Bracketology Begins

[Trotsky]

if we go to albany does the Ghost of PC Drouin and a cross bar finally go away... or perhaps the goal that was overturned earlier in the game that would count now if the replay video was actually  working.

replay really owes is a big one someday.. thanks NH..

We'll get payback the day we score on a penalty shot.

Now I'm wondering...When's the last time we scored a penalty shot? I have no memory of this.

2/27/1987.  We've missed 10 since then.  Our opponents have scored 7.

Joe Nieuwendyk was in attendance for one of the three attempts in the '07 season.  I want to say the last one, since my friends and I were aware that it had been about 20 years.  We were convinced the streak would end there.

It didn't.

I want Gillam to break it.

[Swampy]

if we go to albany does the Ghost of PC Drouin and a cross bar finally go away... or perhaps the goal that was overturned earlier in the game that would count now if the replay video was actually  working.

replay really owes is a big one someday.. thanks NH..

We'll get payback the day we score on a penalty shot.

That's gonna happen in an NCAA final.  It is fate.

In overtime.

I feel bad for the Cornell player who will be killed on a breakaway in order to get a penalty shot called in OT of the NCAA final.

if a player is killed like that can a substitute take the penalty shot?  Must it be someone who is on the ice at the time?

No worries, we'll name the locker room or something in his honor.  It'll be worth it.

A Zamboni?

[marty]

if we go to albany does the Ghost of PC Drouin and a cross bar finally go away... or perhaps the goal that was overturned earlier in the game that would count now if the replay video was actually  working.

replay really owes is a big one someday.. thanks NH..

We'll get payback the day we score on a penalty shot.

That's gonna happen in an NCAA final.  It is fate.

In overtime.

I feel bad for the Cornell player who will be killed on a breakaway in order to get a penalty shot called in OT of the NCAA final.

if a player is killed like that can a substitute take the penalty shot?  Must it be someone who is on the ice at the time?

No worries, we'll name the locker room or something in his honor.  It'll be worth it.

A Zamboni?

An Olympia!

[Dafatone]

if we go to albany does the Ghost of PC Drouin and a cross bar finally go away... or perhaps the goal that was overturned earlier in the game that would count now if the replay video was actually  working.

replay really owes is a big one someday.. thanks NH..

We'll get payback the day we score on a penalty shot.

Now I'm wondering...When's the last time we scored a penalty shot? I have no memory of this.

2/27/1987.  We've missed 10 since then.  Our opponents have scored 7.

Joe Nieuwendyk was in attendance for one of the three attempts in the '07 season.  I want to say the last one, since my friends and I were aware that it had been about 20 years.  We were convinced the streak would end there.

It didn't.

I want Gillam to break it.

My brain hurts trying to think of a scenario where that could happen.

[andyw2100]

if we go to albany does the Ghost of PC Drouin and a cross bar finally go away... or perhaps the goal that was overturned earlier in the game that would count now if the replay video was actually  working.

replay really owes is a big one someday.. thanks NH..

We'll get payback the day we score on a penalty shot.

Now I'm wondering...When's the last time we scored a penalty shot? I have no memory of this.

2/27/1987.  We've missed 10 since then.  Our opponents have scored 7.

Joe Nieuwendyk was in attendance for one of the three attempts in the '07 season.  I want to say the last one, since my friends and I were aware that it had been about 20 years.  We were convinced the streak would end there.

It didn't.

I want Gillam to break it.

My brain hurts trying to think of a scenario where that could happen.

He was talking about Mitch Gillam's yet unborn grandson, a forward on the 2065-2066 team.

[nshapiro]

Winter Break is obviously too long.

[Jim Hyla]

It starts for real.

His results are:

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This week's brackets

East Regional (Albany):
[b][u]14 Denver vs. 4 Harvard[/u][/b]
[b][u]10 Boston College vs. 5 Cornell[/u][/b]

Northeast Regional (Worcester):
[b][u]16 Holy Cross vs. 1 Quinnipiac[/u][/b]
[b][u]12 Yale vs. 8 Boston University[/u][/b]

Midwest Regional (Cincinnati):
13 Massachusetts-Lowell vs. 3 St. Cloud State
9 Michigan vs. 6 Providence

West Regional (St. Paul):
15 Minnesota State vs. 2 North Dakota
11 Notre Dame vs. 7 Nebraska-Omaha
Conference breakdowns

Hockey East — 5
[b][u]ECAC Hockey — 4[/u][/b]
NCHC — 4
WCHA — 1
Big Ten — 1
Atlantic Hockey — 1

Read more: http://www.uscho.com/bracketology/2016/01/13/nine-weeks-out-and-were-just-getting-started/#ixzz3xAQw8tun
Any complaints?

[Robb]

It starts for real.

His results are:

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This week's brackets

East Regional (Albany):
[b][u]14 Denver vs. 4 Harvard[/u][/b]
[b][u]10 Boston College vs. 5 Cornell[/u][/b]

Northeast Regional (Worcester):
[b][u]16 Holy Cross vs. 1 Quinnipiac[/u][/b]
[b][u]12 Yale vs. 8 Boston University[/u][/b]

Midwest Regional (Cincinnati):
13 Massachusetts-Lowell vs. 3 St. Cloud State
9 Michigan vs. 6 Providence

West Regional (St. Paul):
15 Minnesota State vs. 2 North Dakota
11 Notre Dame vs. 7 Nebraska-Omaha
Conference breakdowns

Hockey East — 5
[b][u]ECAC Hockey — 4[/u][/b]
NCHC — 4
WCHA — 1
Big Ten — 1
Atlantic Hockey — 1

Read more: http://www.uscho.com/bracketology/2016/01/13/nine-weeks-out-and-were-just-getting-started/#ixzz3xAQw8tun
Any complaints?

Why not swap BC and Notre Dame?  #5 Cornell + #11 Notre Dame = 16 and #7 UNO + #10 BC = 17.  Much closer to the ideal "17 point" matchups than the 15 and 18 that they have set up now.  Plus I just don't want to play BC in an Eastern Regional.  Yes, I know 2003, but...

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

It starts for real.

His results are:

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This week's brackets

East Regional (Albany):
[b][u]14 Denver vs. 4 Harvard[/u][/b]
[b][u]10 Boston College vs. 5 Cornell[/u][/b]

Northeast Regional (Worcester):
[b][u]16 Holy Cross vs. 1 Quinnipiac[/u][/b]
[b][u]12 Yale vs. 8 Boston University[/u][/b]

Midwest Regional (Cincinnati):
13 Massachusetts-Lowell vs. 3 St. Cloud State
9 Michigan vs. 6 Providence

West Regional (St. Paul):
15 Minnesota State vs. 2 North Dakota
11 Notre Dame vs. 7 Nebraska-Omaha
Conference breakdowns

Hockey East — 5
[b][u]ECAC Hockey — 4[/u][/b]
NCHC — 4
WCHA — 1
Big Ten — 1
Atlantic Hockey — 1

Read more: http://www.uscho.com/bracketology/2016/01/13/nine-weeks-out-and-were-just-getting-started/#ixzz3xAQw8tun
Any complaints?

Why not swap BC and Notre Dame?  #5 Cornell + #11 Notre Dame = 16 and #7 UNO + #10 BC = 17.  Much closer to the ideal "17 point" matchups than the 15 and 18 that they have set up now.  Plus I just don't want to play BC in an Eastern Regional.  Yes, I know 2003, but...

I agree.  A straight swap of Notre Dame and Yale would better preserve "Bracket Integrity."   Looks like this was picked to minimize travel and boost attendance.

[Jim Hyla]

It starts for real.

His results are:

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This week's brackets

East Regional (Albany):
[b][u]14 Denver vs. 4 Harvard[/u][/b]
[b][u]10 Boston College vs. 5 Cornell[/u][/b]

Northeast Regional (Worcester):
[b][u]16 Holy Cross vs. 1 Quinnipiac[/u][/b]
[b][u]12 Yale vs. 8 Boston University[/u][/b]

Midwest Regional (Cincinnati):
13 Massachusetts-Lowell vs. 3 St. Cloud State
9 Michigan vs. 6 Providence

West Regional (St. Paul):
15 Minnesota State vs. 2 North Dakota
11 Notre Dame vs. 7 Nebraska-Omaha
Conference breakdowns

Hockey East — 5
[b][u]ECAC Hockey — 4[/u][/b]
NCHC — 4
WCHA — 1
Big Ten — 1
Atlantic Hockey — 1

Read more: http://www.uscho.com/bracketology/2016/01/13/nine-weeks-out-and-were-just-getting-started/#ixzz3xAQw8tun
Any complaints?

Why not swap BC and Notre Dame?  #5 Cornell + #11 Notre Dame = 16 and #7 UNO + #10 BC = 17.  Much closer to the ideal "17 point" matchups than the 15 and 18 that they have set up now.  Plus I just don't want to play BC in an Eastern Regional.  Yes, I know 2003, but...

I agree.  A straight swap of Notre Dame and Yale would better preserve "Bracket Integrity."   Looks like this was picked to minimize travel and boost attendance.

That's exactly what he said:

We now take geography into account, and thus, Boston College goes to Albany and Notre Dame to St. Paul.

Read more: http://www.uscho.com/bracketology/2016/01/13/nine-weeks-out-and-were-just-getting-started/#ixzz3xDfaik9f

[Robb]

With Minnesota State and UND, the attendance "help" from Notre Dame would be unnoticeable.  Albany would undoubtedly benefit from BC, though.  Based on recent trends, though, that benefit is on the order of hundreds, not thousand.  Not enough different to justify  mixing up the serpent in my mind, despite the committee's philosophy that "all 3 seeds are created equal."

[Beeeej]

With Minnesota State and UND, the attendance "help" from Notre Dame would be unnoticeable.  Albany would undoubtedly benefit from BC, though.  Based on recent trends, though, that benefit is on the order of hundreds, not thousand.  Not enough different to justify  mixing up the serpent in my mind, despite the committee's philosophy that "all 3 seeds are created equal."

Luckily, we almost certainly won't have to worry about this specific set and order of sixteen teams.

[Al DeFlorio]

With Minnesota State and UND, the attendance "help" from Notre Dame would be unnoticeable.  Albany would undoubtedly benefit from BC, though.  Based on recent trends, though, that benefit is on the order of hundreds, not thousand.  Not enough different to justify  mixing up the serpent in my mind, despite the committee's philosophy that "all 3 seeds are created equal."

Luckily, we almost certainly won't have to worry about this specific set and order of sixteen teams.

I'll be happy if we get to worry about any set of seedings.

[Robb]

With Minnesota State and UND, the attendance "help" from Notre Dame would be unnoticeable.  Albany would undoubtedly benefit from BC, though.  Based on recent trends, though, that benefit is on the order of hundreds, not thousand.  Not enough different to justify  mixing up the serpent in my mind, despite the committee's philosophy that "all 3 seeds are created equal."

Luckily, we almost certainly won't have to worry about this specific set and order of sixteen teams.

I'll be happy if we get to worry about any set of seedings.

If this were October, I'd agree with you.  If we fall out of the tournament at this point....::barf::::barf::::barf::::barf::::barf::

[RichH]

With Minnesota State and UND, the attendance "help" from Notre Dame would be unnoticeable.  Albany would undoubtedly benefit from BC, though.  Based on recent trends, though, that benefit is on the order of hundreds, not thousand.  Not enough different to justify  mixing up the serpent in my mind, despite the committee's philosophy that "all 3 seeds are created equal."

Luckily, we almost certainly won't have to worry about this specific set and order of sixteen teams.

I'll be happy if we get to worry about any set of seedings.

If this were October, I'd agree with you.  If we fall out of the tournament at this point....::barf::::barf::::barf::::barf::::barf::

We still have more than 50% of of the season to go, including league playoffs. And this has proven to be a strong league. I'm not counting on an at-large bid at this point.