As a Westerner not involved in the ECAC/HE rivalries, there were a few comments
I had to respond to...
 
RICHCMA writes:
> am also an ecac person
>
> just tired of the hype he gets
>
> few programs in the country have the traditions of cornell,clarkson,
> rpi,slu,harvard etc.
>
Well, here's a few:  Minnesota (had to get that one in!), Michigan Tech,
Michigan, Michigan State, BU, BC, Colorado College, North Dakota...
 
> country...also as I mentioned previously there are no perenial doormats in
> the ecac as there are in the other three
>
I'm not that familiar with the other conferences, but I defy anyone to name a
"perennial doormat" in the WCHA.
 
I'm also quite puzzled by some comments (although I suppose this could be
because my imperfect memory prevents my relative lack of knowledge of Eastern
hockey from being completely remedied by reading hockey-l):
 
> I think Jack Parkers reputation speaks for itself...look at the way he
> shamelessly lobbied against Maine this year
and
> Providences hiring mess
and, again:
> BU and shameless lobbying
 
Pending results of the NC$$ investigation, I'd have to say that Parker had a
right to be upset by the alleged violations at Maine, but what "shameless
lobbying" is being referred to here?
 
"Providence hiring mess"?
 
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