B1G/Hockey East Challenge - Let the Domination Commence!

[Yuppie Scum]

Re: B1G/Hockey East Challenge - Let the Domination Commence!

Better make it the bottom 6 teams from HE... to make it fair

Just have scheduled it as :

b1g #1 v HE #1
b1g #1 v HE #2
b1g #2 v HE #3
b1g #2 v HE #4
b1g #3 v HE #5
b1g #3 v HE #6
b1g #4 v HE #7
b1g #4 v HE #8
b1g #5 v HE #9
b1g #5 v HE #10
b1g #6 v HE #11
b1g #6 v HE #12

Then everyone gets to play, and relatively equal competition.

It's a good idea, but B1G would have to be willing to share some of the travel costs here. I would wager the budgets of the B1G are in a different stratosphere from the bottom third of HEA..

[5mn_Major]

Re: B1G/Hockey East Challenge - Let the Domination Commence!

Yours is probably fairer. Below is edited for a bigger payday and therefore, will probably happen.

b1g #1 v HE #1
b1g #1 v HE #1
b1g #2 v HE #2
b1g #2 v HE #2
b1g #3 v HE #3
b1g #3 v HE #4
b1g #4 v HE #5
b1g #4 v HE #6
b1g #5 v HE #7
b1g #5 v HE #8
b1g #6 v HE #9
b1g #6 v HE #10

It's a good idea, but B1G would have to be willing to share some of the travel costs here. I would wager the budgets of the B1G are in a different stratosphere from the bottom third of HEA..

Doubt that happens.

[Nick Papagiorgio]

Re: B1G/Hockey East Challenge - Let the Domination Commence!

Jdubbs is going to ruin this thread by 10 pm EST.

[jjmc85]

Re: B1G/Hockey East Challenge - Let the Domination Commence!

I assume this wasn't planned ahead of time and the two conferences decided to start it after the schedules were created, perhaps because of the changes to to pwr. Is this how the B1G teams are getting road games?

Regardless, I'm really excited about this and hope that all the Hockey East teams are involved in the future

[jjmc85]

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Probably a pretty good idea, but it might be a bit of hyperbole to refer to the participants as "eleven of the country's most storied college hockey programs."

10 of the country's most storied college hockey programs and UMass?

[HarleyMC]

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Probably a pretty good idea, but it might be a bit of hyperbole to refer to the participants as "eleven of the country's most storied college hockey programs."

Not a problem...we allow those teams that don't have a story to make up their own.

[MGoBlueHockey]

Re: B1G/Hockey East Challenge - Let the Domination Commence!

Go ask the ACC how that "domination" is working out in the basketball challenge. You BC fans know.

[MGoBlueHockey]

Re: B1G/Hockey East Challenge - Let the Domination Commence!

10 of the country's most storied college hockey programs and umass?

lol!

[jcarter7669]

Re: B1G/Hockey East Challenge - Let the Domination Commence!

10 of the country's most storied college hockey programs and UMass?

Well, considering PSU has one season under it's belt I think even UMass tops them... And as much as I love my Catamounts I don't know that I would call them a "Storied" program. But hey, lets really just pretend and promote the crap out of it...

[claver2010]

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Go ask the ACC how that "domination" is working out in the basketball challenge. You BC fans know.

The ACC is 10-3-1 against the B1G in the challenge

BC is 6-1

[MGoBlueHockey]

The ACC is 10-3-1 against the B1G in the challenge

BC is 6-1

B1G has had the cup the past four challenges. Last year they kept it due to the tie. Tide has turned.

[streaker]

Re: B1G/Hockey East Challenge - Let the Domination Commence!

Don't we need more BiG teams in this challenge? Maybe going forward things will change.

Looks like OSU is the only team from the current B1G that is not part of this.

[boblav1]

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I assume this wasn't planned ahead of time and the two conferences decided to start it after the schedules were created, perhaps because of the changes to to pwr. Is this how the B1G teams are getting road games?

Regardless, I'm really excited about this and hope that all the Hockey East teams are involved in the future

It will be interesting to see how this works out over the next few years. I would imagine many of the match ups will be the same next season with only a change in location.

[KaMiGo]

Re: B1G/Hockey East Challenge - Let the Domination Commence!

It will be interesting to see how this works out over the next few years. I would imagine many of the match ups will be the same next season with only a change in location.

I've heard that Wisconsin has a 4-year rotation set up with BC and BU.
2013-2014 - UW plays at each school once
2014-2015 - BU comes to UW for 2 games
2015-2016 - UW plays at each school once (presumably opposite nights from 2013-2014 trip)
2016-2017 - BC comes to UW for 2 games


edit: adding link to Andy Baggot's article describing future scheduling
http://host.madison.com/sports/blog/...a4bcf887a.html

[kingdobbs]

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It's a good idea, but B1G would have to be willing to share some of the travel costs here. I would wager the budgets of the B1G are in a different stratosphere from the bottom third of HEA..

Make them all two game series, and guarantee that every HEA team gets a home series every other year. That's about as close to equal as it can get.