Ah, cross-posting to USCHO and HOCKEY-L -- I like it!

At 05:07 PM 3/18/03 -0500, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>    Just a note of warning to all those who will be convening in Albany this
>weekend for the ECAC Championship Tournament.  Contrary to all printed
>publications (ticket brochure, poster and early conference site
>information), the first game on Friday at 3:30 p.m. will match #1 Cornell
>vs. #4 Brown.  The evening contest on Friday at 7:00 p.m. will feature #2
>Harvard vs. #3 Dartmouth.
>
>    Why the ECAC would choose to change the order of games (originally set
>for #2 vs. #3 in the afternoon, and #1 vs. #4 in the evening) at the
>midnight hour without warning prospective attendees of the change is
>incomprehensible.  Here's hoping the Lynah Faithful and other Big Red fans
>still think their game is set for 7:00 p.m. (Just kidding, but
>realistically, some may not get the word and operate on what the ECAC has
>advertised from the outset).
>
>    Considering this to be a major snafu, what is going on in Centerville?

Rumor has it (and it's probably more than a rumor) that the Big Red's Coach
Schafer requested the earlier slot to give his charges more time to rest
before the Saturday night game -- the idea being, of course, that the game
in question would be for the championship.

I have heard of other leagues offering the choice to the top seed of which
game they want to play in.  This was presumably not done in the ECAC the
last few years because of the Thursday night prelim game.  The winner of
that was slotted to play in the late game (against #1) the next night.
With that game gone, I suspect the ECAC would be more open to giving the
top seed the choice.

Bill Fenwick                                                 DJF   5/27/94
Cornell '86 and '95                                          JCF   12/2/97
LET'S GO RED!!
My wife says I pay more attention to hockey than I do to our marriage, which
is of course ridiculous... after all, we've been together for 11 seasons...