Providence College regrouping and on to St. Paul

[Scarlet]

Re: Providence College regrouping and on to St. Paul

You could potentially come up with a scenario where only the championship game was at the Garden but that ain't happening. The league wants that semifinal $. As long as attendance doesn't start dropping to around 8k or less it's staying. So the only other option is having the semifinals on different days but then one team has an extra day of rest. Leaman can say it's not an excuse but he definitely comes across as a *****. Both BU and PC played single OT games. It's not like PC played a 3 OT game. Ya their game ended late but they should have had more in the tank than they did last night. Not sure if that's a mental thing trickling down from the coach or if it's a conditioning issue but PC had plenty of time to rest up and get in a pregame nap etc.

Interesting point here. What if the BU/BC game ended on time and the PC/NU game went three OTs? Game would've ended at pretty much the same time, would've been even worse because they would have played longer. Would there be need to have the committee look into it?

 

[mookie1995]

Get off my lawn!

Get the feeling that other coaches probably feel similarly, but don’t make the mistake of saying it out loud.
It is what it ****ing is.

Hey, ours beatches whenever he loses to a team with older freshmen. Your Whiney beatch is no different from ours

 

[Jon]

I had to reread this because we suddenly jumped to the point where Nate Leaman is redesigning the NCAA tournament.

“It’s a factor. It’s not an excuse,” Leaman said. “They took advantage of that. I thought they took advantage of that by getting pucks deep and by wearing us down, and getting their big guys wearing us down. I thought we got some extended shifts in the D-zone, where we bent but we didn’t break. Is it a factor? Yeah. Is it an excuse? No. You can’t let the circumstances matter. You have to function to get the job done.”

He’s clearly history’s greatest monster and should be replaced by someone if Zlax’s choosing. There’s an associate coach at Notr Dame we should look at, for example...

 

[mookie1995]

I had to reread this because we suddenly jumped to the point where Nate Leaman is redesigning the NCAA tournament.
He’s clearly history’s greatest monster and should be replaced by someone if Zlax’s choosing. There’s an associate coach at Notr Dame we should look at, for example...

Merrimack already covets him. Yer screwed

 

[Jon]

Hey, ours beatches whenever he loses to a team with older freshmen. Your Whiney beatch is no different from ours

Quinn gets crazy top end talent compared to Leaman. Yet here we are.

 

[The Zlax45]

Merrimack already covets him. Yer screwed

He does have more hockey east tourney titles than Leaman!

 

[cavbim]

Other leagues have same format as well as NCAA regionals. So the bigger concern would be with the NCAA tournament. Would love to hear what Nate has for a solution.

Do what the WCHA and Big Ten did. Last week semi’s this week finals

Get the extra week by either tightening regular season schedule a pinch or tell the bottom 3 wait till next year

 

[chickod]

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tell the bottom 3 wait till next year

Now THAT I agree with. No chance you should be able to finish at the bottom and then get hot/lucky and steal a spot from a team who has clearly outperformed you all year. And this gets into the whole "why do we even have a regular season" argument. There are some advocating that the regular season winners should also get autobids. You had over twenty games to "earn" a spot. Of course, this would require expansion of the tournament, but every other sport has done it anyway. (of course this is all hypothetical because the decision will be predicated upon only one thing - whether they can make more money by changing the format)

 

[defkit]

Re: Providence College regrouping and on to St. Paul

Interesting point here. What if the BU/BC game ended on time and the PC/NU game went three OTs? Game would've ended at pretty much the same time, would've been even worse because they would have played longer. Would there be need to have the committee look into it?

I've got a GREAT solution to even things out:

First game plays 4 periods, second game plays 3. Any ties go right to a shootout. That way the first winner is tired from playing an extra period. Second game winner is tired because it's late. Problem solved!

 

[chickod]

Re: Providence College regrouping and on to St. Paul

I've got a GREAT solution to even things out:

First game plays 4 periods, second game plays 3. Any ties go right to a shootout. That way the first winner is tired from playing an extra period. Second game winner is tired because it's late. Problem solved!

OR...if the ice degrades too much from a long first game, they could halt the proceeding, put all of us up in a hotel, rebuild the ice and then resume the game at 5:00 a.m. the next morning.

 

[Jon]

Do what the WCHA and Big Ten did. Last week semi’s this week finals

Get the extra week by either tightening regular season schedule a pinch or tell the bottom 3 wait till next year

At no point during the later Army years did I want to see PC play more hockey.
We’re no closer to getting a 12th HE team, are we?

 

[mookie1995]

At no point during the later Army years did I want to see PC play more hockey.
We’re no closer to getting a 12th HE team, are we?

Lord knows the bc jv team would finish ahead of Mack.....

 

[chickod]

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At no point during the later Army years did I want to see PC play more hockey.
We’re no closer to getting a 12th HE team, are we?

Pure unfounded speculation, but would that be "ulterior" motivation behind Bentley building their new arena?

 

[Scarlet]

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At no point during the later Army years did I want to see PC play more hockey.
We’re no closer to getting a 12th HE team, are we?

Didn't I read that Joe Bertagna was interviewed Friday night and said next season the top 8 teams make it and bottom three are done at the end of the regular season? Or am I misremembering?

 

[Jon]

Didn't I read that Joe Bertagna was interviewed Friday night and said next season the top 8 teams make it and bottom three are done at the end of the regular season? Or am I misremembering?

I hope so.

Watch PC finish 10th next year and have this come back to haunt me.

 

[Jon]

Re: Providence College regrouping and on to St. Paul

Hey, Clarkson. Here we are again.

 

[Sean Pickett]

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Would be interesting to know how many teams that won the second game ended up winning the championship the next night

Of the 34 Hockey East tournaments 32 have had the semifinals back-to-back with the championship game the following day 30 times and 2 days later the other two (as part of HockeyFest). Of the 30 times the championship game was the next day the winner of the early game has won 21 times and the winner of the late game has won 9 times, with the winner of the early game winning both times the game was 2 days later. I have created a simple spreadsheet showing each semifinal, champion and if the early or late semifinal winner won.

Sean

 

[Hope Street]

Re: Providence College regrouping and on to St. Paul

Of the 34 Hockey East tournaments 32 have had the semifinals back-to-back with the championship game the following day 30 times and 2 days later the other two (as part of HockeyFest). Of the 30 times the championship game was the next day the winner of the early game has won 21 times and the winner of the late game has won 9 times, with the winner of the early game winning both times the game was 2 days later. I have created a simple spreadsheet showing each semifinal, champion and if the early or late semifinal winner won.

Sean

Make it a Thursday/Saturday set up and late games aren't an issue

 

[chickod]

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Make it a Thursday/Saturday set up and late games aren't an issue

Good luck getting as many people there on a Thursday night as a Friday...if you're traveling (Maine, Vermont, CT) you're not going to drive home at Midnight and go to work the next day. Some of us can't take two days off whenever we feel like it.

 

[Felger]

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Didn't I read that Joe Bertagna was interviewed Friday night and said next season the top 8 teams make it and bottom three are done at the end of the regular season? Or am I misremembering?

Please, please, please tell me this is accurate