Duke of Earl says: > I will be there on Friday evening. I will call the hotel this night to > hope to catch Eric and Carol. You did mean that you *couldn't* make it on Friday, didn't you? When we got back to the hotel after the Clarkson-BU game, there was a message waiting for us. When we called the hotel desk they told us Duke had called to say, "Go Cats!" We really got a kick out of that. The Cats played as well against Maine as they did against the Gophers on the same rink three weeks ago. We had the HOCKEY-L party in our room after the evening game, and several people from the list were there. Fred Flintstone (Ted Weiler), Bob Cunningham, and one other fellow (whose name I can't recall just now) were there. Ted and Bob did not, however, bring their tubas with them. Since the party was in our room, Paula and I were there, as well as Carol White, John Feigal, and several others poor souls without e-mail access. We met some other HOCKEY-L folks at the arena, including Louie LaPlante, Dean Barker, Ken Snell, Doug DeAngelis (actually Carol met him, not I), but they weren't able to get to the party for various reasons. Anyway, we had a great time, and may try it again next year in Albany. We really enjoyed seeing and hearing Clarkson's band, who made it to St. Paul after a 25 hour bus ride. Of the bands we heard in the Civic Center, the Clarkson band was by far the most entertaining. They stayed in high spirits all the way to the end of the game, though they were down by several goals. We were cheering for the Golden Knights in hopes that they would make it to the championship, but it wasn't meant to be. The Knights are a very young team, so they may very well find themselves in the Final Four next year as well. I don't have time right now to describe what happened on the ice, so I will leave you with these off-the-ice reports. We're looking forward to a well-played game on Saturday night; I will be cheering for the pride of the WCHA, the Northern Michigan Wildcats. **************************************************************************** Erik Biever --GOLDEN GOPHER MMMMM MMMMM St. Paul, Minnesota - Home of the --HOCKEY MM MM MM MM 1991 WCHA & NCAA Championships --Fastest Game MM MMMM MM BITNET: e-biev@uminn1 --In Town MM MMMMMM MM INTERNET: [log in to unmask] MMMMM MMMMM