V. Price wrote:
 
>NHL expansion in Nashville and Carolina will spawn Southern interest in
>ice >hockey.
 
My response to that:
 
The first "southern" team was the Atlanta Flames, playing in the years
1972-1980 before moving to Calgary.
 
If your logic is true, there should be a plethora of skating rinks in
Georgia and a number of hockey players from that native land.
 
It IS true, however, if you mean the republic of the former Soviet Union.
 
This is the REAL question:
 
I always ask NHL players and team officials I have met or spoken to on talk
radio:  who is now the better prepared for the NHL when joining the roster
-- a player elevated from the juniors, a player from American college
hockey, or a European ?   There are a variety of answers, and I recommend
you ask the question on your own if you have the opportunity to speak to
any present or past NHL player or management person.
 
 
 
 
Dan Doucette
 
***  Isn't it fitting someone named Garth Snow is playing  ***
***            for a hockey team in Canada   ???           ***
 
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