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Anyone know if UConn can finish in the top eight of HE with three games to go? Do they have to win all three games and get some help? Can they win two and tie one etc...? Anyone ??
They definitely still have a shot at finishing in the top 8....I think they need to win 2 of 3 though.Anyone know if UConn can finish in the top eight of HE with three games to go? Do they have to win all three games and get some help? Can they win two and tie one etc...? Anyone ??
UConn has a favorable schedule remaining. UNH is struggling this year, and UMass-Amherst is...UMass-Amherst. Win two of three, and we are in a good place to get a first-round home series (not bad at all for our first year).
Seriously, UConn is four points (i.e. two wins) out of fourth place, and wins the tiebreaker with Maine for 8th currently (though the Black Bears have a game in hand. Fourth is unreachable due to circumstances, but finishing between 5-8 is not unreasonable.
22 points is the potential ceiling for UConn. Fifth place is also the potential ceiling, but winning all their remaining games could still leave them in ninth.
They can't beat Boston U or Boston College on points. Third place is ALSO unreachable, for two reasons:
1) UConn loses the current tiebreaker to UMass-Lowell, due to an 0-1-1 head to head record.
2) In order for UML to finish with 22 points, UML cannot win any more games. That means surrendering four points to UVM, giving the Catamounts 23, one ahead of UConn.
Fourth place is not possible because:
1) UConn must win all remaining games.
2a) Providence cannot win or tie any games.
2b) Because that would surrender four points to Maine, Maine cannot get any more than two points against BU (UConn wins the tiebreaker).
3a) Northeastern can only take one point in their remaining four games (i.e must be three losses and one tie, or four losses).
3b) That would ALSO surrender at least three points to Maine, who would have either 23 or 24.
Fifth place is possible, but not likely; UConn can get some help here from fourth-place Providence if they beat Maine at least once.
1) UConn must win all remaining games.
2) Northeastern cannot gain any more than one point.
3) Notre Dame cannot gain any more than one point.
4) Maine can gain, at most, six points out of their remaining eight (they have to beat Northeastern twice, and can either tie twice or win once against Providence, to help UConn).
5) UVM cannot gain more than two points out of their remaining eight (against Merrimack and UML; Merrimack winning here doesn't hurt because as long as UConn sweeps their remainder, the Warriors cannot catch them).
If only one of 2-5 above is false, UConn can take sixth (they'll either lose on a tiebreaker, or simply fall one or two points shy). Northeastern doing so is the best case for us, because as long as they beat Maine once, UConn will always finish higher than UMO.
The worst case scenario for UConn winning all their remaining games is this:
1) Northeastern wins one game against BU, and loses both matches to Maine.
2) Notre Dame wins at least one game against BC or BU.
3) UVM gets three points against Merrimack and/or UVM.
4) Maine beats Providence twice.
This leaves UConn ninth, with 22 points, and facing any of Northeastern, UVM, or Notre Dame on the road in the first round.
Well except I made a goofup that's in the end irrelevant.
UConn does not lose a tiebreak with UML on head to head; the two teams are tied 1-1. They would lose the tiebreak on total conference wins; UML has ten and the most UConn can get is nine.
The old saying - One game at a time holds true for the UConn Hockey Team. Hopefully the teams comes out on Friday night and plays every shift like it is there last and then after the dust settles Friday night they come out with a W which would make Saturdays game even more exciting to watch on NESNUConn can currently finish anywhere from 5th to 11th. The biggest problem right now is everyone else has four games left where UConn only has three.
Read more here: http://board.uscho.com/showthread.p...4-15-edition&p=6101850&viewfull=1#post6101850
So if we finish in 8th games 1-2 would be @XL?
Nope first two best of 3 rounds are all at higher seed home ice.Oh wow I had no idea every game in the best of 3 goes to the higher seed. I stupidly assumed they only got 2/3 home games.
Yes.
The third game, should it become necessary, will ALSO be at XL.
The Hockey East playoff format follows the one the ECAC uses, as well as the one the CCHA used before the league joined the NCAA invisible.
The first round will feature best of three series at the home arenas of the teams that finish 5-8. 5th place will host 12th place, 6th hosting 11th, 7th hosting 10th, and 8th hosting 9th.
The teams that advance will be reseeded and slotted to play another best of three the next weekend, hosted by the four teams that finish 1-4.
Current standings would give us the following series:
Weekend #1:
#12 Amherst vs. #5 Northeastern @ Matthews
#11 Merrimack vs. #6 Notre Dame @ Compton
#10 UNH vs. #7 Vermont @ Gutterson
#9 Maine vs. #8 UConn @ XL Center
Weekend #2 (using RPI to determine the advancing teams for demonstrative purposes, since it yields one "upset"):
#5 Northeastern vs. #4 Providence @ Schneider
#7 Vermont vs. #3 Lowell @ Tsongas
#8 UConn vs. #2 Boston College @ Conte
#11 Merrimack vs. #1 Boston U. @ Conte
The remaining teams then advance to the league championship in Boston, and are reseeded again so highest plays lowest. By RPI again, the semifinals are Boston U vs. Vermont, and BC vs. Providence.
Damn Dooley...you just put the jinx on the rest of the hockey season...LMFAO!!!Counting my chickens WAY before they hatch...can anyone say Road Trip? Would love to turn Conte into UCONN North that weekend if that were to happen.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I know you all are new to this Hockey East thing, but this is inexcusable.Y
#11 Merrimack vs. #1 Boston U. @ Conte
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I know you all are new to this Hockey East thing, but this is inexcusable.
Oh wow I had no idea every game in the best of 3 goes to the higher seed. I stupidly assumed they only got 2/3 home games.
None taken, I knew it was a mistake. The 1-1-1 would be too hard, too much travel. Basically becomes impossible to do a series with Vermont and Maine. And with the wonky New England weather, especially up there, the risk of a team not being able to get in and out of town is way too high. At least if they're there, or leaving, for three games, they can get in early and stay/play through the storm. It's not ideal, but in the past it's turned out to really not have a major effect. Lower seeds winning the 3-game series happens quite frequently. And the vast majority of these QF series occur over Spring Break, so they're notoriously poorly attended way across the board, even in other conferences around the country. I'm fairly sure the only HE school that sold out a QF game or series in recent years was Merrimack, and that's only because their capacity is so damn low. None of the powerhouse HE schools ever sniff selling out a QF game, ever. BU played one at ND last year, there weren't more than 3K in the arena.Oh FFS I forgot to switch that when I accidentally made BC the #1 seed. I apologize for the grave insult done to the Terriers. That should of course read Agganis.
Anyone know if UConn can finish in the top eight of HE with three games to go? Do they have to win all three games and get some help? Can they win two and tie one etc...? Anyone ??
It was probably really important.Please don't use all caps - it's difficult to read.