Notes on the CC - AA match and brawling in general.  First, I found a somewhat more detailed report. Looks like DU and Bemidji will benefit from the DQ's.  Too bad Dairy Queen started there cup in MN or this game would be likely to take the DQ trophy for the current season.

Quite coincidentally, a CC prof's study on fighting the NHL was reported less than a month earlier.  His results, while showing that major penalties help, would not seem to apply to fights after the game is over.  This would seem to go back to the comments posted earlier on competitive "fighting" in sports.

Brief snippets and links to the full stories are presented below.      Bob Hamilton

 >>CC salvaged a split of its hard-hitting Western Collegiate Hockey Association series with the host Seawolves when Scott McCulloch scored an overtime goal from the side of the ice nearest to the Anchorage bench.  As the Tigers poured off their bench and the celebration angled closer to the Seawolves, the tension simmering from two consecutive overtime games boiled over.   Once officials sorted out the guilty parties on video replays, five Tigers players and six Anchorage players were assessed fighting majors and game disqualifications, leaving all 11 with mandatory one-game suspensions.  Anchorage hosts DU for a WCHA series this week and will be missing its six in the opener Friday. .......CC is off until it begins a nonconference series at home against Bemidji State on Dec. 29. Mike Testwuide, Addison DeBoer, Lee Sweatt, Jake Gannon and Brandon Straub will serve their one-game suspensions in the opener.   Anchorage will be missing Chad Anderson, Blair Tassone, Mark Smith, Kevin Clark, Chris Tarkir and Jay Beagle on Friday against DU.   Anderson and Beagle are tied for second on the team with 12 points. Anderson and Smith are the Seawolves' top scoring defensemen. <<Snippets from 
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/ncaa/article/0,2777,DRMN_23932_5205618,00.html


>>>>Positive side to dropping the gloves
Fighting in NHL helps your team win, statistics show  
Adrian Humphreys National Post Monday, November 13, 2006 
"The bottom line is ... your major penalties help your team," said Aju Fenn, a professor of sports economics at Colorado College and an author of the study. Fighting "rallies your teammates." 
 
Despite increasing public unease over violence in hockey, a statistical analysis of NHL data by university professors shows that on-ice fighting is a good strategy for team success.

An intensive numbers-crunching of five years of statistics shows major penalties -- those most often issued for fighting -- increases the total points of the offending player's team and decreases the number of goals scored by their opponents.

Hockey goons must be careful, however. Only major penalties help win games; minor penalties lower a team's success, according to the analysis.

The team of professors at the Department of Economics and Business at Colorado College in Colorado Springs and the School of Business at the University of Sioux Falls analyzed data for all NHL teams from the 1999-2000 season through to 2003-2004.<<
>>The professors have measured the precise effect of a major penalty: For each penalty minute served, a team accrued 0.07 points and decreased their opponent's scoring by 0.24 goals.<<Snippets from
http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=7f24bbbd-cc6f-4046-92e0-bb2e2eb2f5af&k=5394