Word: placide
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...proposal, first reported in the Dartmouth Sports Weekly (nice piece of journalism, Sherzer), will increase the number of teams in the tournament from 10 to all 12, with six winners of best-of-three first round series advancing to Lake Placid. The bottom four remaining seeds would participate in play-in games on Friday for the right to face the top-two seeds in the semifinals on Saturday. The finals then would be on Sunday...
This is a fairly substantial 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...
...Generally speaking, more teams experiencing the playoffs and Lake Placid is positive,” he said. “It’s nice for the kids to have playoff experience and to know that, even if a particular team goes through a tough stretch during the regular season with injuries or other problems, they still have a chance to make it a really successful season...
Moreover, from a travel perspective, the Lake Placid experience has just become more burdensome. While there always will be the solid contingent of great hockey fans from the North Country at the tournament, Lake Placid is nine hours away from Princeton, five-and-a-half from Boston. The six-team format will now induce another set of fans to try and make the long trip, with now two supporters guaranteed to face a major disappointment in hauling out all that way to see their team play once. At least now, four-of-five sets of fans are guaranteed...
Over 50 student governments and national groups-mostly civil liberties and minority organizations-have opposed the move as well as the government's continued practice of basing aid eligibility on drug offenses, but the Harvard student community seems largely placid over the issue...