I'll finally through my opinions into this fray. With all that has been said, I find myself favoring the idea of the ECAC moving its tournament to Albany. This is mostly based upon the reasons of a more central location and that the ECAC could structure the tournament to allow for a day off in between the semis and the final in the name of fairness to both finalist. (you can use this past tournament as an example.) One thing that the ECAC would HAVE to do would be provide television exposure. NESN does a breat job and covers a wide audience. The Empire Sports Network (or whatever it is) is quite lacking when compared to NESN. The main aspect that has been over looked is that Boston is more of a hockey town than Albany is, by several orders of magnitude. In this respect, there a probably hundreds of more non-collegiate affiliated hockey fans that would go to all of the games at HockeyFest than those in Albany who would go to the ECAC games. Albany does have RPI and Union, but Boston has Harvard, BU, BC, Northeastern and Merrimack as Div. I schools that would provide a certain number of fans regardless of whose playing. Finally I would guess that 75% of the ECAC people who would go to Albany, would also go to Boston. So I don't think that there would be a large influx of fans. So I guess that I'm back to supporting the ECAC staying at the Garden. With my time horizon of 9 years, I predate HE and remember all of the Eastern schools shooting for the Garden. Mike Zak Clarkson '87, '90... (Aug. '92) p.s. I HATE the term "politically correct" and its acctepted newspeak. It is such blatant pandering (Pander Bear) and cow-toeing to special interest groups. (How did all of that slip out?)