First ECAC team since...
* Win an NCAA game: Yale, 2011
* Defeat a Hockey East team in the NCAA tournament: Cornell, 2009
* Defeat a CCHA/Big Ten team in the NCAA tournament: Cornell, 2005
* Reach the Frozen Four: Cornell, 2003
Could become the first ECAC team since...
* Defeat a WCHA team in the NCAA tournament: Yale, 2010
* Reach national championship game: Colgate, 1990
* Win national championship: Harvard, 1989
* Sweep regular season, tournament, and national title: RPI, 1985
The Dutchmen reaching the Frozen Four leaves only two current members of the ECAC that have never been: travel partners Princeton and Quinnipiac.
Who are we rooting for? You shouldn't even have to ask.
Plenty of reasons:
1) If Union can win a national championship, anyone can.
2) Union having a national championship and Clarkson still being empty-handed would be hilarious.
3) Equally hilarious - watching all the chest thumpers from the supposedly "superior" conferences try to explain why an "EZAC" team won it.
4) Losing to a team five times in one season isn't nearly as bad if that was the eventual national champion.
5) Stephen van Rensselaer was Dutch.
6) Mark Jooris' kid.
7) Keeping it in the family, what kind of big brothers would we be if were weren't rooting for our little brothers?
I have to agree with a college hockey pundit I regularly chat with regarding the Dutchmen - there are teams out there that play better offense, better defense, have a better power play, and better penalty kill than Union, but none who are as good at all four. This is just a very, very balanced team - we learned that best during the playoffs. Nothing better than having a team capable of simply waiting for the other team to make a mistake, and that's what they have right now.
We rip on Union because... hey, they're Union. And it's fun. But at the end of the day, we agree with what Col. Knowlton told the TU - it's not like we're going to be rah-rah about it and wear the sweater, but we're in their corner.
Go get 'em, kid. Have a pumpup, on us.
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I'd feel better about cheering for Union if I at all thought they'd do the same for us if the roles were reversed.
ReplyDeleteStill, they've worked really hard to be there and I know it means a lot to them and their fans. Good luck!