George Downing saith:
 
> 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.
 
It is at least misleading, since whether Lamoriello & co feared it or
not, no Ivy defection ever happened.  To read this account you'd think
those mean old Ivies and their elitist friends pulled out of the ECAC,
leaving a half-dozen poor refugees to pick up the pieces and form
Hockey East.  Coupled with the presumably coincidental lack of an ECAC
page in the insert, readers unfamiliar with College Hockey might get
the impression that the ECAC ceased to exist in 1984.
 
                                          John Whelan, Cornell '91
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