Just trying to find a loophole here but couldn't these schools define the Beanpot games as "Exhibitions" and therefore make their own rules on how the overtime is played? The games don't count as Hockey East games so the only thing effect would be overall record or pairwise ranking.
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Beanpot LXX: Timeless!
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My uninformed speculation is that they may think that it would give the beanpot schools an advantage come NCAA tournament time if they had a midseason opportunity to play an extended game and no other schools did.
Hogwash, of course, but I could at least understand why they might wrongly think that.
Hogwash, of course, but I could at least understand why they might wrongly think that.
ericredaxe
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Or, for Pairwise purposes, an opportunity to turn a tie into a win that other schools don't have?
brassbonanza
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Nope, the games that went past the 5 min OT period were logged as ties. This is what the schools proposed in their waiver request. The endless OT period would've counted for nothing in PWR or official record.
Moose doesn't understand a capacity of a building.
Well, the Beanpot drew 18,258 while Michigan-Michigan State drew 18,325. So, the delta is all of 67, which apparently is enough to wag your tail. But if you want to play that kind of numbers game, remember that the Beanpot goes two rounds (both sellouts) so you can up that number to 36,650. And then there was Frozen Fenway on Jan 7 (Northeastern-UConn + BC-UMass), which drew 22,500. And honorable mention, Cornell-UConn in the Frozen Apple (NYC), which played to 12,247.
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Probably not worth a new thread but just picking up on the attendance numbers: Reported attendance for Ohio State-Michigan in Cleveland was 45,523, which is the largest single game attendance of the year. And although not college hockey but worthy of mention nonetheless was the NHL Stadium Series game at NC State (Washington vs Carolina), which drew 57,000 and then some.