{"id":34375,"date":"2011-01-20T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=34375"},"modified":"2020-08-24T21:34:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T02:34:22","slug":"ez-no-more-non-conference-records-make-that-argument-for-ecac-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2011\/01\/20\/ez-no-more-non-conference-records-make-that-argument-for-ecac-hockey\/","title":{"rendered":"EZ no more? Non-conference records make that argument for ECAC Hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Thursday, Jan. 20. Do you know what that means? It means that with the exception of the Beanpot, ECAC Hockey is done with non-conference play for the 2010-11 season.<\/p>\n

That makes this an excellent time to take a look at how the conference actually stacked up against “the big boys,” the leagues whose fans constantly, consistently and often confoundingly ridicule our pack as the “EZ-AC” … the wannabes of D-I men’s hockey.<\/p>\n

So let’s filter all that noise, and see who’s beating whom this year.<\/p>\n

By the dozen<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a league, ECAC Hockey went 49-33-15 in non-conference play against non-league competition. (That means the Clarkson-St. Lawrence game in Lake Placid, one of the Union-RPI games and the Colgate-Cornell game in Newark, among others — while irrelevant to the league standings — aren’t counted as true non-conference games here, either.)<\/p>\n

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Mike Kramer and Princeton are 4-0 in non-conference play (photo: Shelley M. Szwast).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The league played 59 of its 96 true non-con games against Hockey East, WCHA or CCHA opponents, going 22-27-10 in those games. Against the WCHA, our dozen went 8-8-4, 8-9-4 against Hockey East, and 6-10-2 versus the CCHA.<\/p>\n

Against Atlantic Hockey and independent Alabama-Huntsville, the ECAC was 27-6-5, for which we can be mildly content.<\/p>\n

Halving it your way<\/strong><\/p>\n

The top half of the league (Yale, Union, Princeton, Dartmouth, Quinnipiac and Clarkson, at the moment) were 30-15-4 in non-league play overall, 4-3-0 against Hockey East, 7-5-0 versus the WCHA and 4-5-0 against the CCHA.<\/p>\n

The lower tier (again, as the charts read today) was 18-19-10 against non-ECAC’ers, 4-6-4 against Hockey East, 1-3-3 vs. the WCHA and 2-5-2 against the CCHA.<\/p>\n

Breaking it down<\/strong><\/p>\n

The team-by-team figures, broken down by overall non-conference results, WCHA results, Hockey East (HEA) numbers, and the CCHA:<\/p>\n