Re: 2014 Kendall Classic: UAA, UAF, Wisconsin, Maine.
Thanks for a well thought out argument for the goal differential. Maybe you can tell me how UA_ managed to win their tourney last year, because it seems like Western Michigan should have won it. Western beat UAA 6-2 and UA_ beat DU 3-2 Then Western and UA_ tied 3-3. Western scored a total of 9 goals and had 5 goals against. UA_ scored 6 goals and had 5 goals against. I distinctly recall Bruce being totally confused when UA_ won the tourney. He said on the air that they were told beforehand how the winners would be decided, but that is not how it all came down. Can you explain this?
No, I'm not familiar with the rules of that tourney. That's why I thought it would be interesting to see how other tournaments do it.
[edit]. I see that the other tournament is based on the old CCHA rules. Those rules basically said there are no ties - a tie at the end of OT then goes to the shootout and the winner of the shootout is declared a winner (so to speak - it was really called "tie, shootout win" or something like that).
Aaaaannnnyyyy way.... so any game in the Fairbanks tournament that ended in a tie would have gone to a shoot out. It just so happened that by coincidence the only game that tied was betwen the two teams that had won on the first night. Any of the other games would have done the same, but there were no other ties.
Not unfair in any way, just another way to determine a "winner" of these sort of half-*****ed tournaments, I guess.
Interesting that there was confusion by the announcer at the time as to how it would be decided. That seems like total amateur hour on the part of someone. It seems like the coaches knew what was going on, but the announcer didn't. Having heard the Fairbanks announcer, my bias is that it would have been on him - he's a pretty amateur sounding announcer and doesn't strike me as being the sharpest knife in the drawer, and obviously didn't make the professional effort to know that important detail before hand. Not like the others I'm somewhat familiar with (Anchorage guy - great.... Minnesota guys - great.... can't think off hand of some others, but there's a bunch that are very good). But I have no idea really.
