The W: The Ivies arrived 10-0, and Hockey East gets them first

The Ivy League starts its hockey season two or three weeks after everyone else, and every October the rest of the country finds out whether the wait meant anything. This year it did.

By our count the five Ivies that played last weekend went 10-0 and outscored their opponents 55-14, and Monday's poll has Princeton seventh, Cornell 12th and Yale 14th. Yale hasn't played a game.

That lands squarely on Hockey East. Four of the league's teams get the Ivies next, two of them at home, in a week the league badly needs to look better than it did against the ECAC.

The W read: The Ivies are rested, deep and a little annoyed at starting late every year. Hockey East is already 3-9-1 against their conference. This is the weekend to change that number, and I don't think it will.

What the Ivies did with their first weekend

Princeton swept No. 8 UConn, 2-1 on Friday and 6-5 in overtime on Saturday, and the second one is the game of the weekend anywhere in the country. The Tigers trailed 5-2 with under ten minutes left, scored three times to force overtime, including Caroline Averill's equalizer with 49 seconds on the clock, and won it on a power play.

The winner was Chloe Brinson's first college goal. She had three points on the weekend and the ECAC's rookie of the week award by Tuesday.

UConn outshot Princeton 30-20 in that game and lost, its fourth loss in six games.

Cornell did it the quiet way. The Big Red beat No. 15 Vermont 3-2 on Friday and 1-0 on Saturday, and Saturday was a goalie's night.

Annelies Bergmann stopped all 27 shots for her 22nd career shutout, which ties Amanda Mazzotta's program record. Rose Dwyer scored the only goal on a two-player advantage at 7:46 of the third, and Cornell outshot Vermont 19-9 in the period to make it hold.

The other three Ivies did what you'd expect against lighter opposition. Harvard beat Holy Cross 5-1 and 8-2, Dartmouth put 21 goals on Saint Michael's in two nights, and Brown won 6-1 and 3-1 at RIT. None of that tells you much about March. The Princeton and Cornell weekends do.

The Hockey East weekend: the Ivies come north

Cornell visits Boston College on Friday at 6 and Saturday at 3, and the Eagles get a 2-0 team with a goalie who just tied a school record.

Yale opens its season at Walter Brown Arena on Friday at 7 in the NCAA's Ice Breaker tournament, no relation to the one we publish every morning. BU is the first Hockey East program to host it; Minnesota State and Robert Morris play the 4 o'clock game, with the consolation and final on Saturday.

BU needs this badly. The Terriers are 1-4-1, were shut out twice by Colgate last weekend, and managed 42 shots across those two games. Yale got ranked without playing, and Friday is the night to make the voters look silly or look right.

New Hampshire hosts Stonehill on Friday, then goes to Harvard on Saturday night. Holy Cross gets two more nights with an Ivy, at Dartmouth. Elsewhere, No. 4 Northeastern plays two afternoon games at RIT, Providence visits No. 10 Clarkson, Mercyhurst comes to UConn, and Post visits Merrimack.

After last weekend's 3-9-1 against the ECAC, there's no version of this where Hockey East gets credit for a split. Northeastern is the only league team the poll trusts, and it isn't playing an Ivy.

The W read: BC takes one from Cornell, Yale beats BU, UNH wins at Harvard, Dartmouth sweeps, and Hockey East finishes the Ivy weekend 2-4. Northeastern's two at RIT are the only sure things in the league right now.

Kazmaier board

Joy Dunne, Ohio State: a hat trick in Saturday's 6-5 win at Minnesota, her sixth career hat trick, and 87 career goals, second in the Buckeyes' record book.

Sarah Paul, Minnesota: two goals and two assists in the split with the No. 1 team, including Saturday's go-ahead goal, and the WCHA's forward of the week.

Annelies Bergmann, Cornell: 22 career shutouts, tied for the most in program history, and the record-tying one came in game two of the season.

The PWHL: a calendar built around the Worlds

Training camps open Nov. 18, two days after the Women's Worlds end, and every team plays two scrimmages between Nov. 22 and Nov. 30, with 3-on-3 overtime and a shootout no matter the score.

The regular season opens the weekend of Dec. 5 and 6 with all 12 teams on the ice, and runs through April 18. Montréal got its Walter Cup rings on Tuesday.

The W read: A league that opened its first season on New Year's Day now holds its preseason until the national teams are done. That's the correct order for a league whose best players have two jobs in November.

One national-team note

The Worlds run Nov. 6 to 16, and both rosters are set. Canada went young and the Americans brought the gold-medal group; I covered Canada's choices and the American ones already.

One thing I'm watching

Colgate at Ohio State, Friday and Saturday, is the series everyone will talk about.

The one I want to see is Yale at BU on Friday night: a team ranked before it played, against a team that was shut out twice in that building last weekend, in a tournament a Hockey East school is hosting for the first time. By Saturday night one of those two programs has a season.