B Division Banter

[Respek]

Mich St. vs Towson is going to be awesome and needs to happen. I think Towson wins by 2 this year.

p.s Drexel B is overrated unless that wasnt the same team that got abused by Towson.

[HockeyGod98]

If i recall directly, towson played burke in that game, not the goalie who got "abused" by rutgers that morning. And therre were a few questionable goals. "abused" by towson? honestly what game were you watching, that was one of the closely matched, tightest games i saw that entire weekend.

[Respek]

I saw the Drexel vs Towson game and i felt like Towson is the better team. I dont know maybe its because they had a kid on quads and we are are almost in the year 2007. Yes that kid is pretty nasty on those things, i cant lie there. But if i wasnt mistaken i thought they were illegal but i guess not in the ECRHA. So to summarize drexel is a good team but if the southern teams are looking for a challenge i think Towson is better then Drexel. OO and by the way look at Burkes games played hes played in a lot of B games.

[William Bourque]

I saw the Drexel vs Towson game and i felt like Towson is the better team. I dont know maybe its because they had a kid on quads and we are are almost in the year 2007. Yes that kid is pretty nasty on those things, i cant lie there. But if i wasnt mistaken i thought they were illegal but i guess not in the ECRHA. So to summarize drexel is a good team but if the southern teams are looking for a challenge i think Towson is better then Drexel. OO and by the way look at Burkes games played hes played in a lot of B games.

Since i was timekeeping that game, ill add my insight...Drexel B is a good team. That game they got beat by a better team and they knew it. I wouldnt make the statement that Towson B is better than Drexel B or vice versa as the score shows, it was a close game. Burke and Vensel are competing with Scott for the jobs on each team, dont discredit a team because of there goalie.

Quads are legal in the NCRHA, and it has something to do with the color stopper on the skate.

[MBurke]

It could be argued (with a lot of merit) that I'm the third best goalie at Towson this year. Drexel is a very strong team and I think the B division right now is a race between them, us, Suffolk and Rutgers. I haven't checked the standings, just going by memory of who we've played, so don't flip if I left your team out :)

Also, games played as a forward are NOT the same as GP as a goaltender per NCRHA rules. We get charged with a 'forward' game played just for dressing.

Check my GGP column - I think I've actually played 3.

[Respeks_keeper]

Towson B sucks, Rutgers B sucks, Respek whoever you play for sucks. respek im not insulting you or anything, but i truly believe you are not good at hockey.

respek your opinion is wrong in every aspect. Clearly you know nothing about hockey or the B division in general. Please do not post about the b teams again.

[tambo6]

Towson B sucks, Rutgers B sucks, Respek whoever you play for sucks. respek im not insulting you or anything, but i truly believe you are not good at hockey.

respek your opinion is wrong in every aspect. Clearly you know nothing about hockey or the B division in general. Please do not post about the b teams again.


This is why this sport stays at the same level year in and year out. It is people like you that bring it down in every aspect. Shut your mouth and play the game. You have no right saying what you did. You don't know them, and you don't know how hard they've worked to get where they are today. Keep your opinions to yourself.

I don't see college ice hockey players, or any college athletes, on message boards talking trash. But I guess that's why they're considered athletes.

Your actions are disgusting and a disgrace to the sport.

[Leaferguy]

tambo, I agree, and I sincerely hope that it's no one I know. Whoever it is, it's pretty disgraceful that this stuff ends up happening. You win on the floor, not on the internet :rolleyes:

[MBurke]

You win on the floor, not on the internet :rolleyes:

I win on the internet. :p

[Leaferguy]

I win on the internet. :p
I don't win anywhere, but that's beside the point :D

[Respeks_keeper]

I am allowed to speak my mind. In my opinion towson is overrated. And I question other people's (respek) knoweledge about hockey. And this is the truth.

also tambo
"I don't see college ice hockey players, or any college athletes, on message boards talking trash. But I guess that's why they're considered athletes."

go to USCHO.com forums and tell me college ice hockey players , D1 Scholarship players, aren't talking trash. or go to laxpower.com and see college lacrosse players talking trash. Educate yourself before you make broad generalized statements. what is said on message boards means nothing about athleticism. Unless you make completely false statements like Respek has made numerously.(no offense respek)

so in conclusion, I still think towson is not very good same as rutgers. and respek who do u play for? cause im sure they probally lack the talent as some other B division teams

[bakerg81]

For this post being about the Atlanta event for the Southeast, I think it's safe to say that this post is completely off topic. For one, to say that Towson B and Rutgers B sucks and that some other play on here sucks is ridiculous. The mere fact that people have to come on here and say that teams and players suck hiding behind a fake handle shows a lot about their character. Look at Tambo6. I'm fairly certain that everyone knows exactly who that is. He comes on here, makes good points and you have to respect him because right now he's probably one of the top 5 players in the ECRHA. It's honestly a shame that people like him have to come on here and attempt to regulate the morons of our league so that we can attempt to save face to the public. This is the entire reason the message boards on the NCRHA got shut down. Please, for the sake of everyone, keep it calm and don't knock teams when your comments are obviously misguided and terribly wrong. Keep the message boards clean and fun so that we can continue to have them. I think one of the best things about this league is that players can spend entire weekends at the rinks and get to hang out and interact with players from other schools. Comments like that are only going to ruin that for the rest of us.

Nick Godfrey
PSU

[DUHockey9]

Yea, I'm on Drexel's DII team and I won't say Towson B and Rutgers B suck. That's just not true. I also don't think my own B team sucks (of course). I really hope that that guy is not a member of my club...

[MBurke]

Ok let me qualify what tambo said then, since I frequent the USCHO boards (and used to be on Laxpower a ways back when I was still following lacross pretty heavily):

1) It seems that nearly 1/2 the posts on our college boards over the past three years have been mindless trash talk - better than no talk, but just saying 'your team sucks' with nothing to back it up is pretty silly.

At least the majority of posts on those boards (again, with thousands of threads there will be exceptions, but I'm not talking about exceptions to the rule) are about newsworthy items or actually making comparisons without reverting to simple trash talk.

2) Those sports are entrenched with solid fan bases. Will roller hockey ever be as big as ice hockey? Maybe not - but when people look for information on collegiate roller hockey this is one of the first places they end up due to the fact that IHC has been around for so long as is #1 on most of the major search engines.

I'm not saying it's fair - it's just the way it is - people stumble upon here and our first page consists of:

- Complaints about stats
- Complaints about nationals
- Complaints about X. Y, Z
- People testing out the profanity filter
- People creating additional screen names because they like hiding behind anonymity (yes, I know who you are)

What's your take on all this if you're a parent gung-ho about sending your kid to college when they are REALLY interested in continuing to play following high school? I know what mine would be.

Some of us take this as seriously as an NCAA sport because there is no NCAA equivalent. Some want to travel around and just have a good time on the weekends. There's nothing wrong with either - I think we all just need to be a little more accommodating to people who don't necessarily want the same thing out of the sport. (hint: we shouldn't all be in the same divisional structure!) :p

[/soapbox]

Never mind - split the thread.

[bobraynor]

Everyone needs to chill out about this. Rutgers, Towson and Drexel all have one loss and those 3 losses were the result of these 3 teams beating each other. Drexel beat Ruters who beat Towson who beat Drexel. That sounds pretty even to me. And even though I didn't see the RU/Towson game, I 'm sure it was as entertaining as the Drexel games.

These 3 teams and SUNY Bing are all very good and I'm sure the 2nd half of the season and Regionals are gonna be some of the best hockey the B-division has ever seen.

I'm OK with talking a little smack on the boards, but there is a difference between razzing a guy and flat out being a jerk. Let's keep it clean fellas.

[Respek]

OK my opionion is wrong because i said Towson B is better then Drexel B because they beat them. Yep, I know nothing about hockey. I will tell you one thing Tambo is not top 5 in ECRHA he is without question number one. Hopefully, that didnt start up another argument because I know nothing.

[DGlass]

I don't think people are necessarily bashing your opinion. Rather, people are bashing the merits of your post; what are you going to get out of bashing three of the best run programs (and recently successful teams) in the ECRHA, especially without anything concrete to back it up.

[GoRangrHky]

I think my B team sucks. It's cool tho, they know it :p ;)

[DUHockey9]

I think my B team sucks. It's cool tho, they know it :p ;)

we need more of this!

[GoRangrHky]

we need more of this!

Then just wait for the second semester to start!! :D

[KAppel]

As a member of Drexel's B team, I've been dying to see some good banter about the B division on these boards. It's good to see what other people think about the division as a whole since it generally doesn't get as much exposure as DI, II, or III (and rightly so, as it's just the B division). However, there have been some points made in this thread that I don't really agree with and some that are really harmful to our league as a whole, as Burke mentioned.
Firstly, I don't think I'd say Towson 'abused' us in that game. It was very close, and they got the better of us at the end, but I think that we're pretty evenly matched. And Rutgers is in the mix, too - our game against them was incredibly close. And then there are other teams that we haven't played yet like Suffolk and Binghamton who have been doing very well.

As for whoever it is who is outright saying teams suck, that's just not right in any sense. And if you happen to be connected to Drexel or any other club, just stop it now; it's embarrassing to the whole league, to say nothing about your team.

[uconnhockey1]

From an unbiased opinion from scorekeeping and watching a lot of these games, I can attest and say that all three teams mentioned: Rutgers, Towson, and Drexel all have very solid B teams, and should be regarded as some of the best teams in the ECRHA B Division. Buffalo also has a pretty good B team, I believe as well. Try not to let people get on your case when they tell you you suck, he's not legit, he won't tell you who he is, so don't let him agitate you. You see so many people like that clown who talks a ton of trash, won't say who they are, and just says the most retarded stuff you'll ever see. Sign your name and let us know who you are, you sally. Rest assured, Rutgers, Buffalo, Towson, Binghamton, Drexel, and Suffolk will be there near the end fighting it out.
Good luck to you all the rest of the season.

Jesse C.
#1, UConn DI