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From: ryan@fremen.DEC
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Subject: College hockey: East vs. West
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Date: Fri, 25-Jan-85 15:28:10 EST
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	There has been some discussion about the relative quality of
hockey between the eastern and western colleges. Here I offer some
hard facts, which may support either point of view (based on the
standings published in the Boston Globe on Tuesday).

	The combined records of all Hockey East teams in conference games
comes out to 69-93-4 and the combined records of all WCHA teams in conference
games comes to 103-78-10, so the WCHA has about a 12-game advantage over
Hockey East in inter-conference games (don't ask why the figures don't match -
I'm just reporting what was published).  This shows that the WCHA as a WHOLE
is better than Hockey East (I'm still not convinced that the best of the
WCHA are really better than the best of Hockey East - we'll see come playoff
time).

	The combined records of Hockey East teams in non-conference games
is 12-7-2.  The combined records of ECAC teams (not counting Army) in
non-conference games is 43-19-6 (only one team has a losing record against
non-ECAC teams).  The Globe only gave the conference records for the CCHA
and WCHA, so I couldn't make this comparison for them; however, I doubt
either league (certainly not the CCHA, which doesn't appear to have any
outstanding teams besides Michigan St.) can match the ECAC's record.

	Again, does anyone have information on the playoffs?  Recent
articles have implied that the ECAC and Hockey East will have separate
playoffs and will each send teams to the NCAA playoffs, and I presume
the Hockey East playoffs will be at Boston Garden. So, where will the
ECAC playoffs be?

	Mike Ryan