Quinnipiac is Toast of ECAC Hockey
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The following article appeared in the December 16 issue of the Daily Princetonian.
By Zach Kwartler
Senior Writer
Traditionally, ECAC Hockey is one of the toughest leagues in the
country. In a conference where cakewalks are not so much hard to
come by as unheard of, last year’s league tournament typified
the close competition that the teams in the conference see week in
and week out.
In that tournament, Brown — a team that won only three
conference games during the entire regular season — swept
fifth-place Harvard in an opening-round playoff series. Rensselaer
finished that season with only three more points than Brown in
conference play before going on a similar postseason run. The
Engineers swept sixth-place Dartmouth in the opening round of the
tournament, and they nearly pulled off a much bigger upset the
following weekend before succumbing to nationally-ranked Cornell in
three games.
This year, the conference has been even more unpredictable.
Quinnipiac (13-3-1 overall, 7-2-0 ECAC Hockey), which was picked to
finish eighth in the annual conference preseason poll, currently
sits atop the league standings. On the other hand, Harvard (1-8-2,
1-5-2) and Dartmouth (3-7-0, 1-6-0), picked fourth and fifth in the
preseason poll, respectively, are currently stuck in the conference
cellar in 11th and 12th place.
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