From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!fishkin
Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey
Title: hockey flaming
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.74
Posted: Wed Mar 23 13:33:32 1983
Received: Thu Mar 24 20:32:19 1983

From: fishkin (Ken Fishkin)
To: sport.hockey@net
Cc: net-sport-hockey

	This is my first post to the hockey net, so please
excuse syntax errors, and settle in for some unadulterated hockey
flaming :
	The selcetion process, as it is now, suffers from the same
flaw as the NCAA basketball process : the regular season is becoming
increasingly meaningless, only serving as a warm-up for the playoffs.
Teams that finished first in the regular season have much to lose and
nothing to gain - Minnesota, North Dakota, and Bowling Green are splendid
examples of this. I would suggest they revert to something like the old
system, namely :
	#1 in WCHA, CCHA, and ECAC get automatic seed.
	#2 in WCHA plays #2 CCHA for #4 bid.
This would also remedy the ludicrous over-representation of the ECAC
in the semi's. Let's face it, the ECAC no longer plays, overall, top-notch
hockey. Every year, they get clobbered by WCHA teams and fade away -
last year it was Harvard, UNH and Northeastern,
this year St. Lawrence and UNH (yes, I know Providence beat UMD -
even a blind squirrel catches a few nuts!).
	Re "seive" Weicker - I also remember last year that UNH
had an All-american defenseman, and, I beleive, goalie, yet they
were pounded by Wisconsin in the quarters. As long as FIFTY percent
fo the All-Americas are from the East, this kind of thing is going
to happen.
	Re Klinger vs. Behrend - Klinger showed, last year, that he
could play excellent goalie in the NCAA's. BUT, this IS Behrends
last year, and he IS the #1 hot goalie in the country. Every team
should have such problems! Twere me, I'd play Behrend both nights.

	I will be in Grand Forks all weekend - any other Net
denizens going? Anybody want any T-shirts?

			Ken "Lets Go Red" Fishkin
			fishkin@BERKELEY
			.....ucbvax!fishkin