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[hittery]

Is there any way to watch this game online?

[Red(s)HawksFan]

Is there any way to watch this game online?

 

ESPN3, I imagine.  Otherwise, probably something like firstrow1.eu will have a stream or two.

[deanx0]

As expected, the QU/Yale matchup is front-page news in the New Haven Register this morning.

 

Off topic,but this blows my mind:

 

 

http://www.nhregiste....txt?viewmode=2

 

I mean, holy fuck.

 

My son is a senior in high school (in Milford, CT) and when he was picking schools to apply to, I told him to pick 1 or 2 that he'd be sure to get into. He told me he was applying to Quinnipiac. He got in (and it's his top choice) but when we went to accepted students day and the President told the crowd about those stats, I started hitting him, explaining that a school with a less than 10 percent acceptance rate is not a safe choice.

[hittery]

ESPN3, I imagine.  Otherwise, probably something like firstrow1.eu will have a stream or two.

 

It's blacked out on ESPN3, and I'm not finding it on firstrow or vip. Grrrrrrrrrrr.

[Monbo Jumbo]

It's blacked out on ESPN3, and I'm not finding it on firstrow or vip. Grrrrrrrrrrr.

 

 

hockeystreams.com - - not free, but they have the game and their streams are excellent quality. 

[hittery]

Thanks!

[hittery]

What a game. Amazing defense, esp. by Yale.

[sachmoney]

Man, Quinnipiac's defense has been great tonight. Blocking shots left and right. Tender playing solid. Get that goal, Bobcats.

[sachmoney]

Man, Quinnipiac's defense has been great tonight. Blocking shots left and right. Tender playing solid. Get that goal, Bobcats.

Well, this lasted for a while after I posted it.

[Mugsys Jock]

Damn... Yale connects through a screen with just 3.5 seconds in the second period.

Just my imagination, or is Yale noticeably bigger than Quinnipiac?

[ifmanis5]

Wow. Can't believe this is happening.

[OilCanShotTupac]

QU pulled its goalie down 3-0 with 7 1/2 minutes left.  Yale followed with an empty-netter about a minute later, and that was it.  I've never seen a goalie pulled with that much time left, ever, at any level of hockey.  I think it was a gutsy call by QU - desperate times call for desperate measures, and there's not much difference between down 3-0 and down 4-0 at that point in the game. 

 

Yale's defense was excellent throughout.

 

Boola Boola!

[mabrowndog]

Congrats to Yale, who become the third Ivy League school to win the NCAA title after Cornell ('67, '70) & Harvard ('89). Tough way for QU to have things end after such a dominant season.

 

On to other things...

 

Denver, winners of 7 national championships, has hired Jim Montgomery, Maine's all-time leading scorer and the leader of their '92-93 title run (42-1-2), as their new head coach.

 

Montgomery, 43, is currently the head coach and general manager of the Dubuque Fighting Saints of the United States Hockey League. He was previously an assistant coach at Notre Dame (2005-06) and Rensselaer (2006-10) after a 12-year pro career that included 122 NHL games with five teams.

 

Montgomery was a finalist along with former DU assistant and RPI head coach Seth Appert, Green Bay Gamblers’ (USHL) head coach and ex-Denver assistant Derek Lalonde and Boston College associate head coach Greg Brown.

[Philip Jeff Frye]

I can't believe this has happened. My dad grew up in New Haven and went to Yale. He was a huge fan. He went to at least one Yale football game every year from 1943 until he died in 2006, even though we often lived nowhere near New Haven. Following in his footsteps, I too went to Yale, but just in time for Ivy League football to fall off the face of the earth and for the Yale administration to decide that sports was no longer something in which it was interested. In the 31 years since my freshman year, Yale has won 2 Ivy League football titles and no basketball titles. We haven't even beaten Harvard in football in 11 years. Worst if all, most people at Yale are perfectly happy with this situation, particularly the decision makers. The only "sport" in which we're nationally competitive is squash. Barf.

In the midst of this crapfest, Keith Allain shows up and takes an occasionally competitive ECAC team, down on its luck in Tim Taylor's last few seasons, and turns it into a national power. Two years ago, we were, not unlike Quinnipiac this year, the top ranked team in the country for much of the season, only to suffer a bitter loss in the regionals. Oh well, that was fun, it will never happen again. And then it did, only with an amazingly inconsistent team that was fortunate to even get in the tournament. If I'm remembering correctly, Yale beat the #1, 2, 3 and #6 teams in the final regular season poll to win the championship. Its the most remarkable thing I've seen since the Miracle on Ice. Personally, even the 2004 Sox don't rank with this (and I'm a huge Sox fan obviously ).

My dad died of cancer in 2006. Towards the end, I took turns with my sisters spending nights in his hospital room with him. The last Yale sports event we ever watched together was a game against Quinnipiac that NESN was airing. I hope he was watching tonight.

Edited by Philip Jeff Frye, 14 April 2013 - 12:33 AM.

[Laser Show]

I believe Montgomery was the assumed favorite for the Maine job.

[gopats84]

I believe Montgomery was the assumed favorite for the Maine job.

I think it's safe to say Montgomery was the name most of the fans were hoping for. He's a great hire for Denver and will do a good job there. I was really looking forward to seeing him behind the bench at the Alfond.

With that said, you have to wonder if this might have worked out differently had the UMaine Administration not taken three weeks at the end of the season to do its evaluation of the hockey program. The decision to fire Whitehead should have taken three minutes not three weeks.

[FelixMantilla]

Great tournament and final game for Yale. Last seed and they win the whole thing. Very impressive.

[Mugsys Jock]

OKay, if anybody ever quotes me on this I'll deny it...

Amazing effort by Yale, ripping through the tournament and winning it all as a 15 seed. Couldn't be more impressed, and congratulations to Yalies everywhere.  Good on you, PJFrye and PJFrye Sr.

Yale sucks a little less for the moment. Football season can't get here soon enough.

Edited by Mugsys Jock, 14 April 2013 - 07:55 PM.

[steveluck7]

My son is a senior in high school (in Milford, CT) and when he was picking schools to apply to, I told him to pick 1 or 2 that he'd be sure to get into. He told me he was applying to Quinnipiac. He got in (and it's his top choice) but when we went to accepted students day and the President told the crowd about those stats, I started hitting him, explaining that a school with a less than 10 percent acceptance rate is not a safe choice.

FWIW, there's no way the acceptance rate is 10%. To yield a class of 1800, they probably accept close to 6,000.  a good yield rate for a non-ivy (or mini-ivy) is somewhere in the mid 20's... basically only 2-3 of every 10 students that get accepted actually attend.

Working in Higher Ed, it bothers me slightly when schools tout low acceptance rates. It detracts some possibly qualified students from applying, Fortunately for your son, he wasnt deterred

[ForceAtHome]

FWIW, there's no way the acceptance rate is 10%. To yield a class of 1800, they probably accept close to 6,000.  a good yield rate for a non-ivy (or mini-ivy) is somewhere in the mid 20's... basically only 2-3 of every 10 students that get accepted actually attend.

Working in Higher Ed, it bothers me slightly when schools tout low acceptance rates. It detracts some possibly qualified students from applying, Fortunately for your son, he wasnt deterred

 

From what I can find, QU's yield rate ranges between 13% (11,772 admitted) and 16.4% (10,001 admitted). Factoring for a larger yield to around ~20%, that would push the admittance rate down to 43% given the 21,000 applicants.

 

On a hockey-related note, Hartzell signed with Pittsburgh.

[Mr. Wednesday]

I believe Montgomery was the assumed favorite for the Maine job.

 

Cronin?  Or does he prefer to stay on an NHL track?

[gopats84]

Big announcement coming Tuesday in Orono....UMaine will be announcing the committee that will conduct the search for Tim Whitehead's replacement.

 

So it has taken the administration and AD Steve Abbott a week to form a search committee following a three-week evaluation of the entire hockey program that ultimately led to Whitehead's firing and cost them a chance to hire Jim Montgomery. Meanwhile Denver fires and hires a new coach all in the span of two weeks.

 

When do we form a search committee for a new AD?

[mabrowndog]

I think it's safe to say Montgomery was the name most of the fans were hoping for. He's a great hire for Denver and will do a good job there. I was really looking forward to seeing him behind the bench at the Alfond.

 

With that said, you have to wonder if this might have worked out differently had the UMaine Administration not taken three weeks at the end of the season to do its evaluation of the hockey program. The decision to fire Whitehead should have taken three minutes not three weeks.

 

Bingo. Should have been announced the day after they were eliminated.

 

Big announcement coming Tuesday in Orono....UMaine will be announcing the committee that will conduct the search for Tim Whitehead's replacement.

 

So it has taken the administration and AD Steve Abbott a week to form a search committee following a three-week evaluation of the entire hockey program that ultimately led to Whitehead's firing and cost them a chance to hire Jim Montgomery. Meanwhile Denver fires and hires a new coach all in the span of two weeks.

 

When do we form a search committee for a new AD?

 

Regardless of whether or not they were hoping to hire Montgomery, that timeline is pathetic and embarrassing. The only explanation I can come up with other than incompetence and cronyism -- and this is a real stretch -- is that Maine being a public institution requires a more bureaucratic process for the removal of someone who in essence is a state employee. Denver, a private school, has no such restrictions. 

[Norm Siebern]

I can't believe this has happened. My dad grew up in New Haven and went to Yale. He was a huge fan. He went to at least one Yale football game every year from 1943 until he died in 2006, even though we often lived nowhere near New Haven. Following in his footsteps, I too went to Yale, but just in time for Ivy League football to fall off the face of the earth and for the Yale administration to decide that sports was no longer something in which it was interested. In the 31 years since my freshman year, Yale has won 2 Ivy League football titles and no basketball titles. We haven't even beaten Harvard in football in 11 years. Worst if all, most people at Yale are perfectly happy with this situation, particularly the decision makers. The only "sport" in which we're nationally competitive is squash. Barf.

In the midst of this crapfest, Keith Allain shows up and takes an occasionally competitive ECAC team, down on its luck in Tim Taylor's last few seasons, and turns it into a national power. Two years ago, we were, not unlike Quinnipiac this year, the top ranked team in the country for much of the season, only to suffer a bitter loss in the regionals. Oh well, that was fun, it will never happen again. And then it did, only with an amazingly inconsistent team that was fortunate to even get in the tournament. If I'm remembering correctly, Yale beat the #1, 2, 3 and #6 teams in the final regular season poll to win the championship. Its the most remarkable thing I've seen since the Miracle on Ice. Personally, even the 2004 Sox don't rank with this (and I'm a huge Sox fan obviously ).

My dad died of cancer in 2006. Towards the end, I took turns with my sisters spending nights in his hospital room with him. The last Yale sports event we ever watched together was a game against Quinnipiac that NESN was airing. I hope he was watching tonight.

 

Very cool story. Congrats to you and your family. Good on ya.

[Doug Beerabelli]

Congrats to Yale. They certainly played better than QU in the final. QU not scoring on a couple of one on nones with the Yale goalie set the tone. Hartzell's brain fart of a clear with seven seconds left did the same. Yale was on a roll, what a run.

But you know what? Congrats to he Bobcats on a fantastic season. I dont think anyone expected theyd run away with the ECAC regular season, and mking the FF finals despite cooling off late in the season showed the quality

Ive been a season ticket holder for three years now, and the uccess this year was surreal. There were plenty of times in past I could not give my tickets away. This year, in February, I had numerous friends seeing if mine were available. My seven year old son and I continue to bond at these games. He's hooked on the sport, loves going to games. We both stayed until past 11 on St Paddy's Day to see the 2x OT game v Cornell. Our sets this year were in a great spot- the refs gave him and his friends at least 10 pucks as they hi the locker room between periods this year. It's a great facility, and the downside of parking far away in the garage is a side effect of the success. A very like able team, some really underrated players who we got to enjoy before the nation got to know them a bit. Peca, the twins, Langlois, Samuels-Thomas, Hartzell, St. Denis, Bui in the clutch. I feel pretty strongly the success this year and national exposure will help keep this going despite a lot of seniors on this year's team.

Congrats, QU. Keep it going.

[OilCanShotTupac]

Congrats to Yale. They certainly played better than QU in the final. QU not scoring on a couple of one on nones with the Yale goalie set the tone. Hartzell's brain fart of a clear with seven seconds left did the same. Yale was on a roll, what a run.

But you know what? Congrats to he Bobcats on a fantastic season. I dont think anyone expected theyd run away with the ECAC regular season, and mking the FF finals despite cooling off late in the season showed the quality

Ive been a season ticket holder for three years now, and the uccess this year was surreal. There were plenty of times in past I could not give my tickets away. This year, in February, I had numerous friends seeing if mine were available. My seven year old son and I continue to bond at these games. He's hooked on the sport, loves going to games. We both stayed until past 11 on St Paddy's Day to see the 2x OT game v Cornell. Our sets this year were in a great spot- the refs gave him and his friends at least 10 pucks as they hi the locker room between periods this year. It's a great facility, and the downside of parking far away in the garage is a side effect of the success. A very like able team, some really underrated players who we got to enjoy before the nation got to know them a bit. Peca, the twins, Langlois, Samuels-Thomas, Hartzell, St. Denis, Bui in the clutch. I feel pretty strongly the success this year and national exposure will help keep this going despite a lot of seniors on this year's team.

Congrats, QU. Keep it going.

 

This season has been great for both QU and Yale and big-time college hockey is now firmly on the radar of everyone in Connecticut.  It's a great thing and I hope the rivalry flourishes and is a tough ticket for years to come.

[Dan Murfman]

From Jeff Jacobs of Hartford Courant

 

jacobscourant 2:47pm via Web

This much we know: Interim Dave Berard, BC assistant Mike Cavanaugh or
former Denver coach George Gwozdecky will be next UConn hockey coach.