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Post by hc17 on May 19, 2020 16:09:29 GMT -5
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Post by purplehaze on May 19, 2020 16:24:26 GMT -5
I was intending on booking that weekend in Az and including some great golf out there - I'm not surprised but still disappointed
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Post by longsuffering on May 19, 2020 16:56:53 GMT -5
Sounds like a well planned trip, but with a ton of hockey teams within driving distance this one game cancellation is one of the least painful budget cuts with a decent savings. Plus HC would probably fly commercial and have less control over the environment than they will with a chartered Fox bus. And who wants to stay in a hotel or fly commercial before a vaccine is available if you don't absolutely have to?
I wonder if any thought will be given to games between teams from the Southern end of the PL and the Northern and Western schools being played in a neutral mid point location so no one has to sleep over until a vaccine is available? It will be hard enough for the member schools to maintain safety protocols on campus without using common carriers.
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Post by timholycross on May 20, 2020 15:44:29 GMT -5
Is Holy Cross due to go to Air Force in 2020-21? Not a Fox trip, either.
Wonder how the Air Force flies, given there's an airport and a few planes around campus, would guess they do a lot of charters.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on May 25, 2020 20:47:08 GMT -5
Sounds like a well planned trip, but with a ton of hockey teams within driving distance this one game cancellation is one of the least painful budget cuts with a decent savings. Plus HC would probably fly commercial and have less control over the environment than they will with a chartered Fox bus. And who wants to stay in a hotel or fly commercial before a vaccine is available if you don't absolutely have to? I wonder if any thought will be given to games between teams from the Southern end of the PL and the Northern and Western schools being played in a neutral mid point location so no one has to sleep over until a vaccine is available? It will be hard enough for the member schools to maintain safety protocols on campus without using common carriers. Our student athletes are as likely to get COVID shopping at Price Chopper than they are staying in a well-cleaned hotel room. I think the cuts in travel come from the lens a cost perspective, not from a "there's clearly Coronavirus all over the Hampton Inn pillows" perspective. Also, there may never be a vaccine. And if/when there is, flu vaccines are about 40-60% effective. We can't just cancel life because we're waiting on a vaccine.
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Post by longsuffering on May 25, 2020 22:54:20 GMT -5
The PL is a nice comfortable league but it's not the most exciting. One academic year when everything gets changed around and Holy Cross, as an example plays for a New England Championship instead of a Patriot League championship and all games are scheduled so no students stay over night both because of Covid-19 health concerns and the Covid-19 recession would be interesting for fans. Splitting the PL into regional divisions to eliminate overnight travel or using equidistant neutral sites to accomplish the same thing would be another twist that would add new interesting variables to the fan experience.
Of course student athletes who have not been following HC for decades and only play for four years probably don't get bored by the PL. But as a fan I could handle some interesting adjustments for an academic year or so if it helps HC and the PL manage through the epidemic.
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Post by beachbound on May 28, 2020 20:32:19 GMT -5
Nice OOC schedule for the season (knock on wood)
Home and home with BU, also Clarkson, Northeastern and UNH at home UMass in Amherst plus an exhibition with US NTDP
Disappointed for the team that the ASU trip was cancelled but makes most sense in terms of cost, COVID-19 planning.
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Post by longsuffering on May 28, 2020 21:21:43 GMT -5
Nice OOC schedule for the season (knock on wood) Home and home with BU, also Clarkson, Northeastern and UNH at home UMass in Amherst plus an exhibition with US NTDP Disappointed for the team that the ASU trip was cancelled but makes most sense in terms of cost, COVID-19 planning. Three Hockey East teams playing at the Hart Center. Yet that would violate conference rules about minimum seating if they were league games.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 8, 2020 20:55:07 GMT -5
Nice OOC schedule for the season (knock on wood) Home and home with BU, also Clarkson, Northeastern and UNH at home UMass in Amherst plus an exhibition with US NTDP Disappointed for the team that the ASU trip was cancelled but makes most sense in terms of cost, COVID-19 planning. I thought PC was going to Holy Cross to have Berard's kid play against him!
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Post by cruskater31 on Jun 11, 2020 21:50:00 GMT -5
Three HEA teams at home is in fact curious. Is it time to start reading too much into this? By July everyone will be speculating the new commissioner has rubber stamped HC's admission.
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 12, 2020 1:09:24 GMT -5
BU and Northeastern are only 22 Dunkin Donut Shops away from the Hart Center and UNH is only 45 away. Worcester is near the geographic center of H.E.
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Post by HC92 on Jun 12, 2020 7:31:27 GMT -5
Three HEA teams at home is in fact curious. Is it time to start reading too much into this? By July everyone will be speculating the new commissioner has rubber stamped HC's admission. I think HC would be invited if we were willing to make the financial commitment and it would be almost a lock if we had a 4000 seat on-campus arena. Unfortunately, I don’t see us making that kind of commitment anytime soon unless some very rich person steps forward to fund it.
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Post by alum on Jun 12, 2020 8:23:46 GMT -5
Sounds like a well planned trip, but with a ton of hockey teams within driving distance this one game cancellation is one of the least painful budget cuts with a decent savings. Plus HC would probably fly commercial and have less control over the environment than they will with a chartered Fox bus. And who wants to stay in a hotel or fly commercial before a vaccine is available if you don't absolutely have to? I wonder if any thought will be given to games between teams from the Southern end of the PL and the Northern and Western schools being played in a neutral mid point location so no one has to sleep over until a vaccine is available? It will be hard enough for the member schools to maintain safety protocols on campus without using common carriers. Our student athletes are as likely to get COVID shopping at Price Chopper than they are staying in a well-cleaned hotel room. I think the cuts in travel come from the lens a cost perspective, not from a "there's clearly Coronavirus all over the Hampton Inn pillows" perspective. Also, there may never be a vaccine. And if/when there is, flu vaccines are about 40-60% effective. We can't just cancel life because we're waiting on a vaccine. Yes, but www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/vaccineeffect.htmThis stat you quote is an important reminder that everyone needs to get a flu vaccine this year as soon as it is available. If 95% of us get the flu vaccine and it has a 60% effective rate, that will be much better for public health than if only 50% get it.
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Post by thecrossisback on Jun 12, 2020 16:50:17 GMT -5
Clarkson released their schedule. Playing Holy Cross on October 23 at Hart
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Post by nhteamer on Jun 15, 2020 7:07:20 GMT -5
The ECAC dropped ball gives us two of the top five all time f-ups in the history of college sports. That's quite a distinction.
THAT is the league that fit us best.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Jun 15, 2020 9:18:58 GMT -5
The ECAC dropped ball gives us two of the top five all time f-ups in the history of college sports. That's quite a distinction. THAT is the league that fit us best. Was the "Quinnipiac decision" made before or after we beat Minnesota? Looking back, QU has made the most of getting into the ECAC. A few years ago they were #1 in the country for a while. Can't remember if they actually won the national title or not.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 15, 2020 15:11:27 GMT -5
The ECAC dropped ball gives us two of the top five all time f-ups in the history of college sports. That's quite a distinction. THAT is the league that fit us best. Was the "Quinnipiac decision" made before or after we beat Minnesota? Looking back, QU has made the most of getting into the ECAC. A few years ago they were #1 in the country for a while. Can't remember if they actually won the national title or not. Lost to Yale in the title game in 2013 and in 2016 they lost to in the title game again to North Dakota.
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 15, 2020 16:37:11 GMT -5
Was the "Quinnipiac decision" made before or after we beat Minnesota? Looking back, QU has made the most of getting into the ECAC. A few years ago they were #1 in the country for a while. Can't remember if they actually won the national title or not. Lost to Yale in the title game in 2013 and in 2016 they lost to in the title game again to North Dakota. The Quinnipiac ascension following their entry into the ECAC has been eye opening.
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Post by purplehaze on Jun 15, 2020 16:52:12 GMT -5
The Q’s financial status has not ascended with their league affiliation. I understand its debt is quite large in relation to their endowment. It is also not particularly tough to get in and I wonder how their enrollment looks for the fall. In many ways not a fit for the league they’re in.
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 15, 2020 17:00:11 GMT -5
If HC has lost less in the AHA then we would have in the ECAC or HE that is one consolation.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 16, 2020 1:49:38 GMT -5
The Q’s financial status has not ascended with their league affiliation. I understand its debt is quite large in relation to their endowment. It is also not particularly tough to get in and I wonder how their enrollment looks for the fall. In many ways not a fit for the league they’re in. Everyone’s enrollment will be down... Here is QU’s plan www.qu.edu/today/fall-2020-reopen-plan.html
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 16, 2020 1:56:49 GMT -5
The Q’s financial status has not ascended with their league affiliation. I understand its debt is quite large in relation to their endowment. It is also not particularly tough to get in and I wonder how their enrollment looks for the fall. In many ways not a fit for the league they’re in. And Holy Cross fits in with RIT? A school with nearly 19k students in 2019 and has an acceptance rate of 56.7 percent? Mercyhurst? Robert Morris?
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Post by purplehaze on Jun 16, 2020 8:12:45 GMT -5
Of course not - we have nowhere else to play D.1 hockey. My point is that HC would have been a better fit to fill the opening that Q took in the ECAC - but as NHT noted, we did not pursue it aggressively enough
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Post by Ignutz on Jul 10, 2020 21:17:06 GMT -5
Lost to Yale in the title game in 2013 and in 2016 they lost to in the title game again to North Dakota. The Quinnipiac ascension following their entry into the ECAC has been eye opening. It helps that their players, on average, are significantly older than those on most other college teams.
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Post by purplehaze on Jul 10, 2020 22:25:43 GMT -5
Speaking of hockey, I fear there will be an impact on our season - on ice workouts start in early September and the season generally starts on the 2nd weekend of October - let’s hope our men’s and women’s teams are able to play
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