Hi Laura and a late welcome to the list!
 
As you will soon find out, I am an avid (rabid?) Wisconsin fan, and do
my best to report everything I hear about the WCHA, and provide lengthy
(perhaps too lengthy) reports on the Wisconsin games.
 
There really hasn't been much to report this summer. Here is what I
remember (relying on my memory is not always the best thing to do...)
of the late spring/summer WCHA league news. News (gossip?) from each
school I don't have...
 
Refs:   The WCHA will have 2 refs and one linesman for all league
	games this year. Ron Foyt was retained as WCHA Supervisor of
	Officials.
 
Schedule:
	For this season, the schedule more or less stays the same: two
	two-game (Friday-Saturday except for special cases) series'
	with each team, one series at home, one away.
 
Alaska-Anchorage:
	Alaska-Anchorage joins the league as an affiliate (or some such
	status) this season. WCHA teams are encouraged to schedule
	them, but the games do not count in the league standings this
	year.  UAA will get the 10th seed in the league playoffs. UAA
	is scheduled to become a full member next season. Details of
	how the schedule will work starting next season have not been
	announced.
 
Playoffs:
	As recently reported, the playoffs will have 10 teams this
	season. In the first round, 1 plays 10, 2 plays 9, etc, in a
	best-of-three series at the higher ranked team.  For the second
	round, the teams a re-seeded, and 1 plays 5 (on either
	wednesday or thursday, I don't remember), then the usual 1-4
	and 2-3 matchups in single-elimination games at the St. Paul
	Civic Center. I hope I got this right (and I'm sure someone
	will correct me if i have it wrong).
 
	Basically, the league wanted to let UAA into the playoffs, but
	since they won't be playing a full WCHA schedule, have no 100%
	objective way to seed them. So, instead of letting UAA bump #8,
	they added #9 to the playoffs, put UAA #10, and then added the
	extra 1-5 game to get back to 4 teams for the semi-finals.
 
--david
 
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david parter				university of wisconsin -- madison
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