Now that all the conference tournaments are out of the way, it's time to announce the winners of the Pick the Post-Season Tournaments contests. For Contest #1, in which the later rounds were weighted more than the earlier ones, the overall winner is... Dave Belfiori who put up a big 240 points, 21 ahead of runner-up Iyer Venkatesan. Let us all pause a moment to appreciate Dave's keen college hockey acumen (luck), unbelievable prognosticating ability (sheer dumb luck), and amazing grasp of the complexities of tournament play (it's luck, I tell you, and the fact that I finished 60-some points behind has nothing to do with it!) As for the individual conference winners... Jay Kryzston took the honors in the ECAC with 50 points. A tight race in Hockey East came down to a tie between Nathan Hampton and the CHODR rating, with a perfect 48 points each. Nathan won the first tiebreaker (championship game score prediction), coming two points closer to the actual game score than CHODR did. Dave Belfiori finished atop the CCHA with 58 points. Matt Carberrys 55 points paced the WCHA. Both William Sangrey and Steve Syrett picked the MAAC perfectly to finish tied with 44 points each, and the first tiebreaker resolved nothing, as each was one point off the actual score. William won the second tiebreaker (total goals scored in the tournament), coming eight goals closer to the actual result than Steve did. The CHA produced a seven-way tie at 36 points among Craig Powers, Iyer Venkatesan, Matt Carberry, Craig Roberts, John MacKinnon, Terry Casper, and, of all people, your humble contest administrator. I won the first tiebreaker by picking the final score right on the nose. (Keeping me grounded is the fact that USCHO reporter Geof F. Morris picked every CHA tourney game right, though with a lot of hedging, and would have picked up 40 points in the contest) Complete scoring results are below. Congratulations to all the winners, and thanks again to all those who participated. Tiebreaker notes: The first tiebreaker was the difference between your predicted championship-game score and the actual score. Thus, if you picked the score of the Hockey East championship game (actually 3-1) to be 4-2, you would get two points; if you picked 5-0, you would get three points; and if you picked 2-1, you would get one point. Obviously, the lower point score the better. The second tiebreaker was the difference between your predicted total of goals scored in the tournament and the actual number. Again, the lower the point total the better. As far as tiebreakers that were actually needed: For Hockey East, the championship game score was 3-1. For the MAAC, the championship game score was 6-4, and the total goals scored in the tournament was 50. The USCHO prognosticators' numbers are included below, as are the "Higher Seed" picks showing what would have happened if the higher seed for each game had been picked to win. Overall NAME TOTAL Dave Belfiori 240 Iyer Venkatesan 219 James Edwards 209 Jeff Boutiette 203 John MacKinnon 200 Steve Syrett 200 Terry Casper 199 Ken Butler 197 Andy Weise 197 * Christine Quinn 196 Dan Zeuske 194 Craig Roberts 192 David Morgenstern 191 Charlie Shub 188 Matt Carberry 186 Bill Fenwick 184 * Richard Hungerford 182 Nathan Hampton 179 William Sangrey 179 Craig Powers 175 * CHODR (Robin Lock) 173 Tom Bednarek 172 Kate Belfiori 171 Jay Kryzston 170 Ross Belfiori 169 Carol Belfiori 168 Clayton Hoyt 163 Troy D. Mills 160 Bill and Virginia Krebs 157 * Robin Lock 157 Matt Sullivan 141 Tony Buffa 139 * Christian Danish 132 John Edwards 132 Jennifer Iwen 123 Mark Lewin 123 * Joe LaCour 108 * Benjamin Flickinger 52 USCHO 203 Higher Seed 219 * Did not submit predictions for all conference tournaments ECAC Hockey East Tiebreaker 1 NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Score Pts Jay Kryzston 50 Nathan Hampton 48 3-2 1 Steve Syrett 43 CHODR (Robin Lock) 48 4-3 3 David Morgenstern 37 Christian Danish 47 Christine Quinn 35 Andy Weise 46 Charlie Shub 35 James Edwards 46 Tom Bednarek 34 Iyer Venkatesan 46 CHODR (Robin Lock) 34 Robin Lock 46 James Edwards 32 Dave Belfiori 46 Dave Belfiori 31 Richard Hungerford 44 Kate Belfiori 31 Carol Belfiori 44 Iyer Venkatesan 31 Christine Quinn 43 Carol Belfiori 31 Ken Butler 39 Bill and Virginia Krebs 30 Charlie Shub 36 Jeff Boutiette 30 Jeff Boutiette 36 Terry Casper 30 Dan Zeuske 35 John MacKinnon 27 William Sangrey 35 Mark Lewin 27 Tom Bednarek 32 Richard Hungerford 27 Steve Syrett 32 John Edwards 26 Jennifer Iwen 31 Bill Fenwick 26 Craig Roberts 30 Andy Weise 25 David Morgenstern 30 Troy D. Mills 24 Bill Fenwick 28 Ken Butler 23 Craig Powers 28 Ross Belfiori 23 John MacKinnon 27 Clayton Hoyt 23 John Edwards 27 Matt Sullivan 23 Terry Casper 26 Dan Zeuske 22 Matt Sullivan 26 Craig Powers 22 Ross Belfiori 22 Craig Roberts 22 Troy D. Mills 22 Matt Carberry 22 Jay Kryzston 20 Benjamin Flickinger 22 Matt Carberry 19 Joe LaCour 22 Kate Belfiori 19 Nathan Hampton 20 Bill and Virginia Krebs 19 Christian Danish 19 Mark Lewin 19 William Sangrey 19 Clayton Hoyt 18 Robin Lock 18 Joe LaCour 18 Jennifer Iwen 18 Tony Buffa 18 Tony Buffa 11 USCHO 21 USCHO 24 Higher Seed 28 Higher Seed 39 CCHA WCHA NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Dave Belfiori 58 Matt Carberry 55 Ross Belfiori 54 Christine Quinn 51 Terry Casper 53 James Edwards 51 Christine Quinn 50 David Morgenstern 50 Jay Kryzston 49 Iyer Venkatesan 50 Jeff Boutiette 46 Ken Butler 47 Steve Syrett 46 Ross Belfiori 44 John MacKinnon 46 Andy Weise 43 Andy Weise 46 Kate Belfiori 43 Clayton Hoyt 43 Dan Zeuske 42 Troy D. Mills 38 Tom Bednarek 42 Richard Hungerford 38 Bill Fenwick 42 Bill Fenwick 38 Richard Hungerford 40 David Morgenstern 37 John MacKinnon 39 Robin Lock 37 Jeff Boutiette 38 Craig Roberts 37 Troy D. Mills 37 Craig Powers 37 Charlie Shub 36 Mark Lewin 37 William Sangrey 35 Bill and Virginia Krebs 37 Dave Belfiori 35 Matt Carberry 37 CHODR (Robin Lock) 32 Ken Butler 35 Robin Lock 31 Charlie Shub 35 Jay Kryzston 30 Tom Bednarek 35 Terry Casper 29 Nathan Hampton 35 Joe LaCour 27 CHODR (Robin Lock) 34 Carol Belfiori 27 William Sangrey 34 Craig Roberts 26 Carol Belfiori 33 John Edwards 24 Kate Belfiori 33 Steve Syrett 23 Christian Danish 32 Bill and Virginia Krebs 23 Iyer Venkatesan 31 Nathan Hampton 23 Benjamin Flickinger 30 Jennifer Iwen 21 Jennifer Iwen 30 Clayton Hoyt 21 John Edwards 29 Christian Danish 20 Tony Buffa 29 Craig Powers 19 Matt Sullivan 29 Mark Lewin 19 Joe LaCour 27 Matt Sullivan 14 James Edwards 27 Tony Buffa 12 Dan Zeuske 26 USCHO 51 USCHO 42 Higher Seed 51 Higher Seed 48 MAAC Tiebreaker 1 Tiebreaker 2 NAME TOTAL Score Pts Goals Pts William Sangrey 44 5-4 1 35 15 Steve Syrett 44 6-3 1 27 23 Tony Buffa 41 Craig Roberts 41 Dan Zeuske 41 Clayton Hoyt 38 Dave Belfiori 38 Craig Powers 33 Richard Hungerford 33 Andy Weise 25 Troy D. Mills 25 Robin Lock 25 John MacKinnon 25 Jeff Boutiette 25 Nathan Hampton 25 Ken Butler 25 James Edwards 25 Iyer Venkatesan 25 CHODR (Robin Lock) 25 Terry Casper 25 Bill and Virginia Krebs 20 Tom Bednarek 17 Christine Quinn 17 David Morgenstern 17 Carol Belfiori 17 Matt Sullivan 17 Jay Kryzston 17 Kate Belfiori 17 Matt Carberry 17 Joe LaCour 14 Ross Belfiori 14 Christian Danish 14 Charlie Shub 14 Bill Fenwick 14 John Edwards 14 Jennifer Iwen 11 Mark Lewin 9 USCHO 25 Higher Seed 25 CHA Tiebreaker 1 NAME TOTAL Score Pts Bill Fenwick 36 5-4 0 Craig Powers 36 4-2 3 Iyer Venkatesan 36 4-2 3 Matt Carberry 36 4-2 3 Craig Roberts 36 4-2 3 John MacKinnon 36 3-2 4 Terry Casper 36 4-1 4 Matt Sullivan 32 Charlie Shub 32 Dave Belfiori 32 Dan Zeuske 28 Ken Butler 28 James Edwards 28 Nathan Hampton 28 Bill and Virginia Krebs 28 Jeff Boutiette 28 Kate Belfiori 28 Tony Buffa 28 Clayton Hoyt 20 David Morgenstern 20 Carol Belfiori 16 Troy D. Mills 16 William Sangrey 12 Mark Lewin 12 Jennifer Iwen 12 Steve Syrett 12 Andy Weise 12 Ross Belfiori 12 John Edwards 12 Tom Bednarek 12 Jay Kryzston 4 USCHO 40 Higher Seed 28 -- Bill Fenwick Email: [log in to unmask] Digicomp Research Voice: (607) 273-5900 ext 32