With all the posts at this time of year with rankings, seedings, point
indices and the like, one should conclude that to many observers of college
hockey, EVERY GAME COUNTS.
 
I'll let the highly-regarded J. Parker set the tone.  I'll quote from the
posts about BU in October--
 
Jack Parker objected
to the plan that the games in the inaugural Ice Breaker tournament would
count in the teams won-loss record but not count against the maximum 34
games allowed by the NCAA. Earlier the NCAA had granted the Ice Breaker
tournament exempt status.
 
Parker reportedly said that when the contract for the tournamnet was signed
it was under the understanding that this was an exhibition tournament. The
Journal Sentinel says that Parker said his Terriers, who practiced for just
5 days before the tournament, did not prepare for the idea that the games
would count (How do you do that?).
 
 
 
 
 
 
>-- [ From: Kepler * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --
>
>2 Colgate players and 1 Cornell player are assessed game DQs and will have
>to sit out their next game.  For Cornell, this is an NC contest, for Colgate
>it is a league game.
>
>Stretch this scenario a tad and you have what I think is a real problem.
>What if, for instance, the league game upcoming for Colgate was itself a
>game against Cornell -- a situation that could easily happen if one team had
>one game interposed between the home and home pair, and the other did not.
>
 
 
Dan Doucette
UMaine 78 MPA 80
 
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