You can tell I'm desperate for hockey talk when I read an article about the Gophers closely enough to pick something like this up... Pam writes (quoting from the _Minnesota Daily_ article): >Gophers coach Doug Woog officially started practice Monday at >Mariucci Arena -- and he wasted little time in making his players >work hard. > > [...] > >The team had been skating together for the past two weeks, so the >focus was on puck handling and shooting. Just a point of clarification -- I'm going to guess that this means the Gophers were doing the skating on their own, with no coaches present. (That's probably what "officially started practice" means, at least I hope so) -- Bill Fenwick | Send your HOCKEY-L poll responses to: Cornell '86 and '94.5 | [log in to unmask] LET'S GO RED!! DJF 5/27/94 "Cozza, there's a train leaving at 4:00. Be under it." -- from a letter that Yale football coach Carm Cozza is supposed to have gotten when he lost his coaching debut in 1965