On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Bill Fenwick wrote:

> At 02:47 AM 2/17/2007 +0000, Sara M. Fagan wrote:
>> St. Lawrence defeated RPI, 6-3.  With the win SLU can do no worse than
>> second in the ECACHL (I believe.)

> Correct.  Also, Clarkson has clinched a top-four spot and the first-round
> bye that goes along with it.  To nudge the Knights into fifth, Cornell and
> Quinnipiac would both have to get at least five points over the remaining
> three games, and Dartmouth would have to take all six points.  Since
> Cornell and Dartmouth play each other, that can't happen.

Actually, Dartmouth can't finish ahead of Clarkson in any event.
Clarkson won the season series three points to one.  Dartmouth can get
into a three-way tie with Clarkson and Quinnipiac, who would have to
have swept Clarkson for that to happen, and who lost the season series
with Dartmouth three points to one.  Still, in that case the three-way
head-to-head tie-breaker would be Quinnipiac 5(=4+1), Dartmouth
4(=3+1), Clarkson 3(=3+0).  Following the ECAC tiebreaker procedures,
the Q would get second place, then the tie-breakers would start over
between Clarkson and Dartmouth for third place.

Probably time to plug this:

http://slack.net/~whelan/tbrw/tbrw.cgi?2007/ecac.cgi

 					John T. Whelan, Cornell '91