What is the exact playoff schedule? How is the number one team playing at 10 am on saturday like I heard?

I haven't seen the schedule so I am just going with logic.

The #1 seed would get the earlier game because then they would potentially get the biggest break until the championship game.

Just a thought.

Here's the schedule the best we know:

http://www.websportsradio.com/tournament09.htm#macha>

We will update the games live as they happen, or as close to it as possible.

That's different than the schedule on the MACHA site, what is the correct one?

Could somebody that knows the damn schedule get on here and post it.. I know the league commissioner gets on here so could you please post the schedule of each game so teams know when they are playing

The league commissioner? Who's that?

They look they same to me, what differences are you seeing?

It looks like the 4 pm and 7 pm games on Friday have been swapped.

The president of the league could care less about this little message board. Unless he felt it was something that J and Kich were having trouble keeping respectable, but they do a good job of that.

I would always refer to the schedule on the MACHA site as the official one. It shows that the schedule was updated on the 12th, so that may be where the confusion lies. I was emailed a schedule from an MACHA Rep on Feb 12th to post on here (yet again), but because it now has different times than the "Updated Schedule" which also was revised on the 12th, I dont want to add to the confusion.

Bottom Line, go with machahockey.com for the official schedule. WSR's is the same as the MACHAhockey.com schedule as well.

CKich
Could you PLEASE just have the webmaster of the MACHA website update to let everyone know once and for all the correct schedule. That really isn't too much to ask for.
Thanks!

Here is the Gold Schedule

4th vs 5th place friday at 1pm

3rd vs 6th place friday at 4pm

1st place vs winner of game one. Saturday at 1pm

2nd palce vs winner of game two. Saturday at 7pm

Championship
Sunday at 1pm

Silver Division

MSU vs SIUE friday at 1245pm

ISU vs Marq friday at 7pm

Mck vs winner of ISU Marq Saturday at 10am

Northwestern vs Msu SIUE saturday at 4pm

Championship game Sunday at 10am

this is the exact schedule off of the MACHA website so this should be accurate.

Good luck to all..

In the Gold Division my prediction is MSU vs IOWA

In the Silver Division my prediction is a rematch of last year MCK vs MSU

Each team rep should be getting updates when they happen. Talk to your team rep.

Doesn't McKendree have 2 losses? 1 to Northwestern and 1 to Loyola? Why would the Loyola game not be considered a league game? They pick and choose which games they want to count for MACHA standings...

We've gone over this in various threads...The McK/Loyola series did not affect conference standings.

Within the Silver South and North, the 6 teams are broken up into 2 subdivisions for CONFERENCE SCHEDULING purposes only.

Silver South
McK (A)
Mo State White (A)
SIUE Silver (A)
Bradley (B)
RMC-P B
Western (B)

Silver North
Northwestern (C)
Marquette (C)
Wheaton (C)
ISU-Icebirds (D)
Loyola (D)
Iowa-Black (D)

McKendree obviously plays all teams within the Silver South twice (10 games). This season, The Silver South (A) teams played the Silver North (C) teams in games that counted for conference standings (6 games). Therefore, any game McK played vs ISU, Loyola, or Iowa-Black DO NOT COUNT for conference play. This was known at the scheduling meeting last March.

Next season, Silver South (A) will play Silver North (D) teams for conference games.

kich,

you are the man

point taken, thanks for the clarification.

What should we expect for rink conditions this weekend. We were there a couple of weeks ago and the boards were so bad at one end you couldn't rim the puck. Also on the same rink, the ice at the one end looked like it had waves. Don't know if the zamboni had spilled it water on the ice and it had frozen unevenly but it was the strangest ice I've ever seen and I've been to a lot of rinks.

Not intending to dump on Fairview here just trying to establish some expectations. Plus if the boards are still screwed up you really need to check that out during your warm-up because a rimmmed pass can end up in front of the net!

Don't worry about it. Everyone plays on the same surface. You've got issues if you're sitting around thinking about that

It's not an issue it's an unfair advantage to the teams that play there either regularly or recently. Trust me the boards a couple of weeks ago were a BIG deal if you hadn't experienced them. I'm thinking I'm not the one with issues here.

Wow, if someone is that good to use the "boards" to their advantage they should be playing at another level. What a stupid topic

"Unfair advantage"?? Sounds like you can use it as an excuse when you lose. Is the lighting good enough? Music too loud? Announcer's voice annoying?

As a fan, I think the condition of the ice and the boards is a factor in how well the game is played. I want to see games played under normal conditions, especially for a conference tournament.

well as a fan, go rent out the scottrade center and we can hold the playoffs there.

Look were not talking about cosmetic issues. We are talking about a MAJOR problem with the boards that makes the puck do really unpredictable (unpredictable if you haven't experienced them) things to the puck. The ice although very strange to look at didn't appear to crate any real unfair advantage. The boards absolutely presented an advantage to you if you knew what to expect.

Now if your not smart enough to take advantage of such knowledge, then that's great for everyone you play against. But I know peewee's that are smart enough to use their home rink knowledge to their advantage. So here's the bottom line. If the boards haven't been repaired and you would like a level playing field. I would suggest you rim and dump the puck against the boards to see how they play in your warm-ups. The obvious problem with this is that you may be at the opposite end of the rink. (The end you will be attacking first.) The worst corner was at the end of the rink closest to the lobby on the rink that's on your left when you enter the complex.

I would actually prefer that you disregard and trash this post and no one bothers to check it out as we already know about this situation and won't make the same mistakes again. But fair play comes to mind and I've done my part there.

Wow, if you're a coach you should be in the NHL.

"Unfair advantage"?? Sounds like you can use it as an excuse when you lose. Is the lighting good enough? Music too loud? Announcer's voice annoying?"

I'll try to help you understand this situation.

Do you think any of the tournament games will be decided by one goal? I think the answer to that is yes as many games have been decided by one goal in previous tournaments.

What if that one deciding goal results from a defenseman attempting to go "D to D" with a rim pass behind the net but the puck ends up in front of his own goal and then in the net because he didn't know about the defective boards.

So I'm actually trying to prevent someone from having to make an excuse by raising the awareness of what we experienced a couple of weeks ago.

Lighting was good when I was there. Music was pretty annoying and they didn't have an announcer. Thanks for asking.

"Wow, if someone is that good to use the "boards" to their advantage they should be playing at another level. What a stupid topic"

I'm not sure what level your at but "house" squirts can get this concept. Every rink has its own unique traits. If your "smart" for example you learn how to use the boards behind the net to give yourself a pass and set-up your own goal. The boards in every rink are different back there and you really have to practice this to be successful.
I've seen many players learn this but then again they are the smart players.

There is a spot along the sideboards in every rink where if you pass to it the puck will come off at virtually the same angle every time. What's cool about this is that it doesn't matter what angle or speed the puck arrives at this point. It's a great spot to beat a fore-check with a beautiful break-out pass.

These are just a couple of examples of how players at every "level" can and do use their knowledge of the boards in their rink to their advantage. But once again its only the smart players that ever figure this out and I'm pretty sure that's not happening at your "level."

I don't think this is about 'unique' or any home ice advantage. To me, the question is whether or not the rinks are maintained at a reasonable level or are they unmaintained dumps?

I guess there are just a few of you "smart" players that are so much better than the rest of us. But then again maybe I'm wrong, you're still playing club.
There must be something else that you haven't figured out yet. Maybe it's the humidity factor at one end of the ice.

I think what really needs to be discussed is the safety issues.

Nothing I saw would constitute a safety issue. I have no insider knowledge but looking at the "pro shop" or what's left of it and the condition of the boards and ice. This rink looked be having some serious financial issues. I believe they have already filed for bankruptcy once, so the rink appearing to be short on cash was not a surprise to me.

I'm not a player. Your reference to club hockey is lost on me. Shouldn't a player want to be as good a player as they can be at whatever level they play? If you can be better than your opponent by being smarter and having better tactics regardless of level. Is that a bad thing?

Regardless of the playing conditions good luck to all involved. For many the opportunity to play hockey at the collegiate level will end this weekend. So embrace the opportunity and have fun.