Tony Biscardi writes:
>> Even though I knew this, I completely forgot
>> about the fact that there are so many Canadians on many ECAC/HE teams,
>...
>
>This is NOT meant to start or continue or even state an opinion on
>whether it's better to have Canadians or only US players or only
>people who are 3rd generation hockey players or whatever.
>
>But Hockey East, like the WCHA, is made up of mostly US players.
>It doesn't bother me that schools often have foreign players, but
>it does tick me off when so many people always talk about "all those
>Canadians in Hockey East."
 
I'll take partial responsibility...I emailed her to say that the
Festival involves US players and that since the ECAC & HE have a good
number of Canadian players, those players would not be eligible - even
though the teams she mentioned as being left out (Clarkson, RPI,
Brown) were good teams.
 
At any rate, I did not think the intent was to talk about "all those
Canadians in Hockey East"...no big deal.
 
I do think that if you were to look at the *better* players in HE who
did not make the Festival, a large number of those would have been
Canadians.  But that is probably also true with the other conferences
as well.
 
>Thank you,
>and I'll get off the nit-picking now.
 
Yup, it was (nit-picking). :-)  Easy to tell it is the off-season! :-)
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