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Yesterday, I responded to this message:
>I've always heard that the tournament champs were the champs, while the
>regular season champs got the modifier. After all, the tournament champs
>always got the automatic bid, while the regular season champs just started
>getting one this year. Any of you types who work for the leagues know what
>the rule is? Or is there one?
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>Kristen Robinson
>MSU '93, UK '95, somewhere... later
>LSSU '95 CCHA Champions
But meant to respond to this message:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Correction: Michigan won the CCHA championship. LSSU won the
>postseason tournament. That makes LSSU the CCHA Tournament champions,
>not the CCHA champions. It also is much less impressive to me.
>Winning the regular season means you have to play excellent hockey
>throughout the season. Winning the postseason tournament means you
>have to get good/lucky for a very short period of time.
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>-Alan Harder
>[log in to unmask]
> Go Blue!
So what I said makes more sense in this context:
>I don't agree. If that were true, then why bother with the NCAA
>championships, the same thing applies.
>It becomes a problem when teams don't feel like they have anything to play
>for (like BU and Maine, maybe). But this is the time of the year when teams
>should be peaking, and these tournaments *do* mean something. They are a
>prelude to the big dance.
I stand by what I said and agree with Kristen. It is also worth noting (and
I think that this is significant) that, at least in the WCHA, not everybody
has the same schedule. Because the NCAA has cut back on the number of games
which a team can play, some teams (at least in the WCHA) play against each
other twice, others play each other four times. One person e-mailed me
directly and said I should stick to facts and not opinions relative to which
is the true indicator of a conference champion. Well, it is a fact that
teams play different numbers of times.
BTW, since when is this board only facts?
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