Mark wrote:
 
> On a slightly different note, what can anyone say about
> Hockey East's emergence as the dominant league in the
> country.
 
Tom Rowe wrote:
 
>I'm not quite ready to concede that HE has become the
>dominant division in hockey.
 
Certainly "dominance" is an objective thing -- something we can all argue
about forever and not be able to "prove".  But how often has a league had 4
of its teams ranked #1 at different times during the course of the season?
And has a league ever had the final 4 teams it its league tourney ALL ranked
in the top 10 at the time of the tourney (with all 4 of those teams having
the national #1 rank at one point in the season)?
 
Dominance?  Maybe not, but pretty darn close, don't you think?
 
   - Steve
 
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