Nope, sorry,  I read all that and I still don't care..... 8^).
 
greenie wrote:
 
> At 09:06 PM 3/23/99 -0500, Greg Ambrose wrote:
>
> >The latter is correct.  As one who reads UNH press releases all the time,
> >just because they give you the information doesn't mean you have to print
> >it.  The "last 17 years" bit was probably the most irrelevant piece of news
> >of the weekend.  Who cares?
>
> I care. BU fans care. Minnesota fans care.
>
> I'd wager to say that most hockey fans care -- one way or the other.
>
> While it seems you can't stand anybody else but UNH getting any attention,
> it's a pretty significant statistic that shows increasing change in college
> hockey, that two perennial powers are no longer present. I guess it would
> have been irrelevant it Michigan had missed the tournament too.
>
> Just think -- the last time the tournament didn't see either BU or
> Minnesota was in 1982. A lot of the kids in this year's tournament weren't
> even born yet.
>
> For Terrier and Gopher fans, it's an obvious disappointment. For some
> college hockey fans overall, it means there are one or two more teams this
> year in the tournament they're not used to seeing. Teams like Ohio State,
> who even 3 years ago nobody would have figured for the final four.
>
> For many other fans it simply means a nice change -- after all, if you've
> been going to eastern regionals for the last 8 years you've seen BU play at
> least one of the four games. Now they're gone.
>
> greenie
>
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