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First, there is a nice article on ESPNet about the choice players face: College or Juniors. The piece features Steve and Paul Kariya and the Drury brothers. It can be found at: http://espn.sportszone.com/editors/nch/features/0320divi.html As it is dated, I don't know how much longer this article will be available on their site. NC$$ blackout: $urpri$e, $urpri$e, $urpri$e. My guess is that the same thing happened as in 1992, the NC$$ wanted too much money to air the games, and thus it wouldn't be profitable. I remember the almost complete blackout in Providence that year, I was one of eight people in the building with a video camera. I don't know that any of the Maine stations even had highlights on the news. Back then I posted a qoute by Laing Kennedy which had appeared in the Bangor Daily News about the TV blackout. I can't remember the exact words, but I do remember him saying that the most important thing we can do for hockey is get as much exposure as possible so it could grow as a sport. His interpretation of "exposure" meant selling tickets to the regionals, not airing the games on local TV. I can understand wanting to sell out the regional, but if exposure is really what you want, making the game available to a few million people is better than making it available to 10,000. But, that makes sense. And sense is a four-letter-word to the NC$$. JHF "Money, so they say, is the root of evil to-day." HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.