The Official "My team got screwed!!" thread of the 2015 Ice Hockey Tournament

[Critical Thinker]

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This is outrageous. Of course Lowell got screwed. Lowell and RMU should leave the NCAA and form a new league, one where every team makes the tournament. Also, they can play exclusively outdoor games and end every game in a shootout, so more fans would show up, and they'd have more revenue than the other schools. Then once the other schools realize the new revenue potential, they too would the NCAA, and no team would ever be screwed again.

[Pure Mel]

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This is outrageous. Of course Lowell got screwed. Lowell and RMU should leave the NCAA and form a new league, one where every team makes the tournament. Also, they can play exclusively outdoor games and end every game in a shootout, so more fans would show up, and they'd have more revenue than the other schools. Then once the other schools realize the new revenue potential, they too would the NCAA, and no team would ever be screwed again.

I like it...

[Patman]

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Now the idiot at the eagle tribune has taken up Lowell's cause.

oh hell, link?

[bcmsu9196]

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Alaska (Fairbanks) got screwed - by its administration. 7-0-1 in its last eight games, but no playoffs due to NCAA sanctions. Way to mind the store.

[ScottK]

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oh hell, link?

http://www.eagletribune.com/sports/n...ce26316fb.html

This article is nearly as pathetic as the one from the Sun.

[Terrier520]

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http://www.eagletribune.com/sports/n...ce26316fb.html

This article is nearly as pathetic as the one from the Sun.

1) Pairwise is now a computer. Like HAL. OK, then.

2) This story is spread over three pages? I have to click TWICE to read through this piece of crap? That's just bad page design, folks.

[Terrier520]

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Also, what these guys don't realize is that, unless all teams are excluded, at least one team will be on the outside looking in, and that team will have reason to gripe.

[Scarlet]

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But because there are automatic bids, there is always a team that snuck its way into the final 16 by winning their conference tourney title -- Rochester Institute of Technology of the Atlantic Hockey League -- those three teams with decent to impressive credentials will have to a buy a ticket to see the regionals this weekend.

That team that snuck in because they won their conference championship beat the #1 ranked team in the tournament. What a baby.

[Snively65]

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"But because there are automatic bids, there is always a team that snuck its way into the final 16 by winning their conference tourney title -- Rochester Institute of Technology of the Atlantic Hockey League -- those three teams with decent to impressive credentials will have to a buy a ticket to see the regionals this weekend."

Scarlet: "That team that snuck in because they won their conference championship beat the #1 ranked team in the tournament. What a baby."

Agreed, and, this is the second time since 2008 that RIT as the #16 has knocked off the #1, DU in 2008, when they went on to knock off UNH to take part in the FF. Will be interesting to see if RIT and DU meet each other again in the postseason, this time in the FF.

[Biddco]

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My team got "screwed" by a holding penalty that they were not calling until the end of the game and a goal might have happened but there wasn't enough evidence to call it good.

[mookie1995]

My team got "screwed" by a holding penalty that they were not calling until the end of the game and a goal might have happened but there wasn't enough evidence to call it good.

Exactly!!!! Duluth was holding all night long!! Only a matter of time before y'all were getting a whistle

[FireKnight]

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I believe they do need to specify. Ivy bouncyball gets to select Reg. season winner. hell, look at soccer across the pond. Their league goes with Regular Season winner, and top teams play in a yearlong tournament outside of the league. But the nature of sports and their organizational structure is widely different than here.

Perhaps leagues that have unprofitable or otherwise empty finals (AHC, maybe ECAC) would want to go in that direction? But it does risk two things: a) the possibility of a surprise team making the NCAA that wouldn't ordinarily do so, and b) some more (non-conference, I believe the NCAA dictates) games against better opponents.

The ECAC had 5000 for both nights in Lake Placid. That's a pretty good draw for a 7700 seat arena, especially when 3 of the 4 biggest travelers in the conference weren't even in LP. If you put Cornell (size), RPI (traveling faithful), or Clarkson (proximity) into LP, you'd have a near sellout.

[vizoroo]

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"But because there are automatic bids, there is always a team that snuck its way into the final 16 by winning their conference tourney title -- Rochester Institute of Technology of the Atlantic Hockey League -- those three teams with decent to impressive credentials will have to a buy a ticket to see the regionals this weekend."

Scarlet: "That team that snuck in because they won their conference championship beat the #1 ranked team in the tournament. What a baby."

Agreed, and, this is the second time since 2008 that RIT as the #16 has knocked off the #1, DU in 2008, when they went on to knock off UNH to take part in the FF. Will be interesting to see if RIT and DU meet each other again in the postseason, this time in the FF.

It was 2010. USCHO said DU was 2nd that year not first.(asked yesterday).
Also thought Holy Cross was 16th and Minny first, when HC won.Again USCHO said 15 and 2.

[Seawolf Fan]

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2) This story is spread over three pages? I have to click TWICE to read through this piece of crap? That's just bad page design, folks.

You got to read ads on all 3 pages. That's the idea.
This is the ideal thread for it.
You got screwed.

[Pure Mel]

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Alaska (Fairbanks) got screwed - by its administration. 7-0-1 in its last eight games, but no playoffs due to NCAA sanctions. Way to mind the store.

That is a travesty...Do you know if they are allowed to be in the postseason next year?