On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I think everyone is looking past the big picture. CHA and MAAC are the best
> things to happen to D1 hockey in years. They have spread the game from
> Alabama & intensified hockey in New England and Iona is the closest D1 team
> to the Big Apple.If skipping two marginal "big teams" to make sure the MAAC &
> CHA are in so much the better. The goal should be to spread the game & hope
> we can find the hockey equivalent of Gonzaga (like Niagara last year or
> Mercyhurst - the only D1 team in Pa). I still maintain the gap between the
> MAAC and the ECAC is narrowing each year.
>
That's true, the ECAC gets more uncompetitive each year.
Arthur Berman [log in to unmask]
North Vancouver, BC