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> While we're mulling over changes we'd like if we were the
> Gods of hockey, how about changing the tournament to an 8-team
> round-robin preliminary round from which two teams advance to a
> best-of-three championship series? I realize that this would
> take longer than the current one weekend for regionals and
> one for Frozen Four. How could it be scheduled? Maybe cut a deal
> with the conferences to replace their tournaments and the current
> regionals with prelim. games featuring their conferences and some
> good out-of-conference rivalries (e.g. Harvard-BU, RPI-BU)? Also play
> some of the games mid-week at neutral campus sites? This would
> minimize the expenses for distant match-ups that might not draw well.
> I know that it wouldn't be easy, but I think that would yield a much
> more meaningful result. If each of the eight best teams played all
> of the other seven and the best two from this squared off in a
> three-game series, then one off night or one bad call is much less
> likely to be the determining factor. Comments, reality-checks, and
> near-flames welcome.
>
>      Dave Carroll, BU '73       "Wait 'til next year."
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  I really like this idea.  I think that it is silly that the regular season
is so completely minimized by the conference tournaments which let every school
in, and then allowing them to play single elimination is a farce.  I think that
if the goal is to determine the best team, then this, or something akin to it,
is a much more accurate way of doing this.  Plus, it would be a source of
increased revenue.
 
                   Alex
 
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