When I made my original comments about my novel concept that American colleges should primarily be about educating Americans and secondarily providing athletic opportunities for Americans- I was besieged with indignant e-mail. Mostly from my friends north of the 49th parallel and from students at American schools that seem to think they need to play more than one anthem when playing another American school. (Logically Saturday's contest should be preceded by 3 anthems- Finnish being one of them). It was good to see a kid from Connecticut be the most exciting player on the ice. Hopefully there will be many more to come ala Brian Leetch. Query- Tommy Dagerman- came to BU for the 2nd semester? In theory (and I am not suggesting it in this case although it did happen in softball with an Australian at UCLA)- he may never attend a class and leave school at the end of the semester? I throw this out for intelligent discourse. This is the classic problem of athletic scholarships and "amateur" athletics. Will the new trend be to really recruit in Europe and bring in a slew of Finns, Swedes, Czechs, Slovakians et al? I am sure there must be a ton of talent in the old USSR yearning for the USA? Anyhow it was a great game and an opportunity to watch a couple of players that I have seen since they were mites (Herr, Merrick, Drury) and one I coached behind the BU bench. HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.