At 11:25 AM -0500 1/16/97, Dan Olsen wrote: > The proof is in the record that their hard work pays off. In the past few > years, Army has enjoyed success at many of the ECAC's and HEA's lower >eschelon > teams' expense. Army has had victories or ties over Yale, Princeton, >Cornell, > RPI, Merrimack, NE, Union, Colgate, and Minnesota-Duluth. This all coming > from a team that shouldn't even compete with the D-I teams. I don't know, I am certainly not going to put down Army, but while they have had the occasional win or tie, it's going a bit far to say they have "enjoyed success at many of the ECAC's and HEA's lower echelon teams' expense." Over the last five years, from 1992-93 through this year, Army has gone 5-32-3 against teams from HE or the ECAC (including UMass's Independent season). But 3 of those 5 wins came last season, over RPI, Cornell, and Yale. The other wins were over RPI (1994) and Union (1992). The ties: Cornell (1997), Princeton (1996), and Union (1996). Army was a respectable 3-6-1 against ECAC/HE last year, but is 0-7-2 this year. On teams that Army has beaten or tied recently: Colgate last failed to defeat Army on 11/10/90, a 3-3 tie that counted as an ECAC game. Colgate is 6-0-0 against the Cadets since that game. Army has not defeated Merrimack in 12 years, going back to Merrimack's DivII days. Merrimack is 5-0-0 against Army since then, including a 9-2 win last year and a 5-1 win on Jan. 3. Northeastern has only played Army once in the last 15 years, a 3-2 NU win last season. Army has not defeated or tied a HE team since 11/4/88, a 5-3 win over Lowell. Again, none of this is to put down Army; I'm just setting the record straight. However, as the Army parents I know are aware, I have a great respect for the work effort put in by the military schools and their ability to be competitive given the restrictions they are under. And a number of the Army players are ones who would be a tremendous asset to any DivI team. Thus I am never surprised whenever Army has a good showing as they apparently did against Colgate and Cornell last weekend. --- --- Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] *HMM* 11/13/93 ***** (Part-Time) Color Voice of Merrimack Hockey WCAP 980 AM ***** ***** Unofficial Merrimack Hockey home page located at: ***** ***** http://www.tiac.net/users/machnik/MChockey/MChockey.html ***** >>> U.S. College Hockey Online http://www.uscollegehockey.com/ <<< HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.