[log in to unmask] asked: How many others have been brought into the game because they saw it on television? Television was the first exposure I had to college hockey. When I lived in DC, I would make sure I caught the CCHA game of the week. Growing up in Cleveland, Ohio really wasn't a hot spot for hockey so college hockey was strange to me, but I found it tremendously exciting (even if I couldn't figure out why OSU always lost). I believe that it was this coverage that influenced me to attend hockey games once I went to college. Now I try to plan everything around college hockey (vacations, honeymoon, dinner, sleep......). Luckily my wife is almost as big hockey nut as I am, or she probably would flip when I pull out the vacation map and start marking the cities that have schools that have teams so we can visit them (maybe thats why she doesn't want to go to Boston this fall) Brian D. Walrath Is it October yet????? HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.