Lemme see what swag I have from the end of last year.
A frozen four faux Bauer paper helmet they gave the crowd Saturday night. That's my Halloween costume.
The friends I went to Pittsburgh gave me a framed picture from the front page of the pittsburgh post gazette with a ticket.
CCSP has a mini-stick with the Frozen Four teams up on the wall of the main bar, and near the OTB machine they have a copy of the same page 1 article.
I've got a 2013 National Champions blue mini stick, a 2013 blue hanging banner, my ticket and more copies of the Post Gazette front page and sports page, a Frozen Four program, banner. and hockey puck, a blue frozen four tee shirt and a white National Champs tee shirt I bought that night.
But this is a 2014 thread, so that stuff is only for nostalgia.
4 Ivies (Princeton, Brown, Yale, and Dartmouth) open the season in Newark, NJ at the Liberty Invitational on 10/25-26. Yale also plays Harvard at Madison Square Garden on 1/11. 25th 1anniversary of Harvard's national championship. Reminds me I've got to get tickets.
Rematches with QU are 11/9 at Hamden and 2/14 at the Whale.
ECAC finals are at Lake Placid. Bridgeport to host the East Regional (Yale and Fairfield are hosts).
With the two top goalies, two of the top 3 scoring forwards (plus one other forward), and one regular defenseman graduating, Yale takes a few hits, but Agostino and Root are back, 5 defensemen who played regularly at the end of the year return, and they have a goalie coming in from Omaha in the USHL, Alex Lyon who I think was highly rated. Only one forward was drafted this past year.
It looks like there is good returning positional depth, including a lot of rising sophomores who played big roles in the NCAA run. As always, replacing a senior goalie with guys who have not played or hardly played in college is going to be a threshold issue.
