Lets not confuse mode with average.  MA and NY may have the most, but
when you look for the geographic center of hockey its going to be well
west of there.  Alaska will exert undue influence because of distance,
but even a minority of teams out West can shift the balance point.  I
haven't done the math, but I would wager the hockey center of the US is
probably somewhere between Western PA and Eastern MI (conceivably even
in Canada someplace).  In the meantime, with all due respect to places
like Boston, for my money, the center of college hockey is still
Minnesota (even though as a Wisconsinite the social rules of engagement
mandate that I hate them  :-)).

Tom Rowe
Stuck in Div III hell in Stevens Point, WI 

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Subject: Re: CHN News Alert: SYRACUSE GETS SERIOUS

At 1-9-2007 08:52 AM, Deron Treadwell wrote:
>Boy, it does sound like this could be pretty serious.  I would think 
>Syracuse would be a welcome addition to the community.

The though struck me during the Governor's Cup (featuring 3 New York
teams plus one from Connecticut) that New York has a lot of DI men's
hockey.  I was trying to come up with some way to do a Governor's Cup
similar to the Beanpot, but it would be tough, even if you included
regular-season games.  But the addition of one more NYS team would make
New York the center (or at least the center of gravity) of the DI men's
hockey world.

State   Teams
MA      10
NY      10
MI      8
MN      5
CT      4
CO      3
OH      3
AK      2
NH      2
PA      2
RI      2
AL      1
IN      1
ME      1
ND      1
NE      1
NJ      1
VT      1
WI      1

Question for discussion: What league would they go into?  ECAC, and
bring RIT along too?

Joe
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