Mosey brings up a great point, but it maakes me wonder:  There appear to be
2 scenarios here.

1)  We sweep BC, and possibly end up in 1st place in HE, which would have us
playing the 8th place team in the 1st round.  Weaker team that UML,
obviously.

2)  We stay in 4th and play (hopefully) UML in the 1st round, thus
increasing our chances for an at-large birth if we don't win the HE tourney.

Scenario 2 would require that we either tie or lose at least one game to BC.
Even though it would benefit us (by allowing us to play UML).  So, would the
tradeoff help us in the long run?  I would think a win over BC would be
better than a Win (or possibly 2) over UML.  I don't know enough about the
rankings to know how this would play out.

--Adam

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Subject: Re: Hockey East standings

Anthony, you make a WHOLE lot of sense.

Not exactly sure, but a first in the HE regular season could get us another
4 digits on a Regular Season Champions banner at Alfond, but not an at-large
berth to the NC$$ Tournament.  A third might deny us the digits, but push us
more toward a 14th or 13th place in PWR, and get Maine into the Round of 16.
 I'll take the latter, and I would guess all in the Maine hockey program
would take that also.

I should know this, but do the PWR calculations continue extra weeks to
count games played in the conference tournaments, also ?

Kudos to the WZON radio Sunday announcer who (after they droned on about HS
hoops in Maine) did note Maine's weekend sweep AND offered information about
their place in PWR after the weekend (solid 15th).  Shows he pays attention,
especially noting that some auto-bids are lower ranked teams and that 15th
effectively is a bubble spot.

BTW, the foghorn work on Maine's Saturday night goals was very well done.
The two that did it that night should get a return engagement next season
for face value of tickets !!


Anthony DelMonaco wrote:

>Not that I wouldn't mind seeing Maine in 1st place but I'd rather have
>them
play out to a position that will hopefully help them lock up an at large
bid. Any of this make sense? And also how about the bonus given?
>
>Mosey