The NCAA did indeed have a 6-page advertising feature in The Hockey News. I
didn't read it, because it had the magic words "advertising feature" on it.
But I dug it out of the recycle bin to check out the part John mentions.
Here is the excerpt about the origins of Hockey East:
 
"Several Eastern College Athletic Conference teams, led by the Ivy League
institutions, decided to branch off and form their own league and that left
several schools in a predicament. Those schools banded together, forming
Hockey East..."
 
Although it's simplified, that seems correct, at least to my memory. What I
would take issue with is this: the "advertising feature" is six pages, as
follows:
Page one: Promo of upcoming Frozen Four in Providence.
Page two: CCHA feature.
Page three: Hockey East feature.
Page four: MAAC feature.
Page five: WCHA feature.
Page six: Profiles of two players from each of the above leagues.
 
What's missing here? Oh, that's right, there's another major conference. The
ECAC is mentioned exactly once, and that's in the paragraph I quoted above
about the formation of Hockey East. I know we have the annual (and silly)
"the ECAC isn't as good" debates, but I didn't expect the NCAA to subscribe
to that theory.
 
George Downing
UNH '92
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From: John Whelan <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: NCAA ad in The Hockey News
 
 
> I hear tell that the NCAA had a six-page advertising section in the
> College Hockey issue of The Hockey News which contained a
> less-than-true account of the origin of Hockey East in that
> conference's preview.  I don't have access to the magazine myself; can
> someone confirm and/or elaborate?
>                                           John Whelan, Cornell '91
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