Jason writes: >>Hello all recipients of this list. I am writing about club hockey. Sorry >>that it isn't D-I, but that's all we have here at Bradley University. Our >>school may be going (most likely) to the tournament for the championships. >>I think that it is such BS that hockey is a club sport here when it is the >>most winning team on campus. Has anyone ever watched club college hockey? >>It is brutal! The refs don't call anything. If they did the game would >>take 4 hours to play. I was just wondering what everyone thought of club >>college hockey. I have a friend at Bowling Green, who isn't on the list (his loss :) ), who I thought would respond to this question well. I sent the original to him. He sent me his answer, which I have forwarded to the list (my editing in brackets): >It doesn't matter that your club [hockey] team is the winningest, it matters >how good they are. Even if they have the best record of all your teams (how >can you compare different sport anyhow?), this doesn't mean they could >necessarily compete in D1 (or even D3). I play for the club team at >Bowling Green State University. Even though our record is about the same >as our varsity (near last place in CCHA), we would get crushed against >teams like Miami, Michigan, [Notre Dame, Ohio State,] etc. The best your team >can do is try to schedule a game against a D3 team (you very well could have a >chance - I know we could beat some D3 teams). That would give you some idea >of your competitiveness. Then maybe try to petition D1. > >As for the actual game, I do agree that it is very physical (as is any hit >league), and maybe sometimes brutal (again, as can be games in any hit >league.) I don't think you can single out club hockey as being brutal - >I've seen many NHL games that were brutal. Now if you are from Canada, and >are using brutal in the terms of being bad, then, again, this can be said >about any level of hockey lower than D1. The refs are bad, but that is why >they aren't any higher! [reffing a higher league, that is] If they called >everything in the NHL, the games *would* take 4 hours. Just be happy that >they don't call everything, and that there is no league like from the movie >_Slapshot_ (except maybe the ECHL) - those games would've taken a couple of >days to play! :) > >George George's email address is: [log in to unmask] -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ** ** Chris Boston ** ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** ** * [log in to unmask] * * * ***** * * * * * * * * * * * * ** ** University "Home is where your hockey team is!" -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --