After taking a quick run through the composite schedule, here are the
listings of conference vs. conference through Dec.4, for the 94-95
season.
 
To read this table, the W-L-T goes like this W: the wins by the
conference horizontally from the stat, L: the number of loses by that
conference. For example, the first numbers are 8-5-1, saying the WCHA
has beaten the CCHA 8 times, lost to them 5 times, and tied them
once.
 
This table takes Alaska Fairbanks as a member of the CCHA (I know
that they are only an affiliate member, but I didn't know where to
put them).
 
 
        |  WCHA |  CCHA |  ECAC |   HE   |  Ind.
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WCHA    |  ---  | 8-5-1 | 1-1-0 |  2-2-0 | 2-0-0
CCHA    | 5-8-1 |  ---  | 3-4-1 |  0-5-2 | 0-0-0
ECAC    | 1-1-0 | 4-3-1 |  ---  | 12-9-0 | 2-1-0
HE      | 2-2-0 | 5-0-2 | 9-12-0|   ---  | 5-2-1
IND.    | 0-2-0 | 0-0-0 | 1-2-0 |  2-5-1 |  ---
 
Hockey East, it can be seen, is narrowing the lead held by the ECAC.
The surprising stat, I thought, was the CCHA vs. HE record of 0-5-0.
But four of these five games has top ranked Maine against two of the
bottom teams (Alaska Fairbanks and Notre Dame). The other game is
Mass-Lowell vs. WMU, a pretty close matchup.
 
It is clear that the western conferences (WCHA and CCHA) and the
eastern conferences (ECAC and HE) play amongst themselves more often
than east vs. west. This is too bad, and likely explains why I have
trouble getting HE scores in the Minneapolis paper.
 
This is particularly true about the top two or three teams in each
conference. Minnesota and Colorado College have not faced HE or ECAC
foes yet this year; Michigan and Michigan St. have only played
against the WCHA. Teams like RPI and Harvard are sticking to HE as
their non-conference opponents, while BU has not played outside the
ECAC in non-conference play (excluding New Brunswick).
 
The ECAC, generally considered the weakest conference (considered by
those on Hockey-L--I am not making any personal statements here) is
the only conference to hold above .500 records against two other
conferences (the independents are not actually a conference).
 
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