Quinnipiac Bobcats 09-10: Clawing our way to Albany

[Quinn57]

Re: Quinnipiac Bobcats 09-10: Clawing our way to Albany

^ Yeah its still a young season. Even at 11 pts we're the 5th team on the Receiving votes, roughly equivalent to 20th overall. Still hard to believe we're worthy of being recognized above Michigan State, New Hampshire and Northeastern but I'll take it.

[allnightwong]

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No USCHO rankings? ***.

[MinniQUFan]

Re: Quinnipiac Bobcats 09-10: Clawing our way to Albany

Lets not get caught up in polls after one week. They are meaningless. QU would be best served this season flying under the radar as long as possible.

[MarkEagleUSA]

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Lets not get caught up in polls after one week. They are meaningless. QU would be best served this season flying under the radar as long as possible.

I agree. At this point the only thing the polls are good for is bragging rights (and that's mainly for us fans). The team most definitely cannot get caught up in the hoopla; they need to be focused on the game in front of them.

[Kitten at QU]

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I agree. At this point the only thing the polls are good for is bragging rights (and that's mainly for us fans). The team most definitely cannot get caught up in the hoopla; they need to be focused on the game in front of them.

I agree totally. Staying under the radar will be good for us, especially against the other ECAC teams ranked high in the polls. Beating a Yale, Cornell, or Princeton will be that much sweeter if it seems to be more of a upset.

Bentley is not necessarily going to be a walk in the park, especially coming to us right from Northeastern. They need to be focused on the next game and not what their rankings are. Those numbers don't mean anything till the last month of the year anyways. There's too much changing going on now to get caught up in who thinks we're good or not.

[Quinn57]

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"The team most definitely cannot get caught up in the hoopla; they need to be focused on the game in front of them."

Probably should direct that towards Rand. Has been a problem the last few years especially.

[Quinn57]

Re: Quinnipiac Bobcats 09-10: Clawing our way to Albany

No. 18 in the USCHO. I'll take it for sure.

[MinniQUFan]

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So much for flying under the radar. Seems whenever QU starts climbing into the pulls or climbing in the polls, they stumble. Hopefully this is the start of a new era with all this young blood (and no Bud Fisher!)

[JimRoz]

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A great start to the season for the Bobcats! It is nice to see that there two hard fought victories in Columbus jumped them into the USCHO poll. The important thing now is for the team to focus on the games at hand and not get ahead of themselves. They have three winnable games before the ECAC tilt gets underway. Let's hope the team continues to focus on the game at hand and we may be in for a surprising season.

[MarkEagleUSA]

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So much for flying under the radar.

And the hits just keep on coming.... CHN's Team of the Week!

Let's hope it all doesn't go to our collective heads!

[MarkEagleUSA]

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The important thing now is for the team to focus on the games at hand and not get ahead of themselves.
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Let's hope the team continues to focus on the game at hand and we may be in for a surprising season.

That "focus" is something that I think has been missing the past 2 seasons. Not taking anything away from the last couple of captains, but something's been missing since the Cashman days. Hopefully, JMB has what it takes to keep the guys motivated.

[allnightwong]

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So from 11th in the conference according to some to 1 of 4 ECACs ranked. Not bad. But let's see this transfer into a conference slate. I'm still super skeptical.

[MarkEagleUSA]

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I'm still super skeptical.

It's still way too early for any of this to mean anything. For one, half the teams in the top 20 haven't even played yet.

I heard Rand on radio tonight and his take was that the media didn't really know the level of talent of our freshmen. Makes sense to me and is further supported by the ECAC coaches placing us higher.

The main thing is for the guys to ignore all of this. Forget the hype and play the game. Don't worry about tomorrow until you're done with today.

One game at a time... that means Bentley, 4:00, Saturday!

[allnightwong]

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The main thing is for the guys to ignore all of this. Forget the hype and play the game. Don't worry about tomorrow until you're done with today.

Yeah we'll take care of worrying about the polls and such.

[Quinn57]

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Any reason for the early start on Saturday? Not a TV game right? Wonder if its an experiment to see if students will stay for entire Saturday games instead of leaving early for nights out.

If that's the case it's probably the first time QU has done something with the students in mind. Kudos to them however misguided it was.