NCAA Hockey 2025- CHA now welcome

[Spartanforlife4]

More surprising in those prior years when it was a best of 3 and the 7 seed had to take 2 games in the higher seed's barn

I, for one, am glad Notre Dame's season is over. I'm not sure how I feel about this year's tournament format yet, mostly due to a midweek game, but I am happy we needn't play that team again.

Seems like the coaches really pushed for it. Nightingale mentioned a scenario that hadn’t happened yet, but would not be ideal for a conference trying to help their best teams in March/April. With the uneven teams and someone needing a bye, it’s possible the conference champ could have a bye the final week, then a bye the first weekend of best of 3, then lose the single elimination semi and be off another week until the NCAA tournament. So that would be one game in almost five weeks by the time they take the ice for the first round.

Under the new format you could still get a champion with a bye in the final week who loses the semi, but it cuts down two weeks on that dead time.

 

[Kepler]

The way to get the best teams in March/April is to eliminate the bottom half of the league after the RS.

The ECAC had it right when 8 of 17 made the conference tournament.