>It seems to me that there will be much fewer choices for between game >dining as near to the Pond in Anaheim as there was in the area near the >Fleet Center. Isn't the Pond just surrounded by a big parking lot ? Depends how you feel about having the HOCKEY-L banquet at a Carl's Jr. :-) Seriously, from my half-dozen or so trips to the Katella/I-5 section of Anaheim, I don't recall any good banquet sites. But maybe Scott Q or Margie can suggest something. (Perhaps at one of the hotels?) >What can we HOCKEY-L'ers look forward to between games next year ? What is >in the area near that stadium ? Disneyland! (There's a really cool restaurant inside Pirates of the Caribbean, although a HOCKEY-L dinner would probably be too large and noisy to hold there, even if we could get in and out in time for the late game.) I wonder if they'll offer discount admission for Frozen Four ticketholders. Both times I went I got a discount for showing a driver's license with a Southern California address, but the only one I still have expired a couple of years ago. [on NBA/NHL banners] >Needless to say, such will NOT be an issue at the Pond in Anaheim, unless >the worst happens and Paul Kariya has to retire from hockey due to the >concussions. Actually, I thought there were some Clippers banners there, but I may be mistaken. It would be really cool if they made up a banner for Maine winning the 1995 Great Western Freeze-Out (D1 hockey's only other appearance at the Pond, and in fact my only time inside the building). >Finally, would those who joined me for the Friday brewpub tour please >e-mail me privately, about a similar tour in LA next year. Unfortunately, I don't believe there's such a thing as a pub crawl in LA, since driving is the only practical means of transportation in most of the megalopolis. John Whelan, Cornell '91 UC Santa Barbara PhD '96 <[log in to unmask]> <http://www.cc.utah.edu/~jtw16960/joe.html> Learn about the NCAA selection process on the web at http://www.slack.net/~whelan/cgi-bin/tbrw.cgi?pairwise HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.