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Big 10 HC Rules

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As long as scheduling games in Alaska comes with the 2 extra games in your season bonus...yes. Just a few years ago we went up to Anchorage for the ice breaker tournament. I also believe Red values the Alaska trips as a good opportunity for team building.

There will be more room for non-conference games with the B1G schedule. The question will be how many of those non-conference games will be scheduled away?

Now, can we take this thread in a different direction and talk about the real problem? What refs will the B1G get? Is Piotrowski gonna bring in all his CCHA favs? Can we please not hire Sergott?
 
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wolverineTrumpet said:
As long as scheduling games in Alaska comes with the 2 extra games in your season bonus...yes. Just a few years ago we went up to Anchorage for the ice breaker tournament. I also believe Red values the Alaska trips as a good opportunity for team building.

There will be more room for non-conference games with the B1G schedule. The question will be how many of those non-conference games will be scheduled away?

Now, can we take this thread in a different direction and talk about the real problem? What refs will the B1G get? Is Piotrowski gonna bring in all his CCHA favs? Can we please not hire Sergott?
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You can have as many ECAC refs as you like. :)
 
wolverineTrumpet said:
As long as scheduling games in Alaska comes with the 2 extra games in your season bonus...yes. Just a few years ago we went up to Anchorage for the ice breaker tournament. I also believe Red values the Alaska trips as a good opportunity for team building.

There will be more room for non-conference games with the B1G schedule. The question will be how many of those non-conference games will be scheduled away?

Now, can we take this thread in a different direction and talk about the real problem? What refs will the B1G get? Is Piotrowski gonna bring in all his CCHA favs? Can we please not hire Sergott?
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Wordis the Big will hire the best refs. Lol
 
wolverineTrumpet said:
As long as scheduling games in Alaska comes with the 2 extra games in your season bonus...yes. Just a few years ago we went up to Anchorage for the ice breaker tournament. I also believe Red values the Alaska trips as a good opportunity for team building.

There will be more room for non-conference games with the B1G schedule. The question will be how many of those non-conference games will be scheduled away?

Now, can we take this thread in a different direction and talk about the real problem? What refs will the B1G get? Is Piotrowski gonna bring in all his CCHA favs? Can we please not hire Sergott?
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Thankfully the NCHC already locked up Don "I'm just making it up as I go" Adam.

 
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Ralph Baer said:
You can have as many ECAC refs as you like. :)
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We've got a few you can have. Bunyon comes to mind. Which reminds me of a favorite cheer when someone other than Bunyon is having a bad game: "We want Bunyon!" A two-fer.
 
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I heard that the Big Ten is losing its division names of "Leaders" and "Legends." Are they even going to have the Big Ten Hockey Conference anymore?
 
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MGoBlueHockey said:
Those divisions are only for football.
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I'm sure he's happy for that bit of trivia, but you didn't answer his question. I'm pretty sure the BTHC was abandoned along with the division nicknames. It's the only thing that really makes sense.
 
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I think that the smaller conferences losing the Big Name schools that are going to the BTHC, will suffer to some extent because of this, but that the positives of winning more Conf Titles because of not having to beat one of those big name teams and it being easier to get to the NCAA tournament, will offset those negatives.

Also, 5 years from now, when those teams that are well established are competing in a sport with more teams because teams like Nebraska and Illinois started up programs because of the now created BTHC, they will be ahead of the game in comparison to those new schools. It's possible some schools will drop hockey, but I really hope that doesn't happen. I personally can see a future with a West Coast Hockey Conf, a BTHC with 10 teams or more in it, and maybe even a SouthEasternHockeyConf also resulting in a 20 team NCAA field. All of that fb money they are making, well, who knows?
 
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MGoBlueHockey said:
Those divisions are only for football.
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Whoosh

Back2BackU-MnPride2002 said:
I think that the smaller conferences losing the Big Name schools that are going to the BTHC, will suffer to some extent because of this, but that the positives of winning more Conf Titles because of not having to beat one of those big name teams and it being easier to get to the NCAA tournament, will offset those negatives.

Also, 5 years from now, when those teams that are well established are competing in a sport with more teams because teams like Nebraska and Illinois started up programs because of the now created BTHC, they will be ahead of the game in comparison to those new schools. It's possible some schools will drop hockey, but I really hope that doesn't happen. I personally can see a future with a West Coast Hockey Conf, a BTHC with 10 teams or more in it, and maybe even a SouthEasternHockeyConf also resulting in a 20 team NCAA field. All of that fb money they are making, well, who knows?
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I'll take a dimebag of whatever you're holding.
 
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Big 10 HC Rules

Rule #1: Only schedule non-conference games against schools that will accecpt this explaination; "Sure we'll put you on our schedule, but only if you come here. Playing us is such an honor all by itself, you can't expect us to reciprocate."
 
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Freddie said:
Big 10 HC Rules

Rule #1: Only schedule non-conference games against schools that will accecpt this explaination; "Sure we'll put you on our schedule, but only if you come here. Playing us is such an honor all by itself, you can't expect us to reciprocate."
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You can't say that with a straight face now, although in theory it used to be correct. For the record, for instance, Michigan has traveled to Boston and New Hampshire within the past few years (yes, the deals were reciprocated.) They will go to Houghton next season. They will go to RIT. They owe Union, Bentley and Northeastern a return gig....yet it is unclear if it will happen.

What fans of lesser reknowned schools have to understand is, the schedule put together by Michigan, again, for instance, was hamstrung by the limited nonconference dates- taken up by the commitment to the GLI and, at one time, the CHS. Money talks when you have reached the peak of the mountain a few times and you can dictate the terms of NC agreements to your own benefit. Not so much when Berenson took over in '84, though and their NC travel was more extensive.

Your "rule" wasn't just B1G teams, either. Look at some of the other hitters and check out their NC schedules in the past.
 
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PSU lost at home to Division III Neumann last night ... way to represent for the future B1G Hockey Conference! I would predict a winless B1G regular season for PSU next year, but they do get to play Ohio State four times.
 
UND92UMNLaw99 said:
PSU lost at home to Division III Neumann last night ... way to represent for the future B1G Hockey Conference! I would predict a winless B1G regular season for PSU next year, but they do get to play Ohio State four times.
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Congratulations for being the 1 millionth idiot to talk about current conference standings as if it's the way things will always be.
 
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mnstate0fhockey said:
Congratulations for being the 1 millionth idiot to talk about current conference standings as if it's the way things will always be.
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Here comes the 1,000,001st...

Its not the way things will always be, but its certainly not trending in expected direction.

Most people assumed that the B1G would automatically put three to five teams in the tourney every single year.

What's changed? CHL poaching players that the B1G teams traditionally had the pick of the litter.
 
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