cornell 2 - brown 3 OT

[jtwcornell91]

... Princeton loses to Union and beats us in a comparison (tied in head-to-head, but higher winning percentage) ...

Small consolation, but Princeton cannot beat Cornell in the tiebreakers.  They split head-to-head and each would have the same number of league wins (it's league wins, not overall), so it would go to record against the top 4, and due to Cornell's better record that Princeton's against Dartmouth and RPI, the Big Red would get the higher seed no matter which (or even if both) of those teams joined Union and Yale in the top 4.

If RPI or Dartmouth wound up tied in the standings with both Cornell and Princeton, the Big Red would win the three-way tiebreaker based on better head-to-head record against the other two.

So it's top 4 league record comparison? Hmm, did not know that.

If RPI loses tonight, then we still have first round bye, assuming Princeton cannot beat Union? Maybe I should go to the Quinnipiac game tonight instead.

TIE-BREAKING PROCEDURES FOR CHAMPIONSHIP SEEDING
http://www.ecachockey.com/men/tournament/ChampTieBreaking

The league website does't currently spell out the infinite loop fix, but based on past explanations, I keep a page on the full ECAC Tiebreakers

[polar]

http://www.ecachockey.com/men/video/index

Go watch that second Brown goal. First, crazy acrobatic moves. Second, for the life of me I can't tell how the puck ends up from under Andy's body into the net. Does he accidentally kick it in? Does D'Agastino tip it? My guess is that Iles assumed the puck was already in the net, based on everyone else's reactions, and made a sloppy move. Regardless, one of the strangest looking plays I've seen live.