Charlie writes: > *Is* there a Hockey Encyclopedia? Well, let me put it this way: there WAS one. Mine is from 1984 (which is very convenient, because I can pretend that the Islanders go on winning Cups forever). Its design is virtually identical to the BB version, which strongly suggests that it's from MacMillan. Every player has full statistics for every season. Full standings by year, category leaders, award winners are included. Also full WHA records (much like the BB Federal League records), and international tournaments involving pro players (Canada-USSR, NHL-USSR, Canada Cup). I have seen neither a more recent edition nor annual updates: I get the THN and Sporting News hockey yearbooks, one of which (I forget which) lists the post-junior B organized hockey records (college included) for every active NHL player AND draftee. Anyway....... What we need, of course, is a College Hockey Encyclopedia. It would be a labor-intensive nightmare to backfill all the years up until now, but after that, I think it would not be a killer data storage, retrieval, and formatting task. And as for the labor involved, I'll bet the total keystrokes expended per year by the members of this list exceeds the total required to build a 90-95% complete database of Division I player and team records. Assuming that there is not already an accurate electronic compilation of the data (a safe assumption), the resources are there (team and league records) to do the detective work and resolve the hundreds of discrepancies which no doubt would come to light. Why else would the gods have created computers, if not in the service of college hockey? Greg Somerville, MA Let's Go Red!