We like talking about the past here, so here are out best moments for each team this season thus far, from our perspective. If you have a different one, feel free to email us and let us know.<\/p>\n
Brown<\/b><\/p>\n
It would be easy to say that the whole season has been a good moment for Brown, a team that collected a mere two league points all of last season. But there are two games that have provided highlights for this team. <\/p>\n
The first was a league-opening 4-2 victory against road partner Harvard<\/a> back in November. The one win provided head coach Roger Grillo with the ammunition to go back to his team and proclaim that the hard work during the offseason did indeed pay off. The upperclassmen felt a sense of redemption, while the youngsters had visions of ECAC greatness in a Bear uniform. <\/p>\n Then there was the big 2-1 win against Wisconsin at the Badger Showdown<\/a>. Forgot for one moment about the championship debacle, and focus on the fact that the win over the Badgers put the Bears in the national spotlight for the first time in years. The buzz around the nation that night was about the ECAC team from Providence. It may have been a short-lived moment of greatness, but those types of experiences are what create a foundation for a program moving forward. <\/p>\n Clarkson<\/b><\/p>\n The Knights have had two moments that stand out this season. One was the big 8-5 victory over New Hampshire<\/a> in December, but the one that we’ll pick is the ECAC season opener at home against North Country rival St. Lawrence. <\/p>\n Clarkson led the Saints 3-0 and then 4-1 to end the first period of play. Then the Saints stormed back to tie the game at four heading into the third period. In the third, the Knights took a 6-4 lead before the Saints came back with two goals to answer and tie the game at six goals apiece. <\/p>\n In the overtime, captain Kerry Ellis-Toddington put home the game-winner to start the Knights off with a win in the ECAC, 7-6<\/a>. The Knights are still undefeated in the league. <\/p>\n Colgate<\/b><\/p>\n The Raiders have not had a great start to the season, but they seem to be picking up steam with a three-game winning streak: an overtime win against Iona, 3-2, and last weekend, a sweep in the ECAC. <\/p>\n The Raiders were down 2-0 to Dartmouth, but then stormed back to take out the Big Green, 3-2<\/a>. The next night the Raiders finished off the sweep with a convincing 4-1 win over Vermont. The Raiders may well be ready for the playoff drive. <\/p>\n Cornell<\/b><\/p>\n The Big Red renewed their storied rivalry with Boston University this season, and in game one of the series in Boston, controversy ensued as the Big Red dropped a 5-3 game to the Terriers. <\/p>\n The next afternoon, the Big Red were down 2-0 after one period of play, but the Big Red never gave up and a pair of goals from Matt McCrae tied the game up for the Red. In the third period Doug Murray’s power-play goal gave the Red the lead, and an empty-net goal by Krzysztof Wieckowski gave the Red the 4-2 win to gain the split<\/a> and put a good restart on the rivalry. <\/p>\n Dartmouth<\/b><\/p>\n Having Nick Boucher make a return to the Big Green starting lineup and posting 33 saves en route to a road 5-3 win over Cornell<\/a> last weekend — that is hands down the best moment this team has experienced all season long. <\/p>\n The weekend sweep against Yale and Princeton back in November was key in terms of maintaining a foothold in the ECAC race, but it pales in comparison to the impact of possibly<\/i> having a confident Boucher in net. The only way that this team will come close to living up to expectations this season is by having strength in the back. <\/p>\n Harvard<\/b><\/p>\n The fact that the Crimson is sitting comfortably in first place heading into exam break is a good moment in and of itself. But the real turning point was the weekend sweep of Union and Rensselaer. <\/p>\n A 5-2 win over Rensselaer<\/a> and a 3-2 win over Union<\/a> in early January was a series assured the team of its strong standing heading into January and it also pushed the envelope in terms of the team’s ability to maintain focus and battle back from deficits. The ability to stand strong in the face of adversity is something that the players will most likely encounter quite a bit throughout the rest of its extremely challenging last half of the season which includes road trips to Cornell\/Colgate, St. Lawrence\/Clarkson and Princeton\/Yale. <\/p>\n Princeton<\/b><\/p>\n With the odds firmly stacked against them, the Tigers entered Harvard’s barn last weekend and stole two points away from the league-leading Crimson with a 2-1 win<\/a>. <\/p>\n It wasn’t pretty and it wasn’t certainly wasn’t overpowering, but Princeton fought and scrapped until the final moment and earned every bit of that victory. Two points alone is important to this team, but the win showed head coach Len Quesnelle that his team can grit it out and pull out some key games. Although the team couldn’t complete its first weekend sweep in two years, the players walked away with some much-needed confidence heading into the second half of the league season. <\/p>\n Rensselaer<\/b><\/p>\n The best moment came in the second week of the season as the Engineers opened up their home schedule against Hockey East powerhouse and current No. 3 team in the nation, New Hampshire. <\/p>\n The Engineers got two goals and an assist from Marc Cavosie and Kevin Kurk made 31 saves as the Engineers outgunned the Wildcats, 6-4<\/a>. <\/p>\n St. Lawrence<\/b><\/p>\n Against Providence, the Saints were down 3-2 with nine seconds left. A timeout was called and Charlie Daniels scored with just six seconds left on the clock to tie the game for the Saints. <\/p>\n In the overtime, Rich Peverly sent a puck towards the net and it deflected off of a Friar skate for the overtime win<\/a>. <\/p>\n It gave the Saints two wins in a row, the only time this year that the Saints have done that. They have another chance this Friday at Vermont. <\/p>\n Union<\/b><\/p>\n The Dutchmen opened the season with a sweep of Notre Dame, but just last Wednesday, the Dutchmen beat Rensselaer, 5-4<\/a>, and took the season series from their Capital District rival. <\/p>\n The senior class for the Dutchmen becomes the first class to have a winning record against the Engineers, with a 4-3-1 mark. <\/p>\n Vermont<\/b><\/p>\n It’s been one long disappointing season for the Catamounts. Following last year’s Lake Placid berth, the team was hoping for another huge year. Unfortunately, the Catamounts have only two big wins this year — 5-1 over Harvard<\/a> and 3-2 over Dartmouth<\/a>. <\/p>\n Those unfortunately are the two biggest, and only, moments of the season. <\/p>\n Yale<\/b><\/p>\n The Bulldogs have been cruising along the first half of the season, making some noise but not too much. The moment that defined this team early, however, came at home against Cornell and Colgate. The first night, freshman phenom Chris Higgins proved that he can be a big-time scorer by netting the game-tying tally and helping his team escape with a 1-1 tie over the then nationally ranked Big Red<\/a>. <\/p>\n