KM makes some very good points and I'm afraid that my comments were a bit unfair. But I think that I did not make clear my respect for Gaudet, as respect is due. My recollections are based on watching the Bears skaking with the best of them, and looking like contenders the whole way (specifically a 93-94 match up with UNH in which Brown did not score the W but earned the respect of HE opponents that is hard to come by. As for the above expectations of Brown, again you are right, I can't help but wonder just how competitive the other ECAC schools were those years. In my mind, last years Bears should have finished first inthe ECAC, but that was last year. Hardest of all to swallow is this year's crazy record which stands way below the teams ability. Trach and Traggio are greatly missed, and no doubt account for alot of the L's in the close contests, and T's in the others. Which brings me to wonder about goal tending. Sometimes Parsons looks absolutely brilliant in net, and other times the "softies" just allude him. Is it time to bring in ECAC quarter final playoff star (BROWN-PRINCETON) Audette? Perhaps my post was just a "vent session" for a fan who cannot understand how these Bears can stand on 2-6-4. GO BEARS HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.