Earlier I wrote: >The press packet accompanying the announcement of UNH's new Arena (now >under construction) noted that this would be "the sixth [college rink] in >the nation to feature an Olympic-sized ice surface of 200 x 100 feet in- >stead of the standard 200 x 85 feet." Let's hope the architects and construction crews do a better job of actually *building* UNH's new Arena than the marketing folks did when they "researched" (I use the term loosely :-) and wrote the preceding statement. Thanks to everyone on HOCKEY-L who chimed in with new/up- dated information, it's apparent that there are already 6 Olympic (or "near" Olympic-) sized rinks in use in DivI college hockey; UNH's (and the new arenas under construction for Colorado College (Colorado Springs) and Denver will be the 7th, 8th and 9th (non-DivI-Tourney-eligible UConn also apparently plays many of its home games on a nearby Olympic-sized surface). Perhaps the new hoop/hockey facility on the drawing board at OSU will become the 10th .... WCHA ---- Mariucci Arena (Minnesota), Minneapolis (200 x 100) National Hockey Center (St Cloud), St Cloud (200 x 100) Sullivan Arena (Alaska-Anchorage), Anchorage (200 x 100) Dane County Coliseum (Wisconsin), Madison (200 x 97) HEA --- Mullins Center (UMass-Amherst), Amherst (200 x 95) CCHA ---- Carlson Center (Alaska-Fairbanks), Fairbanks (200 x 100) ECAC ---- none Erik Biever <[log in to unmask]> writes to remind me: >This information, and a lot more, can be found in the HOCKEY-L Team >Information File, maintained by Jim Teresco (take a bow, Jim!). You can >get it by sending this message to [log in to unmask]: GET HOCKEY-L >TEAMINFO. Or, you can look at the HTML version by pointing your web browser >to http://tardis.union.edu/~terescoj/hockey/teaminfo.html Yep .... I'd forgotten about this excellent resource, and I second both Erik's recommendation to check it out and his kudos to Jim Teresco for duties far and above the call to assemble/maintain this file. I should have looked here first - and I won't forget about it in the future :-) Cheers from Maryland - Jim Go Blue !!!