The way it's shaking out right now it would appear that the worst team in the west (MSU) which would normally be shipped out east because of their 9th place finish (Selection Criteria Ranking), instead gets to stay in the west and play at home!. The real crime is the fact that Minnesota instead is forced to go east. U-Minn finished 5th, won the WCHA tourney, and thus gets rewarded by being shipped to the east. Well, as we all know I am predicting this to be the fact, and I certainly hope I'm wrong (4 hours and we'll all know). The talk about filling the arena has come up as the main driving force behind the MSU @ home decision. I believe that Munn could be a sell out even without MSU there. Michigan sold out Yost for many (maybe even most?) of this year's games, LSSU fans from around the state will also flock to Munn for their Lakers, CC, Cornell, and MINNESOTA would send hundreds of their fans, and Providence theirs too. (I guess you can figure out from above what I think the grid will look like :-) ) I honestly believe that the place could be filled with MSU out east. That's my 2 cents anyway. -Jerry. P.S. ...And I already know that this is an example of the pre/post selection complaining that there always is. My only point is that to place teams at home when they clearly don't deserve it for the sake of crowd numbers is wrong. (Move it to Yost, Michigan earned home ice :-)). HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.