Is the automatic bid based upon regular season HE champion or the winner of
the playoff series ?  If  the playoffs do indeed determine the automatic
tournament bids, then the real question is what the seedings are for the
PLAYOFF series.
 
I do realize that some consideration is given to regular season
performance, particularly if an upset is posted in the end-of-season
conference playoffs (as happens sometimes particularly in basketball
conference championships) and a top-ranked team who was upset would then be
"denied" a bid to the NC$$ field.
 
 
 
>From: "Stephen St.Pierre" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject:      HE playoff tiebreakers??
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>Anyone know the tiebreaking procedure for Hockey East??  If BU and UNH
>were to end up tied, they split their season series 1-1-1.  who would be
>#1 seed and would this also determine automatic bid to NCAA tourney
>.(realizing both will probably go anyways but could have seeding impact)
>
>Steve St. Pierre
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Dan Doucette
UMaine 78 MPA 80
 
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