In response to the recent post from a Minnesota Hockey-Ler politely correcting another "poster" who referrred to *women's* hockey as *girls* hockey........ Looks like from Pam Sweeny's post of that Minnesota Daily article announcing varsity women's hockey, that "the Woogster" also needs to be be politically corrected....he referred to the upcoming program as *girls* 2 or 3 times. No offense to our women hockey-Lers, but I think the tendency to refer to them as girls stems from most women hockey players coming from, or excelling in high school, where the press and schools refer to them as *boys* and *girls* then, 6 months later, those same women are now *women* hockey players instead of girls....granted no one seems to "trip" making the transition from calling high school boys "men" 1 year later either; hmmmmm. HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.