>                             and the WCHA rules are out of date (when was the
> last year the WCHA played a 4-game round robin) but may be effective.
 
WCHA teams play 8 teams 4 times during the regular season (two at home
and two on the road). The other two teams are played only twice, one
team two games at home, one team two games on the road. I don't know how
the home-and-home tradition work (at those schools that are close to
each other -- I think it is CC-Denver, Minnesota-St. Cloud, Northern
Michigan-Michigan Tech) if that team is scheduled for only 2 games.
 
So, I believe that rule c) says that the head-to-head goal differential
is not a tie-breaker if the teams only played the 2-game series. I guess
they figure that home ice give a team an advantage in padding the score
(note that they don't waive rule a in this case!)
 
The tiebreaker rules seem pretty straight-forward to me.
 
        --david
 
> WCHA Tournament
>   a. if two or more teams are tied, head to head competition during the
> regular season will be used to break the tie
>   b. if two or more teams are still tied after (a), the highest seed will go
> to the team with the most WCHA wins during the regular season
>   c. if two or more teams played a four-game series during the regular season
> and the teams have the same win-loss records for these series and the same
> number of WCHA wins, the team having the least number of goals scored against
> it in the four-game series shall have the higher rank
>   d. if two or more tied teams are still tied after a, b, and c, the team
> having the greatest winning margin during the regular season will have the
> higher rank; winning margin = WCHA goals for minus WCHA goals against
>   e. games played against WCHA opponents in holiday tournaments shall not be
> counted in the above determinations.
 
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