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>   One question, did anyone get the reasoning behind why the ECAC is making
this
> change?  The only benefit I see changing is removing the Tuesday night
games
> that were very inconvienient to academics, coming as they did about
> mid-semester.  Any other motives I see are all related to $, and if the
ECAC
> wants to be the EC$$, there are better ways to raise cash then adding a
couple
> more games in an extended playoff format (like that fancy new invention
called
> TV).
 
 
The other ostensible reason seems to be to pump up the chance of the #1 RS
to win the tourny and snag an NCAA bye seed.  Questions about that are: 1.
will it work, and 2. is it a good/fair idea.  To my mind, 1. it will work,
and 2. I don't care very much -- after all, if you want to make the NCAA
"all:" you have to do is win out in Placid.
 
Wonder what happens if the NCAA field ever gets bumped to 16.  Then all of a
sudden there are no bye seeds, *and* it becomes more a matter of trying to
get 4 reps to the tourny from your conf.  Under those circumstances,
penalizing the 4/5 RS teams doesn't look very bright.
 
-- Greg
 
 
 
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