---------- From: Barkan, Jon To: 'HOCKEY-L' Subject: HOWDY ALL Date: Sunday, October 01, 1995 12:21AM Priority: High Hello you crazy Hockey-Lers.... I have had the opportunity to meet many of you though the years, but for those of you who have never been to a Final Four, my name is Jon Barkan and I'm a Northeastern alum......I have been throwing a tiny little party at the Final Four for the last seven years known as the BARKAN BASH....and will be doing it again in Cincinnati (place and time TBA). I work for USA TODAY in the Information Network......my colleagues Steve Klein (former editor of the Lansing State Journal) and Cindy Paavola (former sports information director at Western Michigan) are putting together College Hockey pages for the USA TODAY Web Site......The pages will be up in about a week or so and we can be found at www.usatoday.com. I would like all of you college hockey faithful to look at them and be as critical as can be.....tell us what we can do to make the pages better....no matter what it is, we're open to all suggestions...we want to make these pages as special to you as Hockey-L is. The three of us care very much about college hockey and we want to help make the sport more popular than it is already. We want to try and make the greatest collegiate sport even better and more well known...please help us do that by spreading the word... You can send all of your comments, questions, concern or simple hellos to [log in to unmask] or to [log in to unmask] Thanks for your cooperation and concern for our sport. Remember, as my pal Jack Parker once said to me, "Hockey is a slippery game, played on ice!!!!" LET'S GO HUSKIES AND THE HOBIE FOR DOBIE (Dan McGillis' nickname, NU Def). JB HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.