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Dan Olsen
 
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On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Mike Machnik wrote:
 
> PC is still trying to cope with the arrival in town a few years ago of the
> AHL's Providence Bruins, who play across town at the Civic Center.  (I know
> Greg knows this but I am just pointing it out for others.)  Their
> attendance has suffered ever since, even though they have tended to have a
> pretty good team.
>
 
On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Arthur Berman wrote:
 
> Mike, as usual, has a generous explanation for PC's lack of support.  I
> attended BU games at PC throughout the 70's and 80's (long before the
> Providence Bruins) including one memorable NC$$ play in game and
> attendence was usually abysmal.  Providence is a basketball town and
> school.
 
I don't know if Providence is really a 'basketball town'.  Granted, the Friars
had a pretty good run
this year, but they have hardly been the beasts of the Big East.  My idea of a
basketball town (at least as far as the Big East is concerned) would either be
Philly ('Nova, along with several other
good small schools) and Cuse (the Orangemen and the "little 3 schools in the
Syr-Roch-Buf area)  I've never been to a game in Providence, but it seems to me
that Brown has a decent showing most of the time on the road.  They don't have
the largest crowd, but I'm considering that Potsdam and Placid (the only 2
places I've seen Brown play) are a long way from Providence or any other city
for that matter.  Brown has even been known to bring their band (or did they
stop at Burger King in Potsdam and give the employees instruments...which is
still better than having to use members from other bands to make you sound good
in Lake Placid).
Dan Olsen
Clarkson '96
1996-97 ECAC Regular Season Champions
**Todd for Hobey**
 
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