turnover after last season (across all positions) and of course Schafer retired. That said, Cournoyer is a solid goaltender (he won the Ken Dryden award for best ECAC goaltender) who plays the puck extremely well (about as well as Marty Turco) and a lot of the other freshmen have stepped up. My big concern with that game is the overall weaker defensive core and being able to keep up sustained offensive pressure on Denver

I think this oversimplifies it. In 2015 and 2016, Yale was a NCAA tournament team after reloading talent and the goaltender for those teams, Alex Lyon, is actually in the NHL. Yale was also very good in the few years leading up to the 2013 championship run, when they probably had the weakest roster compared to the ones in the 2009, 2010, and 2011 NCAA appearances. Allain certainly deserves some blame for the teams's recent struggles, and he clearly takes some resposbility, but, Yale, like the other Ivys, has to deal with a tough recruiting barriers and other restrictions and an unsupportive or incompetent athletic director only makes the job harder, if not impossible. The pandemic absolutely hurt all Ivy sports, but some teams have recovered better than others or seem to be on the right track. Let's take the teams you mentioned. Cornell-Longstanding hockey tradition, high profile sport, heavy AD support with quality coaching and recruits Harvard-Longstanding hockey tradition, high profile sport, heavy AD support, average or mediocre coaching, quality recruits Dartmouth-Longtime record of mediocrity with a seemingly more receptive AD and a great coaching hire after the pandemic, good players with potentially more coming Princeton-Slightly better history than Dartmouth with a good recent coaching hire; to be determined if positive trend will be sustained Brown-Bottom of the barrel for years; terrible coaching situation that only recently changed due to unanticipated events; remains to be seen what happens but little indication of a supportive AD

I've heard a few negative things about the Yale AD from fans of Colgate, where she used to work, as well as some rumblings from Yale supporters. I also don't think it's a coincidence that Yale has struggled heavily since she moved over from Colgate. Keep in mind that Allain has nothing to gain or lose since he is retired and that he has done more than enough to garner respect and trustworthiness, so I'm inclined to believe him on this. Interesting that her contract expires in a few months and there's been no announcement of a renewal yet.

Basically most of the Albany to Boston drive down I-90 (Mass Turnpike). I've done it once both ways and it's quick once you're out of the Boston city limits

In all the time Leaman has been coach at Providence (~15 years), this is the first time his team has had to fly to a regional (all prior NCAA regional games during his tenure were in CT, NH, MA, or RI--basically a bus trip). That's an absurd amount of good fortune given that his team has generally not been better than a 3 seed in the NCAA's, so I can see where his whining is coming from. Still whining nonetheless

I could see Providence winning that game. Q has had some defensive disasters this year and has the weakest goaltending out of all the teams in this regional. Also, Leaman is a very good coach I would expect his team to play a very solid, disciplined, and trap-heavy game

Cornell playing Denver in the NCAA's for the 3rd time in four years. Gosh damn it