I guess I should have made my own position clear in my proposal for a final six. I agree with Jeremy Hall that the best solution would be to go to the old format of an eight team playoff. This would usually mean 5 good teams, a couple about .500 and one of the lower level (okay "bad") teams. This seems to be a just reward for the regular season, while putting the truely terrible teams out of their misery as soon as possible. One question, did anyone get the reasoning behind why the ECAC is making this change? The only benefit I see changing is removing the Tuesday night games that were very inconvienient to academics, coming as they did about mid-semester. Any other motives I see are all related to $, and if the ECAC wants to be the EC$$, there are better ways to raise cash then adding a couple more games in an extended playoff format (like that fancy new invention called TV). William Sangrey Cornell '87&'94 Let's Go RED!!! HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.