Last Modified: 2019 July 24
Joe Schlobotnik / joe@amurgsval.org
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Over the holiday weekend, there was only one ECAC contest, with Harvard defeating Brown 5-3 in the first ECAC Game of the Week to be televised by the New England Sports Network.
There was plenty of non-conference action, though, starting Tuesday night with a few ECAC-Hockey East matchups. Harvard were 5-3 losers against Boston University and Brown dropped yet another two-goal lead to fall 6-3 to Boston College, while Vermont used a pair of 4-on-4 goals, one in the closing minutes of regulation and one in overtime, to defeat Mass-Amherst 3-2. Meanwhile in New Jersey, Princeton pounded former ECAC travel partner Army 9-3.
Over the weekend in Boston, the Beantown Boys continued their massacre of ECAC teams, as St. Lawrence went down 6-0 to BC and 6-3 to BU, while Clarkson fell 4-0 to the Terriers before defeating BC 4-3 Saturday to avoid the weekend sweep. Senior Chris Bernard had 24 saves for the Knights Saturday, after Dan Murphy stopped only 15 of the 18 shots he faced against BU.
Vermont got some clutch goaltending in the Governor's Cup tournament, as Andrew Allen had 30 saves in a 3-1 loss to Maine in the first round, and James Tierney stopped all 32 Mass-Lowell shots in a 4-0 Consolation win. With the two wins over the UMass schools, the Cats upped their record against Hockey East teams to 2-3. Unfortunately, they're still looking for their first ECAC win at 0-3-2. For the record, host school New Hampshire ran away with the tournament, using two short-handed goals to defeat Lowell 4-2 and pummelling Maine 7-0 in the title game.
Yale split with a pair of Hockey East foes, losing at Providence 5-2 and beating Merrimack 6-2 at home, while Union split out West at Nebraska-Omaha, falling 6-3 and then winning by an identical score.
On Sunday, Princeton (2-0 victors over Merrimack Friday night) deadlocked 4-4 with Providence, thanks to a last-second Friar goal, while the ECAC teams swept at the Punch Imlach College Hockey Showcase in Buffalo, Colgate winning a 3-2 exhibition with York and Cornell holding off pesky Niagra 2-0, The Purple Eagles have fallen to ECAC teams in their only two Division I contests, but by respectable scores (the other being 4-2 to at RPI a few weeks back).
ECAC Ivy
W-L-T PF-PA Pct W-L-T PF-PA Pct
1 Yale 5-1-0 10-2 .833 2-1-0 4-2 .667
2 Cornell 4-1-1 9-3 .750 4-1-0 8-2 .800
3 Colgate 4-2-0 8-4 .667
4 Princeton 2-2-2 6-6 .500 1-1-1 3-3 .500
Clarkson 2-2-1 5-5 .500
St. Lawrence 2-2-1 5-5 .500
Harvard 2-2-1 5-5 .500 1-2-1 3-5 .375
RPI 2-2-0 4-4 .500
9 Union 1-2-1 3-5 .375
10 Dartmouth 1-3-1 3-7 .300 0-1-0 0-2 .000
11 Brown 1-4-0 2-8 .200 1-3-0 2-6 .250
Vermont 0-3-2 2-8 .200
With all the non-conference action, though, it's a good time to
look at how the ECAC teams are faring so far in interconference
competition. After an unprecedented winning record against
Hockey East teams last year, the senior circuit is back to its old
position of being dominated by the rebels.
Hockey Major Minor non- Total
ECAC East CCHA WHCA Indy Indy DivI N/C
Brown 0-2 0-2
Clarkson 1-2 2-1-1 0-1 3-4-1(*)
Colgate 1-0 1-1 1-0 3-1
Cornell 1-0 1-0 2-0
Dartmouth 1-0 1-0
Harvard 0-2 0-2
Princeton 1-0-1 3-0 4-0-1
RPI 1-0 1-2 1-0 1-0 4-2
SLU 0-2 0-2 0-1 1-0 1-5
Union 0-1 0-4 1-1 1-6
Vermont 2-3 1-1 3-4
Yale 1-1 1-0 2-1
ECAC HE CCHA WHCA Major Minor Non-I Total
Totals [1-1] 8-18-1 4-5-1 0-2 8-1 2-0 1-0 24-27-2
(*)Clarkson's losses to Wisconsin and BU in the Ice Breaker tournament
may be considered exhibitions
"Major Indy" refers to Division I Independents who play 20 games or
more against other division I teams, namely Air Force, Army, Mankato
State and Nebraska-Omaha. "Minor Indy" teams are the remaining D1
independents, games against whom do not count towards NCAA tournament
selection criteria.