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NCHA Playoff Thread

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Preseason Poll

1. St. Norbert: 96 points, 6 first-place votes
2. Adrian: 95, 5 first-place votes
3. St. Scholastica: 79
4. Marian: 72
5. Concordia: 58
T6. Lawrence: 50
T6. MSOE: 50
8. Lake Forest: 45
9. Northland: 29
10. Aurora: 19
11. Finlandia: 12


Regular Season Final Standings

# Team Pts W L T GF GA Overall Change In Position
1. Adrian 34 17-3-0 99 - 39 18-5-2 +1
2. St. Norbert 29 15-4-1 78 - 31 19-5-1 -1
3. Marian 25 12-7-1 64 - 56 14-9-2 +1
4. Lake Forest 24 12-8-0 70 - 57 16-9-0 +4
5. MSOE 22 9-7-4 59 - 56 12-8-5 +1
6. St. Scholastica 21 10-9-1 69 - 66 12-12-1 -3
7. Concordia 21 10-9-1 56 - 60 13-11-1 -2
8. Northland 19 9-10-1 69 - 72 11-12-2 +1
9. Lawrence 13 5-12-3 49 - 61 6-16-3 -3
10. Aurora 10 4-14-2 38 - 79 4-19-2 0
11. Finlandia 0 0-20-0 25 - 99 0-25-0 0


Playoff Series Matchups
North
#1 St. Norbert
#2 St. Scholastica vs. #3 Northland

South
#1 Adrian
#2 Marian vs. #3 Lake Forest
 
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Adrian is the clear favorite heading into the playoffs. SNC better win its semifinal game to - hopefully - secure a NCAA bid.
 
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Adrian seems to be peaking at the right time. It's going to be tough for anybody to beat them at the Arrington.

It's tough to see MSOE get left out of the playoffs in favor of an 8th place Northland team. The top 3 teams from each division thing really only makes sense if you play more games in the division than out of the division. When everybody plays the exact same schedule they should take the top 6 teams.

I'm hoping with the addition of Trine next year they move to a play everybody in your division twice plus 2 games against 4 teams from the opposite division schedule. Or two in division and one out of division.
 
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Let's be honest. The only reason for the divisions for the playoffs is so that Adrian doesn't have to play Scholastica on a Wednesday night. It's all about minimizing travel and nothing to do with fairness.
 
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GB Puck Fan said:
Let's be honest. The only reason for the divisions for the playoffs is that Adrian doesn't have to play Scholastica on a Wednesday night. It's all about minimizing travel and nothing to do with fairness.
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The solution to that - don't play on Wednesday. Seems like hockey playoffs are becoming more and more like basketball playoffs
 
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Tom Coughlin said:
Adrian seems to be peaking at the right time. It's going to be tough for anybody to beat them at the Arrington.

It's tough to see MSOE get left out of the playoffs in favor of an 8th place Northland team. The top 3 teams from each division thing really only makes sense if you play more games in the division than out of the division. When everybody plays the exact same schedule they should take the top 6 teams.

I'm hoping with the addition of Trine next year they move to a play everybody in your division twice plus 2 games against 4 teams from the opposite division schedule. Or two in division and one out of division.
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Have there been any announcements on how the addition of Trine will affect the division makeup (they are not playoff eligible until the 18-19 season)? Schedule? 22 conference games? 16 conference games (which leaves 9 out-of-conference games which might help the WIAC fill their schedule)? Will Marian be placed in the North Division? Out of division single game paired travel: Adrian-Trine, Lake Forest-Aurora, MSOE-Concordia, Northland-St. Scholastica, Lawrence-Marian-St. Norbert, and Finlandia?
 
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I had read somewhere that they are cutting back to 18 conference games. That lends itself to a 5 x 2 in division plus 4 x 2 out of division (with zero games against two out of division opponents). Marian joining the North makes sense geographically and would help the competitive balance between the two divisions (the South is clearly much more competitive at the moment).
 
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Tom Coughlin said:
I had read somewhere that they are cutting back to 18 conference games. That lends itself to a 5 x 2 in division plus 4 x 2 out of division (with zero games against two out of division opponents). Marian joining the North makes sense geographically and would help the competitive balance between the two divisions (the South is clearly much more competitive at the moment).
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I guess with your travel distances, something like 5 X 2, and 4 X 1 and 2 X 2 wouldn't work. You don't have enough teams close together to do a travel partner weekend like we do in the east.
 
NUProf said:
I guess with your travel distances, something like 5 X 2, and 4 X 1 and 2 X 2 wouldn't work. You don't have enough teams close together to do a travel partner weekend like we do in the east.
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This is just wrong. You'll likely see Adrian-Trine, Aurora-Lake Forest, MSOE-CUW, Marian-Lawrence, CSS-Northland and SNC-Finlandia as travel partners. The only long hop is SNC-FU.
 
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Sir Nubs said:
This is just wrong. You'll likely see Adrian-Trine, Aurora-Lake Forest, MSOE-CUW, Marian-Lawrence, CSS-Northland and SNC-Finlandia as travel partners. The only long hop is SNC-FU.
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My knowledge of your geography is limited, but this would mean that you could schedule weekends at travel partner sites to make it possible for every team in league to play every team at least once. That just seems more balanced.
 
NUProf said:
My knowledge of your geography is limited, but this would mean that you could schedule weekends at travel partner sites to make it possible for every team in league to play every team at least once. That just seems more balanced.
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But you just said the NCHA doesn't have enough teams close together to use travel partners...and now you claim knowledge of geography out here is limited. Which is it?
 
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Duh, clearly Adrian and Finlandia would be travel partners. They are the only two D3 programs in the state of Michigan after all...
 
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altazo said:
Duh, clearly Adrian and Finlandia would be travel partners. They are the only two D3 programs in the state of Michigan after all...
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I believe that is the Sarcasm Alarm I hear in the background.
 
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Sir Nubs said:
But you just said the NCHA doesn't have enough teams close together to use travel partners...and now you claim knowledge of geography out here is limited. Which is it?
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You know sometimes people come into a thread looking for information. If I knew the answers to the questions I wouldn't ask. Relax. I made my original statement because I don't really know where the locations of all the NCHA programs are, especially with the recent additions. From everything I have ever read, every time the subject of travel partners comes up, the response is that there aren't enough programs close together to do it.
 
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NUProf said:
You don't have enough teams close together to do a travel partner weekend like we do in the east.
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This sure sounds like a definitive statement to me. If you were looking for information, a question such as, "Do you have enough teams close together to do a travel partner weekend like we do in the east?" would have been asked, I assume.
 
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Sir Nubs said:
This sure sounds like a definitive statement to me. If you were looking for information, a question such as, "Do you have enough teams close together to do a travel partner weekend like we do in the east?" would have been asked, I assume.
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I was echoing what I had read from others. I assumed it was correct. What is your problem?
 
NUProf said:
I was echoing what I had read from others. I assumed it was correct. What is your problem?
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I don't have a problem. I'm just waiting for you to explain why you walked back your definitive statement once it was shown you were wrong?
 
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