Sean Pickett writes: >>This is only partly correct. From what I understand there are >>basically two "champions" declared in HE. >> 1. The Regular Season Champion >> 2. The Tournament Champion > >This is true, but unlike other teams, BU only raises banners for winning the >league tournament championship. BU has never made a big deal out of winning >the regular season title. I don't recall seeing a banner at BC for HE regular season titles, but I could have missed it. I didn't think to look for one. I believe this controversy (if you can call it one) stems from the regular season banners that Maine has raised. Specifically, this began after the 1987-88 season when Maine won its first regular season title but was defeated by Northeastern in the tournament championship game. The next season, as I recall, people at Northeastern were not happy to hear and then see that Maine had raised a banner proclaiming Maine as the "1988 Hockey East Champions". Of course, Northeastern also had a similar banner. I also recall that Maine was forced to change its banner to read "1988 Hockey East Regular Season Champions". Personally, I don't care if teams raise a banner for both titles or just for the tourney championship. But a distinction should be made. --- --- Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] Cabletron Systems, Inc. *HMM* 11/13/93