> To put it another way, look at the ECAC.  Surrounded by hockey hotbeds in
> Quebec, Eastern New England, New York/Long Island and Toronto, one would think
> the ECAC is in a prime location to develop hockey.  It should be, but the 8
> teams in that area (6 in NY plus Vermont and Dartmouth) are in horrible
> spots.  Can you guess which of those 8 teams is in the largest city?
>
> Answer:
>
> Union College in Schenectady (population 65,566).  That's saying something,
> which is that the ECAC will have a rough time getting good coverage, TV
> or otherwise, until New York gets a mass influx of people upstate.  I'm
> not holding my breath.
>
 
Actually, New Haven, CT (home of Yale) is at least 130,000 people and the
metro-New Haven area is almost 1 million people.