The UConn roof is dead!! Long live the new barn!! In the northeast, today was a day just too tempting not to take off. Spring is springing out all over. The golfers were out, the kayakers were doing their thing. It's been a long season. Drove over to Storrs for a little R & R to look at the progress on the new rink. Drove in from the back way, past the baseball field. Wow! What a shock. Nothing there. You can look right into the south end of the soccer stadium. The old Eero Sarinen designed roof with the heavy curved laminated beams -- gone, not a trace. The hunting lodge/warming house from the early 1900's, complete with the window shutters with the "CSC" cutouts (CT State College) -- gone, no trace. The slab with refrigeration and the compressor house are all that remain. About fifteen folks in hard hats were huddled over some laid out drawings. A fence around the whole enclosure. Quite a few construction trailers. This thing is on the fast track. After waiting so many years for this, all I can say is "Wow, that was fast!!" Now I can't wait until next Fall, even as I suppress a little bittersweet sadness for the old rink and warming house. Time marches on. -- Dick Tuthill HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.