At 04:42 PM 3-23-1999 -0700, Charlie Shub wrote:
 
>actually, it happened a couple of times.  The latest was when Colorado
>College won the regular season WCHA and ended up going against the last
>team in the league in the playoffs.  The series went 3 games and the Tech
>goalie made over 150 saves and CC had 3 or 4 goals disallowed, and they
>finished 13th in the RPI calculation and went nowhere.  That led to the so
>called CC rule.  I believe similar happened to harvard.
 
Yup.  Not sure of the year, but #1 Harvard got beat in a 1-game playin by
#8 Rensselaer, thus not making the Garden.  Thus, the ECAC instituted
3-game first rounds (actually, if I remember correctly, 2 plus a mini-game)
the next year.
 
 
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