>Question on the Maine forfeits:  assuming the Black Bears aren't banned
>outright from the 1994 NC$$ tournament (and you would think that if they
>were, the NC$$ would have announced that along with the 21 forfeits), how
>will the forfeited games be treated when the tournament rankings are drawn
>up?  IMHO, it would be unfair to simply treat them as Maine losses, because
>that would result in a fairly significant strength-of-schedule hit for those
>teams that have played the Black Bears, especially their fellow Hockey East
>members.
 
This exact question was asked of Rick Comley (chair of the NCAA selection
 committee) at the blue line lunch today.  He said that The comittee would be
 required to look at maine's record as if the forfeits never happened.  He
 didn't seem
to like the idea, but said thats how they would be mandated to handle it.
 
Bob
MTU