From today's Schenectady Daily Gazette: Albany, Lake Placid file bids by Tom Boggie, Gazette Sportswriter "It looks like the battle to host the 1994 Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey Championships will come down to a duel between Albany and Lake Placid. The Albany Sports Foundation and the Olympic Regional Development Authority submitted the only bids for the event Monday, the unofficial deadline established by the ECAC. The Boston Garden, which hosted the ECAC Championships for 26 consecutive years until the tournament moved to Lake Placid this winter, didn't submit a bid. THe Garden could still be considered if it shows interest before the league athletic directors meet to discuss bids at Union College on April 15. 'We're always interested in good events, but we haven't bid on it for next year,' Steve Nazro, the Boston Garden's director of events, said Monday. 'Boston did express an interest, but I think it was a situation where Steve didn't have time to sit down and put the proposal together,' said Joe Bertagna, ECAC executive director of hockey. 'If they need an extension, we'll give them one. ......" "'I think our chances are pretty good,' Lynch (Pat Lynch, GM of Knickerbocker Arena) said Monday. 'We got some good, positive feedback from the folks we talked to [at the recent ECAC Tournament in Lake Placid]. Everyone knows the geographic location of Albany, everyone knows about the area and everyone knows about our hockey fan base. I just hope they want to mix it up a little bit and test the waters.' Lynch said the Albany group is only bidding for the 1994 ECAC Tournament, which would give the league the opportunity to move the tournament back to Lake Placid for 1995. 'We're only bidding for one year because we have the NCAAs [the first round of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament] here in 1995,' said Lynch. Both the ECAC Championships and the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament are held on the same weekend. Lynch also said the Knickerbocker Arena is interested in hosting the NCAA Division I hockey regionals in 1994 and 1995." End of quoted material Erik Cornell '86 U. of Minnesota '91