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Hockey East by the Numbers

BU clinched 1st.

Northeastern has tiebreak over Merrimack. Whoever gets more points on Saturday gets 2nd. If they get the same points, Merrimack gets 2nd.

UConn will play Lowell as 4 vs. 5. UConn has tiebreak. Home team will be whoever does better on Saturday night. If they do the same, Lowell will be #4 and UConn #5.

BC must win in regulation to have a shot at 6th. If they do, they get 6th if Maine gets 0 points and Providence gets 0 or 1 point. If BC wins in regulation and Maine and Providence each get one point, that creates a three way tie where the tiebreaker depends on Hockey East's definition of "best regulation winning percentage" (See my last post above.)

If BC doesn't get 6th then Maine will be 6th unless Providence gets more points than Maine does on Saturday, then Providence would be 6th.

BC wins 2-way tiebreaker with Providence and loses 2-way tiebreaker with Maine.

BC's win and UMass's win locks UMass into 9th place and UNH 10th. UVM was locked into #11 on Saturday.
 
Thanks to UVM sharing info with me from Hockey East, I learned that overtimes and shootouts are included as ties in determining the "regulation winning percentage" (see my discussion above). So, in a 3-way tie, BC and Maine would have the same winning percentage and better than Providence's. So Providence would get 8th and then Maine wins the remaining 2-way tiebreaker with BC based on head to head. So, BC gets 6th if and only if they win in regulation, Maine loses in regulation and Providence gets 0 or 1 point. Otherwise, Maine gets 6th unless Providence gets more points than they do, in which case Providence would get 6th. Maine wins 2 or 3 way tiebreak at any point level. BC loses tiebreak to Maine, but beats Providence. Providence loses all tiebreakers.
 
My guess is the only change we'll see today is UConn jumping over UML

1. BU
2. Merrimack
3. NU
4. UConn
5. UML
6. Maine
7. PC
8. BC
9. UMass
​​​​​10. UNH
11. UVM
 
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