Actually most of the prominent posters from the past who are no longer posting are NOT at the websites. They've simply dropped out, and regrettably so. However, if a fan looks at the sum total of what is available when including the websites, we have much more to work with now than ever. If we look at it this way, these are the "good old days." I'll be personal for a moment. Before US College Hockey Online I covered games on a semi-regular basis and commented whenever the urge hit me. Now I'm typically writing game reports for two or three games a week. Each report contains quotes from coaches and players, something I never did before for HOCKEY-L. I also write a weekly preview every week of all the Hockey East games, with all of the recent previews containing quotes from every single league coach. This was *never* something that was available. Finally, I write a feature every other week. The current one is based on an interview with Marty Reasoner, again something which was never available on HOCKEY-L. When summing my own HOCKEY-L and website contributions, I've increased my total by about an order of magnitude. Although the other conference writers at USCHO are not carbon copies of me, they follow roughly the same approach. Weekly previews and a feature every other week. COLLEGE HOCKEY HAS NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD. A few days ago Steve Klein praised the Globe's feature on Bruce Crowder and commented that that type of thing was still not available on HOCKEY-L or the websites. I'd have to disagree. Although I'm not Kevin Paul Dupont -- very few writers are -- I did a Crowder profile months back and have since done ones on Chris O'Sullivan and, as I mentioned before, Marty Reasoner. We now have information and articles that were never before available to us. If we look at it in this light, we could recognize that we may be entering the "Golden Age" of college hockey coverage. We just don't realize it yet. -------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Hendrickson [log in to unmask] Hockey East Writer for US College Hockey Online http://www.uscollegehockey.com HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.