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St. Norbert 2015-16 Season

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GB Puck Fan said:
Agreed. Perhaps this is an artificial way of not having Scholastica play Adrian (or some other long distance pairing) in the first round? Because now, you've cut off half the teams that could make a really long drive to one of the conference outposts.
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Ding, ding, ding... The reason for the divisional alignment is only to ensure that Scholastica/Northland/Finlandia would not travel to Lake Forest/Adrian/Aurora or vice versa for a mid-week quarterfinal "play-in" and then have to turn around and drive 10 hours for a semi-final... This also seems to put more weight on the regular season. Don't want to play in a mid-week play in? WIN. Top seeds should have the best chance to win. This should give the NCHA the best chance to have multiple teams in the NCAAs.
 
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NUProf said:
The only way divisions make sense is if there is an unbalanced schedule. If you play each team in your division more often than teams in the other division, it makes sense to use divisions to qualify for the play offs, but not if you play all the teams in the league the same number of games
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This makes very little sense if all the teams in both divisions play the exact same schedule. There is the chance that the 4th place team in one division could have a better record than the 3rd place team in the other division, yet miss the opportunity to make the playoffs. It is what it is.
 
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snc11 said:
This makes very little sense if all the teams in both divisions play the exact same schedule. There is the chance that the 4th place team in one division could have a better record than the 3rd place team in the other division, yet miss the opportunity to make the playoffs. It is what it is.
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This happens in most sports with divisions all the time !
 
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snc11 said:
This makes very little sense if all the teams in both divisions play the exact same schedule. There is the chance that the 4th place team in one division could have a better record than the 3rd place team in the other division, yet miss the opportunity to make the playoffs. It is what it is.
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Birdwatcher said:
This happens in most sports with divisions all the time !
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In most sports with divisions, the justification is that teams in the same division play each other more often than they do teams in other divisions. Thus there is a degree of difference in comparison between the raw records.

In the NFL, each team plays the other teams in their division twice, and teams in other divisions only once or not at all.
In MLB, each team plays a majority of their schedule within their division, and only two series with teams outside, and only one series with a selected division from the other league.
In the NHL, teams play 5 games against each team in their division and two or three games against teams not in their division.

In each, the unbalanced schedules makes a comparison primarily within your own division mathematically reasonable. But if you play the same schedule throughout the league, it makes no sense to divide into divisions.
 
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NUProf said:
In most sports with divisions, the justification is that teams in the same division play each other more often than they do teams in other divisions. Thus there is a degree of difference in comparison between the raw records.

In the NFL, each team plays the other teams in their division twice, and teams in other divisions only once or not at all.
In MLB, each team plays a majority of their schedule within their division, and only two series with teams outside, and only one series with a selected division from the other league.
In the NHL, teams play 5 games against each team in their division and two or three games against teams not in their division.

In each, the unbalanced schedules makes a comparison primarily within your own division mathematically reasonable. But if you play the same schedule throughout the league, it makes no sense to divide into divisions.
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That was the point I was trying to make. I guess I didn't explain it well enough for Birdwatcher.
 
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Saw Black play a lot last year. Although he's small he's got great positioning and is quick as a cat. Thought he frequently outplayed his counterpart Kupsky who got drafted by the NHL.
 
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Wicked Wrister said:
Saw Black play a lot last year. Although he's small he's got great positioning and is quick as a cat. Thought he frequently outplayed his counterpart Kupsky who got drafted by the NHL.
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Black has looked sharp in the early practices..see how he does in the I/S game tomorrow..
His stats were overall better than Kupsky last season in the NAHL...both played in 35 games and Black won more games: 21 to 19...plus had a better GAA and save %.....big size difference though, as Kupsky is listed @ 6 - 4, 6 - 5...while Black is listed @ 5 - 9....
 
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If someone were going to the practices, or even the games that are not televised...apparently the game in Marian is not going to be a video broadcast...it would be cool to have it on the Periscope app...it's a live stream right from a cellphone or iPad. Help us out-of-state fans watch a practice or game. You'd simply load up the app and use your camera and it streams. If you do so let me know who to friend and when you broadcast i get a notice on my phone and can watch!

Would REALLY like to watch the intrasquad game tomorrow...periscope would do it. I bet a lot of us would watch!
 
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Wicked Wrister said:
If someone were going to the practices, or even the games that are not televised...apparently the game in Marian is not going to be a video broadcast...it would be cool to have it on the Periscope app...it's a live stream right from a cellphone or iPad. Help us out-of-state fans watch a practice or game. You'd simply load up the app and use your camera and it streams. If you do so let me know who to friend and when you broadcast i get a notice on my phone and can watch!

Would REALLY like to watch the intrasquad game tomorrow...periscope would do it. I bet a lot of us would watch!
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In the past, Marian has had, at least, audio of their home games....not sure about this season.
I will share your request with some of the other SNC fans in the GB area....
 
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Wicked / I downloaded the app...will try to figure out how to use it:)
 
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That would be so awesome. It's actually easy to use. I'll just need to "subscribe" to your profile so when you start broadcasting I'll get a notification on my phone. Let me know your name (the one you use on Periscope) and I'll follow you...anyone else on this thread who wants to should do it also. I'm also attached to the current parent list so if you're going to do it I'll let them know and whenever you broadcast we can see it...from anywhere in the world. isn't it amazing!!!
 
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Is periscope viewing ok? I know signal got very choppy last part of the first period. By no means a professional cameraman , but learning something new
 
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shoot no...I didn't know what handle you'd be using. I've sure everyone appreciated it...would have liked to have seen.
 
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The SNC White team beat the Green team 4 -- 2 this afternoon in the I/S game.
Freshman forward, Storm Wahlrab led the White squad with two goals. Fellow freshman, Roman Uchyn added, at least, two assists.
The White also got goals from Chris Rygus and Tyler Zepeda.. Blake Thompson and Eric Cooper accounted for the two Green goals.
 
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