Well, I hope the Clarkson/Maine rule is invoked next year. With virtually nothing to play for, those two teams looked like they were playing for nothing last night.:-( The Tuthill's have a love/hate relationship with cable TV (at least Dorothy and I do since we feel it has adverse affects on life styles), but we had to get it re-connected (for about the tenth time) for last night's activities. Imagine my pleasant surprise to find both tournaments on live when I arrived home early from work! In Hartford, NESN had the Prime feed for HE, and Sportschannel had the Empire Sports feed for the ECAC. NESN's broadcast was really slick. I was prepared for a horrible broadcast by Empire, but it wasn't. But neither was it good. No crowd noise. Only remote interviews during intermissions, and a color announcer who didn't know the difference between Clarkson and Colgate while speaking with a French Canadian accent. (Is Empire's primary market *Canada*?) In any event, I still feel very lucky to have seen all the games live. One bit of culture shock, not having seen much D-1 lately (about two dozen D-3 games in the last 2 years): they actually called charging in the Maine game. In D-3, charging has all but disappeared. Running an opponent from accross the ice is commonplace in D-3, at least in the ECAC East. Likewise, I was very surprised at the amount of interference and stick holding that *was* allowed. One final question: why on earth did Tech allow itself to get into that type of game with Princeton??? As the home team with the last change, at very least they should have been able to dictate the style of play. Very disappointing. -- Dick Tuthill P.S. I'm not sure if this will get out ungarbeled. In re-reading it, looks like the editor hacked out some of my comments about Prime. I will post a correction tomorrow if that's the case.