I said  (I added the times to save additional space in this post and to
correct a grevious error)
>>Thursday:
>>
>>Game 1:    # 1  vs #5  winner to finals     1PM or 4PM
>>Game 2:    # 3 vs #4                                     7PM
>>
>>Friday
>>
>>Game 3:  Loser Game 1  vs Loser Game 2   (loser gets 5th)     early
>>Game 4:  #2  vs Winner Game 2
            late
>>
>>Saturday
                                                            OOPS!  This
was a typo
 
        \/
>>Game 5   Winner Game 3  vs Loser Game 4      (third place game)
early
>>Game 6   Winner Game 1  vs Winner Game 4    (Championship)        late
>>
>>This setup rewards the #1 seed (assuming they win).  They get a day
>off against either the #2, 3 or 4 seed.
===
Jeff said:
>
>But it also has the potential to reward the #5 seed with a day off,
>while still definitely requiring #3 or #4 to win three nights in a row
to
>get the championship.
>
>Jeffrey Anbinder, CU '94
>Ithaca Times Hockey Columnist
===
I reply:
 
I hate the 10 team format, but my idea has the following rewards and
punishments:
 
(a)  The #1 seed gets to play the weakest remaining team.  This year it
would have been Yale vs Cornell and No Dak vs UMD.  I know they do now,
but....
 
(b)  Assuming the #1 seed wins - they get a day off.  Lose and you don't
deserve to play for the marbles.  Heck, if #5 wins, give 'em a day off
for beating #1.  Big Red fans would like this, the way Yale was going at
year end, Cornell could have had a 3rd straight trip to the finals.
 
(c) #2 seed gets an extra day of rest - & gets to meet a tired foe.  They
are rewarded for finishing 2nd, but the winner of this game meets a
rested foe.
 
(d)  Seed 3 has to play an extra game.  Sorry guys, somebody loses in a
10 team setup.  Seed #4 loses a bit by playing a higher seeded team in
the 1st round but then gets to play the #2 seed, not the #1 seed as they
do now.
 
This setup seems to benefit everyone, especially in the WCHA where the
winner of the play-in game plays 14 hours or so later.  Now they'd have
closer to 24 hours of rest.
 
Joe
 
PS Anybody believe the ECAC can win a game this weekend?
 
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