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This Week in Hockey East

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Head Coach Dave Flint and his Northeastern Huskies talk about winning the regular season Hockey East championship:
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DC78-82 said:
Amanda Pelkey played defense almost the entire second half due to injury / illness vacancies.
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Thanks, I see. Sometimes one sees that when forwards have put up huge numbers and D haven't done much. However, Pelkey's league numbers were less than those of someone like Murphy of NU, so I wondered.
 
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Wowww, what can you say about Providence and Lacasse. It felt like they were on the PK the entire 3rd period. What a game.
 
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I'm starting to think playing in the quarters is a huge advantage. I mean when has the #1 and #2 seed met for the title ever since the new format started?
 
Bumbles said:
I'm starting to think playing in the quarters is a huge advantage. I mean when has the #1 and #2 seed met for the title ever since the new format started?
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That's what I said last year. I also think it has a huge advantage. Only one game out of six (over the last three years) has the bye team beat the team that played in the quarterfinal (:(). (the frowney face was because BC (bye team) beat PC (qf team) last year, but they did take them to 13 minutes into OT before Stack scored).
 
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That's what I said last year. I also think it has a huge advantage. Only one game out of six (over the last three years) has the bye team beat the team that played in the quarterfinal (:(). (the frowney face was because BC (bye team) beat PC (qf team) last year, but they did take them to 13 minutes into OT before Stack scored).
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I would not be surprised to see the playoffs expanded to 8 teams next year just for this reason.
 
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Bumbles said:
I'm starting to think playing in the quarters is a huge advantage. I mean when has the #1 and #2 seed met for the title ever since the new format started?
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There may be more potential advantage in a bye week if the #1 and #2 seeds were facing teams that played two or potentially three games the week before. Because the lower seeds only play once, they are well rested coming into the semis as well, and the rust factor is not mitigated as much by the absence of first-round wear and tear.
 
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ARM said:
There may be more potential advantage in a bye week if the #1 and #2 seeds were facing teams that played two or potentially three games the week before. Because the lower seeds only play once, they are well rested coming into the semis as well, and the rust factor is not mitigated as much by the absence of first-round wear and tear.
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In addition, the lower seeds have the mental benefit of having to win to advance so they are more prepared for the next step.

I did go back and check the records and I was both right and wrong :eek: For some reason, 2009 is forever blocked out of my mind so all my stats forget that year. That year, the 1st and 2nd seeds to play in the finals - that was UNH and BC (and truth be told, no number of bye weeks would have held back UNH)

Since Quarterfinals were implemented:
2009 #1 Seed (UNH) vs #2 Seed (BC)
2010 #3 Seed (BU) vs #5 Seed (UConn)
2011 #2 Seed (BC) vs #5 Seed (NU)
2012 #3 Seed (BU) vs #4 Seed (PC)
 
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1. Hockey East may have to look at eliminating the bye week and just having the quarterfinals be on a Wednesday or Thursday night. Or perhaps just have the whole tournament on Fri-Sat-Sun (if the men can do it for the Final Five...)... It's becoming a clear trend that it's having an adverse effect on the higher-seeded teams now that you look at the results since 2009.

2. Is there any live stream of this overtime game or are we gonna have to rely on twitter/live box scores due to the NESN tape delay
 
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Bumbles said:
Sat 02/25/12 Maine at Providence 2:00 p.m. Hockey East Quarterfinal
Sun 02/26/12 New Hampshire at Boston University 3:00 p.m. Hockey East Quarterfinal


Sat 03/03/12 Providence vs Northeastern 12:30 p.m. Hockey East Semifinal (Hyannis, MA)
Sat 03/03/12 [Boston University vs Boston College 3:30 p.m. Hockey East Semifinal (Hyannis, MA)

Sun 03/04/12 Boston University vs Providence1:00 p.m. Hockey East Championship (Hyannis, MA)
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Going to go ahead and give myself a pat on the back for this bracket. No big deal :D.
 
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I will officially confirm you the winner :D Runner-up awards go to Slewfoot, OnMaa and Puckskillz for also picking BU to win (against Northeastern).

Thanks for playing ;)
 
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TonyTheTiger20 said:
I'm pretty sure I got every single game wrong.

Every single one.

hahaha
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A BU championship is not conducive to a good picks contest for you. However, perfection of this magnitude, even in the wrong direction, is not easily achieved. Bravo, sir!
 
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