When Coach Morris said, "Not enough emphasis is placed on the regular season.... I believe he was referring to the fact that it is the tournament champion who gets the automatic NCAA bid, not the team who played well all season and won the regular season. This issue is of more importance in the ECAC, because the ECAC usually gets two NCAA bids. With the first one gone to the tournament champ, that leaves one bid left. If the regular season champ is not the tour- nament champ, their can be problems if another team has a better non-league record. It creates more bad feelings when one teams gets in and another one has to sit out. This past season SLU thought that they should have gotten a bid when Cornell received it. SLU was rely on their win over Cornell at the tournament, forgetting their poorer non-league record. I think that going to a single elimination quarter-final would be a mistake, allowing some lower seeded teams in. Some unexpected things do happen in the ECAC, even with home ice- Just look at Cornell final home weekend. Mike Zak Clarkson '87, '90,...