HAPPY NEW YEAR to all

  Sounds like all the Maine fans that made the trip had a good time.
  My mom and dad in Orono, who had to use my name (as a graduate) to get
tickets at the last minute, decided to go "south" for a week.       She
called me from the dinner with the team after the first game and was
quite excited.  She said it was a first class tournament.  And, as she
said "how often do you get to walk in the ocean and see Maine win a
hockey game on the same day"?
  Think I'll have to make plans to join them next year.

  Good Luck to the Black Bears in 2001