SECRHL week 1 predictions

[BEEZERAL]

Edit for first weekend results
Bored in class and dont want to learn so here we go....


DI

1. Tampa (3-1)

Recovered from a surprising loss to NCST and beat GMU 3-2 in a hard fought game. beat NCST in rematch

2. GMU (3-1)
Two good wins against UCF and Miami and what looks like a sloppy 12-4 win over 0-4 DII bottom feeder WCU. Played well against Tampa and will be battling for the top spot with Tampa all year. These two teams wont see each other again until regionals. only DI team to play two DII teams last weekend.

3. UCF (2-1-1)
Solid 8-1 win against Kennesaw and easy win over MTST combined with a tie against NCST give UCF the third spot. 9-3 loss to GMU makes it look like that their is a gap between UT/GMU and the rest of DI

4. KSU (2-2)

Losing by 7 goals to both UCF and UT put KSU in the 4th spot. Solid win against NCST and easy win over USC.

5. NCST(1-2-1)

Surprising strong start with a tie against UCF and a big win over Tampa but lost the second game to UT and KSU to finish the weekend. NCST is always a very solid team that can steal a win from more talented teams.

Unranked

FAU INCOMPLETE obvious reasons

back in class so here is DII

DII

1) ECU (4-0)

played well this weekend with two strong wins vs Bethel and FGCU and two easy wins over MTST and GT. I didnt watch them at all this weekend but it seems they are a stronger team than last year.

2) FGCU (3-1)
Played well in their innagural weekend. High scoring offense and what looked like some solid goaltending.

3) Bethel (2-2)
Bethel was the big mystery team heading into the season. Stories of a team with full funding from the athletic department proved true as Bethel rolled up in a Coach bus, and the team is pretty strong. Anchored by 3 Canadian imports, bethel has a solid base to build on and a very good goalie. Surprised Miami in game 1, but struggled the rest of the weekend losing to FGCU and ECU. An easy win against GT finished their weekend.

4) Miami (2-2)

People can say that Miami (we) should be higher but we did not play well this weekend. We should have beat Bethel easily and we didnt. Miami as a team is really good. Their goalie (me) sucked. I lost the Bethel game and gave my team no chance to beat GMU. Miami finished with easy wins against MTSU (13-0) and VT (9-1)


5) VT (3-1)

There is a major drop off here. VT played 3 cupcake teams and won easily but were easily beaten by Miami on Sunday morning. VT probably played the easiest opening schedule of any team this weekend which is why they have a 3-1 record. Once FSU, USF, and UF play some games I expect them all to jump VT.

6) Georgia College (2-1-1)

Another team that benefited from an easy schedule. 2 easy wins against WCU and Kennesaw B, and a tie with USC are not very impressive especially when they got beat easily by VT.

7) USC 1-2-1

Only win was against WCU, another team that will drop in rankings once everyone plays some games.

the rest

WCU, GT, MTST, (0-4)

Unranked
USF, FSU, UF, JMU

teams currently unranked because they did not play this weekend. I expect all of them to end up in the rankins above VT once they start playing


Thoughts???

[ECUHockey]

what do people expect to happen?
who are the best DI, DII and B teams?
who will come out of nowhere and surprise everyone?
who will take a step back from last year?

I think I am most intrigued to see Bethel and FGC play. I want to see if Bethel is any good considering the amount of scholarship/canadian kids they have...

[BEEZERAL]

how do u know they have a bunch of canadian/scholarship players. well it looks like DII will be competitive once again. good to see that the SECRHL gets better and better every year

[ECUHockey]

I was talking to one of their players. It's on their athletic website as well. Theyre school is supporting them like an NCAA sport. New rink, matching quipment, etc.

[BEEZERAL]

just checked it out. impressive. good to see that their school is giving them excelent support right off the bat

[ECUHockey]

Hows Miami Looking Beezeral? Any key additions/losses? You guys had a solid team last year and played us great in the regional quarterfinal.

[BEEZERAL]

Hows Miami Looking Beezeral? Any key additions/losses? You guys had a solid team last year and played us great in the regional quarterfinal.

we lost 1 guy who is studying abroad and 1 guy to injury, but picked up a couple guys. we should be a solid team this year.

you guys gave us a tough time in regionals. that prevent box will drive any team crazy and your goalie played out of his mind for most of the game. we used that strategy against DI Florida about 3 years ago and it drove them crazy.

how u guys look this year

[ECUHockey]

Good to hear. Half of our team is new, and we are a lot better than last year (in my opinion) I heard someone is out for you guys because of regionals last year. Is that true? If so, that's unfortunate. We have one of our defensement out for these games (injury as well)

Do you know anything about Gulf Coast?

[BEEZERAL]

Good to hear. Half of our team is new, and we are a lot better than last year (in my opinion) I heard someone is out for you guys because of regionals last year. Is that true? If so, that's unfortunate. We have one of our defensement out for these games (injury as well)

Do you know anything about Gulf Coast?

if they are anywhere near as good as their Ice hockey team they will be in nationals this year no doubt

[ECUHockey]

To get back on topic, I see FGCU going 4-0. They have a pretty easy schedule minus Bethel. Why are they playing our B squad? Makes no sense as they are a DII team. Not fair to the B teams.



Regardless of the outcomes, it should be a great weekend. Good luck everyone.

-Chris

[ECUHockey]

Scratch what I said. Schedule is changed. Seems like DII teams are sticking to playing DII teams for the most part.

[BEEZERAL]

Scratch what I said. Schedule is changed. Seems like DII teams are sticking to playing DII teams for the most part.

seems odd that they even have mixed games this year. with 6 teams at the regional every DI team could play 4 different DI teams. its also curious that GMU is playing 2 of its games against DII teams even if they are against what are expected to be 2 of the better DII teams

[Missionhockey12]

Reason that we (Tampa) will be playing NC State twice is just because we won't be up north again until regionals. We are scheduled to play 2 fort myers, west palm and if all works out fly up to skatesafe in NY for the ECRHA just because everyone on our team basically lives up there. As frustrating as it is to play the same team twice it makes sense.

[GMU18]

Here's my prediction's for the first tournament D1
GMU 4 - 0
Tampa 3 - 1 (lose's to GMU)
UCF 3 - 1 (lose's to GMU)
NCSU 1 - 3 (lose's to Tampa x2, UCF)
KSU 1 - 3 (lose's to all D1 teams)

[BEEZERAL]

That makes perfect sense. My comment was more to the fact that GMU will play 2 DII games this weekend and now that I think about it will probably mostly play DII games the rest of the year, unless they go out of conference. with the 3 Florida tournaments FAU, and UCF will only see GMU at one other weekend and UT won't see GMU again until regionals.