After taking a quick run through the composite schedule, here are the listings of conference vs. conference through Dec.4, for the 94-95 season. To read this table, the W-L-T goes like this W: the wins by the conference horizontally from the stat, L: the number of loses by that conference. For example, the first numbers are 8-5-1, saying the WCHA has beaten the CCHA 8 times, lost to them 5 times, and tied them once. This table takes Alaska Fairbanks as a member of the CCHA (I know that they are only an affiliate member, but I didn't know where to put them). | WCHA | CCHA | ECAC | HE | Ind. -------------------------------------------------- WCHA | --- | 8-5-1 | 1-1-0 | 2-2-0 | 2-0-0 CCHA | 5-8-1 | --- | 3-4-1 | 0-5-2 | 0-0-0 ECAC | 1-1-0 | 4-3-1 | --- | 12-9-0 | 2-1-0 HE | 2-2-0 | 5-0-2 | 9-12-0| --- | 5-2-1 IND. | 0-2-0 | 0-0-0 | 1-2-0 | 2-5-1 | --- Hockey East, it can be seen, is narrowing the lead held by the ECAC. The surprising stat, I thought, was the CCHA vs. HE record of 0-5-0. But four of these five games has top ranked Maine against two of the bottom teams (Alaska Fairbanks and Notre Dame). The other game is Mass-Lowell vs. WMU, a pretty close matchup. It is clear that the western conferences (WCHA and CCHA) and the eastern conferences (ECAC and HE) play amongst themselves more often than east vs. west. This is too bad, and likely explains why I have trouble getting HE scores in the Minneapolis paper. This is particularly true about the top two or three teams in each conference. Minnesota and Colorado College have not faced HE or ECAC foes yet this year; Michigan and Michigan St. have only played against the WCHA. Teams like RPI and Harvard are sticking to HE as their non-conference opponents, while BU has not played outside the ECAC in non-conference play (excluding New Brunswick). The ECAC, generally considered the weakest conference (considered by those on Hockey-L--I am not making any personal statements here) is the only conference to hold above .500 records against two other conferences (the independents are not actually a conference). Lee-nerd [log in to unmask] "Violence is the last resort of the incompetent." --Isaac Asimov