1. Please use a meaningful, descriptive, and brief subject header! Most people are very good about this, but some are ambiguous. Believe me -- when culling 200 Monday messages, ambiguous ones are deleted without hesitation. 2. There has been much complaining about ECAC officiating, especially in regards to the Brown - Union game. OK, I didn't see that game, so I cannot comment on it. However, I have been watching the officiating in the ECAC for 13 years, and in my opinion it has improved overall. The two ref system (which I initially hated) has significantly reduced the number of blown calls, and the "wave off" which some of the refs have been using to designate "yes I saw it and it's clean" also boosts your confidence that they are at least in the same rink as the players. Overall, all we can ask is that the players are comfortable enough with the officials not to take the law into their own hands (actually, this is all we can ask of any law enforcement, but I digress...). I think the ECAC crews, overall, do this adequately. 3. You're never as bad as you look when you lose, and you're never as good as you look when you win. Trust me -- Cornell isn't going to score 8 goals in another game this year; they were aided and abetted by a weak team having a *very* bad night. So I don't read anything into this weekend's games; it will be wonderful if the Red can hold their chromatic-twins close in Troy, and the Union game is going to be a knock down, drag out (though hopefully not literally). I still maintain that there's nothing to choose between the top four ECAC teams, so I don't particularly care who Cornell plays if they survive the Preliminary Round. It would be most convenient personally if they came to Bright, and the freshmen might benefit from learning that they actually *can* score at Harvard! Barring a miracle, Cornell's season ends a week from Saturday; barring TWO, it ends a week from Sunday. Let's just enjoy the seniors' last hurrahs (Bumstead's just 8 points shy of 40...) Greg Cambridge Let's Go (Big) Red!