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...when your league's combined record against the CCHA (of which Michigan is a member), WCHA, and Hockey East is a 9-39-3-an anemic .206 winning percentage-you take wins-and ties-when you can get them...
With the ECAC’s longtime sponsorship of hockey, the creation of the women’s WCHA two years ago, and the recent Hockey East announcement, women’s college hockey now has three established leagues set for the future. Among the four longstanding men’s leagues, only the CCHA, which includes most of the Michigan schools, has not stepped up to sponsor women’s hockey. Ohio St., a member of the WCHA in women’s hockey, is the only CCHA school that has the sport...
...number of teams in the national tournament has yet to change from 1998, when the first national tournament was held, there was no women’s WCHA, and women’s hockey was still listed as an emerging sport and not an official NCAA sport...
...also made for touchy issues in terms of selection decisions. Last year, Minnesota, the WCHA regular season champion and defending national champion, was left out of the Frozen Four in lieu of St. Lawrence who placed third in the ECAC regular season and tournament. The year before that, defending national champion Harvard was left out in favor of a Minnesota team it had beaten 7-3 during the regular season and a Dartmouth team that had lost five more games against a relatively weak schedule...
...game’s final score bore deep contrast to the results of the games against the WCHA All-Stars, which lost by the more respectable scores of 3-0 and 6-1. The ECAC East, unlike the ECAC North which includes Harvard, does not have any team ranked higher than eighth...