Actually, it is worse for Maine than that.  As someone wrote to me
privately:  "Where is Maine going to pick up the extra six points in
the league standings?"

Good point since we've owned Lowell in recent years.  ;-)

-Deron


--- james acheson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> so the upshot is:
>   Lowell loses its hockey team.
>   Maine loses one or 2 home games because Alfond-South2 is no more
> (Merrimack houses the other Alfond-South)
>   and about 12-20 Lowell Riverhawk fans have nothing to do 20 nights
> of the year.
>   I cannot imagine many people really care (I care, but not enough to
> donate money to keep the team alive)
>   I have always liked having another college hockey rink close to
> home with cheap tickets, but I am in the minority, that place is
> always EMPTY.
>    
>   
> Deron Treadwell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>   --- CHN Alert Desk wrote:
> 
> > Date: 31 May 2007 21:12:43 -0400
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: CHN News Alert: LOWELL ON BRINK OF EXTINCTION
> > From: CHN Alert Desk 
> > 
> > 
> > ***********************************************
> > ********* C H N N E W S A L E R T *********
> > ***********************************************
> > 
> > LOWELL ON BRINK OF EXTINCTION
> > http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2007/05/31_lowell.php
> > 
> > The Massachusetts-Lowell hockey program is on the verge of being
> > removed from Division I and Hockey East play after more discussions
> > between the Board of Trustees and the Lowell City Council.
> > 
> > The school, a Division II institution within the University of
> > Massachusetts system, is trying to renegotiate is lease agreement
> > with the city-owned Tsongas Arena, which the team shares with the
> > minor-pro American Hockey League's Lowell Devils.
> > 
> > Read the rest:
> > http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2007/05/31_lowell.php
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