On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, David Parter wrote:
 
> they fly. For the WCHA, it is also less of a problem during the regular
> season, becuase the games are almost always Friday and Saturday night,
> without a Sunday game. It does mean missing 1 (friday) or 2 (thursday
> and friday) days of school on the week of a road trip. Take only 8 or 9
> road trips (for the league regular season), and probably 1 or 2 of those
> is during a school vacation, and it isn't so bad.
>
> During the playoffs, on the other hand, it gets bad. St. Cloud played
> Fri-Sat-Sun in Denver, and then again Thursday night in Milwaukee (the
> 4-vs-5 playoff game). If they had won, they would have had to play
> Friday and Saturday as well. If the #4 seed (MTU this time) had gone to
 
It isn't really that bad for SCSU.  The Denver series was right after
finals week for the players (so their minds were clear).  Then the
Thursday game was during Spring Break.  So that worked out nice for
SCSU.  But, within the next two years SCSU will be switching to
semesters (mandated by Fall 1997 from legislature), then there will be
some problems.
 
One thing you should also look at is the distance most teams have to
travel.  Alaska has to fly everywhere for away games, whereas SCSU, UMD,
UND, Wisc, and Minn can generally bus to most places in the conference.
 
bill
 
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