2017-18 DIII News, Game Notes, Etc

[shelfit]

In most sports, there always seems to be a team or two that year-in and year-out gives another team a real battle every time they play. Amherst against Plattsburgh is one of these. They have always been a burr in Platty's saddle, so this game was no surprise.

Good thing that Platty has some actual competition outside their own conference because they have none within it. So how do the playoffs work in that tiny and terrible conference? Is it just the top 4 teams in their playoffs, or do they have 4 vs 5 in a quarter-final game first before moving onto the two semi-final games?

[SeymoreHockey]

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Good thing that Platty has some actual competition outside their own conference because they have none within it. So how do the playoffs work in that tiny and terrible conference? Is it just the top 4 teams in their playoffs, or do they have 4 vs 5 in a quarter-final game first before moving onto the two semi-final games?

Doesn't really matter. Save your expenses and just ship the Conference Championship to Plattsburgh. Sad, really. I miss those tough competitions against Elmira, RIT, etc.

[Birdwatcher]

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Doesn't really matter. Save your expenses and just ship the Conference Championship to Plattsburgh. Sad, really. I miss those tough competitions against Elmira, RIT, etc.

A qote from the men's side...."It's RIT's fault"

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A qote from the men's side...."It's RIT's fault"

Lol, always!

[PrezdeJohnson09]

Lol, always!

Forever.

[Russell Jaslow]

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Doesn't really matter. Save your expenses and just ship the Conference Championship to Plattsburgh. Sad, really. I miss those tough competitions against Elmira, RIT, etc.

Plattsburgh could probably beat today's RIT team.

Unlike the men, the women's transition to D1 has been ... painful ... to put it politely. They are just horrible.

RIT did better in their first transition year to D1 with essentially a D3 team (albeit, a national championship D3 team) than they are doing now.

[Scott_TG]

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There's a dispute at #1. USCHO's poll has Norwich as the new #1 with 9 first place votes to #2 Plattsburgh's 6. The d3hockey poll has it unchanged from last week with Plattsburgh still #1, getting 12 first place votes and Norwich with 2 first place votes and Elmira with 1.

On the slate this week for the disputed #1s, both team has 3 road games: Plattsburgh has #4/6 Middlebury tomorrow night and two games against 8-10-1 Oswego on Friday and Saturday. Norwich travels 8-10-1 Castleton tomorrow and then travels to New Hampshire for two games against 6-10-4 Plymouth State this weekend.

Undisputed #3 Elmira has a home and home against William Smith this weekend.

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Plattsburgh could probably beat today's RIT team.

Unlike the men, the women's transition to D1 has been ... painful ... to put it politely. They are just horrible.

RIT did better in their first transition year to D1 with essentially a D3 team (albeit, a national championship D3 team) than they are doing now.

Probably?! There's no doubt Plattsburgh, and several other top D3 teams, would beat RIT. RIT is arguably the worst D1 program in women's hockey right now....worst team in the weakest D1 conference....not a difficult conclusion to arrive at.

[Russell Jaslow]

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Probably?! There's no doubt Plattsburgh, and several other top D3 teams, would beat RIT. RIT is arguably the worst D1 program in women's hockey right now....worst team in the weakest D1 conference....not a difficult conclusion to arrive at.

I was trying to be nice...

[PrezdeJohnson09]

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There's a dispute at #1. USCHO's poll has Norwich as the new #1 with 9 first place votes to #2 Plattsburgh's 6. The d3hockey poll has it unchanged from last week with Plattsburgh still #1, getting 12 first place votes and Norwich with 2 first place votes and Elmira with 1.

On the slate this week for the disputed #1s, both team has 3 road games: Plattsburgh has #4/6 Middlebury tomorrow night and two games against 8-10-1 Oswego on Friday and Saturday. Norwich travels 8-10-1 Castleton tomorrow and then travels to New Hampshire for two games against 6-10-4 Plymouth State this weekend.

Undisputed #3 Elmira has a home and home against William Smith this weekend.

I'm a little surprised the d3hockey.com poll didn't tighten up a bit after Amherst tying Plattsburgh...regardless...we'll find out some more tonight with Plattsburgh playing Middlebury.

[SeymoreHockey]

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These rankings mean very little, other than weekly bragging rights for parents.

There's a dispute at #1. USCHO's poll has Norwich as the new #1 with 9 first place votes to #2 Plattsburgh's 6. The d3hockey poll has it unchanged from last week with Plattsburgh still #1, getting 12 first place votes and Norwich with 2 first place votes and Elmira with 1.

On the slate this week for the disputed #1s, both team has 3 road games: Plattsburgh has #4/6 Middlebury tomorrow night and two games against 8-10-1 Oswego on Friday and Saturday. Norwich travels 8-10-1 Castleton tomorrow and then travels to New Hampshire for two games against 6-10-4 Plymouth State this weekend.

Undisputed #3 Elmira has a home and home against William Smith this weekend.

[obserbear]

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...we'll find out some more tonight with Plattsburgh playing Middlebury.

Do the Cardinals expect Krause back in the line-up this evening? Lines seemed out of kilter in the game with Amherst, but the addition of Flanagan (contributing 7 points in 7 games thus far) is significant. Middlebury has several skaters (2 forwards, St. Clair and Griffin, and a D, Marmer) back in action, but last season's RotY Sheline has been sidelined thus far.

Should be fun at Kenyon this evening!

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Looks like William Smith is enjoying their new conference, but Utica not so much, which is a bit of a surprise. There hasn't really been too much discussion about it so far, but I'd like to hear some thoughts from anyone on this new conference and what you've seen so far? Obviously the main point of discussion before this season was the impact this new conference had in essentially destroying the old ECAC West and the effect that had on the SUNY teams, but now it's almost February so I'm very interested to hear what anyone has to say about how this season has gone for this conference of private schools.

[PrezdeJohnson09]

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Should be fun at Kenyon this evening!

I'll be following the action in Kenyon, as well as the action in Spartan Arena while I'm stating the NU/Plattsburgh men at Kreitzberg.

[Scott_TG]

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No surprises in the end results last night but there were some tough moments in some of the games.

Utica found themselves down 2-1 against hosts 3-11-2 Salem State, but Taylor Osowski scored two goals in four minutes in the third to secure a 3-2 win for Utica.

UMB came back from a 2nd period shortie from Connecticut College's Katlyn Paiva to take a 2-1 lead midway through the game, but the Camels had a comeback of their own. They scored three straight goals to beat the Beacons 4-2.

Over in Kenyon Arena, the #1/2 Plattsburgh Cardinals had a fight on their hands against the host Panthers. Melissa Sheeran scored her 12th goal off a feed from the returning RW Meghan Kraus early in the 1st period. Middlebury owned play the second period, scoring early on a Maddie Winslow feed to Sidney Portner even strength then got 6 minutes of power play time thanks to three Cardinal penalties (Millen for tripping, McArdle for slashing and Millen again for checking). The Cards broke the tie with Millen's streaking forward alone turning into a Kayla Meneghin rebound (Baye Flanagan picked up her 8th point in 8 games on the secondary assist). The Cards then hung on as the Panther offense had the Cards on defense for most of the rest of the third, but the Cards prevailed for a 2-1 victory. Middlebury dropped 42 shots on the Cardinals last night, and my going through the box scores shows it as the first time the defending champs have faced that many shots since 1/28/12.

In less competitive action, Hamilton cruised past Potsdam 3-0, Colby decimated 2-20-2 Post University by a score of 8-0 and #1/2 Norwich also skated to a figure 8, blowing by NEHC foe Castleton 8-1 in the only conference game of the night.