This USCHO site shows the ECAC West tourney as March 7-8. That's Sunday-Monday and surely must be wrong. But....before making hotel rezzies....what ARE the actual dates?
The info I have is:
League play ends Feb 24th.
First round goes Saturday Feb 27th - # 6 at # 3, # 5 at # 4, # 1 & # 2 get a bye.
Semi finals go March 6th with # 1 seed hosting the semi's where # 1 will play the lowest remaing seed & # 2 will play the remaining seed.
Championships go March 7th and will see the 2 remaining seeds play with the highest seed being home team.
The host institutions will determine the game times of the first round, Semi's and Championship game and which semi final game will be played first.
With Buffalo State not being able to play due to their violation, I guess that means the 7th place team will move up and thake the last spot. Neumann plays Chatham and should move up in the polls, Oswego takes on Platts and I doubt they will get points and Potsdam takes on Utica. If they were to sneak out a win, they would move into that last slot. That would be impressive for only a 2nd year program. Good for them!!
In the event that Platty and Neumann get two wins and Potsdam gets at least one tie this weekend what would the criteria be for deciding the tiebreakers for seedings? If I looked correctly in this situation Potsdam and Oswego would be tied for 6th and Neaumann Utica would be tied for 4th with involved teams splitting games head to head over the season?