Dan is absolutely right; gracious doesn't even begin to describe the way we
were treated by the Gopher fans sitting around us (even after I rooted for
Michigan in the semifinal game).  They were the greatest!!!!


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Lindsay A. Huntoon
Let's Go Maine Black Bears

>
> Just getting caught up on emails too, and glad I saw local TV news tonight.
>
> Here are some more random thoughts after visiting the newest venue in the
> NC$$ traveling three-game hockey extravaganza:
>
> Lindsay's report noted the whiny UNH fans on our left.  She neglected to
> mention the much more supportive Gophers supporters on our right, who heard
> the same thing and invited Lindsay to take the extra seat they had so that
> I would separate her from the idiots.  I've been to St. Paul and never felt
> more welcomed in a home rink.
>
> UHN loses hockey game but wins the post-game riot arrest tally.
>
> Checking email on the road is always an interesting adventure.  We lucked
> into a cyber cafe in Toronto one night, I had scoped out a public library
> close by our Buffalo airport hotel for later in the week.  Turned out to be
> the North Cheektowaga branch of the Erie County library system.  That's
> right, the listed home for our beloved UMaine and Bruins alumnus Bob Beers
> when he played at Orono.  We're saving the library card we had to apply for
> to use the computer that one time so that Bob can sign it....
>
> Next NC$$ Hockey Championships are at the FleeCenter in Boston.  If it were
> down to, let's say, BC v. Minnesota in the final game (hey, it could
> happen), imagine the following:  $ 500 scalping prices for lower bowl seats
> once again, and the "home ice" feel of Xcel Center 2002.  Did many of the
> same people who complain that there can be "home ice" at some hockey
> playoff sites also complain about Anaheim as a site in 1999 ?   You want
> neutral...I'll suggest San Jose, St. Louis or Miami....and I'd go to any of
> them.
>
> Nice to see UHN gassed it allowing 4 unanswered goals in two consecutive
> Frozen appearances to finish their chances once AGAIN.
>
> Had a Jackie Parker siting while on the HSBC concourse getting ice
> cream...for some reason he looked much less upset than when I saw him at
> St. Paul last year.  I said "coach, how's the new rink going ?"  with a
> reply that next year is their last at WBA  and it's coming along good.   We
> decided to drive home all the way on I-90 using the Mass. Pike extension to
> use the first Big Dig tunnel and the new Z-bridge, and got a look at the
> skeleton of the new BU digs.   Impressive...looks about the same size as
> the Tsongas, but on a much more cramped site.  Don't look for big
> concourses, but anything will be bigger than what they had at WBA (and
> wonder if selling beer will carry over there too)
>
> Just curious: would anyone care to share the identity of the group that
> chartered a Cyr bus to the games in Buffalo ?  Please, if it were a group
> of UHN supporters, I hope and pray they were overcharged.
>
> We were there, so didn't see the live ESPN feed (and didn't tape it), but
> wonder:
> 1.  Did they really show Ayers' mom and that damn little dog ?
> 2.  How did the renewal of the old Sean McDonough-Bob Norton broadcast team
> sound ?
> some posters here recalled Norts and Kurtz on NESN, but McDonough was
> earlier and far far better.
> ask Lindsay to imitate how McDonough used to say the name of Beers'
> home town....
>
> BTW, no fish allowed in Buffalo either...hehehehehe
>
> Yes, they did abruptly blackout the Buffalo jubotron replay of Maine-UHN
> game from Anaheim in 1999   I stayed in my seat for that one, but ran away
> earlier when they started replaying Maine-Minnesota 2002.
>
> There is no truth to the rumour that portions of I-90 in Massachusetts will
> be re-named "The University of New Hampshire Trail of Tears"
>
> If I ever meet anyone connected with production of any of the NC$$ "360,000
> student-athlete" PSA videos, I will kick them in the shins.
>
> Wings ARE better in Buffalo, but the better place to go is actually in
> Cheektowaga....sorry.
>
> Will begin taking reservations for Dan's Off-Day Beer Tour during the 2004
> championships...let's hope more don't go the way of Commonwealth Brewery
> before next April rolls around
>
> Surely more posts will get me thinking about other things,  but that's it
> for now.
>
> Dan Doucette  UM78
> only an embarrasment to the Hansiatic League
>