> Understood. :-) However I have yet to come across anything stating > beforehand that the games would count. As I have said, I assumed they > would too, but I can see how some might have thought they would not. I don't have the exact quote, and I don't have access to the appropriate rule books, but the week of the ice-breaker, when it was reported in the local papers (as a "last-minute problem"), Coach Sauer was quoted as saying something to the effect that NCAA rules are that all games between NCAA schools are suppossed to count, it isn't up to the coaches. From that I think that it may not have been in the contract, and the default would be that the games count. Given the circumstance of a first-year event, and confusion, it may be that they exempt it this year. I assume that this is not a hockey-specific rule. I think it makes sense. For example, all of the Wisconsin exhibition basketball games are against non-NCAA teams (international teams or teams like athletes-in-action). I don't klnow if that is by rule or coincidence. Like I said, I don't have the appropriate rule book. --david HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.