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...their annual meeting on May 16, the athletic directors of the ECAC will be voting on a proposal to change the current playoff format to allow all 12 men’s hockey teams into the postseason. To avoid making the ECAC even more of a laughing stock of a conference, I urge Harvard Athletic Director Bill Cleary ‘56 and all of the other headmen to please vote...
...departure from the current format, in which the top ten regular season teams get whittled down to a Final Five at Lake Placid after the first round. The fourth and fifth seeds at Lake Placid have a play-in game on Thursday with the semis on Friday and the ECAC Championship game on Saturday...
There is no real reason to admit the eleventh and twelfth place teams into the tournament. While Gaudet waxes eloquently about the tough breaks involved in missing the playoffs (until this year the Big Green was one of the teams in that race), the ECAC already provides a tremendous opportunity for students to experience the postseason by admitting 10 teams...
Ideally, the ECAC ought to drop two more teams from the tournament and make its playoffs an eight-team affair. This would make the first round ultra-competitive. Harvard saw just how good an eight-seed could be when it eliminated Jeff Hamilton and the good ol’ Elis this year in the first round. Lake Placid then becomes an elegant four team, mini-Frozen Four, for the ECAC Championship and the right to advance to the NCAA Tournament...
...round series and another game in Lake Placid means more revenue for a conference that some have said are struggling. How much this factor has to trump competitive interests will be a judgment reserved for when the conference decides to release some data on its financial health. Certainly, the ECAC needs every possible advantage as it falls further behind the other three major D-I conferences...