Given the amount of recent traffic about the Hobey Baker award, I have a couple of questions about other member's expectations of the Hobey Baker winner. 1. What are your expectations of a Hobey Baker winner, post-award. Are you expecting a wonderful NHL career, a productive life, or both. (I relaize that in a perfect world we'd all probably say both, but if all you expect is a good pro career please say so.) 2. What is the significance of the award, viz a viz, media coverage and future career. The only other award of similar significance to its sport is the Heisman (sp?){remember that rhymes with theisman}. Most college football fans (and the media) would say they expect an outstanding NFL career. I can't be certain but college hockey fans and the hockey media seem to be less concerned with the pro career of Hobey winners. Is this true? Whenever I watch an NFL game, invariably the announcer will mention the name of any Hesiman winners playing in the game (even runners up). Yet when watching pro hockey (any level) I rarely hear the title Hobey Baker winner attached to any players name, on or off the ice. If you're a runner up forget being mentioned at all. Also, being a Heisman winner, or even a runner up like Theisman, seems to follow you for the rest of your life, and its something that's mentioned at the drop of a hat. Think about it, how many times during the OJ trial did you hear that he was a Heisman winner? A few years after winning the Hobey, its forgotten, unless its a special occasion. Is the Hobey less significant or do we, as hockey fans, not go "NUTS" over someone who wins the award? 3. And finally, assuming your answer to question 1 was an excellent pro-career, who would be your selection for most disappointing Hobey winner. I've got 2. Personally, my most disappointing would have to be Kip Miller, but that's only because he's a fellow Spartan and didn't turn out to be the second coming of Gordie Howe. (I'm not expecting too much am I? I expected the same of his brother's and they've come closer to living up to my expectations.) From a hockey fan's standpoint however, my most disappointing winner would have to be Tony Hrkac. In the finals against MSU in 87 Tony was a one man wrecking crew. He looked like a man playing with boys (I don't mean that the way it sounds). I thought he was destined for stardom in the NHL. He's had a pretty disappointing NHL career, but a rather sucessful minor-pro career (from my viewpoint). Michael Smar, R.Ph. ([log in to unmask]) College of Pharmacy South Dakota State University Medicines are nothing in themselves, if not properly used, but the very hands of the gods, if used with reason and prudence (and by a pharmacist). With apologies to Herophilus HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.