Posted by Paul B on February 06, 1998 at 13:25:58:
Anybody notice that if the Express Cup method of splitting teams on equal points by using games won had been applied to the Euopean Hockey League second placed teams table we would have qualified for the EHL quarter-finals
SECOND PLACED TABLE (FINAL)
Pl NW OW OL NL +/- Points
Slovan Bratislava 4 3 0 0 1 +4 9
Lada Togliatti 4 1 2 0 1 +2 7
ManchesterStorm 4 2 0 1 1 +1 7
Leksands 4 2 0 0 2 +7 6
Kolner Haie 4 2 0 0 2 +2 6
Lada Togliatti 4 1 1 0 2 +0 5
and conversely if the EHL rule of goal difference was applied to the Express Cup table we would be awaiting the Bess v Cobras match result with interest?
Maybe there is some small print in the ISL rules that will allow us to replay matches lost during the last two weeks of December 1997