On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Mike Machnik wrote:
 
> At 8:37 AM -0700 11/19/96, Scott Quakkelaar~ wrote:
> > why is niagara ineligible for the playoffs?
>
> It's just the way the ECAC West decided to handle it.  Niagara is in its
> first season of having a team and being in the ECAC West.  The conference
> just decided to count the games in the conference standings but not to
> allow Niagara to be eligible for the playoffs this year.  Any more than
> that, I have not heard...
 
Two questions:
 
   1) Is the ECAC West a division-1 conference?
   2) Does the playoff winner receive an auto bid?
 
I've been under the impression that the answer to the first one is "no".
If that's the case, and if the second is "yes", that may have influenced
the decision.
 
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