Scott Monaghan writes:
>
> 1. College hockey has different recruiting roots than big-time football
> and basketball. Many small-town Canadian kids have no idea what the Big
> 10 is, nor do they want to go to a school with 40,000 students.
I don't buy the first part of this at all. We have TV up here :-) , so
I'm fairly sure most Canadian kids know what the Big 10 is, know who the big
football schools are, etc. etc.
> 4. University. The U must be committed to the program, and LSSU is
> committed. Hockey is the "front porch", so to speak, for this school, just
> as football is at Michigan. The University, and Dr. Robert Arbuckle, our
> President, were integral in helping with the public campaign to expand our
> arena. They address the needs of the program in keeping up with the big
> schools, within reason, consistently, too.
This I think is the bigger reason. A recruit has to be awed by a small
building that's packed to the rafters. The fact that hockey is the #1
sport at the small schools helps them greatly.
See you later,
John
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