> that was partly a guess on my part.  Clearly (and this was confirmed
> by ned bunyan thursday afternoon) there could be no CCHA nor Hockey
> East officials at either game.
 
Speculation time... if the final had been two HE or two CCHA teams,
could the refs have been from the same league as the teams? Would
that be better or worse (of course, it depends on the refs too...)
 
        --david
 
ps: someone asked Saturday what the list did when the finals are over.
Now you know :-)