Remember the top ten list I started when Army announced it was leaving the
ECAC? Below is a compilation of the other rumors you all sent me. I thought
I lost this stuff, but I found it and now seems an appropriate time to
bring it out.
 
Keith
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TOP 15 RUMORS OF WHO IS REPLACING ARMY IN THE ECAC
 
(in order of receipt, not quality)
 
1. Vermont & UConn will join Hockey East, making the two eastern conferences
   10-team leagues each.
2. LeMoyne College (Syracuse, NY) starts it's own Division I team, and
   joins the ECAC!
3. Navy.  Up from club status.
4.  Northwood Prep (upstate New York).  They all sign with Division I
    teams anyway.
5.  Russell Sage (women's school near RPI).  They get banged around
    by the RPI players after the games, so why not during.
6.  MIT.  Will give Dartmouth and Brown someone to beat every year.  Plus,
    the fans can do neat tricks like make balloons come out of the ice at
    the Harvard-Yale games.  Good entertainment value.
7.  Harvard JV.  Guaranteed to make the playoffs every season.  After
    Tomassoni's varsity earns a playoff spot, he can send half his team
    down.
8.  Syracuse.  One school that SHOULD have a hockey team.  Wonder if they
    can get ice in that dome.
9.  Cornell women's team.  Better than half the ECAC I teams anyway,
    with Dan Ratushny's sister, Kim.
10.  Western Ontario.  Heck, they play half the teams in Division I as
    exhibitions, anyway.
11.  University of Massachusetts at Amherst.  Another school that should
    have a hockey team.  They would be an immediate candidate to enter
    Hockey East, should they ever build a rink (rumored for years).  A
    team with a nickname like the Minutemen deserves to play hockey.
12.  Pennsylvania.  Starting hockey again after two decades off.
    Wins ECAC championship in first season, then returns to club,
    causing us to start this whole thing all over again.
13.  Kent State and U Buffalo join the CCHA as travel partners, causing the
    CCHA to split into a Haves and Have Nots division. [this came in BEFORE
    Kent actually joined the CCHA!]
14. The Toronto Maple Leafs and the Quebic Nordiques wil merge and drop
    down (move up?) to division I hockey.  They'll be based in Albany and
    will be called the Albany Canadians.
15. Union. [Not very funnny, but true.]
 
I am sending this off to David Letterman today! (^;