Well I for one am not liking what I see if Maine loses on Friday.  Does 
not seem possible that Nebraska-Omaha, a team that was below .500 the 
second half of the year would get an at-large bid over Maine.  This 
also shows the penalty for finishing second and not playing a TUC as 
UNH and BC did.  Not sure they should be weighted as much for the 
simple reason they are rewarded for finishing 3rd and 4th and Maine and 
BU are penalized for finishing 1st and 2nd.  Lastly what an impact that 
UMD win over Denver had.

Strangely when you ad the 3-2-1 bonus Denver jumps into a tie for 15th 
but that is not taken into consideration.  Bonus is not helping Maine 
at all as there good wins have been at home save BC, and now they have 
to beat the blasted Beagles again!  Game is just as important for BC as 
the winner will secure a spot and the loser will have to hope that 
Dartmouth and Colgate lose in the ECAC, SCSU or Duluth does not win 
WCHA, No. Michigan does not win the CCHA.

The Dartmouth Colgate scenarios are the most likely to knock out a 
Hockey East team!

Now I'll be more nervous watching the blasted game than usual!

Bob Fitta '83
On Mar 13, 2006, at 11:56 AM, Deron Treadwell wrote:

> See the below link and play around with conference tournament results
> and their effect on the PWR:
>
> http://www.collegehockeynews.com/ratings/yatc.php
>
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