>UNH, Maine, Colgate and RPI
 
        BTW, it's official; just read the press release on USCHO.
(Thought I'd avoid confusion between the advance rumors and the actual
announcement.)
 
>Not exactly designed to fill a big "house" in NYC.
 
        Yeah, that was my thought.  UNH and Maine are big-time hockey
schools with lots of fans, but they're also the two HE schools
farthest from the City.  RPI is the only school I could see drawing
well, and with their holiday tournament just a week later up the
Hudson...  If they really wanted this thing to fly, attendance-wise,
I'd have looked for the inclusion of a Cornell, Vermont, Clarkson, BU,
BC, or even Harvard.  And with a one-day event rather than a two-day
tourney, you're making it less worth the effort to come in from out of
town, like the one-day event in Buffalo over Thanksgiving.  Thinking
of going in for the day?  The last Amtrak train upstate leaves at
8:45pm, so you'll be spending the night at Penn Station waiting for
the 7:20am.  If you're coming from New England, there's a redeye to
Boston at 12:35am.  (FYI Penn Station is attached to MSG; you'd never
have to venture out of doors.)
                                        John Whelan, Cornell '91
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