The Hockey East men’s octofinals are over and we have ourselves an updated quarterfinals bracket. Thanks to conference re-seeding, #1 Boston College gets #10 seeded Merrimack in the quarterfinals round, which should help their chances of advancing quite a bit.
The quarterfinals round in Hockey East is a best-of-three series, with the winners advancing to the TD Garden the following weekend for the semifinals and finals. The semifinals round is also re-seeded, which means that the highest remaining team will face the lowest remaining team in the semifinals, with the remaining two getting the other matchup.
The KRACH Rankings are assigned on an odds-based system, such that the odds of Team A beating Team B on a given night are rA/(rA+rB), with rA and rB being each team’s rating.