Right you are.
 
The article describes how Jeff and I connected via the German Hockey Page,
which has a  'players looking for teams' link (which had 3 players on it as
of about a week ago).
 
I represent and advise players in North America and Europe (including my
brother Brian, Michigan Tech,  88' who plays in the top, DEL, league in
Germany) so I contacted Jeff to try to help him.  Given his statistics and
the fact that  he doesn't have (or seem to be qualified to obtain--unless,
per chance, "Miss Right" comes along) a European passport, we have a
challenging, but not necessarily impossible, job on our hands. Naturally, we
are hoping that our tenacity and professionalism will pay off.
 
In any event, as was noted, this is an interesting fusion of hockey with the
internet.
Of course, in terms of cyber activity, this hockey-l list has a
distinguished, and relatively long history, I know I was on it while
studying for my Ph.D. at Cornell a number of  years ago.
 
As many of you probably already know, though, there has been a more recent
boom in hockey info on the WWW.  The NHL and the NHLPA have pages.  Each NHL
team has anywhere from 2-6+ pages.  Almost every minor pro team has a page
and there are a bunch of college pages, too.  In addition, there are, as
referenced, German, UK, and other European pages.  Also, there are there is
a German list like this one, so I can get same-day game summaries at 5 pm
our time (11 pm, their time).
 
Amazing, considering our's was a once maligned sport trying to live down the
image advanced by the movie "Slapshot" (which was partially filmed  in my
hometown of Clinton, NY).
 
John Hannon Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Management
Krannert Graduate School of Management
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana  47906  USA
317-497-0204 (phone/fax)
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From: owner-hockey-l
To: Multiple recipients of list HOCKEY-L
Subject: College Hockey and the WWW
Date: Monday, June 05, 1995 05:14
 
The recent discussion about college hockey and the WWW reminded me
that I read an article in The Sporting News last week that discussed
the fact that a Notre Dame hockey player, I think it is Jeff
Hasselman, was using the WWW in order to attempt to get a job playing
hockey in Europe.  I meant to bring the article into work but recycled
the paper by mistake.  It was the June 5 issue and the article appears
on page 4.  The article goes on to state that the player stumbled
across a page put out by the German league that mentioned
opportunities to play there.
 
Ralph Baer
RPI '68, '70, '74