CCHA Playoffs

Puckhead · Post by **Puckhead** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 1:07 pm

Ok, at times I am not as up to date as I should be,
please explain the CCHA Playoffs.

Freddie · Post by **Freddie** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 1:59 pm

All 12 teams qualify:

First round = best of 3: 12@5, 11@6, 10@7, 9@8. #1-4 get byes.

2nd round = best of 3: four survivors play AT top 4 seeds.. 8@1, 7@2, etc

Second round survivors to semi finals at JLA

BGDrew · Post by **BGDrew** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 2:12 pm

And the Standings fyi...

Miami - 30 pts
Northern Michigan - 21 pts
Michigan State - 20 pts
Lake Superior - 19 pts
Michigan - 19 pts
Ohio State - 18 pts
Bowling Green - 17 pts
Ferris State - 17 pts
Nebraska-Omaha -16 pts
Notre Dame - 15 pts
Alaska Fairbanks - 14 pts
Western Michigan - 12 pts

Puckhead · Post by **Puckhead** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 7:24 pm

Should make for some interesting math come Febriuary 25th.

svillefalcon · Post by **svillefalcon** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:15 pm

right now looks like we will be playing a home series against notre dame, but were only 2 points off the 4th seed and a first round bye...currently the fourth seeded team is lake superior, hopefully we can get a sweep or a split and stay in contention for a first round bye, that would be HUGE!

rc_ziggy84 · Post by **rc_ziggy84** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 8:42 am

svillefalcon wrote:right now looks like we will be playing a home series against notre dame, but were only 2 points off the 4th seed and a first round bye...currently the fourth seeded team is lake superior, hopefully we can get a sweep or a split and stay in contention for a first round bye, that would be HUGE!

That's the way it is now, but things can change in one night. We just need to (obviously..) keep winning!

bgbill · Post by **bgbill** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:08 am

Keep in mind that BG and NMU have played more games than the other teams.
Go here:http://www.uscho.com/standings/?season= ... m&sort=pct

You can switch between points order and winning percentage order. Also note BG losses compared to other teams.

BG has a daunting task to finish over .500.

SaxyIrishTenor · Post by **SaxyIrishTenor** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:10 am

bgbill wrote:BG has a daunting task to finish over .500.

They can do it.

bgbill · Post by **bgbill** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:13 am

(duplicate post)

rc_ziggy84 · Post by **rc_ziggy84** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:16 am

Also, since we don't hold the tiebreaker w/ Ferris (0-2 head-to-head) We'd hold the last first round game vs. Neb-Omaha. Now we swept them pretty handily earlier in the season, but we all know how our series w/ Fairbanks turned out last year right? But again, things can and will change.

svillefalcon · Post by **svillefalcon** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 11:10 am

bgbill wrote:Keep in mind that BG and NMU have played more games than the other teams.
Go here:http://www.uscho.com/standings/?season= ... m&sort=pct

BG has a daunting task to finish over .500.

if we can play like we did against michigan on saturday (not friday) haha, we would finish over .500 easy, but we dont play consistently well enough to be sure of that...i still think that we can be a dangerous team come playoff time because if we get an a roll like a couple weeks ago, we can play with anyone anywhere

Freddie · Post by **Freddie** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 1:20 pm

I agree with BGBill...the task of reaching .500 in CCHA play will be daunting.
Consider this...at 8-11-1 we'd need to go 6-2 over our remaining conference games to finish 14-13-1...we've got 2@Lake Superior (they're a very tough defensive team, and a long bus ride), 2 @ Fairbanks (inconsistant but talented, and always a tough trip), 2 vs. Notre Dame at home (this is the 'soft spot' in our remaining schedule, and they swept us earlier) and we get to finish with a home/away weekend with Miami. We need at least two series sweeps from these four series to get to .500

Interesting factoid (and one of which I'm sure the coaches are well aware):
We've had twelve weekend series' (whether Thurs-Fri, Fri-Sat or whatever, and whether the opponent has been the same or not) we've struggled on the first night of the series.

First night record 3-9, and have been outscored 34-58.
Second night record 8-3-1 and have outscored opponents 55-39.
No way to sweep anybody when we get beat the first game.

redhawk95 · Post by **redhawk95** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 11:18 pm

Freddie wrote:I agree with BGBill...the task of reaching .500 in CCHA play will be daunting.
Consider this...at 8-11-1 we'd need to go 6-2 over our remaining conference games to finish 14-13-1...we've got 2@Lake Superior (they're a very tough defensive team, and a long bus ride), 2 @ Fairbanks (inconsistant but talented, and always a tough trip), 2 vs. Notre Dame at home (this is the 'soft spot' in our remaining schedule, and they swept us earlier) and we get to finish with a home/away weekend with Miami. We need at least two series sweeps from these four series to get to .500

Interesting factoid (and one of which I'm sure the coaches are well aware):
We've had twelve weekend series' (whether Thurs-Fri, Fri-Sat or whatever, and whether the opponent has been the same or not) we've struggled on the first night of the series.

First night record 3-9, and have been outscored 34-58.
Second night record 8-3-1 and have outscored opponents 55-39.
No way to sweep anybody when we get beat the first game.

series at lake and at alaska this late in the year? ugh...

rc_ziggy84 · Post by **rc_ziggy84** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:21 am

Yeah, I've noticed quite a bit this year how much better we play on Saturday nights for whatever reason. That's why I was so glad we got to play scUM in BG last saturday night, that was our best chance to win that one. Hopefully we can get the Friday night funk fixed and sweep a couple series!