I don't know. I'm sorry to be the curmudgeon (okay, I'm not sorry at all. I rather enjoy it), but the sports world is littered with cases where an individual was a great success at one location and his success didn't follow when he moved on. I'm not disparaging the great things Bruce Crowder accommplished at UMass-Lowell, but I think some folks are doing some premature chicken counting on the subject of what he's going to mean at Northeastern. It's a different place with different people around him and with different problems and conditions. In all sorts of subtle ways, he might not be the right man for the job. We'll have to wait and see. But if it means someone else might knock off BU in the Beanpot, I'm all for it. J. Michael Jackson HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.