On Nov 26, 14:45, Rick McAdoo wrote:
>  The BC at NU game was originally scheduled
>as the 2nd game of a home-and-home series on Oct. 25-26, but that series
>was changed so that BC and NU could schedule non-conference games against
>Michigan State (MSU needed matchups with the demise of UIC, I suppose.)
>The replacement of the Oct. 25 NU at BC game IS the first round Beanpot
>game, which is considered a league game this year due to this schedule
>modification.
 
Eck.  It doesn't happen very often, but I always hate it when teams count a
tournament game as a conference game, basically because it raises the issue of
what to do if the game is tied.  In a regular-season game, you play five minutes
and if nobody scores, the game goes into the books as a tie.  But in a
tournament, A) you can't have a tie [well, I guess you could in a round-robin or
a consolation game], and B) the OTs are twenty minutes long, not five.  So I
guess if BC and Northeastern are still tied after five minutes of OT, Hockey
East will count it as a tie, but the teams will keep playing until somebody
scores.  In that case, there would be a tie in each team's Hockey East record
that wouldn't show up in the team's overall record.  (I hope this doesn't
happen... I'd have a hell of a time tricking my conference standings program
into accepting something like that :-)
 
This would have been even more fun to see if Hockey East still had the shootout.
What would they do... stop the game after five minutes of OT, do the shootout,
and then keep playing?
 
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