At 10:13 AM 11/7/96 -0500, Howard Quimby wrote: >I can already hear the groans out there, but I kind of like McBride. He was >pretty bad a number of years ago, but he's been ok lately. And you can't deny >that he's entertaining -- especially the way he scurries across the across the >ice when play is stopped. :) He certainly doesn't call everything he could, >but I've never thought it impacted a game. He just lets them play Hockey. I can remember either last year, or the year before, McBride skating up the ice to a chorus of boos with his hands together and making a "diving motion" to (I assume) signify that his non-call was a dive. While he was probably not addressing the fans, it sure looked that way and it was, unfortunately, entertaining. >Now McBride's partner in crime, Rich Fowkes, is a different story. Especially >when he's at BC. He's the most biased official I've ever seen. And maybe >that's why I like McBride -- he does a great job of containing Fowkes. It will be interesting to see the two seperated this year. I think most HE fans would agree that the McBride-Fowkes pairing was the worst, but how they are individually we will still have to see. >Best Hockey East Linesman? Jones. He even gets those offside calls with the >puck 30 feet in the air. ;) Can argue with Jones, he does a pretty good job. --- Deron Treadwell ([log in to unmask]) HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.