Thank you to Arthur for providing us with this sad news and with the details on this weekend's Colgate game postponements. I'm sorry to say I never had the occasion to have contact with Coach Slater, unlike some other folks on this list (especially ECAC folks), but I want to add my sympathy to his family and prayers from myself and also from those of us at Merrimack. I've never heard anything negative about Coach Slater, and I'm sure that's reflective of the type of person he has been both on and off the ice. I was fortunate enough to have been at the 1990 ECAC Championship Game (had to run crosstown from Boston College where the Hockey East Championship had just ended) where Colgate completed its sweep of the ECAC regular season and tournament titles, and I'm happy to have been present for what was probably the pinnacle of his coaching career. US college hockey loses another good one. - mike