Tony Biscardi writes: >> Even though I knew this, I completely forgot >> about the fact that there are so many Canadians on many ECAC/HE teams, >... > >This is NOT meant to start or continue or even state an opinion on >whether it's better to have Canadians or only US players or only >people who are 3rd generation hockey players or whatever. > >But Hockey East, like the WCHA, is made up of mostly US players. >It doesn't bother me that schools often have foreign players, but >it does tick me off when so many people always talk about "all those >Canadians in Hockey East." I'll take partial responsibility...I emailed her to say that the Festival involves US players and that since the ECAC & HE have a good number of Canadian players, those players would not be eligible - even though the teams she mentioned as being left out (Clarkson, RPI, Brown) were good teams. At any rate, I did not think the intent was to talk about "all those Canadians in Hockey East"...no big deal. I do think that if you were to look at the *better* players in HE who did not make the Festival, a large number of those would have been Canadians. But that is probably also true with the other conferences as well. >Thank you, >and I'll get off the nit-picking now. Yup, it was (nit-picking). :-) Easy to tell it is the off-season! :-) --- --- Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] Cabletron Systems, Inc. *HMM* 11/13/93