CLARKSON @ Union

[coolhandtouc]

Union and Princeton play to a 0-0 tie. .....which means we will be on the road visiting Union in the 1st round of the ECAC playoffs.

How do we match up?

Thoughts?

[vicb]

Well if you look at any of the teams we could have played, I would think Union is the team I'd give us the best chance of beating on the road. Not gonna be easy. They certainly have a hard time scoring but we are not exactly setting the world on fire either. These are gonna be probably 3 low scoring games, yes 3. Hopefully we come out with 2 wins.

[MikeR]

They certainly have a hard time scoring but we are not exactly setting the world on fire either. These are gonna be probably 3 low scoring games, yes 3.

Have to agree with you Vic, while Union has scored 17 goals in 15 games, the Knights have scored 30 in the 2nd half.

looks like the scores will be 3-1, 1-2, and 2-0, with Clarkson taking the series 2-1.

[placid]

not making a 'who will win' prediction but i think this will happen:

game one: fairly low scoring , someone wins 3-2 or 2-1 type game, maybe 3-1 if its an empty-net goal.
game two: whoever wins game one will have a more convincing win, along lines of 4-1 or 5-2. just think whoever loses game one will have a letdown and not really show up for game two, especially if its union and they've just put themselves on brink of losing ANOTHER first-round series.

[oldtimehockey]

Tech-Union is a toss-up, slight edge for Tech. Winner loses to Cornell anyway.

[Stemmer]

Tech-Union is a toss-up, slight edge for Tech. Winner loses to Cornell anyway.

Well, that's what they said last year. :D Can we hope that history repeats itself? :rolleyes:

[rangersfan94]

Tech-Union is a toss-up, slight edge for Tech. Winner loses to Cornell anyway.

Thats if we were to play Cornell and there were no upsets in the 1st round. I sense that there will be one upset. Either RPI will upset Brown, or Princeton will upset SLU. I can't see Yale upending Dartmouth...but then again, as Chris Berman says, thats why they play the games.

Waiting to see if Clarkson has another gear...preferrably a higher one!

[Brett Gobe]

I just posted this on USCHO and think it fits here:


As for this series, it will really hinge on the young defense giving Traylen some sort of support and whether or not Clarkson can find the net on the road.

They are really not good on the road. The biggest thing is scoring the first goal and playing tough with the lead. If they get down early things could go south quickly.

[oldtimehockey]

Thats if we were to play Cornell and there were no upsets in the 1st round. I sense that there will be one upset.

ok, then if Tech wins, that's the one upset, and it's still back to Lynah.

[rangersfan94]

ok, then if Tech wins, that's the one upset, and it's still back to Lynah.

A 9 seed beating an 8 seed is not an upset...and either Princeton/RPI will advance. Assuming we beat Union(HUGE ASSUMPTION OBVIOUSLY), my money is on us being in Cambridge for the second round....

[placid]

I agree, and 9 beating 8 DOESNT change anything in the re-seeding. ONLY 10 or lower winning does that. For example, say all the home teams win, you get this matchup next week: 1 vs. 8, 2 vs. 7, 3 vs. 6 and 4 vs. 5.
so IF Clarkson won, and the 'other' favorites won, you get 1 vs. 9, 2 vs. 7, 3 vs. 6 and 4 vs. 5. As you can see, assuming all the home teams win, if the 9 team wins INSTEAD of the 8, it changes absolutely nothing.

That being said, let's recall this: Clarkson was a 9 seed last year and did NOT play the No. 1 seed in the quarterfinals (Colgate) because No. 10 SLU won its series at Yale. That made the quarterfinals look like this:
1 vs. 10; 2 (Cornell) vs. 9 (Clarkson), 3 vs. 6 and 4 vs. 5.

historical facts on the 10-12 seeds:
last year they went 1-2 in their series
2003 they went 2-1
2001 1-0 Vt beat Clarkson in 'old 10 team format'

So there is some recent precedent to assume that at least one of the teams playing a 10, 11 or 12 seed could lose, with the 10 being the most likely upset winner.

[Goldie Knight]

Monday, February 28, 2005 7:30 PM

Here is some interesting news about Union College from Clarkson's Athletic website. Union ended a 10-game league losing streak on Friday, February 26. Union did this by defeating Yale, the #12 team (out of 12 teams), by a score of 3 ~ 2. The next night, Union played to a scoreless overtime tie against the #10 team Princeton.

On the other hand, Clarkson played a brilliant game against Colgate, with our Golden Hero, Jay Latulippe, scoring the tying goal with one single second left in regulation time. It was just awesome to see that inspiring game. Saturday knight, not every single Golden Knight was ready to play Cornell, and that was demonstrated by a 3 ~ 0 Cornell lead at the end of the first period. However, David Leggio began the second period in the nets and remained there for the duration of the game. David made some good saves and literally shut Cornell out for forty minutes.

There is no question in my mind that Cornell is for real--they have an excellent hockey team. It seemd apparent that some of their fans must be enrolled in the Cornell School of Veterinarian Science--a lot of them acted like the animals they study--throughout the evening at Cheel. They created conflicts with many Clarkson fans; their irritating and aggressive behavior was simply unacceptable.

Well, anyway, I still wish Matt Nickerson were a Golden Knight, but I feel our team will have the determination, drive, and desire to play well against Union. As I stated on another thread, there is no other school I would rather play at. Union fans are decent people, and there are a lot of Clarkson alums in the Albany area who will be in attendance at the games this weekend. I also love Union College.

We are looking forward to a fun weekend cheering the Golden Knights on to victories--hopefully two consecutive ones. :)

DUMBFOUND THE DUTCHMEN

[oldtimehockey]

A 9 seed beating an 8 seed is not an upset...and either Princeton/RPI will advance. Assuming we beat Union(HUGE ASSUMPTION OBVIOUSLY), my money is on us being in Cambridge for the second round....
whatever....

[Stemmer]

Goldie,

Required reading for you on the cornell forum re: Clarkson fan behavior. Yeah, they think Tech fans are bad... :rolleyes:

[placid]

I always get in trouble for saying this 'but' i'm all for supporting a team , however, it annoys me greatly when 'any' team's fans try to claim the high, moral road. As in 'well we'd certainly never do A, B or C'
Let's face it: EVERY team has some good fans. every team has some idiot fans. Every team has players who are good. Many teams have one or two people who wind up embarassing the school, even Clarkson.
So I say stick to praising your team for how it plays, but let's stop this attitude of anyone who has a green and gold shirt or jersey on is the archangel gabriel and everyone from another school is horrible, doesn't respect the national anthem, cheers vulgarities, etc.

[placid]

And just to make my point that the 'bad' stuff even includes Clarkson, at times, i recall a Clarkson fan coming to a game last year, or the year before, dressed like a giant peni$. And, at times, the band shouts some things in organized cheers that would be hard to explain to a 10-12 year old kid sitting next to you... 'what's it mean when the ref takes it up .......'

[Todd '86]

Aw, come on. No one here would EVER say anything bad about SUNY Ithaca....

[Goldie Knight]

Placid--this post's for you.

According to the US Constitution, the First Amendment says Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech.

I would like to respectfully suggest that you use the Control Panel, go to Miscellaneous, and place me on your ignore list.

Please don't EVER think that YOU have the right to tell any one of us who write on this forum what we should and should not do. Kindly remember, Scott Comstock is the administrator of this forum--not you. Quite frankly, I most generally skip over your posts because they are so argumentative and controversial.

Goldie Knight

[coolhandtouc]

Aw, come on. No one here would EVER say anything bad about SUNY Ithaca....

todd,
SUNY Ithaca.....I love that one........we used to line up behind the cornell bench in the Walker Arena and yell that all night long.....ahh memories.

[oldtimehockey]

Dateline Schenectady, Sunday March 6

"Following two scoreless ties Friday and Saturday, CCT scored in 3OT to defeat Union 1-0. Both teams had pulled their goalies for the entire 3rd period and OT."

[placid]

Um, go back and read my post. I *didn't* say nobody could post. I said i was TIRED of them, myself. I've said this before, but i never blast anyone by name, dont see why people feel the need to resort to personal attacks on any user here because they don't like what they think. Shouldn't the same 'first ammendment' right apply to me saying some attitudes annoy me, without it having to turn into a personal bashing?




Placid--this post's for you.

According to the US Constitution, the First Amendment says Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech.

I would like to respectfully suggest that you use the Control Panel, go to Miscellaneous, and place me on your ignore list.

Please don't EVER think that YOU have the right to tell any one of us who write on this forum what we should and should not do. Kindly remember, Scott Comstock is the administrator of this forum--not you. Quite frankly, I most generally skip over your posts because they are so argumentative and controversial.

Goldie Knight

[ursaminor]

Dateline Schenectady, Sunday March 6

"Following two scoreless ties Friday and Saturday, CCT scored in 3OT to defeat Union 1-0. Both teams had pulled their goalies for the entire 3rd period and OT." There are unlimited OT's each night. :)

[GoldenKnight08]

I don't think Union should be much of a contest. They won most of their games in the begining of the year, which was when we lost to them at Union, which was a pretty close game. The arena there is pretty dead, too, so it shouldn't be any kind of monster home ice advantage.

[Bill]

I don't think Union should be much of a contest. They won most of their games in the begining of the year, which was when we lost to them at Union, which was a pretty close game. The arena there is pretty dead, too, so it shouldn't be any kind of monster home ice advantage.

I would agree, but I hope the team members do not think like that, or it'll be 2 and done for the year!
:(

LGT! LGT!! LGT!!!

[GoldenKnight08]

I would agree, but I hope the team members do not think like that, or it'll be 2 and done for the year!
:(

LGT! LGT!! LGT!!!

They need to think like the Patriots and forget last year.

[Goldie Knight]

Thursday, March 3, 2005 11:15 AM

An Albany newspaper reported that Union has been shut out seven times this season; Union got only one goal nine times this season. Subsequently, Union expects to work hard on its power play this week. :)

Also Union's overall ECAC playoff record is 1 win 13 losses
Their current ECAC playoff losing steak is 13 games
Union has never won a playoff series
Union's record in ECAC playoffs in Schenectady is 0 wins and 4 losses

Those statistics bode well for our Golden Knights, who must focus on putting behind them the past season, in which they tied a school record for most losses in a season--20.

Coach Roll realizes the Golden Knights did not play disciplined hockey against Cornell, as the Golden Knights took some pathetic penalties. The Golden Knights will need to tighen up coverage in their defensive zone and have a total commitment to team defense.

I expect the senior leadership will be evident this weekend. Jay Latulippe's family resides in nearby Saratoga Springs, and Jay's extended family will be there in full force. It is my understanding that freshman Shawn Weller also has family in South Glens Falls. It is always nice to have family in attendance for home and away games. Both Kenny Scuderi and Mac Faulkner have made positive comments about this weekend's series with Union. My expectation is the coaches will put Dustin Traylen in as our front-running goaltender for the weekend. From what I've heard, there will be a good delegation of Clarkson fans at the games to cheer the Golden Knights on to victory.

Will Friday knight at 7 PM ever get here?

OUR KNIGHTS WILL BE AWESOME ;)

DUMBFOUND THE DUTCHMEN :D

[Stemmer]

I don't think Union should be much of a contest. They won most of their games in the begining of the year, which was when we lost to them at Union, which was a pretty close game. The arena there is pretty dead, too, so it shouldn't be any kind of monster home ice advantage.

With the scoring difficulty Tech has had this year, I expect every game to be a close contest. Having coached teams like this, they have to play strong, disciplined defense, stay out of the box, and convert on a few offensive opportunities.

It may not be pretty but it's the formula for :) winning!

[Todd '86]

The last thing the team can afford is to take Union (or anybody, for that matter) lightly. Clarkson hasn't won a game in a few weeks either, and the playoffs are a brand new season for everyone. Its going to take a very focused effort to get out of Schenectady with a pair of wins this weekend.

[Stemmer]

Goldie,

Check your email! :)

[MikeR]

Schenectady article on Shawn Weller, (posted on the INCH newstand) (http://www.dailygazette.net/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=SCH/2005/03/03&ID=Ar02501&Locale=)

[coolhandtouc]

Lets hope the scoring drought ends......and when they end, the goals usually come in bunches!

I am predicting Weller has a big series!

LGT!

[Chaz]

As good as the freshmen class has been this year, I truly believe that we'll only go as far as the senior leadership will take us. They need to play at the level of knowing it's the last games of their college careers. Leaving everything they have, out on the ice from here on out. Both sides of the puck, one shift at a time.
No need to worry who we may face in the second round.That's out of our hands. Union surely wants to turn it's playoff misfortunes around, and they'll be coming hard to do just that.
I'm sure LaTulippe and Weller will be pumped by playing in their "back yards" in front of family and friends. I expect them both to have big weekends.
Go get 'em boys!!!!!!!!

[joecct]

Well neither team had the scoring touch last night. It sounded like it could go all night, but we got the OT bounce and capitalized.

7 shots in 2 periods??? Yuk! We have to do better tonight or we'll be playing on Sunday. However, Union may be totally psyched out with their playoff hoo-doo.

Hope Ken Scuderi's ankle sprain in AOK.

[vicb]

WHOOOOO WHOOOOO WHOOOOO WHOOOOOO

What a game and what a series. The first time in the history of the ECAC that all 3 games went into OT.

The good:

We are still alive, the season lives on :)
Shawn Weller with the game winner
Latulippe, Brekelsman and Kolu with the other goals
Traylen once again was awsome in goal
Scuderi playing well on a bum ankle

The not so good:

Too many penalties taken at inopportune times
Missed on 2 breakaways again toknight

Well, it's Clarkson - Cornell for the 2nd year in a row. LGT LGT LGT

[Muskieman]

Wow, what a game and series. Congrats to Clarkson and good luck in Ithaca.

BTW, Union is now 2-16-0 all-time in ECAC playoff games. That's an "impressive" 11.1 winning %. The soon-to-be retired, misguided, and traitor named Roger Hull must be heartbroken and disappointed that his team has fallen far short of his 40% goal.. I am delighted that he will be getting a retirement cake with 11.1 candles on it, so he can send a photo of it to his best buddy, John McCardell.

Go NC teams next weekend.

Brian
SLU '76

[Todd '86]

Wow, what a game and series. Congrats to Clarkson and good luck in Ithaca.

BTW, Union is now 2-16-0 all-time in ECAC playoff games. That's an "impressive" 11.1 winning %. The soon-to-be retired, misguided, and traitor named Roger Hull must be heartbroken and disappointed that his team has fallen far short of his 40% goal.. I am delighted that he will be getting a retirement cake with 11.1 candles on it, so he can send a photo of it to his best buddy, John McCardell.

Go NC teams next weekend.

Brian
SLU '76

Y'know, I've always thought his line about being delighted if the team won 40% of its games was absolutely ridiculous. What that says to me is that mediocrity at Union is welcome, even applauded, which of course is not true. What a dumb thing to say.

Here's to brighter days ahead for Union, on and off the ice.

[Goldie Knight]

Monday, March 7, 2005

Brian,

I found your post absolutely amusing. John McCardell and Roger Hull etc. nearly committed unforgivable transgressions against St. Lawrence, Clarkson, RPI, and Colorado College by attempting to remove our Division I hockey scholarships. They deserve the worst verbal treatment we can provide. It was thoughtful of you to calculate Union's 11.1 winning percentage as it is doubtful either one of those two could manage to do so.

The last I heard about John McCardell was he was stepping down as Middlebury's president this past summer to return the classroom to utilize his Harvard degree even more productively with Middlebury's students. I wonder if he ever attended a hockey game in his life :rolleyes:

Good luck to SLU and to Clarkson this coming weekend.

[scottcomstock]

BTW, Union is now 2-16-0 all-time in ECAC playoff games. That's an "impressive" 11.1 winning %. The soon-to-be retired, misguided, and traitor named Roger Hull must be heartbroken and disappointed that his team has fallen far short of his 40% goal.. I am delighted that he will be getting a retirement cake with 11.1 candles on it, so he can send a photo of it to his best buddy, John McCardell.


I couldn't really listen to the game last knight due to family obligations. What a nice piece of Clarkson hockey news to wake up to.

Brian: LOL!

ONWARD! Beat the Little Red!

[rangersfan94]

Congrats to the team!!

I listened to game via the internet feed and it kept me glued. Gotta feel good for Shawn Weller on his series clinching goal...probably a big relief to him. It seems we still are taking some bonehead penalties...but they may have been more from fatigue last night. At one point it sounded like Latulippe got speared and was laying on the ice and there was NO CALL????? Anyway, we will need to step it up another notch next weekend. I am sure the team is NOT intimidated about going to Cornell to play...especially after last year. Who will the Lynah faithful pick on now that Nickerson is gone????

[Goldie Knight]

Tuesday, March 8, 2005 7 PM

The Clarkson Athletics site quotes the following comments about the Union series:

"I think our team played well in all three games against Union, stated Associate Coach Greg Drechsel about the first-round playoff series. Union came out and had a lot of energy and played hard, and we were able to match their intensity. All three games were statistically close, but we felt that the quality of our Grade A opportunities were better. We got solid goaltending from Dustin Traylen; defensively we were very good, and everyone played hard.

On winning the first-round series and heading to Cornell for the quarterfinals, Drechsel remarked, it is a confidence boost for our guys. The way our team has demonstrated on occasions this year, we can play with anybody. It is a great rink to play in, and I know our guys are excited to go down there and look to repeat what happened there last year."

We have heard from quite a few Golden Knights that they enjoy playing at Lynah Rink at Cornell. The Cornell fans don't seem to bother them at all....although they think they do. In my opinion, Cornell fans seem to bother everyone else who cheers for the Golden Knights though.

Congratulations to Dustin Traylen for being named ECAC Goaltender of the Week for the fourth time this season. Dustin had 91 saves and allowed only five goals in three overtime games.

Remembering what happened at Cornell last March, none of the little red hockey team should take the Golden Knights the granted.

OPTIMISM IS THE BELIEF THAT LEADS TO ACHIEVEMENT. LET'S GO TECHERS.

[daredevilcu]

We have heard from quite a few Golden Knights that they enjoy playing at Lynah Rink at Cornell. The Cornell fans don't seem to bother them at all....although they think they do. In my opinion, Cornell fans seem to bother everyone else who cheers for the Golden Knights though.

Remembering what happened at Cornell last March, none of the little red hockey team should take the Golden Knights the granted.

LET'S GO TECHERS.

I wouldn't be surprised if the players actually used the hostile energy in a positive way, to charge them up. If you can do that, you can win anywhere. It's what makes being a Clarkson fan at Lynah fun -- also posting on eLynah forum has been a blast the last couple weeks. They even threatened to make a sign that says "daredevilcu has chlamydia" -- and I hope they do. It would be hilarious.

I still haven't figured out why Cornell cheers for a brand of cinnamon chewing gum.

Let's go Tech!

[MikeR]

Who will the Lynah faithful pick on now that Nickerson is gone????

According to elynah, Jay Latulippe.

[Todd '86]

According to elynah, Jay Latulippe.

Ah, elynah. Where they actually thought cheering back "Dis-co-tech" against "Let's Go Tech" was funny.

And it was. In 1983.

[oldtimehockey]

Tech-Union is a toss-up, slight edge for Tech. Winner loses to Cornell anyway.



A 9 seed beating an 8 seed is not an upset...and either Princeton/RPI will advance. Assuming we beat Union(HUGE ASSUMPTION OBVIOUSLY), my money is on us being in Cambridge for the second round....


Q.E.D. ....

[rangersfan94]

Q.E.D. ....

We'll see.....thats why they play the games....unless you feel Clarkson should just forfeit now and not even bother showing up ;)

[oldtimehockey]

We'll see.....thats why they play the games....unless you feel Clarkson should just forfeit now and not even bother showing up ;)
Nope.... but highly recommend Cornell forfeit now -- while they've still got the chance.

QED is the next-round location......

[Goldie Knight]

March 10, 2005 8 AM

I agree--the most reasonable solution is for Cornell to just forfeit the first two games. If they prefer not to do that, then Cornell should just agree not to score any goals and to play terrible defense. :D

The Golden Knights will have to play their best hockey this weekend, and their devoted and loyal fans will be cheering them on until the end....of time.

CRUSH CORNELL :)