My gut says the WCHA goes to the "Super Six" format, although one could
argue that there are other formats that better reward regular season
success.  Puts 6 teams into St. Paul.  Although I don't know whether
they'd be able to justify 2 separate-admission games on Thursday like they
do on Friday, might have to go to a doubleheader format for Thursday.

Mike Abegg

PS Isn't this conference alignment the one that was obvious all along? 
Omaha moving is a no-brainer given geography and historical rivalries with
WCHA schools in other sports, but it DID require the WCHA to think big
picture...

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> so, after it all shakes out, there will be
> 5 conferences and 58 teams
>
> 12 wcha teams  +bebidji +omaha
> 12 ccha teams  -omaha   +huntsville
> 12 aha  teams  +niagara +robert morris
> 12 ecac teams  no changes
> 10 he   teams  no changes
>
> conference playoffs will be organized as follows
>
> ecac	all 12 qualify
> 	round 1 - 5-12 best of 3
> 	round 2 - 1-4 + round 1 winners best of 3 (reseeded)
> 	single elimination + 3rd place game
>
> ccha	all 12 qualify
> 	round 1 - 5-12 best of 3
> 	round 2 - 1-4 + round 1 winners best of 3 (reseeded)
> 	single elimination + 3rd place game
>
> he	8 of 10 qualify
> 	quarter finals best of 3
> 	single elimination - no 3rd place game
>
> aha	was all qualify
> 	7-10 one game
> 	quarter finals (reseeded) best of 3
> 	single elimination - no 3rd place game
>
> wcha	was all qualify
> 	best of 3
> 	single elimination 4-5, 1-4, 2-3 then champ and 3rd place
>
> question 1
> 	what will aha do
> 	choice seems to be to adopt the ccha/ecac model with only
> 	issue being whether first round is 1 game or best of 3
>
> question 2
> 	what will wcha do
> 	two choices
> 	adopt ccha/ecac model or
> 	6 first round games
> 	championship has 6 teams
> 	3-6 on thursday, reseed, semis fri, champ and 3rd place sat
>
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