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Ryan Stone writes:
>with a question. Actually this has always bothered me. What posesses a league
>to want to play each other so many times during a season. Don't you think 2
>games would be sufficient, 1 home 1 away. Traveling partners as is done in
>the ECAC can be arranged to make travel easier, and those teams who WANT to
play
>an extra game with a conference RIVAL can schedule it in the many extra games
>left over for non-league play. This 3 game 2 year cylce is ridiculous and
>playing each other 4 times is worse. If I am correct, if Michigan had beaten
>Wisconsin in the Semi-Final, they would be playing a National Championship
>against a team they had ALREADY faced 5 times. That probably would have been
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First of all, Wisconsin is in the WCHA and Michigan is in the CCHA. I don't
believe they met during the regular season. I assume you mean LSSU and
Michigan.
Traveling partners for a 1 home 1 away series may be fine for the ECAC, but
it's not quite so easy out west. Look at the WCHA. The first problem is
that you've got 9 teams, but beyond that, who would you pair North Dakota
with? I'm just guessing distances, but I can't imagine there's any school
within less than about 4 hours drive of Grand Forks. Same problem with
Wisconsin. Minnesota is probably the closest rival, but that's still 250
miles off. I can't speak for the CCHA, but there are reasons the western
schools have stuck with this scheduling as long as they have. I don't
know if you should really say it's ridiculous until you've tried it. It
builds up some exciting rivalries.
Pam Sweeney
Go Gophers!!!
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