>Of course, the WCHA could do what a number of leagues do
     >and eliminate the bottom 2 teams and play with an 8 team
     >tournament...  But that is a different thread.
 
     Or go to the ECAC's 7-10, 8-9 prelim format.  It seems to work in the
     ECAC, where RPI went in #10 in '92, knocked off #7 Vermont, and beat
     Harvard in Cambridge to advance to the final four, the last one in
     the Boston Garden :-(.  It was also the only season that the ECAC had
     one game series to make it to the final four :-).
 
     >note Cornell's performance in the 89-92 ECACs.  In 89 they were
     >bombed by an admittedly superior SLU squad, but then in 90 they fell
     >to red hot Neil Little's RPI team,
 
     Actually it was Sean Kennedy who was so hot in the Engineer nets that
     season.  Little was a Freshman the following fall.  Also, that was the
     year that RPI jumped from 5th to 2nd in the ECAC by beating Colgate
     and Cornell at home during the final weekend of the regular season
     (the Cornell one was sent to OT by an Engineer goal in the last minute
     with the goalie pulled).  So Cornell was wearing *Red* for the game in
     the Gahden, as RPI had the higher seed. Not that Cornell fans need any
     more of my vivid memories (give me a break, you just beat us last
     weekend), but do you remember the Cornell penalty shot that was
     stopped by Kennedy late in the 3rd of a one-goal game?  I don't
     remember the shooter, but Freshman defenseman Al Kummu had pulled him
     down on a breakaway.  Now THAT was a hockey game.
 
     >and in 91 they lost on g*ddamn*d
     >Dan Laperrier's double-screen from the blue line in o.t., capping
     >another inspired underdog's comeback upset.  In 92, when they were a
     >decided underdog against Clarkson, they finally came up on top (god
     >bless Tyler McManus in double o.t.), then lost the title game to SLU.
     > (We really hated SLU there for a while).
 
     As did we, as that was the same year (mentioned above) that RPI was
     #10 and beat #1 Harvard.  The Engineers were up on SLU 4-2 after two,
     and got a goal early in the 3rd, but let the three-goal lead slip
     away as they gave up the tying goal in the last minute of regulation
     (with Jeff Gabriel in the box, if I recall correctly).  It gets hazy
     here: I can't remember if it was the first or second OT when the
     Saints won it, but it was a long ride down I-90 that night.
 
     >Knowing my luck, Clarkson will end up playing Union at some point.
 
     There's a definite possibility there.  If Union goes in #4 through #7,
     and they make it to Lake Placid, chances are they'll face the Golden
     Knights, barring some major upset the previous weekend.  Of course,
     that won't happen if there's another Rt. 7 series :-).
 
     Matt
     RPI '94
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