From: US2RMC::"[log in to unmask]" "David Carroll" 7-APR-1994 16:54:29.32 To: Multiple recipients of list HOCKEY-L <[log in to unmask]> CC: Subj: A More Meaningful Tournament? >While we're mulling over changes we'd like if we were the >Gods of hockey, how about changing the tournament to an 8-team >round-robin preliminary round from which two teams advance to a >best-of-three championship series? I realize that this would >take longer than the current one weekend for regionals and >one for Frozen Four. How could it be scheduled? Instead of an 8 team round robin, I'd like to see the final 4 as a double elimination. Like the 8 team baseball format, I guess it would look like this: Mon: Round one Seed 1 vs Seed 4 Round two Seed 2 vs Seed 3 Tue: Round three Loser Round one vs Loser Round two (one team out) Wed: Round four Winner Round one vs Winner round two Thu: Round five Winner Round three vs Loser Round four (one team out) Fri: Open day Hobby award, whatever. Sat: Round six Two remaining teams play. (one team 2-0, one 2-1) Sat: Round seven If needed. That's a lot of hockey for four college teams to play in a week, but it's no worst then the NCAA baseball tourny is for college teams that play two or three games a week in the regular season.