-- [ From: [log in to unmask] * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- > 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). The other ostensible reason seems to be to pump up the chance of the #1 RS to win the tourny and snag an NCAA bye seed. Questions about that are: 1. will it work, and 2. is it a good/fair idea. To my mind, 1. it will work, and 2. I don't care very much -- after all, if you want to make the NCAA "all:" you have to do is win out in Placid. Wonder what happens if the NCAA field ever gets bumped to 16. Then all of a sudden there are no bye seeds, *and* it becomes more a matter of trying to get 4 reps to the tourny from your conf. Under those circumstances, penalizing the 4/5 RS teams doesn't look very bright. -- Greg -- ********************************************* * Greg R. Berge * Kathleen A. Workman * [log in to unmask] * http://www.spiritone.com/~kworkman/greg.html * (503) 246-8637 * HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.