Given the rather sudden end to the college hockey season, I thought I
should recognize the winners of the abbreviated Pick the Post-season
Tournament Contest, so the final results for Contest #1 are below.
Not to kill the suspense or anything, but this is pretty much the same
as last week's update.  Anyway...

For Contest #1, in which the later rounds were weighted more than the
earlier ones, the overall winner is...

       Nathan Hampton

whose total of 46 was good for a five-point victory over Scott Kaplan
and John Edwards.  Congratulations, Nathan!

As for the individual conference winners...

Andy Weise won the top spot in the ECAC with 12 points.

The WCHA crown went to moi with 14 points.

Mark Lewin's 12 points were good for first place in Atlantic Hockey.

Nathan Hampton won the Big Ten with 12 points.

The Hockey East and NCHC tournaments did not have any games played.

Complete scoring results are below.  Congratulations to all the winners,
and thanks again to all those who participated.

Tiebreaker notes:  As there were no championship games, the first tie-
breaker (the difference between your predicted championship-game score
and the actual score) was not used.

The second tiebreaker was the difference between your predicted total of
goals scored in the entire tournament and the actual number.  The lower
the point total the better.

No tiebreakers were needed for Contest #1.

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.  Not that it made a difference this year,
but it should still be noted that the USCHO staff did not pick the games
all at once, the way the rest of us did, which might have been an
advantage.

Please be safe, everybody.  Take care of yourselves and each other.


Overall
NAME                   TOTAL
Nathan Hampton          46
Scott Kaplan            41
John Edwards            41
William Sangrey         39
Tony Buffa              39
Andy Weise              39
Mark Lewin              36
Bill Fenwick            35
Sean Keller             30
Jim Dixon               29

USCHO                   32
Higher Seed             40

ECAC                            WCHA
NAME                   TOTAL    NAME                   TOTAL
Andy Weise              12      Bill Fenwick            14
Nathan Hampton          11      Andy Weise              13
Tony Buffa              11      Nathan Hampton          13
Scott Kaplan            11      Tony Buffa              11
John Edwards            11      Scott Kaplan            11
William Sangrey         10      John Edwards            10
Mark Lewin               8      Mark Lewin              10
Sean Keller              8      Sean Keller             10
Jim Dixon                8      William Sangrey          7
Bill Fenwick             6      Jim Dixon                7

USCHO                    7      USCHO                    7
Higher Seed             11      Higher Seed              7

Atlantic Hockey                 Big Ten
NAME                   TOTAL    NAME                   TOTAL
Mark Lewin              12      Nathan Hampton          12
William Sangrey         11      William Sangrey         11
Nathan Hampton          10      John Edwards            10
Scott Kaplan            10      Scott Kaplan             9
John Edwards            10      Jim Dixon                8
Tony Buffa              10      Tony Buffa               7
Bill Fenwick             8      Bill Fenwick             7
Andy Weise               7      Andy Weise               7
Sean Keller              6      Mark Lewin               6
Jim Dixon                6      Sean Keller              6

USCHO                   11      USCHO                    7
Higher Seed             11      Higher Seed             11

Bill Fenwick
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