March 20, 2009

Field May Go All In

The following article appeared in the March 20 issue of the Times Union.

 

By MATT GRAVES
Special to the Times Union

ALBANY — The ECAC Hockey Tournament includes the best field of semifinalists since the 2004-05 event and perhaps one of the best ever.

Three of the participants are ranked in the top 10 in every college hockey poll and the fourth, St. Lawrence, is listed as high as 14th nationally. All are 20-game winners, they were the top four finishers in the regular season, and there is serious talk of the rare possibility that all four could be invited to the NCAA Tournament when the weekend is over.

Yale, the No. 1 seed and regular-season champion, is the fresh face in the field that also includes second seed and defending tournament champion Princeton, and third-seeded Cornell, the most accomplished of all the tournament teams in league history. The Bulldogs face St. Lawrence in Game 1 at 4 p.m. today at Times Union Center.

Complete article can be accessed via the Times Union Web site by clicking here.