Ralph Baer wrote: >For reasons discussed several times on Hockey-L, periodically RPI has to >rely more than most teams on Freshmen. A few produce immediately, but most >don't. Fans of other teams have made comments that they don't expect much >from Freshmen until after the Holidays, we probably shouldn't either. RPI/Rensselaer has traditionally (from my memory anyways) always played better after Christmas. We'll see if that holds true this year. Would anyone like to go further and speculate why? -Ken Johnson, RPI '87 HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.