> > 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.
 
Actually, Harvard in Boston/Cambridge (Bright Arena is in Boston, not
Cambridge), Yale in New Haven, Brown in Providence and Princeton in
Princeton(?) were purposely left out of the above comment.  By the
way, I think Boston has more people than New Haven (but this is just
a guess ;-D  ).
 
Sean Pickett
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