I love this time of year, you can look at the standings and with
 one or two games remaining start coming up with so many different
 posible scenarios.  Take for example the HE:
 
 2/21/91               Hockey East
                       GP   W-L-T    Pts    GF-GA
                       =============================
 1  Boston College     20  15-5-0    30    100-72
 2  Maine              20  14-5-1    29    106-71
 3  Boston University  20  13-5-2    28     99-63
 4  Providence         20  10-8-2    22     91-80
    New Hampshire      20  10-8-2    22     77-74
 6  Merrimack          20  7-13-0    14     68-98
 7  Lowell             20  4-15-1     9     64-105
 8  Northeastern       20  2-16-2     6     82-124
 
 
 What if the results of this weekends games go like this:
 
     Boston Univ.  def   Boston College
     Maine         ties  New Hampshire
     Providence    ties  Northeastern
     Merrimack  doesn't matter   Lowell
 
 
 The Final Regular Season standings would look like this:
 
 2/25/91               Hockey East
                       GP   W-L-T    Pts    GF-GA
                       ============================
 1  Boston College     21  15-6-0    30    100-72
    Maine              21  14-5-2    30    106-71
    Boston University  21  14-5-2    30     99-63
 4  Providence         21  10-8-3    23     91-80
    New Hampshire      21  10-8-3    23     77-74
 6  Merrimack          21  7-13-0    14     68-98
 7  Lowell             21  4-15-1     9     64-105
 8  Northeastern       21  2-16-3     7     82-124
 
 To break the first place tie look at head-to-head record:
    Boston Coll.  4-2  (2-1 Maine     2-1  BU)
    Maine         3-3  (1-2 BC        2-1  BU)
    Boston Univ.  2-4  (1-2 BC        1-2  Maine)
 Now suppose that BU was 2-1 against BC and had lost to say Northeastern once
 and BC had gone 3-0 against Merrimack instead of 2-1.  Now head-to-head all
 three teams are 3-3.
 
 Fourth Place already has worked out perfect.  UNH and Providence went 1-1-1
 against each other and have identical league records.
 
 
 How would the ties be broken?
 
 
 Sorry if no one else cares, but I love thinking about this sort of off the
 wall kind of stuff.
 
 
                                    -kap
 
 
 
 
 
 
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