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Hockey East to Expand Playoff Format

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I do not know if this was said earlier in the thread, but this is a total money grab and a way to make ND happier.

More teams getting home games = more revenue for the league.
More teams getting playoff home games means unless ND really falls flat, its one less time they have to fly East each year, which we already know is a big deal for them.

Money and ND. That is about it.
 
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I think what was great about dropping two teams was it made the conference that much more competitive. The argument that there's plenty of interesting games b/c they're fighting for seeding or home ice is kinda BS. Yea, the fight for home ice is big and seeding is important but last year any of the teams in 6th-9th could have been the one dropped because of those last few weekends and that's a much bigger source of competitiveness than trying to make sure you don't play the higher seeded teams.
 
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jjmc85 said:
My team did fairly well last year against BU and BC last year in the regular season, going 3-2-1 and beating both when they were number 1 in the nation, but hey, why should you let the facts get in the way of your otherwise perfect insult?
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That's a lot of chest thumping from a fan of a team that was a tie-breaker away from missing the playoffs.

But don't worry, I'm sure after the 28th choice for a head coach and the assistants exhumed from last place Vermont get rolling, things will turn right around.
 
jjmc85 said:
My team did fairly well last year against BU and BC last year in the regular season, going 3-2-1 and beating both when they were number 1 in the nation
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So, are you going to UNH it and put up a banner to remember your glory days? :D
 
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Patronick said:
That's a lot of chest thumping from a fan of a team that was a tie-breaker away from missing the playoffs.

But don't worry, I'm sure after the 28th choice for a head coach and the assistants exhumed from last place Vermont get rolling, things will turn right around.
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The poster said I would rather watch my team get it's butt kicked by BC and BU instead of seeing them beat ECAC and AHA teams. I pointed out the flaw in the posters comment, as watching my team against BC and BU is not a guarenteed butt kicking. I fail to see how using facts to disprove someone else is in any way, shape or form "chest thumping."

I hope you have a good day.
 
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jjmc85 said:
The poster said I would rather watch my team get it's butt kicked by BC and BU instead of seeing them beat ECAC and AHA teams. I pointed out the flaw in the posters comment, as watching my team against BC and BU is not a guarenteed butt kicking. I fail to see how using facts to disprove someone else is in any way, shape or form "chest thumping."
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You also failed to mention UMass's 0-5-1 record against BU/BC the previous year (not to mention the 0-2 HEA playoff shellacking by BC), or anything about historical trends... There's no way to do the experiment, but I'd certainly predict that UMass would have a higher winning percentage over the next 10 years playing BU/BC only 4 times per year instead of 6. One season's results are certainly a "fact," but it's a fact which does nothing to refute my premise.
 
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Fighting Sioux 23 said:
I don't intend to start some sort of riot :p:D:D

That being said, 22 games doesn't really separate much. Remember the '09-'10 season when 4 points separated 9th from 3rd...I would imagine that with a 22 game conference season you would see that far more often (just look at the ECAC). I understand wanting to have the regular season mean something, but seeding is quite important (as is home ice). I just couldn't justify leaving a team out of a tournament where they may have been 3-4 points away from home ice. This is especially true if the 22 games are not balanced (read: 1 game versus everyone @ home, 1 game versus everyone away).
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The easiest way they could have handled the conference schedule would have been to create the 2 divisions inside HE. You play the everyone in your division 3 times (15 games) and then you play the other schools twice (12 games) to keep the 27 game total. Hockey East is going to be playing a lot of games against AIC/Robert Morris/Bentley due to proximity alone. That is not good for anyone, except maybe VT... they could use a tie here or there.
 
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LynahFan said:
You also failed to mention UMass's 0-5-1 record against BU/BC the previous year (not to mention the 0-2 HEA playoff shellacking by BC), or anything about historical trends... .
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you mean the 2-1 and 3-2 blow outs in the HE QF's last year? and if my memory serves me correctly none of the other 2 QF's in 2010 and 2011 vs UMass were what you would call a" shellacking" . Each of the three series were tough but i get your point and tend to agree
 
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bottomdweller said:
The easiest way they could have handled the conference schedule would have been to create the 2 divisions inside HE. You play the everyone in your division 3 times (15 games) and then you play the other schools twice (12 games) to keep the 27 game total. Hockey East is going to be playing a lot of games against AIC/Robert Morris/Bentley due to proximity alone. That is not good for anyone, except maybe VT... they could use a tie here or there.
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Not necessarily. The BHHC will have 10 NC games, and the BTHC will have 14. Not to mention, the ECAC non-ivies still will have 12, and some HE fans may remember when a majority of those teams were in their league. Sure, the BTHC and BHHC will only want to play BU and BC (maybe also UNH, Maine, and ND), but there are still some teams in there where you can get some good games, such as WMU, SCSU, and Miami.
 
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This whole thing of adding rounds sounds like the those in charge of HE spent to much time talking
to those idiots that keep adding on to the NCAA Basketball tourney.

"Hmm lets add more games on more days so we can get more TV money$$$$$"

Maybe we should do this

week #1 have 9 host 12/10 host 11 for 2 out of 3
week #2 winners play at #7 & #8 2 out of 3
week #3 winners play at #5 & #6 2 out of 3
week #4 winners play at #3 & #4 2 out of 3
week #5 winners play in Boston versus 2 very board and rusty top seeds

Or heck lets add a few D3 schools into a 13 versus 14 game to add a mid week game to start the tourney

Hell it gave Vermont a game they could actually win to start the NCAA Basketball tourney last year.
 
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bottomdweller said:
The easiest way they could have handled the conference schedule would have been to create the 2 divisions inside HE. You play the everyone in your division 3 times (15 games) and then you play the other schools twice (12 games) to keep the 27 game total. Hockey East is going to be playing a lot of games against AIC/Robert Morris/Bentley due to proximity alone. That is not good for anyone, except maybe VT... they could use a tie here or there.
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I agree with FlagDUDE that there will be plenty of OOC competitive games from which Hockey East schools can choose. When Atlantic Hockey went to 12 teams, they split into two divisions with the 3 games per team within division and 2 games against the other division teams, pretty much by necessity as other conference teams are reluctant to book too many games against teams that might hurt their almighty PWR.
 
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Someone might have brought this up earlier, but if your team finished below 8th in the standings, you're probably tired of watching them play anyways.
 
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Lol Hockey East will ruin the playoffs but won't adopt 4 on 4 OT. No surprise there. I don't want to see any **** ties. This isn't soccer.
 
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SkinsFan09 said:
Lol Hockey East will ruin the playoffs but won't adopt 4 on 4 OT. No surprise there. I don't want to see any **** ties. This isn't soccer.
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I'm quite happy we don't adopt every bad idea from the NHL.
 
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