Ken wrote:
 
Of course there are several good NHL cities that do not support a
competative DI hockey program. New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh come
to mind. And there's at least one good D1 hockey city that can't support
the NHL :-).
 
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And two of these cities, New York (Columbia) and Philly (Penn) have
obvious choices.  Which brings up what is likely a conincidence:
why is it that the two Ivy League schools without D1 hockey are
also the two in the largest cities?
 
And by quite a bit. Off the top of my head, I would rank
the Ivy cities by population (by SMSA, or just the metro area) like so:
 
 
Huge, dangerous, hideous places I'd rather vote for Pat Buchanan (or even
Pat Robertson) than live in:
 
1.  Columbia, New York
2.  Penn, Philadelphia
 
Middle-sized, dying, dirty, depressing Greyhound hubs:
 
3.  Yale, New Haven
4.  Brown, Providence
 
Small Birkenstock outlet stores:
 
5.  That place, Cambridge
6.  Princeton, Palo Alto East
 
Is that a town, or a ketchup stain on the map?
 
7.  The 1995-96 Ivy League Champion, Ithaca
8.  Dartmouth, Hangover
 
 
Maybe there is something to the argument that where there are other cultural
options hockey just does not do very well.  I mean, I love Ithaca and all,
but it would take an awful lot of persuading to get me to actually
buy a house there*.
 
 
Greg Berge
Let's Go Red!
* This is all just a shameless ploy to convince their law school to give me
a scholarship,  so let's hope there's nothing to the Reverse Woofing
Theory...  :-)
 
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